Shitty engineers that can do grunt work, don’t complain, don’t get distracted and are great at doing 90% of the documentation.

But yes. Still shitty engineers.

Great management consultants though.

Agreed. Rockstar status is irrelevant.

Disagree. I don’t see why someone’s popularity is relevant.

The only thing of importance is freely given consent.

So all bands should allow phones backstage and have no bouncers?

Consent is the key issue here, for both drugs and sex. I’m making no apologies for anyone who abuses either.

Rock stars, groupies, parties and drugs are as old as music itself.

Consent is the only issue here.

Assuming consent in general, the only illegal part was

Till can choose one to drug even more

I know what you are saying but usually “arbitrary” is at the individual level, not at societal level.

E.g. laws being arbitrarily enforced but you’d never describe the law itself as arbitrary.

Your point is well illustrated with the Joseon trend in Korea in the late 1800’s. But that was more societal than individual.

Some workplaces do allow showing tits at work, but It’s not arbitrary. It’s imposed by societies norms.

Hang on. 70% of the subscription before any royalty / streaming costs?

So in a $10 payment, $7 is immediately removed, then another say $1 for streaming costs leaving only $2 for profits which Spotify takes 30%?

From each $10 only $1.40 goes to artists?

I don’t mind paying $0/mo for access to millions of songs with limited skipping and occasional adverts. ,

Royalties come out of profits.

Profits = revenue - costs.

Inflate costs (pay 3rd parties you also own) and pay less royalties.

At least that’s how the movie business works.

Blockchain is used for Xbox royalties.

The problem is that legacy rights holder (the middlemen) have no incentive to use blockchain to cut themselves out. They have the legal high ground and are not going to give it up.

On your Spotify account page, you can request a copy of your personal data which includes your playlist data.

On the other hand it means no more browsing X at work. NSFW is aptly named.

Click to continue where you left off.

Resizes window.

Moves button off screen.

3 seconds to hit that button or you lose your place.

Also plays Amiga .mod files.

Blocking someone is the Lemmy equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting “la la la I can’t hear you”.

But if this civil discussion has led you to that point then maybe we should let the topic lie and get on with our lives.

You have defined legitimate casinos as only ones that don’t rig games or do scams. A priori you are correct.

There are enough illegitimate online casinos to create a problem for the whole industry.

Online casinos = scam

explain what economic incentive do legitimate casinos (licensed) to rig game

They don’t have enough users so they need to squeeze their regular punters harder.

Even your beloved “legitimate” casinos do “rig” games by offering different odds at different times to different people. They scam people by restricting the amount that can be withdrawn (and other ToS tricks). They create user interfaces to maximise player losses.

we are talking about your “taxonomy”

No. That’s what you are trying to forum slide to.

I’m sticking to the point that online casinos are scammy, including legitimate, regulated operators.

You might not be able to distinguish a legitimate casinos by a fake one,

Not just me. Any average Joe.

but if in your opinion legitimate ones also rig games, this is irrelevant.

Your doggedness for wanting agreement that some casino games may not be rigged is impressive

what users can tell is a completely separate problem.

But a problem very much related to “what’s wrong with online casinos”.

But is anthropomorphism of AI particularly worrying?