It took me awhile to like Katy Perry’s older stuff. This coming from a guy who likes Indie/Punk/New Wave. I haven’t listened to her newer stuff.
Oh and same with Billie Eilish.
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It took me awhile to like Katy Perry’s older stuff. This coming from a guy who likes Indie/Punk/New Wave. I haven’t listened to her newer stuff.
Oh and same with Billie Eilish.
That’s absolutely true, especially for a paper like the LA Times. I am dubious that there is any appreciable effect when it comes to random blogs and so forth.
In California, it doesn’t matter because the results are already known. In other states the calculus is a bit different.
Voting for a minor party in terms of the effect on the outcome is approximately equivalent to not voting.
first past the post voting is a broken system and that main party candidates should make more effort to fix this glaring hole in the voting system.
The Democratic Party would rather lose to the Republican Party than change the rules to allow for a multi-party system.
That aside, the major parties don’t want to reform the system they have because it’s worked very well for them. Our parties are incredibly old by world standards. The Democrats have been around since the 18th century, and the Republicans have been around since the 1850s.
There was a guy who was in tech support who talked to a customer about who was hot or not in the company. It was actually the customer who started the conversation, but the rep ran with it and used all kinds of unprofessional and disparaging language when describing his female co-workers.
That call happened to have a supervisor listening in, so he was fired immediately after he got off the call. The thing is found out who called in, and the women on the team had to assist him when he called for support.
Mudvayne, perhaps. I haven’t been involved in that scene for a long time, but it’s what comes to mind.
I’m not a lawyer so I have no clue about the legal issues, but I’m more than happy to put my name to anything that costs a corporation money. I don’t even need the money. They can take it out of Valve’s pocket and burn it for all I care.
It’s because there’s effectively a class-action suit going on right now, but because the user agreement says you have to use arbitration, there were tens of thousands of people who are like “sure let’s go to arbitration”. Valve is losing tons of money having to fight all the suits.
https://www.classaction.org/steam-antitrust-refund-2023
Note: I am one of the people involved in this suit.
The Supreme Court did pretty much read out that 3rd section.
I got big time Ferengi vibes from that comment.
It’s porn if the state wants to harass you for something.
I think this is not quite correct. You’re absolutely right that 6 weeks is basically the same thing as a full ban, but it’s based on last period rather than from conception. Which is even worse. They assume that women conceived the day after their period.
A woman could become pregnant late in her menstrual cycle, but the 6 weeks counts from the previous period. So she could really be only a few weeks from conception but closer to 5-6 weeks based on the ban math.
Until people are donating enough money to make maintaining an open source browser doable, this will continue to happen.
My recollection is that they advertised and got Important People™ to post there as part of their invite-only beta. Don’t quote me on this, but I believe they paid some of these people to create accounts and post there. Not sure if that was a rumor or not.
I do not. I can give you a link to the one I’m referencing though. I’m sure that something like this would exist in Seattle.
I agree, but there was also the problem of Mastodon has no marketing budget. Before Musk closed the sale on Twitter, they had 2 full time employees, IIRC.
FOMO. More celebrities are on Bluesky than Mastodon and people don’t care enough about open protocols and so forth to forego that. If Taylor Swift was only on some Fediverse-enabled platform and nothing else, people would come here in droves. Taylor Swift does not post on Mastodon so people don’t want an account here. Replace Taylor Swift for anyone of any sort of popularity and ask the same questions.
I do wonder who the most famous person in the world is that exclusively posts on a Fediverse-platform. It could very well be Eugen Rochko, who probably has about a 0.05% name recognition throughout the world.
The budget for Mastodon gGmbH is measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and Bluesky’s is much more than that.
Going bankrupt due to medical bills.