I’ve been using it for nearly a decade, it’s changed a lot.

Same. I just simply don’t agree. If you consider tiny features not a soul needs like yearly reviews of one’s listening habits and the roll out of podcasts as things worth mentioning, ok, they were not exactly doing anything radically new at that point anyway.

I don’t know why you’d be leaving ux out.

Because UX 90% adds nothing and chiefly serves to suggest innovation.

You must be trolling come on now.

I am. I want Spotify employees to read this and get steamingly mad. They are complicit in ruining music.

+edited for formatting

Spiralling

Spotify’s functions have not changed a bit since 2016. It is literally the same application, what has changed are the tiny things they’re doing for compatibility but that is not really worth mentioning. Intentionally leaving UX out.

Honestly what code is there to write for this glorified web browser? They’re probably also outsourcing most of their data collection and recommendation algorithms.

Buy physical media, rip CDs, share shit and that’s it

Those lawsuits work only short term

I realize that we might be talking entirely different languages here. For one, I do not at all hold the belief that social constructions have eternal qualities to them. Secondly, affluenza is a second order phenomenon to private wealth. Maybe third order phenomenon, as economic behaviour precedes it, standing in the middle between affluenza and private wealth. To me that’s putting the horse before the cart a bit which doesn’t compute.

lol, lmao even

Either they think they’re evil 1337 h4xx0r overlords that are gonna enslave the planet or they genuinely think their statistical apparati do anything worthwile outside of making statistics on by now 70% other statistical machines.

+just wait until AI bros about Zip compression being more efficient at classifying than “AIs”.

That it’s not Python;)

Not to mention that real high quality astrophotography by NASA and ESA is more often than not under free licenses. Literally the last case where it’s necessary to generate something.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not against people choosing on their own accord to go. Even if I think there are caveats with that because I don’t consider people to ever be able to completely grasp their decisions and make decisions autonomously. We’re after all limited creatures. I suppose in cases of extreme disease assisted suicide non the less represents a rational personal choice.

What keeps me from supporting an institution such as MAiD is how economic pressures can greatly affect the question of who dies and who dies when. If a person has the resources to pass in a comfortable environment, like a nice home in a calm part of town, they will consider assisted suicide much later in their trajectory than the person who has hardly any next of kin and no financial resources to install, say, the necessary aids at home. The former individual does not spend their last days in a stressful hospital environment. Of all examples I could give this is probably in the category of least extreme. As long as this contradictory aspect exists MAiD and everything like it will fail to live up to promises. Off the top of my dome I’m not able to name any regions where this would not be the case, even Sweden or Switzerland have dirt-poor strata that would be negatively affected.

In the actual free world where we have healthcare the mandates for treatment come from the physicians and the advice from medical professionals. It is far from perfect, but it is the best recommended care.

I would carefully disagree here. Would freedom not mean that the recipient of medical care gets to ultimately decide? Considering the state of the world, free world is a contradiction in adjectives. Especially here. I know this is a pedantic ask with it’s scope, but I’m trying to nudge you away from a certain centrisms.

I don’t think it’s fair to draw this comparison on either end as this concerns relationships that are extremely contextualized and subject to change (human to nonhuman animal and human to human.) What constitutes suffering is highly debatable, we’re not dealing with faulty RAM sticks that make the execution of operations unreliable.

The impossibility of creating clear and objective frameworks/rationality based decision-making has been a tool time and time again for repression. It starts with putting grandma out of what we or anyone who is not grandma considers to be her misery, then we go on to NICU children in dire or uncertain circumstances or individuals who can’t communicate or contribute to society, and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4

cmd+f “Gnadentod”

There is something lodged in my mind but I’m not able to really put my finger on it

Luhmann, Hegel, and a secret third thing mixed into one.

I know they’ve had dealings across the Pond for quite some time now, but reading the headline is like reading “Family Mart is coming to Karlskrona with plans of opening 10 stores in Blekinge” or “Kroger’s is coming to Sapporo.”

Everything is written in typescript.

Companies are an awful trend.