And late-stage capitalism claims another victim.
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I find 'walking shoes' to be decent for work, being fairly sneaker-like but typically in dark colours. If you want something a bit dressier, Rockports are a good choice.
Alternatively, you can get some dress boots. Check out the Thursday Boot company, as an example.
Let's be honest. The company won't admit to it, but of COURSE they are.
Remember, Facebool was founded on the premise of invading your privacy, and have gotten worse ever since. They're not suddenly going to stop fir any reason.
Finally a news organization that actually calls it an invasion.
Yep, agreed. The biggest problem there is that Meta is generally not making life worse for its users than they're used to. Facebook and Instagram are giving you almost the same shitty experience you got a decade ago.
Nope.
If you encourage it, it will continue to fester and rot, and the entire internet will lower their expectations.
We need to destroy these companies. We need to smash them to pieces, and hey guess what - it's going to hurt a bit! We need to be prepared to stand up against evil, corrupt, racist, bigoted robber barons. We need to make some sacrifices to fix the internet.
Burn the fuckers to the ground, and let spez rot in a hole.
It's true that Qobuz pays more per stream, although I've heard that they pay an amalgamated sum to the label instead of direct payment by artist.
Furthermore, while MQA was a bit of a bait-and-switch (basically lossy versions of much higher quality), Tidal always offered pure lossless as well.
Qobuz apparently has a better classical catalog, but worse customer support.
Basically, I've found Tidal to be - at this point - a bit ahead of Qobuz. Not a real complaint, just a "if I had to choose..." opinion.
Short summary: Tidal is the best overall.
Balancing the content, quality, and amount paid to artists, I put it on top.
There's still one protest possible.
LEAVE REDDIT!!! GET THE FUCK OFF OF IT! LET IT DIE. MAKE IT DIE!
Same with twitter.
Fuck 'em. They are parasites on the artistic world.
They also warned that the conflict in the Middle East could lead Iran to interfere in the next federal election.
But Israel keeps their interference out in the open, so it's OK.
Hockey parents are the absolute worst.
You run into shitty parents in any sport, but hockey attracts the frustrated assholes living vicariously through their poor kids. How many stories per year do we see about brawls or assaults at kids' games? Too damned many.
Gymnastics isn't as violent, but the parents are almost as bad. Usually the actual abuse is directed at their own kids.
Most 'fringe' sports have a strong, supportive community. It's possible, but the culture of hockey is rooted in toxicity.