Arghblarg
So sad that Space-X, which has done such incredible things to advance spaceflight, is run by this idiot. It's a testament to the intelligence and hard work of the engineers and scientists working there, despite him, I suppose.
This monster also enabled Brendan Eich's weekend project that infected the software world -- javascript. May he burn for it.
He'd be a great leading subscription for that new Grayjay app Louis Rossmann has launched https://grayjay.app
Funny how that worked out huh? All the benefits of personhood, but none of the downsides, like mortality, having to pay fair taxes, incarceration for crimes, possible death penalty for killing citizens ...
Thank you -- the point I was trying to make is that technically USians can file their own taxes, but that it's overly complicated, and many believe intentionally obfuscated, in order to push citizens to use private corps to do it for them (at a healthy profit for said corps).
Whereas, in Canada (and as I understand it, most other nations) the tax system is not so baroque as to discourage people from doing it themselves.
Beautiful :)
What? The government will actually collect taxes itself like every other sane country, instead of privatizing it out to middlemen grifters? Oh my, where is mah fainting couch?
For Nebula/CuriosityStream? I only remember I bought a combo membership near Christmas the last two years -- they usually offer a year-long subscription for like $11 USD around the holidays. Look out for those, I really like CuriosityStream and find it's worth it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal
It's a music deal that lets the labels take a cut of everything, including revenue streams artists used to have to themselves -- shows, sponsorship deals, merchandising.
It used to be that if you bought, for example, a concert t-shirt or stickers or whatever (unsure if CDs/tapes were ever exempt) at the live performance that the artist got all or most of that. Artists could also control their own merchandising and aspects of their persona outside of the studio... personal appearances etc. but now the record labels 'own' them more completely. A terrible turn in general, and most labels demand a '360 deal or nothing' to new artists.
"Merch" used to be the way artists made a lot of their income while on tour, since they didn't make nearly as much from their album sales from an already unfair record-deal system; now they can't even catch a fair break on tour.
Huge acts can negotiate better deals; the rest are stuck with unfair terms.
Unless they have a 360 deal, which most new artists are forced into.
How does one actually ensure the artist gets the majority of sales, when the labels now take a cut even of merch at live shows? :(
Can artists set up a direct donation page? I'd rather use that if possible.
Yow! that looks pretty awesome. I installed it and added the Nebula plugin... wonder if there's a CuriosityStream one as well?