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  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack

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  • I know the main topic is ditching Spotify, but on the secondary topic of screwing over Spotify...

    I realized that you can "pirate" Spotify (i.e. listen indefinitely as if you had a paid account) if you have uBlock Origin on Edge. No setup needed, it just works. Most likely any Chromium-like browser will work.

    Unfortunately, I haven't got it to work with Zen browser which is Firefox based so I'm not sure if all Firefox based browsers are affected. The workaround I have for now is just have Edge open with Spotify in the background, and control it from the Spotify interface on Zen. Never download the app, they control that fully.

    Funnily enough, I also got ad-free Spotify play on Amazon Echo when I was controlling it from Edge, though I never tried with Zen because I don't use Echo anymore.

    PS: For audiophiles this is probably not gonna fly, as you don't have access to the highest bit rates iirc.

  • We Deserve Way, Way More Time Off

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  • To each their own, I suppose. I'm fine with people opting to work more, like maybe get a second job or something if they feel like they have too much time with nothing to do, but that's the thing: they should be able to choose. A shorter work week wouldn't impede someone like you, it would actually help you make more money by freeing up time for you to take on more projects. Think of it more as "my time, my choice".

  • We Deserve Way, Way More Time Off

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  • Nah, I need to unload all the work stuff from my brain for a straight few days. If anything, I'd rather have 2x10h days since I tend to overflow the 8-9h anyway.

  • Gavin. Its time to put on the (orange) mask. Finish the job.

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  • Well yeah, but they're also a problem on their own, in the same way metastasized cancer is a problem compared to early stages cancer. If that makes sense.

  • Gavin Newsom says California will move forward with map redrawing plan in response to Texas effort

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  • That's my gut feeling as well. Gerrymandering is a Republican tradition and they've been doing it in red states for decades now. Hard to believe there's much more to squeeze from it. Blue states however...

  • Gavin Newsom says California will move forward with map redrawing plan in response to Texas effort

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  • Somehow I doubt the trumpers are worried. They just want to win. If anything can guarantee their state goes for Trump they'll take it.

    I'm not American, but from my limited experience, my QAnon relatives (who are immigrants themselves in another western country!) were ok with martial law and taking away women's rights as the price to pay to get out of the "dictatorship" they imagined with "forced vaccination" and "LGBT indoctrination" and immigrant "invasion". They also have no problem with taking away LGBT rights because "they have too many now, look at Hollywood". They constantly bring up about how Jews run the world and how bad Israel is, but they have no problem with Trump being their lapdog and enabling their worst atrocities and fantasizing about building a riviera in Gaza. When all the Palestinians there will have perished (something I dread is likely to happen), they'll probably credit Trump with ending the genocide. And don't get me started on Epstein, which was their whole reason for joining QAnon. Back in February they were excitedly telling me, unprompted, how Pam Bondi says the files are on her desk. They haven't said anything since. Wanna bet they'll get defensive if I ask them about it now?

    My point is these people don't care about democracy or human rights, they just scream about them when they experience disconfort, but really all they want is a godking who punishes "the right people" and reminds them every 10 seconds how special they are and how they deserve freedom and sovereignty not like the bad people who they are always persecuted by.

  • A New Zealand mother and her 6-year-old son made a brief trip to Canada. They have spent weeks detained by ICE

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  • Don't expect people to like you when your job is to distort the discourse their spaces.

  • A New Zealand mother and her 6-year-old son made a brief trip to Canada. They have spent weeks detained by ICE

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  • I reported both as such and added tags and 10k downvotes to Voyager for each.

    Nice! I'm not entirely sure how the Voyager thing works since I only use Sync on Android, but it sounds like a good warning sign for others so I appreciate it.

    I feel there are many more such bots on Lemmy than I previously expected.

    Yeah... It might be a nicer corner of the internet, but it's still the internet unfortunately.

  • A New Zealand mother and her 6-year-old son made a brief trip to Canada. They have spent weeks detained by ICE

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  • I'm just gonna copy paste a message I sent to someone else on this thread:

    I think that person is a bot. Someone double-posted by mistake and got the same reply to both messages, but from two completely different accounts, one of them being this one. That doesn't just happen. Most likely it's some bot network reacting to a type of message (in this case the message had /s at the end, and the two identical replies were about how "maybe we should say egregious things without the /s to keep people guessing").

    In this case, it's the other account. I'm certain they haven't been to neither jail nor prison. If they're even real, then they're in the dimly lit open space of a troll farm.

  • A New Zealand mother and her 6-year-old son made a brief trip to Canada. They have spent weeks detained by ICE

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  • Came here to say you should block me too because I agree with everything they said.

  • A New Zealand mother and her 6-year-old son made a brief trip to Canada. They have spent weeks detained by ICE

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  • I think that person is a bot. Someone double-posted by mistake and got the same reply to both messages, but from two completely different accounts, one of them being this one. That doesn't just happen. Most likely it's some bot network reacting to a type of message (in this case the message had /s at the end, and the two identical replies were about how "maybe we should say egregious things without the /s to keep people guessing").

  • A New Zealand mother and her 6-year-old son made a brief trip to Canada. They have spent weeks detained by ICE

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  • Interesting. You double-posted (I assume by mistake) and got the exact same reply from two different accounts, making it extremely likely they are both bots. Nice work exposing them!

  • My experience June 2023

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  • Don't forget Imperialism!

  • EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

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  • I get what you mean. You're saying we're sliding towards something that brings back political correctness in its original definition, and I agree with you.

    The idea is to impose an avaricious financial-might-makes-right

    This resonates a lot. I'd argue we're already there. All this talk of "meritocracy" (fallaciously opposed to "DEI"), the prosperity gospel (that one's even older), it's all been promoting this idea of worthiness determined by net worth. Totalitarianism needs a socially accepted might-makes-right narrative wherever it can find it, then that can be the foundation for the fascist dogma/cult that will justify the regime's existence and legitimize its disregard for human life. Bonus points if you can make that might-makes-right narrative sound righteous (e.g. "merit" determines that you "deserve" your wealth, when really it's a circular argument: merit is never questioned for those who have the wealth, it's always assumed because how else could they have made that much money!).

  • EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

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  • You're right but the example you gave seems to illustrate a different effect that's almost opposite — let me explain.

    The phrase "politically correct" is language which meant something very specific, that was then hijacked by the far-right into the culture war where its meaning could be hollowed out/watered down to just mean basically "polite", then used interchangeably in a motte-and-bailey style between the two meanings whenever useful, basically a weaponized fallacy designed to scare and confuse people — and you know that's exactly what it's doing by because no right-winger can define what this boogeyman really means. This has been done before with things like: Critical Race Theory, DEI, cancel culture, woke, cultural Marxism, cultural bolshevism/judeo bolshevism (if you go back far enough), "Great Replacement", "illegals", the list goes on.

  • Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation might’ve been bigger than we think | A Treasury Department report describes over 4,700 money transfers connected to him

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  • Wouldn't that be the reverse Martian?

  • inside job

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  • First of all

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  • Just a thing to keep in mind. These people are all trying to boost their YouTube channels or whatever. They're creators, not random people. They have a vested interest to act in ways that make them go viral.

    That's not to say it takes away from the vileness, in fact it intensifies it because it's all the more deceitful to whoever tunes in. But that's kind of how fascism spreads: it pretends to be normality until enough people believe it is... and because of that, it actually becomes normal — it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

    So these people may not be anecdotal evidence that it's being normalized, but rather they are actively doing the normalizing.

  • Disabled people zip-tieded protesting medicaid cuts

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  • Again???