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vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=fNjQG7y9aoQ

I love Weird Al! But pretty sure this was hyperbole. The point still stands, though. It really is depressing that people just follow “everybody else” when giving abusive megacorporations money. Same with social media, especially when there are great, healthy, ethical alternatives to be found is the Fediverse.

Edit: I’ll just link pixelfed just because…

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The best way is always to buy the music directly from the artist, in this case:

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There are plenty of better ways to obtain music, such as actually buying the music instead of streaming it. And, hey, that’s like saying you’d stay on Reddit because that’s where the content is. Ethics should come before easy entertainment.

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Same as with most artists, go to their website and you’ll find the bandcamp/faircamp/etc page, in this case:

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My condolences

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Dead is not a location ;)

Edit: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/279/386/6aa.jpg

Masimatutu, (edited )
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But that’s just his body… Henry Kissinger’s limbs are not Henry Kissinger, so the question remains…

Edit: But seriously though, do you really think someone would actually buy these arguments? Is it not apparent that this is satire?

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I don’t think I have ever met a religious person dumb enough to believe that asking where a dead person is is a valid argument, but then again, maybe we live in very different places of the world.

Also, when has a religious person genuinely said “checkmate atheists”?

I know I should never underestimate Americans, but I think this is beyond it.

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(not sarcasm)

My approach is that the “person” itself is just ideas that live in people’s minds, and isn’t an actual physical thing. So much of what people think of when they think about a person is views, moral standings, social standings etc of the person, all which don’t actually exist as physical objects. Which is demonstrated by the fact that people don’t use “Kissinger” to refer to his ashes or whatever.

Edit: Which kind of means that the person does live on in the minds of others, just like the cliché goes. But it isn’t “real” anymore because it doesn’t associate to a physical object anymore.

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I am starting to feel like people read one comment which they reflexively, without much thought, thought was written by an asshole, and then just downvoted all the rest and upvoted everyone else without actually reading the conversation. Which is sad, but to be expected.

I kinda wonder whether there’s a cure. Beehaw certainly feels a lot more genuine, probably because they moderate carefully and disable downvotes. I should probably check it out more closely.

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Thanks, I found it on Mastodon and couldn’t find the original source

Masimatutu,
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I realise I should have done it earlier when @sorrybookbroke said it but I thought that it was in the comments now anyway. Either way, I have linked the source.

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You definitely don’t need to apologise. I am only happy you provided the source, what a gold mine of a channel!

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