ChaoticEntropy

Leftovers that you keep for "the dog"! Less and less frequently does it make it to dogs though, a crime of our time.

For many smokers, the world is their ashtray.

He didn't become the richest prick in the world by spending his own money.

I'm concerned with switching to a small alternative which then becomes untenable or shutters within a year and then having to piss around again.

They've been making deeeeeep cuts in order to make the company "more like a startup", as per Jack Doresey's comments.

They laid off 10% of their workforce last year, and like 20% of the remaining work force late this year with cuts to engineering expected. It is not in a healthy place, seemingly, and they cover a very small slither of the market.

Edit: Couldn't find the exact article I had read before but this one seems well formatted. https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/12/tidal-bets-future-artists-djs/

It doesn't help that their parent company makes so little from them compared to a series of crypto ventures, but what can really compare to that.

Bandcamp the union busting company that laid off like 75% of its staff over 2023...?

Tidal has decided to sunset it's app, which means it's basically on maintenance mode now. Somewhat off putting.

My child self was a bumbling idiot who I would dislike or be indifferent to if I met them. Gradually over the course of decades I have become vaguely competent and capable of not making an idiot of myself daily. I'll probably feel the same about present me later.

Ukraine has no interest in putting even more of its population into Russia's meat grinder... because they will obviously lose a war of attrition.

This weak and frail... mass sexual predator.

It always seems to skirt people by that basically none of the early development is done out of the lust for knowledge and progress by private companies. They see promising work/studies and make it into mass market products that can proceed through clinical trials.