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People these days usually don't listen to entire albums, but to individual songs as part of playlists. If all record labels created their own streaming services, it would break this experience and people would go back to piracy again to get it back.

Further, music is something that usually exist in the background while people do other things, whereas movies/shows requires attention to benefit from the content.

Service like Netflix or Disney+ can manage to create exclusivities because people watch episodes of a show in sequence due to the nature of the medium and are emotionaly engaged/invested in the story/characters, so they are essentially "captive" of that serialized content for its duration.

You can see how some thoughts and new expressions spread like viruses nowadays. The term "Quiet quitting" being one recent example as it seems like every LinkedIn influencer and OpEd are talking about this thing as it's widespread and the "new reality".

IMO the Airpods Pro are poorly designed. You really gotta be careful when you handle them as the little "air vents" that prevent ear pressure can easily "clogs" and this create a rattle sound when ANC is active.

So why are we living this experience of overworking?

Perhaps fear of not being good enough, fear of not being accepted as a new hire if we're not giving our 110% constantly, maybe ancient Judeo-Christians beliefs in the value of "hard working to earn one's place in heaven" or something.

Ultimately it's you job to protect your mental, physical and emotional energy/health.

As an outsider, I think it's refreshing to see an elected official admit this openly.

It like everything is done to prevent people's mind to be at peace and to relax. The constant noise and audio/visual pollution we see everywhere is deeply troubling.

You cannot go to a simple store without some music being played, often very loudly for no reason.

I went to my parent's house the other day and the TV was on. I had to turn it off so we could have a normal conversation like normal people do. The TV was constantly pulling our attention on some stupid crap like ads or some garbage program that tries to polarize people.

Imagine you are completely blind. The concept of colours would exist in your mind because you have access to literature mentioning it. You would know it's a thing, it exist, and yet, because you haven't been exposed to colors, you would have no memories of them of your own.

Now imagine if everybody in society was blind. Because nobody would have been exposed to colours, there would be no memories of them. It wouldn't be a thing as an idea in people's mind. As a result, there would be no way of thinking about the color red, or blue. It wouldn't be part of language either. Why describe something that we don't know that exist?

If you are from some uncontacted tribe in the Amazon that were never exposed to any modern technology, you cannot think about computers, skyscrapers or microwave ovens because you would not have the memories of these things.

So it's seems to me that memory is the scaffold of the mind.

Even tho Mark believe he's doing the right thing here, to me this metaverse thing is evil.

So I think Microsoft wants to position Windows 11 as the platform for all apps.

Bitcoin is slow to validate transactions, is environmentally costly, and its value fluctuate, so I'm not sure what they were thinking. I wonder what the 30$ they receive from the gov is worth today after the dip.