His wife has a boyfriend and they have a kid?

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.

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

Are nfts actually still a thing? I mean are there still people selling/trading them?

I wonder if he realizes how he will be remembered by the world after his death, and how different that is that if he would have died, say ten years ago, or right before that moment when he wanted to rescue those kids stuck in that cave and went off on anyone that criticized him. For me, that’s the moment it all went to shit for him.

Doesn’t it though.

Stupid is asking questions without a question mark.

I started working out twice a week and running in the weekends when I was 40 and after a couple of years felt better than I did in my twenties.

Kenobi

The attacks will continue until morale improves

The new version of Lost in Space just has people in danger constantly and then making the dumbest decision in that situation possible.

Same with ‘suits’, I really liked it in the beginning, until it was just too painful to watch. Each storyline was set up in a way that there was one path for the protagonists to take that would lead to certain disaster, and lo.and behold, at the end of every episode that path is exactly the path they took.

This happens until you start wondering if you’re just looking at the dumbest lawyers or astronauts in existence.

The fact that this is an actual question nowadays would absolutely stun the me from 2005

“I was really quite shocked and appalled by the picture you sent after grandma passed away. I especially wonder why you’d be smiling like you were. What was going through your mind/what were you thinking?”

Would be a very valid question in my opinion, asked in an adult way.

Regardless of your aunts motives, you are allowed to feel the way you feel, and to speak up about it. Best that can happen is she’ll understand and apologize, worst is she’ll be ashamed and defensive.

What if everyone would transfer their PayPal credit to a regular bank account on the same day? Would that bring Paypal value down?

Give them a couple of nuclear missiles. Tell Putin if he doesn’t respect the Budapest memorandum, neither should Ukraine.

Then start negotiations.

From a purely “vote with your wallet” standpoint it doesn’t make sense, because there’s no money paid. However, one might worry about data/information getting in the hands of a fascist/compromised government. So I think people should judge this themselves case by case.

Crazy idea here: would it be possible to have a model where everyone’s phone is a mini personal instance, syncing with others when the user opens the app? When a phone is offline that phones content would be unavailable too, but that is part of the truly decentralised model.

I agree it feels off, but it’s better than what we have now. Users could allow certain companies’ ads they feel comfortable viewing.

The additional benefit for companies would be that they would have a direct finger on the pulse of the market. If they make a decision and they see a lot of users abandon their ads, it was probably a bad decision.

The obvious downside is that people that can use the money will be under the influence of big corporations more.