I’m pretty sure you could drop a phone-less trump less than even 100m from his home without him being able to find his way back

In answer to the making a good living:

Historically, record labels, then streaming becoming the norm allowing the collision between record labels and streaming services driving down the artist’s cut. Now increasingly so more recently, Live Nation/Ticketmaster and similar live event conglomerates taking bigger cuts and liberties from the last line of revenue traditionally successful artists have. And it’s at every level, there will be a local event promoter behaving as the live nation of local music in your area.

For new artists, most people discover music via streaming recommendations these days, if the algorithm doesn’t smile on a given artist for whatever reason, they won’t get played, and therefore they won’t get signed (given more and more up and coming artists self publish their earliest stuff these days)

American republicans are so fucking stupid they can’t understand the soft power they’re burning that basically already made them what they’re lusting for.

I miss the era of SA/4chan/YTMND being the meme factories of the internet.

It was chaotic, yes, but goddamn were there fewer problems

Annoyingly I’ve used them for a number of years as a good way to make internet comments flow a bit more. However I find myself doing it less and less now because I’m worried people are just going to think I’m using an AI if they see an em dash.

(You just long press dash on android to get to it, opt+shift+dash on Mac, and the admittedly Byzantine alt+0151 on windows. Can’t remember iOS off the top of my head, but I think it’s similar to android)

i.e. Helping others modify their own devices

You’re splitting hairs

Gary Bowser got fucked by Nintendo for doing shit to a device he bought. Got sentenced for nearly 4 years, now owes like $15m

gives famous example off the top of my head

Well this isn’t as important as that

…?

Well that’s objectively false, the tampon tax one is a pretty famous example.

This is how you start a war with Scotland

I think every petition that’s ever been through the website has got the “lol try harder” response at 10k.

No one pays attention to that one.

Oh so you’re telling me that my storage unit is actually incredibly well optimised for space efficiency?

Nice!

100,000 means they are forced to debate it in parliament.

If we get to that point, email your MP and tell them to show up

Ah apologies, I missed that. STV is good too, the Scottish use that and it results in good representation for everyone

Souls games.

I really want to like them too, but they seemingly aren’t compatible with how I play games. I need to be able to put a game down for a couple of weeks and not feel like I’m back at square one because the specific muscle memory for that game has gone.

Just kinda kills the fun when the game is effectively telling me to get good, when I don’t actually have the amount of free time IRL necessary to do that.

Versus FPTP, which funnels votes to 2 big parties, forces strategic voting and discards everyone else’s opinions?

Ranked choice allows the politicians in a country to see what people actually want. There’s been countless elections in my country where I’d have voted Green if I knew that vote would then be transferred to the party of my preference, rather than effectively being a vote for the party I like least (as a third party vote is in FPTP).

If the incoming government knows the only reason they got in was down to a load of transferred green votes, they would be pressured to push for a policy agenda more skewed in that direction and in theory should result in a government more representative of the people that voted for it

Have you heard of the Nuremberg trials?

There is a very strong set precedent that “I was just following orders” does not come close to cutting it.

That looks like a pretty cheap subscription fee for a country ~25%.

Mine is closer to actually half, though we get healthcare and a half decent social safety net with ours.

Happy to pay it because I know I’d not be where I am now without the stuff taxes pay for

I found out about them about a year ago thanks to Lemmy, funnily

I was wondering why one of the Aussie instances was called quokk.au

That’s not at all how any of this works.

The petition only makes legislators aware of the issue

They will then come to their own conclusions, through outreach and research.

There is no way in hell that any legislator just takes the words of a petition without thought or any further research.

Petitions are about numbers, not words.