Successfully or attempted? Now that I’m self confident enough to ignore them, big enough to dissuade them, and can afford to sue them, I like to think I’m no longer an easy target for bullies

I’m still way too trusting though

Right, you may see a couch and be curious about a couch, and there’s no moral framework against finding out how those soft fluffy cushions feel, intimately. It’s just instinct. But no, JD Vance has not acted on this instinct

What about those hard brittle shells?

After reading this I still don’t know why everyone is criticizing Schumer.

Government shutdowns are bad. For everyone employed by the government, receiving government services, working with government agencies, or in case anything unexpected happens. Continuing as-is is easily preferable to not continuing.

I do wonder if a shutdown invokes some sort of procedural change leaving us open to even more shenanigans.

But really the only hint I see is the term “Clean CR”. By definition , you expect a Continuing Resolution to continue. Was this not clean? Were there changes embedded that we would object to? If so, I haven’t seen any detail on this

Wait, seriously we’re calling these a Supreme Court now? Is that like calling Donald Trump ethical?

PSA: check your private relay settings if you haven’t in a while

Mine was on but set to “maintain general area” so local content works.

Yeah but that still makes no sense.

I have Spotify and lost that easy volume control capability when this issue first surfaced. However I have never used a HomePod. Whatever changed has nothing to do with my non-existent HomePod

Maybe this is unrelated but there was also a change to HomeKit where we had to accept some sort of architectural update having to do with my non-existent HomePod. I can easily believe a common ground of API changes and that Spotify didn’t want to update

I do tend to be suspicious about that these days …… I live in a very blue area but over the last get years we’ve had town halls disrupted by chants to stop protecting our kids from diseases. From people out of our town, including out of state

Certainly the fake artists and ai crap bothers me, but I haven’t yet been knowingly affected by that. Most pop music sounds generated by ai anyway so what’s a few more.

I know a bit of WWII era mythology about Burma.

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers

Perhaps Myanmar is somewhere near there.

But non-sarcastically, you are correct that Southeast Asia is a blind spot from the US that we really should know more about. You’d think a disastrous military intervention in the region would spur learning more but that doesn’t seem to have happened

It does require that though, at least in the US. Previous antitrust actions have made it clear that a monopoly is the distinction. If you don’t control the market it’s acceptable to use all sort of sketchy practices to grow your market share. It’s only after you’ve succeeded enough to control the market that these same behaviors are “anti trust”, unfairly locking out competition.

I don’t entirely buy this argument.

In my experience, Spotify has made music accessible enough that I listen to thousands of hours per year, far more than anyone else I know. Vs before Spotify I couldn’t be bothered. Even assuming Spotify pays artists less than other mediums, there’s a point where the much higher listening rate is the better choice.

I’m not especially hard core of a music listener so my attempts at other services were disappointing enough that I probably wouldn’t bother.

Poorly written article but it does end with a correction that “Spotify has not opted in to using the required APIs”.

While I have no way of knowing who to blame here, I see Spotify trying to blame Apple rather than talk about the api claim. If they have an objection to that api, let’s meet there, a little closer to reality

Yep. You too might be a criminal, gangster, drug dealing, illegal immigrant that should be deported. If China won’t take you back, we can dump you somewhere else.

I don’t see them coming for all of us. It’s just not practical to arrest everyone who complains.

It all comes down to other characteristics:

• are you someone influential or high profile they can make an example of, to promote fear?
• do you have any connection to another country, no matter how tenuous, where they can use this as an excuse to deport?
• are you part of another demographic bias they want to persecute, such as lgbt, where they can use this as an excuse to legally persecute?

I tried that once but it wasn’t for me. If it’s been cold out and is suddenly warm, I’ll bask in the heat or open windows.

Actually I’m a bit annoyed that my car does that. I set the car thermostat to heat to a specific temperature but then it also cools to that temperature. I haven’t figured out if there’s a way to set it to heat (or cool) only

They should have included a picture of beer, instead of a couple cans of piss water and diluted piss water

I wish we had someone who could look at government to cut waste, fraud and abuse, get those guys back on serious crime

I will say it’s somewhat satisfying in an “I told you so” kind of way. It’s getting really frustrating voting for a government that will serve the people overall, but get rejected by the very people who would benefit most.

I will continue to vote for sanity and for a government that serves its people but is it really too much to ask for the people to do the same?

wtf, are they really expecting one guy to make up for the governments abandoned commitments? Why don’t they put that Nazi toady right on it?