Then there’s Atlas Shrugged.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukrainewarfootage

seems to work

Nobody uses the new reddit ux, right?

We know this because Weird Al used his year-end video to make the world aware that, in return for his tens of millions of streams, he got around $80.00 from Spotify for a whole year.

How does that work? 10 million Spotify streams should pay more than $20k in royalties.

Guess how much money the artists get when you do that?

That way the artists get even less than with Spotify.

Yeah, you’re right. I just found that one via the bsky thread also.

or the psychedelics culture I guess

Pretty ok sort of modernized Grateful Dead or something like that. Like what Oasis is to Beatles.

They have good traffic designs in a lot of places but also horrible multiple lane passways without protection. And a significant minority of Finnish drivers break the law by not stopping on a crosswalk when other cars have stopped on the same crosswalk.

Also there have been plenty of near misses due to electric scooters. Children and drunkards are being extremely reckless with those, and in fact a 15-year old girl died near the second largest city Tampere just this summer when she crashed into a car (not publicized yet whose fault this was legally).

But good luck Helsinki!

I bet there’s some Linux application that is able to connect to it and create a virtual output device you can pick for the tidal app, or any other audio.

Yeah I should’ve been more clear what I’m looking for. Obviously I can stream via Bluetooth or perhaps even something like Airplay. But the native Spotify client uses Spotify Connect also on Linux, which means that the device can independently play the music. I just issue it commands from the client.

A similar thing exists for Tidal: Tidal Connect. But unfortunately the Linux client does not support it. Android, MacOS and iOS do, though.

Yeah seems to me that Spotify is the way to go. And for the artists you really like, buy the album or donate to them in addition to listening them via streaming.

I’ve been just pondering between tidal and spotify, and I primarily use Linux and Android. Tidal’s client doesn’t seem to support outputting to devices like Wiim in Linux. The Spotify client does.

Spotify’s client can be installed via AUR (a repackaging of that DEB essentially) on Arch Linux.

FWIW, both tidal-hifi and the official spotify client are available in NixOS’s repository.

Chinese government can print an infinite amount of Yuan out of thin air.

That’s not how any of this works. Sure they can do that, but they cannot control the effects of having done so.

I would say that there’s quite a lot of reason to believe that infrastructure investments can be one of the best ways to help poor people rise economically. Which has obvious paybacks.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure/publication/infrastructure-and-poverty-reduction-innovative-policies

This still requires creating infrastructure that is actually needed, otherwise it’s just wasting money (which ultimately is just an abstraction over wealth, opportunity, materials, workers’ finite time and energy, etc etc).

and buzzy

You really served them. Did they apologize for being so wrong?

A feature of rail is very high building costs. If they wasted money on building HSR on a lot of places where it’s not needed, this means there’s gonna be a debt that never gets paid by the utilization of the rail. Bad investment.

So it’s not about maintenance, but the up-front cost.

Not doing an investment where an investment would make a lot of money is of course a kind of reverse of this, but which leads to a similar outcome.

https://www.pekingnology.com/p/china-massively-overbuilt-high-speed

Good luck dealing with that financial bomb.

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And then destroy them.