There is not a lot of money to be made in Spotify plays for anyone except for the owners of Spotify.

The music industry trades in celebrity. You don't listen to crappy pop music because it's good you listen to it because you're excited by the celebrity.

If you take that away all you're left with is the music which is just background noise to most people. That's not enough to sustain the industry at the profit levels that publicly traded companies require. They'll get eating alive by their shareholders.

No, that's the way bibliographic citations work.

The way quotations work is, a quotation is the work of the person who wrote it.

Profit comes first doesn't mean you keep the business open. Plenty of businesses can be plenty profitable but it's never enough.

Profit comes before human lives. Humans are disposable shareholder value is not. That's because shareholder value serves the ruling class.

And as a dedicated nation of 12-year-olds America refuses to acknowledge the existence of their ruling class.

It means the next time they show up, they'll need a court order to do so.

""The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" is a quote from Shakespeare.

"Call me Ishmael" is a quote from Melville.

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration" is a quote from Herbert.

And, “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is" is a quote from Adams.

This is the way quotations work.

It's complete and utter BS. The 2 state solution has been proposed multiple times ( https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQ... ) , the Arabs are refusing it because it would de-escalate the conflict and would normalize the very *existence* of Israel, which is what they are denying (and you here as well, due to their very effective propaganda).

Also very very personally, I have 0 sympathy for anyone attacking Israel, so no love to anyone who attempts on lives of any Israelis, may they all burn in this life and any and all afterlives (which I don't believe in, I am a complete atheist).

To me, everyone who attacks Israel is barbaric and must be destroyed, how about that? There is no genocide of anyone in Gaza because it's not me, who is running Israel, does it work for you?

I am well aware of ruzzian/Israeli relationship. There are a couple of million ex-soviets living in Israel, I was one of them back in 1992, when I moved to Israel from Ukraine.

Israel is doing everything anyone could ever do to protect civilians from being killed in fire indiscriminately https://chatgpt.com/c/6876bd05... Sure, you can always say that more could be done, AFAIC they are way overdoing.

Have a horrible day.

He's trying to avoid arguing any of the actual points that I raised about how younger generations have it harder factually. So he's trying to get you into a weeds argument over the differences between the two.

When it comes to old farts with bad ideas they can never actually argue their points so they try to change the subject. It's all they can do.

Did you somehow not know what the fuck survival bias is?

Yes the entire human civilization has not completely collapsed and we aren't cracking our skulls open and eating the goo inside. Good for you.

I fucking hate this. I hate the way you guys like you act like just because somebody blundered into a decent life that luck doesn't exist. We have hard numbers that clearly show that everything is harder for the younger generations. That is just a fact and that is why you aren't addressing any of the points I raised.

None of you old farts have a leg to stand on. You know you're leaving a worse world and you know that a better world was given to you and so instead of stopping and thinking about it and making the world better you double down. It's gross and it angers me.

You can't win the argument so you retreated to a easier argument. It's a variation on the straw man argument. You know damn well I never said everybody is going to fail.

What I said is that older generations had it easier than younger generations because of the world older generations created.

You wanna tried disputing literally any of the points I made? You're going to find they're all quite true. And I didn't even bring up climate change. The droughts caused from that have caused the price of beef to skyrocket. When I was a kid we had 99 cent large hamburgers. You could get an entire value meal large sized for less than $4. The same thing today is going to cost you 12 to 15.

Hell kids don't even have cheap video games anymore. The Nintendo switch 2 is the most expensive console Nintendo has ever released adjusted for inflation. I used to be able to buy a good mid-range to video card for around $200 and now I can't get that for less than $450. Those are all inflation-adjusted dollars.

Kids pay more and work harder and get less and that's the world we left them and we don't like that and we don't like thinking about that so we do the Socrates thing.

Every word from every character in every work by Douglas Adams is a word written by Douglas Adams.
I can't make that any clearer. Every single word.

William Shakespeare wrote that.

Dick the Butcher doesn't exist, he's a fictional character.

Absolutely Israel is fighting for its survival. 7th of October shows that Israel must destroy all of its enemies that surround it. Hamas and others were supplied by Iran, which must be stopped from developing a nuclear bomb specifically because it would be much easier to just get that bomb into Israel through Gaza and blow it up in the middle of any city, most likely Tel Aviv or Haifa (they wouldn't do it in Jerusalem). Any 'civilian' within Gaza is suspect, that's where Hamas is recruiting from in the first place. I applaud Israel for making progress against Iran and now it must finish what needs to be finished all around it, especially Gaza.

Iran has policy of destroying Israel, it's their religious policy and policy of the State, so they are obviously interested in keeping all of the various local conflicts going for as long as it takes to destroy Israel. Israel is under a strategic threat, it's not just Gaza and Hamas, this was made clear when Iran started supplying Houthis with missiles. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis under the guiding hand of Iran and with support from ruzzia. That's what Israel is fighting against. Just because you don't understand it doesn't change their equation and they must not and will not give up, they must destroy its enemies to survive.

The fact that the Western world has been brainwashed and is now so antisemitic and anti-Israel just shows how effective the propaganda pushed from Iran with the help of the ruzzian troll/bot farms became, that's a weapon that must be taken seriously. It was used to brainwash Americans into supporting putin and ganging up against Israel as well.

You sound like you're making excuses.

So I can list out all the things against your nephew. The fact that when you went to college the government paid 70% of your tuition versus 20% of his. The fact that housing was heavily subsidized when you were coming up and there was still decent land to build houses on widely available. The fact that antitrust law was still just a little bit enforced as you were coming up so you had more competition and more opportunities as a result. The fact that automation has taken 70% of middle class jobs since the 1980s. On and on and on and on and on.

None of that matters because you have what's called a world view. You grew up in a world a certain way and hit the age of 12 and Dad-gummit that's the way the world is always going to be and nothing is ever going to change.

Face it I old people played the game on easy mode. Then we left a burnt out hellscape to our kids full of techno feudalism.

But nobody wants to acknowledge that because it acknowledges the failure on our part to make the world better for the next generation. We're the ones who screwed up but it's so much easier to blame the kids. Feels good too doesn't it?

I'm really getting tired of the real world too. Doesn't make it go away.

I briefly was a history major before I realized it wasn't for me, so I took a few more history courses and read more books than most folks.

There was absolutely widespread technological unemployment during the two industrial revolutions. We don't like to talk about it. And it didn't just go away it lasted right up until the early 1900s where coincidentally we started two world wars.

It seems disingenuous to just tell the parents to raise their kids better when you have a systemic problem. Parents can only do so much.

Don't get me wrong I am all for not raising your kids the way you were raised. My parents were useless and insane respectively. And I was careful not to impart generational trauma as best I could, although I'm still pretty sure I ended up with a little bit passed over whether I liked it or not.

But we have solid studies it shows 70% of the middle class jobs in the last 40 years got taken by robots and automation and process improvement.

Those were mostly good paying factory jobs although it was plenty of other work in there. I remember when I first started doing more advanced IT support and developers support we needed six guys on a team and when I moved on to another job we had two.

That was because we switched from complex desktop software that depended on a lot of libraries to a web-based application that didn't need nearly as much support because it didn't have to constantly be rejiggered to work on a broken computer.

It's just one example but there's lots more and llms are going to devour workers. Every CEO is privately telling anyone who will listen, up to and including investors, that they will be replacing workers with AI. If course I press releases they deny that but I don't care what you tell the press I care what you tell you're investors because those guys are backed by the SEC.

Well, the singularity at the center of the black hole is a point (or, is a point if the black hole isn't spinning.) The term "black hole" refers to the event horizon and everything inside it. The stuff inside is not observable-- the math says it's a singular point (ignoring quantum mechanics, since there is no theory of quantum gravity), but that's not observable.

Technically, when we say it's spinning, the actual meaning is "the black hole has angular momentum." The word "spin" is just shorthand. Same goes for elementary particles, for what it's worth. An electron has spin, but don't think of it as having some part of it is moving in circles.

Yes, the singularity at the center of a black hole with nonzero angular momentum is theoretically not a point, but a ring.

Could go either way, depending on whether the angular momentums of the individual black holes, and the angular momentum of the two holes orbiting each other, are aligned or anti-aligned. Also, the gravitational radiation of the merger carries angular momentum away, so the angular momentum of the merged system is less than the (vector) sum of the angular momenta of the two individual black holes and the orbital momentum.