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I respect the proactive move to just assume appeal level communication from the OP.

Well, I’ll be darned - I hope it works out!

I would like to move away from using spotify for music. Are there any torrenting sites where I can torrent music with high quality audio (~320kbps) tagged properly?

I strongly suggest to always tag your own music. I think expecting to always finding every album tagged to your own (or you media center’s) specifications and preferences in one place is a fantasy. At least it’s one that I’ve given up on more than a decade ago. Your music will always come from multiple different sources and I don’t think there is (or ever can be) one golden goose.

So yeah, +1 for Musicbrainz Picard. I’ll throw in Puddletag for small manual corrections.

that is a very cool idea! but then how to counter the fact that money is needed to produce these things such as art, books etc Like dont we pay artists ? directly?

while digital property is really debated even believed that copyright for physical goods being copied to digital is no fair

so i could dig into digital intellectual property i will see what i can find

Excellent thinking! You can of course directly transition into discussions about things like basic income and the requirements of society to cater to the basic needs of all its members before anything like economic growth can even be allowed, but it might be more useful to ask the following questions:

1. If we removed all art - all paintings, all books, all music, all movies, all games, all installations, that were not commercially produced or commercially produced at a loss - from existence, wouldn’t that still leave more than could ever be consumed in hundreds of human lifetimes? And if so, why do we even need commercial art?
2. Or more nuanced: How much commercial art does the world need?

Because once you answer that question you know roughly how much public funds to allocate to art production. Depending on who you ask the answer might even be zero or close to zero.

Immediately go for the jugular and question the very existence of intellectual property as a concept.

"You are given this magical horn of plenty. It can feed any person anywhere in the world at any time! Do you not use it, avoiding the inevitable collapse of the global food production and distribution sector or do you use it so… you know, nobody will ever be hungry again? Is there a right and a wrong decision here?

You are also given the magical ability to copy and distribute any digital information infinitely and at no added cost…"

In general: a mismatch between media reality and reality - that’s pre-internet terminology, mind you, but it applies.

The decline and fall of the Roman empire was something that took place over the course of centuries, involved events largely out of the control of individuals and affected very large areas and very diverse and different cultures.

I simply may not know enough about it, but I wouldn’t call it “stupid”. It’s just not a word that I can see applying here. It wasn’t a historical event, more like some kind of plate tectonics process.

Like do they actually, reliably effect change in the way the activists intend?
Have they worked against Israel? Did they work against Apartheid South Africa? Could they work against Trump’s America?
My hunch is that they don’t, really, but can be a useful promotional tool for other issues. Like don’t buy American is a simple message. >If people will listen to that, they may listen to reasons why, which maybe could build a movement.
But on the whole I am very sceptical, and would be interested in any reasons for or against boycotts.

Try to look at it the other way around: Every single one of your actions shapes the world around you and thus is a vote for how you want the world to be. By the very act of visiting a country you declare that country to be worth visiting, by purchasing a product you endorse it, by using a service you support the continued existence of that service and all things connected to it.

Now why wouldn’t the reverse be true?

Thr cheapest one I can find is $600, for a phone that is 4 years old. I would prefer not to do that.

Reasonable, I suppose, although age really shouldn’t matter that much if the hardware features are sufficient and you’re running your own OS.
The low-end models around here have become cheap enough that I’m considering a second one as a testing environment/travel phone/untrusted device 😅

I love this game! So happy to see someone else linking it.

It’s a powerful didactic tool and I’m happy to reference it whenever I have the chance.

Trust is something that depends on repeat interactions - it’s earned and built, not freely given. Turn off the phone, the TV and the computer for a while each day and focus on the people around you. Your local community, your friends your family. The more you directly interact with somebody, the more potential is there for you to build up trust - maybe even mutual trust!

If I didnt have to pay 2x - 3x the price for a fairphone in the US I would’ve already switched. Unfortunately, $1k for a device with USB 2.0 is really not worth it for me or anyone else I know.

Going for a used FP4 should address both those concerns!

That sounds interesting, I’ll have a look!

Feast your eyes on this shitshow (use desktop mode if on mobile)

Ouch, my condolences.
It’s fascinating that it took me longer to scroll through that than most people have or ever will spend on watching the show.

I raise you multi-language content or a mixed Australian/US-Broadcast Mythbusters collection 😐

What does the app do?

On a boat, possibly in the tropics, without spoiling? Doubt.

Huh, “sailors” indeed. I can honestly say that I hadn’t noticed this was about boats up until now.

apples aren’t notorious for large quantities of it anyway.

Yeah, I’ll concede that.
But again, long storage is not just feasible but relatively trivial - a cool basement, harvest before ripe, many months of apples to be had. Maybe it depends on the cultivar? Either way, for most of human existence in seasonally cold climates, storage simply was the only way for having access to fruit during winter and early spring.

Your body only needs tiny amounts of Vitamin C and you can easily store fruit like apples for more than half a year without refrigeration.

or pinged a satellite at a predictable distance as part of a timing system…

Isn’t that just GPS in reverse? I mean, same equation, different dependent variable 😁