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Yes, you can just buy your way to success if you have enough money to throw at things. Electric cars and rocketry are both things we've had decades of practice doing, it's not like he was investing in anything actually risky. He was buying a business from thin air to attach a marketing department to.
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"Risk" is relative though isn't it. If your daddy owns an emerald mine there's no risk of you becoming destitute. Once you've got a certain amount of money you can take a whole load of risks until one pays off.
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I hate Musk slightly less than his ilk because he at least has a sense that there are Real Problems and has a vision to fix them. He identifies the problems incorrectly, the causes of the problems incorrectly, and prescribes solutions which range from asinine to prohibitively difficult, but I do think that's a tiny bit better than all the rich folks who think everything is just peachy. I'd rather have a useless numpty who fucks up everything than the very very competent evil fuckers running most other things. I mean it's a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea really, and you do not under any circumstances "gotta hand it to him", but I'll give him the choice of execution method whereas the rest of 'em just get shoved up against the wall. Fake e; I find I do this a lot actually. I see someone who is unmitigated dogshit and try and find some, well, mitigating factors. Some minor good things they have done or some aspect that is positive even if it's very insufficient to make up for all the exploitation they do. I think that despite my bitter cynicism I still just... want to believe better of our species and assume that everyone has the potential for good.
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He's also massively anti-union though so... Like he's explicitly on the side of the problems.
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Christ. I want to pay for a music streaming service next year, but according to this, Amazon are currently the service that pay artists the most: https://twitter.com/MrTomGray/status/1251415657486471175?t=ZKqEO2AMkQbc6N7LslI-iA&s=19 Is that right? Are there any other caveats to keep in mind? The missus wants to get spotify because you can get a couples deal and share playlists, but i'd rather a service that pays artists more. Of course on balance they're all pretty loving shocking but the least I can do is choose the least poo poo option. And no, I'm not carrying a plex server round in a backpack.
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I'm not sure how right it is, since Google Play Music doesn't exist any more (you have to get YouTube Music instead). But all of the streaming sites are bad for actually giving money to artists, which is no surprise given the entire industry is built around giving as much money to studio and label execs as possible, and the bare minimum to everyone else. Just pick the streaming service which is the most convenient (Spotify for most people), and if there's an artist you particularly like and want to support, buy some of their stuff from Bandcamp.
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Dabir posted:Electric cars and rocketry are both things we've had decades of practice doing, it's not like he was investing in anything actually risky. Maybe, but at the same time there were no large successful companies focused on either (at least in the "making solely electric cars" and "building private rockets" sense, obviously you've had companies making spacecraft components and rocket engines and automotive companies dabbling in electric cars as a side project for decades) and they do say they spent quite a long time trying to find investors before they roped him in, him being the first and biggest investor. That doesn't mean he really did anything himself, but it's not like it was a sure bet either. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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Jan 9, 2022 05:06
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Unionist politician suggesting “the blockchain” as an alternative to the NI Protocol lol 
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smellmycheese posted:Unionist politician suggesting “the blockchain” as an alternative to the NI Protocol lol For gently caress sake. I'd love to hear exactly how he thinks that would work
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Christ. I want to pay for a music streaming service next year, but according to this, Amazon are currently the service that pay artists the most: IIRC the highest paying service (currently) is actually Napster* I think I read that the algorithmic method of working out artist payments results basically means that the more people using the service overall = less payout per individual stream. So unintuitively, less popular services are better for artists. I may have made that up though. Here's a 2021 breakdown. It focuses mainly on Spotify but includes the others down the page. https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream * Reports that every third song is incorrectly labelled as 'System of a Down - Legend of Zelda' remain unconfirmed. Gruffalo Soldier fucked around with this message at 10:49 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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Jan 9, 2022 10:45
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This is loving insane
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Barry Foster posted:This is loving insane I wonder how this scales against “chaos with ed miliband”
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smellmycheese posted:Unionist politician suggesting “the blockchain” as an alternative to the NI Protocol lol An oven ready blockchain, no less
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Blockchain means Blockchain
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Marmaduke! posted:An oven ready blockchain, no less All blockchains are oven ready because the of the heat coming off the GPUs trying to maintain them.
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“I'm afraid the civil service has thoroughly assessed the situation and determined that the present course of action will likely lead to partial societal collapse and significant social unrest. I strongly advise you to reconsider your objection to significant public spending to alleviate the severe manpower restrains crippling the health, transport and food industries.” “Afraid not, old chap. The only way out… is through!” *hires tim wetherspoons as ‘kill the poors '22 commemorative piss-up' organiser* Convex fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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Convex posted:I wonder how this scales against “chaos with ed miliband” Nurgle with Boris Johnson
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Barry Foster posted:This is loving insane Hospitalisations are almost back up to the first peak. At least deaths aren't tracking to the same extent, I guess.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Christ. I want to pay for a music streaming service next year, but according to this, Amazon are currently the service that pay artists the most: The best course of action is to buy a subscription to the streaming service of your choice and then pay artists directly for the albums you really like and want to support. No need to worry about which streaming service is more profitable for artists; streaming service subscriptions are for getting rid of pesky ads, not for giving artists their fair share. 
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So I saw this on Twitter this week. https://twitter.com/RobDotHutton/status/1479098566731726852?t=0-JStP-0m4Jl2pl87xzRfg&s=19 Did the thread miss this? Did BoJo try and suggest that the reason he had to have number 10 done up was because Theresa May thrashed the place before she left?
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Jan 9, 2022 11:41
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Marmaduke! posted:An oven ready blockchain, no less 'Oven ready, just pop it in the microwave' weirdly, of everything he ever said, is the one thing that really, really hosed me off for some reason
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The Question IRL posted:So I saw this on Twitter this week. It was widely reported at the time that Carrie considered it a 'John Lewis Nightmare' full of widely purchased furnishings that don't cost at least 4 figures
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The Question IRL posted:So I saw this on Twitter this week. No, he suggested that May was awfully middle class and that a gentleman such as himself couldn't be expected to live in a flat that looked like it had been furnished by John Lewis.
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The actual suggestion was that it was Carrie kicking up a stink, since I doubt Boris gives much of a poo poo what the place looks like as long as he's got somewhere to eat, poo poo and do his custard binbag thing.
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Jan 9, 2022 12:01
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Wait is John Lewis not posh, you can spend thousands on one seat in that place
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ThomasPaine posted:'Oven ready, just pop it in the microwave' weirdly, of everything he ever said, is the one thing that really, really hosed me off for some reason It's a microwave oven, ykno.
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kingturnip posted:The actual suggestion was that it was Carrie kicking up a stink, since I doubt Boris gives much of a poo poo what the place looks like as long as he's got somewhere to eat, poo poo and do his custard binbag thing. They're all the same exact place, probably
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Jan 9, 2022 12:09
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I have never seen a john lewis. Or a waitrose.
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OwlFancier posted:I have never seen a john lewis. Or a waitrose. 
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ThomasPaine posted:Wait is John Lewis not posh, you can spend thousands on one seat in that place imo it's faux-posh, marketed at non-posh people who desperately want to feel closer to posh nothing that is mass-produced and commonly-available *can* be posh by definition, imo
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If you don't buy your cutlery from diddler and sons bespoke knivemasons since 1753 idk what to tell you
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ThomasPaine posted:Wait is John Lewis not posh, you can spend thousands on one seat in that place If you’re not familiar with Tories - The really posh ones consider anyone who has to actually buy furniture incredibly vulgar
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JL is middle class rather than posh.
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Parts of the media have noticed that Mandelson was mates with Epstein! 
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Mandy & the Paedo is my favourite ITV4 cop drama
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Pablo Bluth posted:JL is middle class rather than posh. John Lewis is just an old-fashioned department store (and it's weird that nobody seems to have noticed this, 20+ years after all the others got destroyed). *Waitrose* is middle class, but more particularly the kind of middle class that thinks Marks and Spencer Food Halls are a bit too lower-middle-class these days. (Full disclosure - I do almost all of my grocery shopping in M&S and Waitrose these days because the ones in Canary Wharf are *empty* on a Saturday morning and I am willing to accept my place against the wall just to avoid the queues at the Asda)
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John Lewis is good, if there's ever a problem they just sort it out no questions asked & pay the postage for returns. Been buying all of my baby paraphernalia there, it usually isn't even any more expensive than like Amazon or w/e (like-for-like)
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I usually get John Lewis vouchers for Christmas and birthdays and their stuff is usually really good for the price (which isn't really much more than anywhere else).
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John Lewis is the poshest shop I go to because everything else round here is a pound shop or Home Bargains.
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