AllNewTypeFace
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
It has been since the dawn of the recording industry
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
They own a big chunk (possibly a majority) of Spotify and extract hefty licensing fees from it. (Spotify moving into podcasting was apparently intended to find a market in which they could keep the profits.) The majors get far better licensing terms than indie labels or small artists would get, because they have the whip hand: Spotify has no choice but to pay up as not to become a platform without Taylor Swift/Ed Sheeran/Baby Shark/etc., which would effectively wipe them out.
Make no mistake, the three major labels (Warner, Sony and Universal) are reaping the vast majority of profits from Spotify.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
MM/DD/YYYY would annoy me wherever it’s from, because it’s wilfully perverse.
- Comment on Che Mangione 1 week ago:
and Guevara was a Stalinist. Though nobody’s perfect.
- Comment on Anon reads the news 1 week ago:
If the only evidence is from old Twitter posts, keep in mind that Musk wants him made an example of, and is not above editing the contents of anyone’s account to get his goals (which he asserts is his right, as he owns the site and everything in it)
- Comment on I am not alone. 1 week ago:
I wonder if he ended up on the Sex Offenders Register. The UK can be quite aggressive in putting people on it: one guy ended up on it for engaging in a sex act with his bicycle in a hotel room when a cleaner walked in on him.
- Comment on Tipping culture is out of control, even the cops expect tips now! 2 weeks ago:
Fawkes was a religious fanatic who sought to blow up the English Parliament to replace it with a theocracy, so as an actual historical figure, he’s not much of a progressive role model.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 weeks ago:
“thin gruel” just doesn’t have the right ring to it
- Comment on Australia changes position to support [UN] vote demanding Israel end occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem and West Bank 2 weeks ago:
A right-wing nationalist state, long since purged of any socialist/secular-humanist idealism its founders may have had, and they have the idea of “Judaeochristianity” to promote it. Also, it gives them a free pass from any antisemitism allegations no matter how many times they mention George Soros or “cultural Marxism”.
- Comment on Heads up, don't link to the Guardian on 5/6 December 2 weeks ago:
If they sell off the Observer, they’ll lose a lot of their TERF columnists like Sonia Sodha, which would make it less problematic to link/subscribe to them.
- Comment on Australia changes position to support [UN] vote demanding Israel end occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem and West Bank 2 weeks ago:
They’ll change right back under Dutton
- Comment on Middle coat is my grandma's 2 weeks ago:
They’re about to drop the indie-folk album of the year
- Comment on Cats are Healers 2 weeks ago:
Because they’re famously expensive to keep?
- Comment on Starbucks wants a Bachelor's degree for a barista 2 weeks ago:
It’s not the degree itself, it’s the debt you incurred to get it, and your consequent lack of negotiating power.
- Comment on Anon is in college 2 weeks ago:
Either this only happened to the FOAF of someone interviewed on FoxNews, or if it did, it was a false-flag operation organised by Turning Point or some similar group to radicalise young men against feminism and consent culture, as anyone who gave it a moment’s thought would see that that would be its outcome.
- Comment on Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year) 3 weeks ago:
On what grounds will it be struck down? The only constitutional rights recognised by the courts are the right to not have a state religion imposed on you and (as of 1991 or so) freedom of political association.
- Comment on Brazilian's impression on Europe(i have never been there and this is based on nothing) 3 weeks ago:
Is Poland pissed in the American or British sense of the word?
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM 3 weeks ago:
The worthwhile Assassin’s Creed games can be bought for a few bucks for the PS3/Xbox 360. Everything after Ezio is just an inessential sequel.
- Comment on 🎵 You know the season and so do I 🎶 3 weeks ago:
That would be by the renowned Elizabethan psalm composer Peter Waterman, I’m guessing
- Comment on Billionaire food app CEO seeks worker willing to pay for job 3 weeks ago:
Maybe, if you’re good enough, you’ll be promoted to a job that pays you. (And if you’re not, then you just haven’t proven yourself.) And so, work becomes like athletics or musicianship: something most participants lose money on, but a famous few get rich from, drawing the others in.
- Comment on Playing Outside Simulator coming 2025 4 weeks ago:
Daddy was one of the handful of lucky survivors who weren’t crushed by a SUV or abducted by a serial killer. Back then, families had, like, 13 kids so that at least one or two would survive the perils of playing outside.
- Comment on Sydney University academics pursued for speaking out against Gaza atrocities 4 weeks ago:
Australia is a IHRA jurisdiction, so their complaint would be legally valid.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 4 weeks ago:
It takes a heroic amount of cocaine to make something so devoid of taste and see it through.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
Where’s “beach”?
- Comment on Damages elevator; the 4 weeks ago:
Probably translated word for word by someone who didn’t speak both languages, like English As She Is Spoke or All Your Base Are Belong To Us. I wonder what the other language was, though.
- Comment on I just WON'T 4 weeks ago:
You might want to stay away from any Australian wine that’s packaged in a plastic bag then.
- Comment on Ah, the old family favourite 5 weeks ago:
It’s obviously from the parallel timeline in which German became the official language of the United States.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 5 weeks ago:
Not even that; 0.1% per trade would bring in a huge windfall. Even something negligible like 0.01% would bring in nontrivial amounts of revenue.
The problem is that being above paying tax has become part of the identity of being rich, and the very idea of even a negligible amount of one’s wealth being taken away to be given to your inferiors is unacceptable, and the rich will defend every fluctuating cent of their wealth as a non-negotiable matter of honour, even if it means burning down the world.
- Comment on US finds that Israel is not impeding assistance to Gaza; aid groups disagree 5 weeks ago:
It is logically impossible for Israel to commit genocide. It is, in fact, grammatically invalid in English for the words “Israel” and “genocide” to be in the same sentence. And anybody who says otherwise is an antisemite.
- Comment on If you're in this meme, go buy a fibre supplement 5 weeks ago:
The ones I’ve seen look machine-made, probably in huge quantities. They’re thin, and look slightly less disposable than a paper coffee cup.