jtrek

Bandcamp was really good. It's still going but it's kind of a corpse animated by capitalism now. You get drm free music and sometimes musicians will like do listening parties or chat or other fun stuff.

If you buy one album a month for $10, after a few years you have a sizable library that's yours to keep forever. Don't rent music.

One day one of these metaphorical headlines will be literal. Alas, today is not the day Musk was incinerated.

It was never going to work out in favor of consumers.

Also fuck Microsoft. At the very least they should be broken up.

Maybe we should do it. A lot of conservative types have shit empathy and only really understand things when it's happening to them.

I feel like if you asked a conservative (which I assume this guy is) "should insulin be given away for free to save lives and ease the burden of illness?" he'd say no, because he's a stupid sack of shit that doesn't care about other people even if that would improve his own life. And double-no if those people were getting free treatment.

A demonstration of two things to remember.

One: Conservatives are tribal. They value in-group membership more than almost anything else.

Two: They think everyone is like them. They are not good at empathy.

They are bad people.

We are lead by the emotions of idiots, and the greed of monsters.

We have leadership who do not understand how work gets done. They don't do work like their employees do. They don't code or do code reviews.

What makes me even angrier is how easily everyone accepted it. We could have pushed back. We could have simply continued doing our jobs from home, they can’t fire everyone. Instead, people just complained but complied.

This also frustrates me.

There's no labor organization or solidarity here. Some people are afraid they'll lose their job and then suffer. That's a real fear, because this is the bad place

But some people are just spineless

How is that not an anti-trust issue?

Because we live in the bad place. Conservatives are unlikely to pursue anti-trust unless they're using it as a tool to hurt out-group (eg: they might try to break up an organization they perceive as being too queer).

We don't have a strong left in the US. You get glimmers every so often - Lina Khan was trying to do anti-trust work, but then trump returned and that's all moot.

A lot of problems would go away or be less bad if we stopped letting power consolidate. Unfortunately, this is the bad place.

I remember back in 2015-ish a guy I knew at work claimed he couldn't get traction on dates because he didn't have social media. I was like, I'm confident that is not the primary problem here.

But yeah, today there's a bigger backlash against big social media. There's more than just weirdos who don't have Facebook et el

I have read about people trying to use LinkedIn for dating, and I feel like that's a red flag. Those men should probably be quarantined.

That could be a factor. My perspective is limited to one of a man who doesn't date men. I had some nice (and one memorably, laughably bad*) dates with queer people on hinge, but it wasn't my primary experience.