"slavery" - how do parents raise such stupid offspring? did they send to you the wrong schools?

"... Canadian and Indigenous content, such as French-language ..."

This is why morons remain morons - they let their emotions run their brain.

lol, if you think Alberta is leaving ... I feel bad for you son

Every place on earth has the same problems. But if you think it's all in the same amount, the fuck are you doing on a nerd website about computers - one of the greatest gifts they've given us is the ability to more easily tabulate differences and trends.

But I'm Canadian. I'm happy for it. Put it in my bill, streamers, happy to pay it.

What on earth are you talking about? It's clearly a program designed to incentive streaming "your favorite artist" as much as possible in service of "earning" a reserved ticket.

Hard to imagine *that* won't just be yet another vector of attack for scalper bots attempting to score those tickets.

Obviously they mean the fans "listening to the artist the most on Spotify" because that's obviously the behaviour they're incentivizing with this program.

Although this just feels like it's creating up an incentive for scalpers to setup bots to listen to Spotify. If the scalper-bots are plausible deniably "legitimate traffic" in terms of being to charge those impressions back to advertisers, Spotify can probably live with that.

I don't think anybody reading that release would think, "Oh, Spotify and LiveNation are acting so selflessly in the interests of fans and artists" but in what other language can you expect them to couch it in? It's marketing.

We're you like, held out of school or something? It's hard to believe people can reach adulthood with such a hilariously shitty grasp of basic reasoning.

It's hilarious to see a federal government sue a state for banning an insanely unregularly shitshow.

"Minnesota banning prediction markets is like trying to ban the New York Stock Exchange,"

This is your future, United States. Just the dumbest shit spoken imaginable, in the service of protecting the freedom of separating people from their money, 24/7, backed up by an administration who nakedly wants dumb people to do dumb things - oh, the ways in which such policy posture enriches them personally? Totally unrelated.

lol, shashdotters are an adorable lot, forever living in the past

Or a variant that's closer to Ebola Reston. Airborne, 100% fatality rate (so far only in a couple species of monkeys. So far...)

I love you Angle-Westerns, you're all so obtuse!

(That made your whining sound particularly dumb.)

Your metaphor would make a lot more sense if kids were designing Lego sets that Lego then sold and vastly under compensated the creators of those sets (while doing a piss poor job of keeping those kids from being contacted directly by adults)

"can't tell the difference between a game and reality"

Uh, while I would argue that you should probably care because that person should be focusing on an investor meeting, it tickles me that you're suggesting somebody playing a videogame during a meeting supports the assertion that "they can't tell the difference between a game and reality".

That would probably amount to a whole lot of people who can't tell the difference between a game and reality (which I don't agree with) rather than a whole lot of people are not focusing on what they should be focusing on (which I do agree with.)