"only has lawsuits that happened to them" that is not entirely true. Yes, lawsuits and sanctions happens, but the Venezuelan government played an awful game that they exactly knew what would happen to them. Full corruption and power play that didn't play out well. This is a list of many of the nationalizations Chavez did. https://www.reuters.com/article/world/factbox-venezuelas-nat...
As a music lover (and working in the music industry) this 100% checks out.
Only focus in in politics, money and business… the value of music as art is totally forgot.
I believe this is a similar status of many things, when only business people runs an industry, the value of the things being managed decreses in importance, although not precisely in money.
Great for Gilmour to openly share.
Just as a wrote this, i read Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) is suing Universal for $200 million of unpaid royalties.
Very much similar! I started taping cassettes when i was like 8-10 years old. I erased some music from my mother’s cassette and she was furious hahah.
What do you mean with availability overload? I would say i am an active listener, my mind is rather a bit creative and i would dare to say that 80-90% percent of the time, i know what to listen. Even if it means to discover something new.
I used to like the Spotify recommendations but i disabled them since 2 years at they became like ads network “whoever pays more, gets more recommended”. I discover music now through personal recommendations, magazines (online), forums, references from artists i usually read about, or music produced by a producer i respect. How do you deal with?
But for example, right now i just wanted to listen some salsa/merengue (you can begin to guess where i am from) i always liked and made my own playlist with own songs.
Although true in comparison, it is still relative.
I was born in 1991 in an underdeveloped country. Buying CDs was a luxury and i lived out of torrents and pirated CD copies. I still bought original CDs from time to time.
But the biggest appreciation for me, and maybe for the original commenter, is the amount of music itself.
I love music, is my main hobby and passion. And having all of this available at all times is still mind blowing for me.
Ironically, i still buy my favourite music in CDs cuz i love them, but one would not replace the other.
Spotify (or streaming services overall) is indeed amazing.
Personally, as long as it’s owned my Meta, i just see “Threats” as the name. With this, i mean to data sniffing and privacy concerns. Plus, as much as it seems a good product, how long will it take to be “enshittified”?
It seems to me the latest “social medias” have the same formula, launch as a decent app, gather a massive user base, business realise the money potential, the application gets uglier with time as Ads are everywhere and content is generated by bots.
One interesting feature is thar they’re trying the ActivityPub protocol, which will allow them to interconnect with Mastodon servers. This is also not all good, as it means they’ll start to sniff data from there. But, at least i can block the threads server entirely preventing this :)
Although true and considering what “mrob” had also replied, this will never mean full translation every time, all the time. This will work with specific environments and linguistic expectations.
I’ve been learning german since 8 years, and the amount of expressions and different ways to say things around the country is impressive. There’ll be a “interpretative” real-time translation, but it won’t guarantee fully understanding in so many cases, maybe ever.
Other thing, and we have this in common with all languages, is the context and this is difficult to address i believe.
Nevertheless, it’s impressive how far we’ve reached and i acknowledge the usability of these tools. However, human knowledge will be always crucial and primordial if we want to guarantee full understanding.
I just skimmed trough the article, but genuinely if someone has experience: Of all the either Linux or alternative OS phones out there, have someone had great experience with Camera Quality on these phones?
One thing that is keeping me from changing is the camera quality. I had a Huawei P30 pro and it was sick. Then i changed to the iPhone 13Pro and again, also top. But i still have not seen convincing hardware integration with good lenses on these mobiles.
This is also my concern, that it does not look realistic and hence my initiative to start commenting in the topic. What is the reality and intention of only privately held companies with such small fares?
What i've heard is that, before, Renfe had a monopoly and since these new players came into picture, the prices have dropped dramatically in Renfe ticket fares. So definitely is good to see the benefits, but is it now also Renfe losing money and would the quality decrease? This would be a bad scenario for everyone then.
Correct, but Iryo is a private company, although the railway in Spain is publicly maintained i guess by Renfe. So i believe Iryo should make money, specially (as mentioned in another comment below) it's part of Trenitalia. But i'm definitely not an economist.
A personal note from anecdotes i had this year on Spanish trains.
I used the company Iryo, which its mother company is Trenitalia. After living in Germany, i was positively baffled by the quality of the trains, the cleanliness, the speed and most even more relevant and what made me jealous: The price.
A ticket Valencia - Madrid costed 14eur. Which immediately made me wonder about how do they even manage to make money?
In Germany, the high speed trains have the same quality, but by no means the price. Impossible to see that price for a Deutsche Bahn ticket.
For visiting other cities in Spain, it’s always cheaper to just pay a flight to Madrid and get a high speed train to somewhere. But this is also benefiting from the geographical position of Madrid into the country.
Kudos to Spain for this and i wish they can keep low prices with high quality of travel for its citizens.
Oh man, amazing Obscura is. If you enjoy them a lot, check Allegaeon. They’re my favourite technical extreme metal band. And very nerdy lyrics, they have a whole range of melodies and rymthms. Also with classical guitar passages.