Tom742

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Anti-intellectualism devaluing the arts and suppressing wages to below livable standards will kill art long before anything else.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think they’re primarily south-eastern regionally, so it’s easy hype generation putting one on the west coast and blasting social media.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

The wave generator keeps functioning, and something inevitably has to fill the 24/7 dopamine content cycle we’ve been conditioned for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think through patreon donations, but I would also be interested in an effort post.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Abso-fucking-lutely, glad to see they dropped him from the company.

Not that the rest of them have good takes or anything, listening to any of the old Roundtable of Gentlemen podcasts is rough. Pure edgy misogynist humor and crap political takes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

There’s one in development that I’m considering building, it’s called the Open Book and here’s the project page https://theopenbook.is/

I think the mainstream option is probably a Kobo Libra with something like KoReader installed.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t think it’s laundering. They got wildly popular when true crime as a genre took off, leveraged that into a Spotify deal, and now they’re doing the typical expansion stuff

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Marcus Parks is the only person remotely salvageable from that crew, I stopped listening a long time ago hoping he would spin off into his own things. He does to an extent, but the fucking ghost of Ben and Henry never leaves.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Oh, and the strikers got notice that in a week boeing will no longer be sponsoring their benefits, so they lose health coverage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well fuck, what a beautiful framing. Gonna dig up and re-read these during the rainy winter. I had really fallen out of love with these books, just due to the fandom surrounding them and the opinions of the big LoTR fans around me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

While 33,000 boeing union workers are on strike, which means no pay outside of the strike fund (<$500 month), all other boeing employees at the renton and everett sites are being furloughed for 1 week out of every 4 until the end of the year. They’re also getting unemployment payments, so it’s 3 extra weeks of paid vacation for them, while the Union strikes and starves

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