Of course you can use Spotify AND buy merch/see artists live. If you're down to convenience, that's what a lot of people do. If you like Billie Eilish, switching to bandcamp would not change anything for her. All I say is that your impact on a musician is so very different, depending on how large they are. I watch smaller artists and visit their shows, buy merch. And I buy their music through bandcamp, because it'll literally benefit them more compared to giving them 20 clicks on Spotify. That's fact.

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How is it what it comes down to? Surely it should be how much of what users pay do spotify take. That's roughly a third, same as the other streamers. It's distributed exactly how streams are distributed though - I thought that's what you wanted? News flash - not everyone can be a muscian and make money off it, and also people prefer to listen to popular things. That's been the case before spotify. If anything the base is broader now. Why can't I use spotify AND buy merch/see artists live. Is your beef with Spotify or streaming in general.

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That one dude that full ported calls as a final yolo might live lol

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French paradox refers to how people who are French consume copious amounts of butter and a lot of meat and wine and yet stay healthy and live a long time.

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Have you tried it? Ridiculously easy to backtest a strategy and run it through an API as long as you understand the logic well enough to spot mistakes. Still scary letting it run on your live account though...

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Thinking outside the box to live inside a box.

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There is one now, actually. We've hit a sweet spot where launch costs have diminished & we've confirmed the presence of large volumes of ice in permanently shadowed craters. Water is a kind of miracle fluid, not only because we need it to live and farm, but also because it can be electrolyzed into rocket fuel - the lack of ice found in the Apollo missions was one reason we "gave up" on the "anhydrous" Moon. The Moon now looks like the perfect cosmic gas station, where mining ice will play a pivotal role in missions further out. But it is more than that, too. There's a lot of potential with building a Lunar economy. The lower gravitational field would be a boon to any kind of logistics or heavy industry, with workers and machinery able to carry six times the payload they could on Earth. One industry in particular would truly benefit from this - fiber optics. Fiber cables are made by allowing a bead of molten glass to fall several stories, forming a long thin cylinder of glass behind the droplet as it descends. On the Moon it would be possible to make fiber cables six times longer than on Earth, as the tensile force remains the same but the gravitational force is reduced. The easy access to vacuum is also great for all kinds of chemical and industrial processes that are currently prohibitively expensive to do on Earth - such as semiconductor production that relies on clean rooms, distillation, solvent recovery, vacuum forming...and more. In terms of fuel needed to overcome the lunar "delta v", launch costs from the Moon are trivial, so it makes far more sense to build things like rockets on the Moon and do the launches from there than from Earth, if the goal is to reach other planets, so the Moon is destined to become a major spaceport. Lunar mining is also likely going to be very valuable and pay for itself in the near future - even if much of the Lunar subsurface is silicate, its surface is full of asteroid impact sites, and asteroids bring in valuable and rare metals. We don't have to wrangle an asteroid into Earth orbit, if it's just sitting out in the open on the Moon. Finally, the potential for radio astronomy is unparalleled on the Moon's far side, as this is the only spot left in our solar system that is dark to Earth's radio transmissions. I didn't even really go into the presence of Helium 3 isotopes on the natural satellite. H3 is a very useful fuel source for fusion reactions, and it is naturally created on the Lunar surface from the capture of solar wind particles. If we end up relying on nuclear fusion in the future, the Moon will be what powers our entire civilization.

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Had to go crazy for a while and didn’t think I’d survive the loss. I ended up moving into my aunts basement where my cousin who passed used to live. I did therapy and attended meetings and watched anything I could about gambling recovery. I worked overtime in an airport in a new state and didn’t hang out with anyone or spend much money. I was able to save 25k in a year. I still have a long way to fully financially recover, but I’m self excluded from all physical casinos in the area, and excluded on stake and draft kings. It was embarrassing to move in with my aunt right before turning 29 but it was the only way I could save back up quickly. I’m 30 now and will never gamble again. Made my money before by working OT at the Tesla factory in Nevada and living with my mom and having no life outside of work. Hard to cope sometimes with the thought I spent my entire 20s working just to gamble it away. Haven’t celebrated a birthday in a very long time, haven’t been on a date since I was 21. Work took all my time and I gambled those years away. Only had 1 day off from work a week and I’d spend it either laying down, playing wow, or gambling, but the gambling escalated and became horrendous once I started doing it online on stake

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I remember watching that damn reveal stream live and thinking it was literally the coolest thing ever. What a scam.

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Happens to gamblers everyday. There is countless examples of people losing six figures gambling, some recover and move on to live great lives if they are able to recover. It happened to me

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