You are struggling with a parasocial relationship. You idolize this one creator and for that creator you're one tiny follower among whatever gazillion inflated bot count your social media of choice shows they have. You're lucky to get a reply and, just as one example, most creators on Instagram will engage with a few early comments because it tweaks the algorithm in their favor if they show engagement/counter engagement. They probably don't gaf so lmao lol etc.

You're nothing to them other than a view count. Accept that role and vent with a person preferably irl.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer boss or company.

Radio playlists are a science like marketing. Half the budget is wasted, you're just never sure which half.

Stations have a target audience. They will have focused grouped this. They know their favorite music, how long on average they listen, and how much they will expect to hear certain artists. The DJs are mere announcers, they have little to no choice in what they play, and they are grateful to have a job. So like anybody working in retail during Christmas, they can tune out the music in their heads.

BUT IF YOU READ IT YOU WILL FIND OUT THAT PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED OVER THIS ISSUE. SO THERE IS NO CONCLUSIVE ANSWER.

Have a read through this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

How do you blackmail a person who feels no shame? Could only be about his money. And I don't see any angle, say, the Russians or the Israeli government has there to make him worried. So even if they are sitting on solid evidence of him eating babies on the island that won't be nearly enough to put pressure on him. Unless it's scientific evidence that his hands are too small. And he'll just fake-news-stonewall that until he'll cover the Lincoln Memorial in gold or something, just to move the media cycle along.

47 thinks he's smart but he is at best NYC realtor smart. With a touch of the mob, maybe. He's severely undereducated as a president. More so than W by a factor of 1000. But he Peter principled himself into positions where he is unimpeachable or people are afraid to tell him when he's wrong. He shows a persistent pattern of parroting the opinion of the last man he spoke with. He is larping the Emperor's New Clothes fairy tale with an ego that needs constant praise, his own in a pinch. You don't need to blackmail a person like that. Praise him, flatter him, promise him money and good headlines and he happily will kill a minimum of two of his children.

Netanyahu sent him down the garden path on Iran. And now he'll get a deal that's worse than the Obama one he derided. Which I'm sure he never read. Because he only absorbs about one page of content if it's nicely spaced and contains pictures. Per week.

Libre Office.

This sounds like an interesting conspiracy theory. I would just say there are plenty of reasons why people shouldn't use Windows. The JE angle isn't necessary.

The man wasn't so much into mass surveillance and hacking as ingratiating himself to other rich people. He did that by handling their finances and reducing their tax bills. Or by providing girls and young women to be abused. He did and collected favors. He amassed influence. He may have crossed paths with people responsible for Windows. But I don't think the product is tainted by that. Microsoft didn't need JE for that.

Google can challenge the court’s ruling. As of writing, Google hasn’t decided whether it will appeal the verdict.

This article is out of date because Google has decided to appeal in the meantime.

This verdict is not legally effective yet. And it may never be. On the high seas and in a German courtroom, the people say, you're in God's hand. The next higher court can send this back to the lower court or could overrule it all together. And if they don't do any of that, Google can go to the next higher court. Every appeal will add anywhere from 6 months to 2 years to the timeline. By the time this gets a final ruling Skynet may have killed us all.

A Canadian singer/songwriter could surely do something with an article talking shit about so-called AI having a so-called AI bullet point summary at the top. Don't you think?

Hero isn't a title for life. His willingness to fuck his own life up to reveal NSA secrets to the world was heroic. Him staying in Russia with everything they've done more recently is decidedly less so.

We want to judge him by absolute categories like morals and convictions. And that's unfair because nobody is that pristinely moral all the time. I get that after his 007-like escape to Hong Kong, he would choose the easier way out now. If that means tacitly approving of Russia's illegal attack on their neighbor then so be it. I think his morals compelled him to release the surveillance secret to the world. And the experience has sufficiently dulled any moral urges. Combine that with a limited list of choices of where else to go. A true superhuman hero would not want to stay where he once sought asylum if that country was itself responsible for hundreds of thousands of people seeking asylum elsewhere. As I said, hero isn't a title for life.

So this was the regional court (Landgericht). The next one is the superior regional court (Oberlandesgericht) where Google will appeal now. Since I don't see any issues of the Bavarian constitution relevant to this case, the next one up is probably the federal court of justice (Bundesgerichtshof). And there is a small chance that either Google or the courts along the way decide to throw this to the EU court of justice.

Most decisions like this get suspended upon appeal, completely or partially, until people give up or there are no more courts to pester. But every appeal will be taken seriously and goes into review at the court whether there is merit to it. That takes time. And Google has the money for a frivolous tour through the courts. And then there is the danger of court ping-pong where the superior court sends this back with notes to the regional. Whose ruling may be appealed again, etc.

You're reading more criticism into that than I really feel. I just answered a question. And my original point was merely that while the article makes it almost sound like this ruling was final, it isn't. The war will be entering its second battle soon.

If we only look at content available on DVD until about the mid 00s still torrenting about the ether today, I'm sure the majority are ripped from rentals. I had friends who basically bled a rental place dry.

On Lemmy you're your own algorithm. I assume you already know what you're thinking.

You are going to run into a self defense deadend there.

There is no European standard. A huge chunk of Europe gets their content dubbed (or narrated) anyway. And for everything else, sometimes they block other preexisting credits, sometimes they don't.

And spray paint may be used for graffiti.

I don't think this is about punctuation marks, this is about tone. It's about "tone." beCaUse IT's aBOuT toNE. BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TONE!

English does a lot with how you say something. I didn't give her the money. Try saying that phrase and stress a different word each time. If you see it written down, you are missing an awful lot if you're unlucky

Air quotes don't really need an accompanying gesture to make them be understood. Giving the gesture anyways is just making sure people don't misunderstand it. And we are used to this doublespeak from our elected leaders. So adding "in air quotes" in speech and gesture is often a dig, a comedic device, and a deliberate act to fraternize with the other people who know what's up.

Bootleg records were a thing in Europe in the days of reel to reel tape as the only alternative. It wasn't so much that people did it privately but people would try to make a buck through re-sale and especially on flea markets where oversight by the law was virtually nonexistent. Rare records have always been a thing. Bootleggers tried to profit off it.

I was bequeathed my parents' record collection of about 200 LPs. One was a bootleg they kept, some rare Beatles stuff. Other ones were thrown away because the quality was bad or would have been deteriorating to a point where it became unlistenable.

It's going to get to a point where sports supporters will decide not to travel because they don't want to have to do the cleanup after the game. They have checkmated themselves clean. That way the old ball and chain at home won't stay this uppity about an equal share of housework too! Where does she get these crazy ideas from?

BTW Japanese people litter too. They just won't do it when there are TV cameras on them.