“i’m supporting the artists”, you say, as you bankroll the AI enshittification of a tech company which was literally founded on profiting from pirated music, and gives artists pennies on the dollar.

cope harder. pirating everything and going to gigs is the most ethical approach in our era and I will die on that hill. buy physical media if you care that much.

Please stop using Spotify. I pirate all of my music, and you should, too!

The ruling class is allowed to inflict infinite violence upon you, but the moderators here do not allow for you to suggest the ruling class shouldn’t have a monopoly on violence.

It is typical liberal behavior, enforcing the status quo for no reason other than civility.

You sure do love deep throating that boot, huh? Are you a small business?

If you can’t see how layoffs are used to suppress worker rights and keep pay as low as possible then I’m sorry but you are a total fool.

Literally nobody care’s at all.

Or, you know, workplaces organize and form strong labor unions?

How does boot taste?

It isn’t ineptitude. Of course executives at Microsoft know that they could be good and be successful with consumers. But they don’t need to please consumers, they have far more important customers: the surveillance state, and the military industrial complex.

Once corporations have a near-monopoly position, they do not need to make good products anymore. Microsoft has enough money already to completely fail at everything for centuries and they’d be just fine. So they can focus on other goals, such as dismantling online anonymity for the benefit of the ruling class, who owns and controls Microsoft.

Anyone who wouldn’t go with China over Amerisrael a million times over is simply a victim of unbelievable volume of propaganda.

The US is by far the single worst, most oppressive country on the planet and it isn’t even close.

Canada is part of five eyes and is functionally a US vassal. There’s little difference between a Canadian tech company and an American tech company.

This also goes for most NATO countries

because capitalism

A far better alternative is to replace CEOs with democratically organized workplaces, where everyone has an equal say and equal reward. Also known as socialism.

The fact is that animals need to be fed, and they are inefficient. Most animals eat plants, so to create 1,000kcal of beef products, for example, it takes 25,000kcal of plant products. Most animal feeds are based on corn or soy, which otherwise could be turned into human food products directly with a 25x efficiency bonus.

I suppose you could make an argument that grass-fed livestock might work, but then I guess an explanation for why grass is growing but other crops aren’t.

My underlying point is that animal protein is inefficient compared to plant protein

So, even if we’re in a future form of humanity and all of our present farming methods failed, sowing seeds and harvesting crops would be the first kind of farming to be “restored” or “rediscovered” or whatever, because it’s vastly more efficient, and assuming you’re recovering from some sort of disaster scenario, feeding as many people as quickly as possible would probably be the goal. They’d probably grow rice and soy or something.

Animal farming is really for luxury goods, except in very remote places where crops can’t be grown

the technology that has allowed for a life without livestock has failed

That would be the ability to grow crops? So only wild plants would grow for some reason? Impossible to farm anything then really, only viable lifestyles are scavenging, foraging and hunting