And then you storm off to play the piano and solve math problems?

NewPipe does.

Spotify sucks. Youtube sucks. MP3s suck.

https://newpipe.net/ (for mobile, playlists, background play, no ads)

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube (desktop youtube app, no ads)

If you have an android phone, you can just seach for “Spotify premium apk” and you can find a cracked Spotify premium.

But if music is “your thing”, then there really is no substitute for the library of FLACs available on private torrent trackers for music. What.CD has been down 8 years now (rip), but RED and OPS exist.

You can pass an interview on IRC to get into the trackers. The interview is a short test about file formats, rules and transcoding, they give you the page where to learn it all.

https://interviewfor.red/en/starting.html

https://interview.orpheus.network/starting-the-interview.php

For a lossy format alternative to mp3 try (ogg) vorbis.

Try private torrent trackers, they have rules on tags/labels as well as quality control. It is much better to rip from FLAC -> 256kbps mp3 than it is to rip from 320kbps mp3 -> 256kbps mp3.

Perhaps Rumble is not enemy territory, but an opportunity. Cause while the people who run it and lots of content creators on it may be right-wing/fascist, that doesn’t mean that all the people visiting are. In fact, I’d say that most who visit aren’t. People are scared and confused, they’re looking for anything that makes sense and they can get behind. Communists should be providing that alternative. Speaking to people’s frustrations, understanding where they’re coming from and then offering an alternative to liberalism, fascism, conservatism.

If stamp collecting is a hobby, everything is a hobby.

I wouldn’t know, I think I watched a pro-RU video on the war in Ukraine on Rumble once, but I can’t remember. I don’t use it. I was just encouraging op that if they want to try something, they should. If they don’t like it, they can always stop using it.

Essentialist labels shut down curiosity, when really people should see things for themselves, otherwise how will they know? I’m not just talking about the internet, but I mean in real life too. How many times have we heard “that place? oh, that’s the _________ place.” and they don’t need to say “don’t go there”, but just by what they said and their tone the “…don’t go there” is implied. It’s a form of social pressure and a way to enforce conformity in a group. I’m sure most people who do it, do it subconsciously, either to protect the thought bubble in the group, thus strengthening the group, or for fear of losing a group member to another, incompatible interest. But I digress…

You could use it just as a platform but it has a far right bent because of its origins.

How do they handle leftist/communist content? I mean, do they censor opposing political ideologies or do they ban/delete leftist content? Because that’s the important bit. If they do censor leftist content, then they’re just a right-wing propaganda outlet.

Isn’t Rumble ultimately just a platform? Avoid the queerphobic content/creators. Unless Rumble itself can detect when a website visitor is queer and stop working or something.

Neat tidbit of information. Thanks.

I did the same, because the arguments on both sides have become stale and downright cheesy.

criminal elements … made him disappear

That’s true in any case.

That’s a lot of hammers and sickles… what is this, some kind of communist reddit?!

I have WhatsApp to talk to family and a few friends. I never liked discord so I’m not there either. I tried making a twitter account some 5-6 years ago but it asked for a phone number so that was an immediate nope from me.

I was thinking of paying for Claude. It’s $20/mo. but I see it as having a personal assistant/teacher that knows everything and is available 24/7. Maybe I could even run a local LLM and feed it my emails and written documents so it can sound like me too.

I liked the trope, because it was a reflection of the racism inherent in American society. It was there for everyone to see. Getting rid of the trope didn’t get rid of the racism. But now Hollywood libs can pat themselves on the back, just how Congress democrats took a knee in African garb while doing nothing about the laws that disproportionately target Black people or about the racist police force.

My ADHD medication helps, but I don’t like taking it every day/all the time. Maybe I should look into something for just anxiety.

I doubt I have the digital pressure that you do.

It’s not so much pressure as feeling that that’s the only way to interact nowadays. I’ve been asked a bunch of times if I have instagram (cause facebook is pasé now, yet they are both owned by the same company lol). I regret getting a fb account, so I don’t think I’ll be getting an instagram account, not falling for that again.

Before social media we used to just meet outside and hang out, now people do things so they can craft a social media image of themselves. It’s all planned outings with start and end times, Facebook events. I just feel like I’m not participating in society if I’m not commenting on someone’s post. People don’t call one another to talk about things, it’s all fb/instagram posts for the world.

Since AI exists, I am creating my responds with the help of it and then correct few things.

I never considered that as an option… That’s a great idea actually.

Saliva urini!

My cat’s (official) name is “Bear”. Checkmate.