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I heard it for Michael Jackson first

Not as impressive but in the town where I grew up there is a really skinny woman who seems to be jogging like non stop. When I was in elementary school there was a rumor saying she had some disease which would make her heart stop if she stopped running and all the kids thought it was true. A few years ago when mentionning it to a younger sister (6 years difference) I learnt the rumor was still going strong when she was a kid, and then we both learnt that it was still the case when our even younger sister (12 years difference) was a kid.

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Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders.

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You know they don't pay the artist directly? Like with physical the ones taking the biggest share are the labels... Also the average musician isn't making shit cause compared to a very few bigger artists they represent an extremely low percentage of the overall streams on the platform.

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Not the first time I've heard about this concept, and the more i look into the world the more I agree with it. Being green is kind of a luxury that not many people can afford, and the poorer people are the less they can afford green technology.

You should look a bit more into the world if you didn't notice how good capitalism is at making the poors poorer.

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What's the worst thing you've accidentally sent someone?

My sister and me have been no contact for the pasr 2 years when I suddenly got a text from here telling me she's pregnant. I didn't want to reply right away as I wanted to congratulate her while still making it clear it wouldn't change anything about the current situation, and I needed some time to think about a way to express it that wouldn't make me an asshole. That's when I missclicked and hit the "ok" suggestion from my phone...

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Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games

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Elden ring opened the gate so wide that we got newcomers trashing on some gameplay features which have been a staples of those games since from software started making them. At some point gatekeeping ensure that you don't alienate the players who played all your games and played a big part on your success. Cause the wider you want to open the gate and the more you have to move away from your vision. Imo not all games are meant for everyone and that's fine.

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Is this the life now? Jumping to alternatives every few months because every open source project is adhering to AI?

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It's not VLC role to give a job to subtitle writers. Their role is to let you play any piece of media. AI subs are supposed to fill the gap when there are no quality subs available or no subs at all. As a feature it makes complete sense for a media player. No company will stop hiring sub writers because of this feature in VLC. And in the really rare cases it would happen I guess thiese companies already don't care about providing quality subs.