Spotify has already responded by requiring songs to hit at least 1,000 plays in the previous 12 months to qualify for royalties, and Luminate reported that 88% of tracks received 1,000 or fewer plays in 2025.
So thanks to AI, Spotify has essentially eliminated itself as a platform for small, niche artists.
Sure. But I don't have to make it any easier for Zuck, right?
For exactly what benefit?
Names
Face recognition is the one feature I want in a wearable. I have a great memory for faces and a shit memory for names. I can look at a crowded room and spot the three people I know. I couldn't for the life of me tell their names unless they are close friends.
If I could get a tech device telling me just their names, I would be happy. I don't need their FB profile or such. I don't need the names of people I don't know.
That said, I'd rather go without than having Facebook handle that. Nope, you can fuck right off, Zuckerberg.
Why do Excel/Word/Outlook need access to your location/camera/mic? Are you sure they're not asking for permission because they aren't using them?
Yeah, but who are you going to believe? Wakeboarder, or those wankers at NASA?
Buying a new one every two years, and you don't have to get a POS HP laptop.
Oh, not sure. The whole cryptocurrency scene routinely throws around millions.
But yeah, UK.
In the US you would probably give it back, then sue them for twice the amount due to the "emotional distress" of thinking you were rich and then having that shattered.
and a new analysis by the Wall Street Journal
Sorry, what? A NEW analysis? A solid decade in this? Took them a while, didn't it?
if you knowingly keep a deposit paid to you in error
But in this case it was sent to the correct recipient, and it was sent explicitly as a gift. Assuming the prize amounts were not published in advance, there's no way I can KNOW that it was in error. I might assume, believe, think, etc. - but not KNOW.
Yes, nitpicking. But law is essentially all nitpicking.
But Bithumb is still trying to convince users [...] to give back the equivalent funds.
Why? They called it a gift, didn't they?
This option is so often overlooked, it's almost comical.
Same in most political debates. You are strongly pushed to take a side. The option "both sides are full of shit" is often ignored.
Any used vehicle will be more trouble than a new one no matter what the maker.
Sure, I'll grant that, in general.
But still, is it 50% more trouble, or 0.5% more trouble? The first should influence your buying decision, the second is a rounding error.
My current BMW has over 150,000 km on the clock and is now 8 years old. The only thing where it is noticeably different from when I bought it (used, at about 2 years old and 40,000 km) is that one rubber switch on the steering wheel is worn off and I'll ask to replace it the next time it goes in for maintenance.
Maybe I'm lucky. The point is: There are plenty of perfectly fine used cars out there. Many of which are no trouble for their owners.
Personally, my next car is likely to be another BMW, as soon as the dashboard designers get off drugs and put the display back into the dashboard instead of sticking it on top like a cheap after-market add-on.
But those aren't the ones being sold with subscriptions.
Two or three years from now, they will be ubiquitous on the used car market. A lot of cars go to the used market when a leasing contract ends.
have also heard you had better be a backyard mechanic if you get one because they are bound to have serious electrical problems at age
Never heard that and at least for both of mine it wasn't true.
IMHO, these decisions seem to be made by people who don't understand basic agriculture.
These decisions are being made by people actively trying to destroy the United States from within.
I'm not saying that the orange idiot and majority of his cabinet are Russian stooges taking orders from Putin to destroy our country. But if we knew for a fact that he was, what exactly would he be doing differently than he is doing now?
They're not that expensive used. My 2nd car was a BMW - 11 years old but in excellent shape (and old gentleman owned it and basically drove it from his garage to his company garage twice a week or so). It cost 8000 Euros. I drove it for years and was very happy with it. Then I sold it for 4000 Euros.
Do not meddle in the affairs of troff, for it is subtle and quick to anger.
