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  • I doubt he’d ever do anything really bad, but I know if they did break up my sister would hold a grudge(she’s a great person but takes breakups pretty hard.), and it would certainly make things extremely awkward between us, at least for awhile.

    I’m just glad that so far there’s no indication that they will get to that point. They are pretty good at communicating with each other and they already have a system in place that keeps finances from being a point of contention between them, so the most common causes of a divorce shouldn’t be an issue short of something drastic happening, like my sister or him developing a disability that keeps either of them from being able to work.

    It’s just concerning for me because my entire social circle was basically formed thanks to their relationship. Every other friend that I am not quite as close to I met through them and they are closer to him and they are with me, and I know at least a few would sever connections the minute they got divorced as a show of support for him, even if he asked them not to, which knowing him he absolutely wouldn’t want them to.




  • Personalities of models. Lol, that is some niche market my dude. Never watched a porn a said to myself “wow, I really like her personality”. It’s just smut to beat my meat to, nothing more, nothing less.

    That’s the thing though paid porn is niche to begin with, and for people that pay for it there are three groups. Group 1 that cares about production quality, group 2 that has some hyper-niche fetish, and group 3 that wants more than just something to best their meat to, they are looking for a sexual parasocial relationship.

    Your future of ai porn of anything and everyone could only address group 2. Group 1 will take quite some time before they are satisfied with generated porn (it would need to be indistinguishable from real 4k porn with high production values.) and group 3 would require the computational power to render it in real time with both a believable personality and high quality graphics.


  • I was a young child during the napster days, and by the time my parents had anything better than dial-up iTunes had already taken off.

    Maybe I’m less into music than most people, maybe most are music enthusiasts who actually take full advantage of all the music, all the time, for a low monthly rate thing but i mostly listen to the same small handful of artists with only the occasional breakout towards newer things. If Spotify and YouTube Music were both to die all I’d have to do is spend a larger amount upfront but then I’d be back to pretty much the status quo, and without the monthly bill. So for me any sort of significant changes in price or quality of service completely negate the sole reason I bother with music streaming and that is convenience and cost.



  • I mean, this is a nice sentiment in the abstract, but in actuality, we kind of are if we want the product to continue to exist

    Except what made the product attractive to the consumer are the very things making it unprofitable. Minimal ads, unlimited streaming of any and all music you want. Without that might as well stick to terrestrial radio, at least that doesn’t use up your mobile data.

    What I genuinely don’t understand is how you can simultaneously say that Spotify shouldn’t exist if it’s not economically viable, and at the same time, you’ll also criticize them for any attempt to make it economically viable. If Spotify shouldn’t offer the free tier because it’s not viable, and you’ll also attack them if they stopped offering it, what do you actually want them to do?

    The point you dismissed as a “nice sentiment in abstract” applies here: it’s completely irrelevant to the consumer. If Spotify dies we will just go to Apple/Amazon/Youtube Music, and if they all die that’s then iTunes and MP3s get to make a comeback.

    Spotify’s profitability is Spotify’s problem, no-one else’s.








  • That’s only really feasible for as long as the corporation has a physical presence in the EU and/or the corporation’s home government is willing to enforce the laws of a foreign government upon their own corporations/citizens.

    I know Twitter used to have offices In the EU, but I don’t know if that’s still the case currently. If it’s not then without the cooperation of the US government there’s not much the EU can do if Musk decides to tell them to pound sand.

    I’m not saying I think he’s in the right, I just don’t see how it’s possible for any nation to enforce laws outside of their own borders without the co-operation of other governments, and I don’t see how the US government could possibly co-operate to enforce foreign laws that would likely violate the US constitution.

    Edit to add: Sure they could always try to enforce dns blocking or some shit on Twitter via mandates on local ISPs, but those are things that can be circumvented without too much difficulty.


  • GeekyNerdyNerd@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlHistory
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    1 year ago

    Ah yes the widespread political message that was “me and the boys out at 3am looking for beans”

    How could we possibly have missed those political overtones.

    Dude you must be on some extremely powerful drugs if you think all memes are political propaganda.