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No. Qanon stuff mostly happened on 8chan, and even then there's no secret "historical" data to access. It was one or multiple obsessed and/or manipulative people spreading insane ideas anonymously, and idiots falling for it. There's no secret inside some system out there, it's essentially just organic stupidity. Some believe the guy who owned 8chan was "Q", it's not an unreasonable idea, but it changes nothing.

Considering all the stuff you've written, the let's say philosophical and ambivalent conclusion there feels inappropriate. A society that puts random innocent people without trial into a death camp is not stable. It all comes off as if the system just restructured the violence (who does it to who and by what means), rather than being on the path of eliminating it...

But it's an enlightening and valuable comment anyway, thank you. Do you know when was the deal with US made? I can't find it on Wikipedia...

A candidate that comes to my mind right now: Laibach - Smrt za smrt (Death for death)

However, IMO much of the heaviness is based on the fact that the "singer" is reading a description of some sort of war crimes, in Slovenian D:

For classical music, I used to go every other week, these days I go much more rarely, let's say once every month or even every two months. (But just last week I went to four because there was a festival.) For non-classical acts, I try to catch every performance of the bands I know, local or non-local, and maybe try something new and random just so, which usually amounts to 2-3 concerts a year.

I find articles and takes of this sort to be kind of "storm in a glass of water", not really an issue if you just take a step back, and with somewhat made-up problems, e.g. pop songs used to go on for 3 or maaaybe 4 minutes, now the author complains they are just 2 mins - but the format never was conductive to "telling a proper story" at all.

If someone thinks Spotify is that bad, idk just stop using it? I've never used it and I'm doing just fine. There's plenty of other ways of discovering and accessing and living with music.

I get the impression people of that sort have mostly ended up on RateYourMusic.

They also have no blood or blood vessels, just a little heart and blood-like stuff splashing around.

In an ideal society, IP laws would definitely not exist. The idea by itself is inarguably desirable.

But, more practically, IP laws should be abolished or reformed to accommodate the needs of the average creator and the average consumer. The two people who proposed this change are not average creators in the slightest, they're looking to benefit primarily their own class, the consequences for the other 99.99% are irrelevant.

A reform of this type should start at the very least with small and realistic steps. Can we e.g. reduce the absurd duration of copyright protection (author's life + 70 years)? Reducing it by just 20-30 years would be an incredible boon to human culture, and it would have zero serious negative consequences.

But they only talk about it in the most vague terms, no details or anything, and Dorsey doesn't seem to have actually described any of those other ways of compensation. They're just greedy megalomaniacs throwing ideas around.

TBH the impression I got from the greentexts that are posted on Lemmy and reddit is that they're very inorganic, I believe many of them are written just to be reposted on reddit.

Well of course lots of sites are kept up through sheer enthusiasm, but in this case I don't think either the 4chan userbase or the owner actually like the site a whole lot. (Though maybe I'm just projecting my own frustration after having spent too much time on that site.)

No, Hexbear was literally blocked in China.

8chan got taken down years ago, multiple reboots of it have appeared but IIRC they're all practically dead. So, not a likely candidate.

it could be the result of the forum running on long-unpatched software dating back to 2016.

It's widely known that the current site owner doesn't give a fuck about the site, and it's de facto been led by the moderator "rapeape". Sooner or later the site will die, financially it's probably worthless, and I wonder where all those people will go. Maybe they could make a federated imageboard...