In my college Econ 101 class I was taught that “economic liberalism” would lead to political liberalism. I knew that was a myth back then, but my professors insisted. Twenty years later we’ve got economic nationalism and political fascism taking over everywhere.

Mildly funny

Ban rooms!

This is not newsworthy

Keep playing it and put some more chips on there

No shit

The reporter mentioned signal, though the gov spokespeople didn’t seem to recommend any specific app

I always hated reddit. Never used it. When I heard about lemmy, it just sounded better. So, here I am.

I still use bandcamp a lot. Rip CDs I get from other artists directly. Rutracker for stuff that’s unavailable from the artist or label. On my PC I use jriver to organize and listen to my digital audio library. I use syncthing to send selected files to my mobile. On my mobile I use SicMu player. This system works pretty well for me and it strikes the right balance - supporting artists when I can, getting a variety of high quality files, not paying for any streaming service, not having physical clutter… and it’s fun to curate my mobile playlist. Feels like the good old ipod classic days.