The system is rigged against the individual. The best choices are mostly the most expensive. The best solutions for climate change are blocked by corporate greed and crippled by national laws. And even if you’re lucky enough to live in a country that allows you to have influence in who governs you, the biggest polluters are dictatorial regimes. Want to eat healthy? Sure, but pay more. When Covid hit and working from home got popular and air travel much less, there was measurable less smog in big cities. But companies now demand people come back into the office. Because shareholders don’t like workers to have freedom.

It’s cool, but the name “ploopy knob” sort of makes it sound like a joke.

Note that this is an article from TASS, the Russian news agency, so maximally biased

Jeroom is a comedic genius

For this case. If successful, other, international cases might follow.

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What’s in the suitcase?

His wife has a boyfriend and they have a kid?

Thanks Donnie!

Can’t he be impeached or something based on mental issues?

Sounds like a great endorsement

U.S. based. Not a great premise.

As soon as the range exceeds the mileage people can drive in a single day, there will be a gigantic uptick in EV sales.

Kudos for mentioning Lost in Translation. One if my favorite movies. Whenever I try to explain to people what it’s about, I get blank looks why that would be entertaining.

Partly closed source, Russian ownership.

Never mention the reason they were kicked out.

It’s literally the first line of the article: cost up to $45 million, was short on attendees, long on political speeches.

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If artists would actually get paid fairly by Spotify that would be a good model.

Until about 100 years ago music artists would get paid for playing live only. Then music reproduction became possible, and lo and behold, companies started making a profit off of popular musicians by reproducing their music and taking a share, just because they could afford the technology.

Then, reproduction came into the hands of regular people, and you could reproduce music at home, bypassing the companies that profit off of the musicians. So copyright laws were drafted to protect mostly the companies making a profit off of musicians.

Now we’re going back to the situation of 100 years ago: musicians need to play live to get paid. But reproduction does still make them famous without them having to travel. So that’s a plus.

And you can argue Spotify has to.pay for infrastructure and app development, but that technology is in the hands of individuals as well nowadays. So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much. Yet they become more expensive every year. And the only people getting richer are their shareholders.

Käse