Pay them to care more?

It’s the only way I can listen to music in my car. I could upgrade, but I don’t need to because I have the jack.

It’s considered a positional stalemate, and that is politically advantageous for Russia. Both parties have been able to set up considerable defensive positions, making progress extremely costly. Both parties are still fighting for progress nonetheless, where Russia has the most trouble achieving it and Ukrainian forces are making small gains (field by field) on a consistent basis. But knowing that the frontlinie is many miles deep and there is intense trench warfare to make a few yards progress… There will be no swift or decisive victory on either side.

Putin has most of his followers convinced that he is fighting nato backed nazis. So even when Russian war tactics are brutally inefficient and the losses in personell and equipment are enormous, there is little internal political backlash. Internationally the conflict is seen as a regional dispute. Since Ukraine isn’t a part of a large international alliance. Western sanctions on Russia aren’t as impact full as they could have been.

It’s looking likely that the war in Ukraine is going to last a very long time. With guerilla attacks on Russian territory becoming more likely and higher in frequency. Russia doesn’t have the equipment left for large scale invasions, doesn’t have the money to create meaningful reserves. And the kremlin needs defensive power in other places along its border.

European and western sentiment is that Putin will not stop until the old ussr borders are back under his control. And being securely and unquestionably positioned as world superpower.

6k euro for an education that I could enjoy, find employment in and be happy. 12k for the education I really want, it’s some obscure hyper specialist training on a European level (hence the cost)… I was close to finding an employer who was willing to help fund it. But I couldn’t get enough money together to make it work. Anyway, hoping to start next year with a new job in the field and work my way up, until I can afford it. Money would mean a significant shortcut in my career.

There is less light during braking instead of more, or brighter.

While sure, there is leverage, but it’s not like Spotify is being arbitrary about their content. I can listen to obscure stuff, and I do. Also don’t forget that big artists are often big for a reason and it’s usually not for a lack of talent, taste just varies but certainly there always is a market for ‘pop music’.

And we’re the pawns

It's mostly that the multi billion dollar profit organisation didn't need to do this. Where does that money go? Even though it's over the back of the labour and time of both the content creators and people watching.

Google is doing 60 billion dollar profit fine. Thanks. And not paying proper tax either, lol. It's pure extraction of labour value.

Get mad at that.

It's such an easy to test theory as well. Everybody has a phone camera, high quality, good pictures. Okay. Now you get one task and it's very simple. Take a picture of the first wild bird you see. That's it. No second chances, no matter how far away, if you missed your chance you missed it. Literally the next bird after reading this is your task. Let's see how useful your phone camera really is in determining the existence of elusive wildlife. How useful is this going to be to determine the existence of a yellow throated warbler? A bird we definitely know exists…

People need to stop overstating the fact that we carry cameras around. It's not really a point against the existence of a creature. Taking high quality pictures is difficult, you have first to go to the place where the creature is found, takes a lot of practice, patience and luck. If we're dealing with a rare highly intelligent creature that does not want to be found, knows how to remain hidden, buries feces, buries bodies… All we will get is glimpses and tracks, it is to be expected. But boy do we have an awful lot of those.

The quality of the evidence of footprints is so high, it's far more convincing. We have prints to the resolution of dermal ridges, half prints on slopes that can only be done by a flexible foot. Scars healing over time. Like, this isn't some dude who stuck some planks to their rubber boots. You want quality of evidence? Check out what prints are actually found, cast and researched. It's not something you can just brush aside.

The reason people all can get behind high quality pictures is because it gives everybody what they want. Believers to say I told you so. Skeptics to say that it's photoshop. And everybody lives happily ever after.