I've been saying that for years. Now I have about 250 albums drm-free on Bandcamp. A good chunk of that money went to the people making the music, too.
I know there are people out there paying a subscription to Spotify who listen to the same dozen albums over and over, too.
Imperial system (or whatever the US system is called ) should go away. Let's all just one standard.
Unfortunately, since I'm from the US, I only really know this one, and it's hard to switch when nothing else has switched. I'd put up with the pain of switching though.
Most people don't think much beyond their immediate needs. Their moral framework stops at "will I be immediately punished?"
Something abstract like this will miss with many of them.
Please start live streaming your actions in public for us all to watch. You don't have any abusive exes or family members, I hope. Also I trust you've never said anything to irritate right wing fanatics. Maybe if it's a little more personal, you'd have a little more empathy.
Also, of note, not all limits are from the law. Peer pressure and private businesses saying "You can't do that in here" are also tools.
Something being legal doesn't make it good.
People want to be able to go out into the world without being filmed. That was the case for thousands of years. It is not unreasonable to expect limits on recording in public.
Now one of the worst organizations on earth (meta) wants to record everyone and everything for their private benefit. People are mad.
I'm an outlier I guess. I don't think I have any subscriptions.
The people who pushed for such a blatantly unconstitutional law should be removed from office.
That kind of person isn't reasoning. They are feeling. It's like a nightmare, where you walk down a hall and then it's a swimming pool, and you look up and you're in an airport. It's just an emotional dreamscape.
In other words, they are stupid.
We know. The problem is a lot of idiots want trump as a dictator.
I've heard good things about kagi, but $10/mo is pretty steep
I also blame search engines. I type like "python file open parameters" and I really just want the official docs. They're not even on the first page of DDG.
Venture capitalists (idiot husks with more money than brains, but tremendous ego and unjustified confidence) give world-changing amounts of money to a lot of stupid shit and hope at least one of them somehow turns into a big payday. Sometimes they break laws (eg: uber, airbnb). It's a horrible way of running a society.
We could be solving homelessness, hunger, diseases, the climate crisis. Instead, these fucking idiots are pouring millions of dollars into shit like "an AI to listen to music for you".