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  • ikt@aussie.zonetoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon dates a 19 y/o
    22·
    21 hours ago

    (i believe it originated from the TV show how i met your mother)

    Although the provenance of the rule is unclear, it is sometimes said to have originated in France.[81] The rule appears in John Fox Jr.'s 1903 novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come,[84] in American newspapers in 1931 attributed to Maurice Chevalier,[85] and in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, attributed to Elijah Muhammad.[86]

    In many early sources, the rule was primarily presented as a formula to calculate the ideal age of a female partner at the beginning of a heterosexual relationship. Frederick Locker-Lampson’s Patchwork from 1879 states the opinion “A wife should be half the age of her husband with seven years added.”[87] Max O’Rell’s Her Royal Highness Woman from 1901 gives the rule in the format “A man should marry a woman half his age, plus seven.”[88]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships

  • ikt@aussie.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodesEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    That is basically nothing for any artist that isn’t in the top tier of mainstream success.

    Did you not read your own article you linked to?

    • 1,000 monthly streams ≈ $3-5 (enough for a coffee)
    • 10,000 monthly streams ≈ $30-50 (could cover your streaming subscription)
    • 100,000 monthly streams ≈ $300-500 (now we’re talking meaningful income)
    • 1,000,000 monthly streams ≈ $3,000-5,000 (potentially livable wage depending on your location.

    https://simplebeen.com/artists-make-on-spotify/

    You’re essentially pirating music by using Spotify

    As above, you can see the payout rates in the article… a liveable wage on just Spotify alone is not equivalent to piracy which pays artists nothing, this is on top of Apple Music etc

    In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.

    10 billion in a year is not piracy (which is $0), are you the author of the article?

  • ikt@aussie.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodesEnglish
    71·
    9 days ago

    In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.

    https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-01-28/on-our-10-billion-milestone-and-a-decade-of-getting-the-world-to-value-music/

    You have to remember that prior to Spotify the music industry was desperate, as people turned to downloading mp3’s illegally the music industry basically just resorted to suing people who potentially downloaded a song.

    I’m also very highly sceptical of this whole article, from the crappy accounting to

    Lidarr is just a tool. Like any tool, it can be misused. Yes, people could point it at less-than-legal sources

    My setup uses sabnzbd integrated with Lidarr for handling downloads of content I’ve purchased

    Riiiiiight.

    You’re just hooked up into a piracy platform that pays artists nothing by coincidence.

    On top of this:

    In 2024, more musicians are making and releasing music than ever before. In fact, a new report has found that more music is released in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989.

    Music simply isn’t a high value product anymore, the market is flooded, there is more music coming out per minute now than you can listen to.

    But it’s all good, I’ll keep paying for Spotify because Spotify pays all the artists I listen to.

  • ikt@aussie.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodesEnglish
    12·
    9 days ago

    Majority of music is in albums, nearly 12,000 different tracks listened to, but most are singles, I rarely listen to albums from start to finish

    I listen to a lot of music in general

    https://aussie.zone/post/19441027/16055498

    Also I figured out you can turn off the payola:

    To opt out of receiving sponsored recommendations, go to your Spotify account on desktop > Account > Privacy settings > turn off Tailored ads.

    This will opt you out of receiving sponsored recommendations and personalized ads generally across our product. If you turn off Tailored ads, you will continue receiving podcast ads in your Premium account, but they will not be tailored to you.

    So even if you broke it down to me just having to buy singles I’m still getting a ridiculous amount of value from Spotify

  • ikt@aussie.zonetoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon doesn't like AI
    91·
    10 days ago

    Replacing all jobs won’t create true abundance because the resources required to create things are finite, namely land and space in general

    We’ll have solved these problems though, space wise whether it be by reducing ones footprint down to practically nothing, with nanobots ensuring our bodies get fully taken care of or through expansion to other planets

    Resource wise we’ll simply be using fully renewable resources, we’re talking end game here, all jobs are being done by computers, there is nothing left for us to do but have fun or babies? I duno what we’d do if all jobs were fully completed and there was literally no work left

    It’s also difficult to say how these problems will be solved without coming across like “it’s the future!”

    Paintings reveal what people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

    https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/paintings-future-1900-2000-b1916391.html