Play Nice Random Chat Thread VI

[Val Keating]

misandrist

Ahh. I was wondering what that meant when gg wrote it

 

[Val Keating]

First l saw it l thought it was John Jarratt from " Wolf Creek "

Lomas pretty much described what Joe Rogan does so I thought the angry Neil Young face was perfect.

 

[ferball]

Yeah the Amazon thing is a joke for someone so righteous.

He lost me with that warmongering bullshit after 9/11 (as I mentioned earlier) but I could still respect him pulling his stuff from Spotify as a consequence. If he'd left it at that.

But FFS Amazon are one of the worst businesses on earth. They destroy small businesses, are trying to completely dominate the online market with their own store and this shopify bullshit and wouldn't send their workers home or somewhere safe during those tornadoes. Their workers were killed because of that. Less than three weeks before Christmas.

Scum of the earth organisation.

On top of that their business treats workers like shit and has been even worse during the pandemic. And Bezos has made so much money during the pandemic he could afford to give every amazon employee $100K and still be as rich as he was before covid. But he'd rather his workers die of covid under shit conditions with **** all money.

Why wouldn't Neil Young support that?

 

[Reagan Smash]

Agree.

Like life goes too quickly and I feel sorry for the people that are so obsessed with what other people do whether that’s with their gender, sexuality, political stance, etc and like it begs the question whether they are living their life to their full potential. Like as a society who cares what other people do except when they are in a position of harm. Like the people who are expressing themselves the way they want to are the ones who enjoy life to the fullest. And when you just let people do what they wanna do and that sort you’re life just feels more peaceful and fulfilled because your focusing on yourself. My 2 cents

You should repost the photo of yours where you were bravely giving the middle finger to the protesters expressing their political views.

 

[Ligma]

You should repost the photo of yours where you were bravely giving the middle finger to the protesters expressing their political views.

I showed my disagreement, I don’t think about them 24/7 and base my whole day off of it LMFAO I went to work and forgot that I took it till now. Awww but thank you for letting me stay rent free in your head xx

 

[Hojuman]

He lost me with that warmongering bullshit after 9/11 (as I mentioned earlier) but I could still respect him pulling his stuff from Spotify as a consequence. If he'd left it at that.

But FFS Amazon are one of the worst businesses on earth. They destroy small businesses, are trying to completely dominate the online market with their own store and this shopify bullshit and wouldn't send their workers home or somewhere safe during those tornadoes. Their workers were killed because of that. Less than three weeks before Christmas.

Scum of the earth organisation.

On top of that their business treats workers like sh*t and has been even worse during the pandemic. And Bezos has made so much money during the pandemic he could afford to give every amazon employee $100K and still be as rich as he was before covid. But he'd rather his workers die of covid under sh*t conditions with fu** all money.

Why wouldn't Neil Young support that?

You'll love this then Ferb's if true;

City to tear down bridge to fit Bezos’ yacht

A Dutch city has agreed to spend weeks taking down a historic bridge so Jeff Bezos’ new gigantic superyacht can reach the open seas this summer.

www.news.com.au

 

[Val Keating]

He lost me with that warmongering bullshit after 9/11 (as I mentioned earlier) but I could still respect him pulling his stuff from Spotify as a consequence. If he'd left it at that.

But FFS Amazon are one of the worst businesses on earth. They destroy small businesses, are trying to completely dominate the online market with their own store and this shopify bullshit and wouldn't send their workers home or somewhere safe during those tornadoes. Their workers were killed because of that. Less than three weeks before Christmas.

Scum of the earth organisation.

On top of that their business treats workers like sh*t and has been even worse during the pandemic. And Bezos has made so much money during the pandemic he could afford to give every amazon employee $100K and still be as rich as he was before covid. But he'd rather his workers die of covid under sh*t conditions with fu** all money.

Why wouldn't Neil Young support that?

What about that leaked email suggesting their delivery people carry buckets in their vehicles so they don’t have to stop to go to the bathroom in order to make quicker deliveries.

Disgusting. People will still use Amazon though because it’s convenient. Convenience beats everything.

It’s like how people (myself included) use smart phones and act like they care about injustices in the world, when the phones are made from a mineral that’s literally mined by child slave labour.

 

[ferball]

You'll love this then Ferb's if true;

City to tear down bridge to fit Bezos’ yacht

A Dutch city has agreed to spend weeks taking down a historic bridge so Jeff Bezos’ new gigantic superyacht can reach the open seas this summer.

www.news.com.au

LOL.

 

[ferball]

What about that leaked email suggesting their delivery people carry buckets in their vehicles so they don’t have to stop to go to the bathroom in order to make quicker deliveries.

Disgusting. People will still use Amazon though because it’s convenient. Convenience beats everything.

It’s like how people (myself included) use smart phones and act like they care about injustices in the world, when the phones are made from a mineral that’s literally mined by child slave labour.

You can't function without a smart phone in society these days.

I never use Amazon tho. Did once, felt like a campaigner and haven't done it since.

 

[Kangaroos techno]

She said that COVID wasn't killing men fast enough. And got smashed for it. (Rightly so, btw.)

I think she tries to be provocative, and it triggers some people. The fact that GG brought her up in this thread out of nowhere is exhibit A.

My life is much better now that most of that stuff just passes me by.

Not really. I forgot she existed for 2 years. I remember her being a thing a few years back on twitter. But my last trip to a library had her books front and centre as you walked in the door. Seeing that did trigger me given how many good books are out there and yet they decided to go with those...

 

[big_e]

Not really. I forgot she existed for 2 years. I remember her being a thing a few years back on twitter. But my last trip to a library had her books front and centre as you walked in the door. Seeing that did trigger me given how many good books are out there and yet they decided to go with those...

Walk past them. They're not for you.

 

[Reagan Smash]

I showed my disagreement, I don’t think about them 24/7 and base my whole day off of it LMFAO I went to work and forgot that I took it till now. Awww but thank you for letting me stay rent free in your head xx

Just pointing out your hypocrisy

 

[Ligma]

Just pointing out your hypocrisy

Where is my hypocrisy though? There is a difference between disagreeing which I did and making a subject your whole personality which I do not.

 

[andana]

OPINION​

Neil Young may be a dinosaur, but he’s nobly fighting a bigger beast in Spotify​

By Kenny Gormly​

February 4, 2022 —theage.com.au


I was a punk, then in a band that got lucky on our own terms, the Cruel Sea, but we were happy to bite the hand that fed us, just like Neil Young is now biting the streaming giant Spotify.

From an indie background, we found ourselves somewhat in the belly of the old music industry beast. I learned first-hand how it worked. Promo. Radio. Press. Television. It seemed at the time that to get good penetration in the charts you would have to be on a TV show with a puppet ostrich.


Later I saw the internet as a meteorite bringing those dinosaurs to extinction. Good riddance to that Jurassic 20th century oligarchy that owned and controlled the means of music production and distribution, media and content. Out of catastrophe and chaos would come the rise of the small mammals, the independent artists.
Now artists could claim the means of production through digital software and make albums in their bedrooms. Now artists could network and distribute through independent digital means and self-publish and self-promote in new ways.

The dinosaurs bellowed that only they had the capital and infrastructure to protect intellectual property. And they were right, as it turned out. But they were only really protecting their 90 per cent of the pie.


A divisive line was drawn in the sand 20 years ago with the (now defunct) Napster v Metallica circus. It pointed the way to where we are today. A divisive conundrum where we had a monolithic, outdated megaband sticking up for artists rights, from a point of privilege, against a new renegade musical phenomenon that represented the digital future.


But here we are 20 years later, deep inside a neoliberal dystopia, with a raging hydra up on its back legs, destroying our sense of ourselves, devouring us. A beast that thinks it can annihilate all in its path and keep living: Spotify.

Now the rocker Neil Young is boycotting Spotify. He gave it an ultimatum: you can have me or that dangerous podcaster and purveyor of “life-threatening COVID misinformation”, Joe Rogan. You can’t have us both.


Many would say Neil Young is a dinosaur. Ancient, outdated and behind glass. And rich. What does he know about being a new struggling artist today? And what does he have to lose by boycotting Spotify? Nothing. But what does any artist? Nothing. Nothing but our chains. Because Spotify is our future’s past. Spotify doesn’t care about Neil Young. Spotify is an inverted feedback loop of exploitation


I own a cafe, and like UberEats, Spotify provides an easy ride for the punter by making the provider – the artist whose blood, sweat and tears created the beast – pay.
This pandemic has shone a naked light on privilege and the inherent vulnerability of the arts. It has also shown the arts’ inherent value and I feel there is a huge groundswell of support from average people who once took us for granted.
I say we dare to commit to the hope that the arts will rise and can bring us together from distraction, deception and division. Neil Young is a good dinosaur.

Kenny Gormly is a musician and cafe owner.

 

[andana]

 

[Val Keating]

Ohhh I like this game. Now do Biden please.

 

[Val Keating]

Whoopy Goldberg one was pretty good recently.

 

[Val Keating]

“Poor kids are just as intelligent as white kids”. - Joe Biden

 

[Val Keating]

Like how far are we aloud to go back to try and cancel people? Is Eddy Murphy in trouble for his stand up specials Raw & Delirious?

Man I wish Patrice O’neal was still alive for cancel culture, his take would be gold.

 

[Reagan Smash]

Neil Young’s Homophobia and AIDS-phobia​

“You go to a supermarket and you see a ****** behind the ****in’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.” – Neil Young in Melody Maker, September 1985

 

[Val Keating]

Neil Young’s Homophobia and AIDS-phobia​

“You go to a supermarket and you see a ****** behind the fu**in’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.” – Neil Young in Melody Maker, September 1985

Whenever someone has homophobia I always think that they’re gay and trying to repress it.

 

[Tectonic]

I miss when we could call someone out for saying something shit without it being a political act.

 

[Ligma]

Whenever someone has homophobia I always think that they’re gay and trying to repress it.

You know how many married men and men who are super religious are in the closet? I have heard so many stories lol

 

[ferball]

OPINION​

Neil Young may be a dinosaur, but he’s nobly fighting a bigger beast in Spotify​

By Kenny Gormly​

February 4, 2022 —theage.com.au


I was a punk, then in a band that got lucky on our own terms, the Cruel Sea, but we were happy to bite the hand that fed us, just like Neil Young is now biting the streaming giant Spotify.

From an indie background, we found ourselves somewhat in the belly of the old music industry beast. I learned first-hand how it worked. Promo. Radio. Press. Television. It seemed at the time that to get good penetration in the charts you would have to be on a TV show with a puppet ostrich.


Later I saw the internet as a meteorite bringing those dinosaurs to extinction. Good riddance to that Jurassic 20th century oligarchy that owned and controlled the means of music production and distribution, media and content. Out of catastrophe and chaos would come the rise of the small mammals, the independent artists.
Now artists could claim the means of production through digital software and make albums in their bedrooms. Now artists could network and distribute through independent digital means and self-publish and self-promote in new ways.

The dinosaurs bellowed that only they had the capital and infrastructure to protect intellectual property. And they were right, as it turned out. But they were only really protecting their 90 per cent of the pie.


A divisive line was drawn in the sand 20 years ago with the (now defunct) Napster v Metallica circus. It pointed the way to where we are today. A divisive conundrum where we had a monolithic, outdated megaband sticking up for artists rights, from a point of privilege, against a new renegade musical phenomenon that represented the digital future.


But here we are 20 years later, deep inside a neoliberal dystopia, with a raging hydra up on its back legs, destroying our sense of ourselves, devouring us. A beast that thinks it can annihilate all in its path and keep living: Spotify.

Now the rocker Neil Young is boycotting Spotify. He gave it an ultimatum: you can have me or that dangerous podcaster and purveyor of “life-threatening COVID misinformation”, Joe Rogan. You can’t have us both.


Many would say Neil Young is a dinosaur. Ancient, outdated and behind glass. And rich. What does he know about being a new struggling artist today? And what does he have to lose by boycotting Spotify? Nothing. But what does any artist? Nothing. Nothing but our chains. Because Spotify is our future’s past. Spotify doesn’t care about Neil Young. Spotify is an inverted feedback loop of exploitation


I own a cafe, and like UberEats, Spotify provides an easy ride for the punter by making the provider – the artist whose blood, sweat and tears created the beast – pay.
This pandemic has shone a naked light on privilege and the inherent vulnerability of the arts. It has also shown the arts’ inherent value and I feel there is a huge groundswell of support from average people who once took us for granted.
I say we dare to commit to the hope that the arts will rise and can bring us together from distraction, deception and division. Neil Young is a good dinosaur.

Kenny Gormly is a musician and cafe owner.

It would have been awesome if he'd used some of that $150M that Hipgnopsis gave him to build some kind of fair independent distribution network instead of shilling for amazon. Which is a bigger feedback loop of exploitation.

 

[Reagan Smash]

Whenever someone has homophobia I always think that they’re gay and trying to repress it.

Copy and paste job