Thanks for the links, will check them all out. But from a brief squizz at the bbc link… can I just point out that these are all VERY established artists, with established fanbases. None of these will be interacting with people online anyway, already using a social media manager to do all their posts etc.
There’s no point making music that nobody knows exist, and unfortunately streaming / social media are the main avenues for reaching new fans these days.
Some of us have no choice. If I don’t have social media, record labels won’t sign my music. I cannot afford to pay someone else to maintain it for me.
FR. These features are so easy to disable, when I updated Firefox recently it asked me on next load if I want the features or not… I chose not, no big deal!
‘AI’ is this generations Justin Bieber / Skrillex. There’s plenty to criticise but it’s becoming a bandwagon at this point.
Here in the UK, fortunately fentanyl is pretty rare. At the testing tent I mentioned above, it was stuff like: people who thought they had coke, had amphets; people who thought they had amphets, had research chems; people who thought they had ket, had meow; people who thought they had E, either had MDMA mixed with amphets, or other contaminants.
Didn’t expect to have to learn this much
You have activated the Command & Conquer fanbase. Good luck haha
This is your friendly reminder to buy testing kits if you do drugs, so you know what’s in them.
The kits aren’t expensive or difficult to use :) when they had a drug testing tent at a UK festival recently, something like 2/3rd of the people didn’t have what they thought they had.
any notion that there is method in his madness.
There IS method in his madness. Just, it’s mostly not his method, you’ve got to peek behind the curtain. You have to remember with Trump, all he cares about is money and the appearance of ‘winning’. A lot of his ‘confusing’ rhetoric is designed to pump 'n dump the market, so he and his close associates can make big bets for big profit.
For the darker intentions, you need to look to people like Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Heritage Society. They’ve literally stated all their intentions in the P2025 documents.
Personally I’d love to see sanctions applied to USA for what they’ve done in Iran - though don’t get me wrong, I don’t support the Iranian regime either - BUT you really cannot compare Iran to Ukraine.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Ukraine hasn’t spent the last two decades funding terrorism and proxies to destabilise the European area? Let’s not pretend like Iranian gov is some helpless, innocent angel here. Many were clapping for regime change when it was being earned by the blood of innocent students. Perhaps many of our countries would’ve been involved in this conflict, if it was planned and executed sensibly (though I’d argue the conflict straight up wouldn’t have exploded to actual conflict if anyone but the stupid orange turd was at the helm)
You know why. Or you should at least be able to work it out.
While a lot of countries are rapidly losing patience as Trump becomes more unhinged, everyone is trying to soften the massive shock that is coming. It’s like 8 people sat around a Monopoly board, desperately trying to keep the rabid chimp calm who is player 9. We all suspect he’s going to flip the board and ruin the game for everyone at some point, so we’re all quietly hardening our stores, our connectivity etc so that it causes as little damage as possible.
We’re not going to prod the chimp into flipping the board when we’re still not ready to deal with the fallout.
Every now and then, a typo pays off!
Yeah for some reason I find it easier to avoid infinite scroll with FB than reddit! I know, that’s like mentioning Voldemoort round here.
Not sure if any Lemmy-ers still use reddit, they fucked it again (removed /all). It’s rapidly turning into a copy of meta, feeds are now curated by algo rather than votes :(