spotify invests in weapons of war

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  1. capitan crunch

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    Spotify is profitable for the first time in 17 years Spotify has turned things around. For the first time, the Swedish streamer can report entirely positive annual figures. He also has more subscribers than ever.
     
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    keep this a relaxed discussion, i can see this going into the political direction way to quick!
     
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    Well there's a lot of military types popping up across Europe pushing the narrative that Russia wants to take the whole of Europe, with Scandinavia being one of the front lines and an early target. I can see the paranoid elite idiots falling for this scare story.

    Obviously, this is the military industrial complex milking the Ukraine situation for profit and I bet much of this tech will gather dust or be abused by governments.
     
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    Took less than 8 minutes!

    (talking about barryconvex' post in case it gets deleted or edited)
     
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    oi! its not political! Its an economic and business observation :D
     
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    Please delete if its a bit too opinionated or off topic
     
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    The future then: Machines driven by AI kill all humans

    The future now: Machines driven by AI kill all humans while playing cotton eye joe on repeat.
     
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    I think some young people don't have the energy or the desire to learn an instrument.
    They'd rather use an amp sound or a sample than spend a year struggling. Convenience or laziness wins.

    AUTOMATICA - Robots Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford
     
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    Is funding our own deaths political? Asking for a friend!
     
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    your song gets next to nothing per play your death has a higher value.
     
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    The real problem is the interest. If you have 1 million, you lend half of it at an interest rate, and your wealth grows automatically.
    As you can see, 1 million is the hardest, and then everything happens automatically.

    You can generally use this example as a guide:
    The roulette table, i.e., the stock market, can increase your balance between 200% and 2000%, provided you know where to invest and/or place your bet correctly. With work, you can achieve a maximum of 20%.

    Spotify Technology continues to record strong subscriber growth.

    [​IMG]pic upload

    Of course, shareholders want the dividend; otherwise, they wouldn't buy Spotify shares.
     
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    :wtf:

    There is only one thing to do
    :facepalm:

    Reality check and some very simple math. Ek is a billionaire.
    If ANY person earned $5,000 per day every day of their life, they still would not have close to a billion dollars.
    I cannot and will not defend anyone who made their money exploiting musicians, writers and composers, who is now reputedly making A.I. tunes and could not write a good tune himself if his life depended on it.
     
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    and then they invest in actually killing humans.
     
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    Of course, one could start a group calling for a boycott of Spotify. Perhaps if a lot of people join and customers drop out, they'll react and invest in Agraland, for example. But expecting people to just get upset and do nothing, as always, won't change anything.
     
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    Daniel Ek and Peter Thiel are prominent figures in the tech and investment world, with their paths intersecting through investments and shared interests in certain startups. Daniel Ek, the founder of Spotify, has also co-founded a health tech startup called Neko Health. Peter Thiel, known for co-founding PayPal and Palantir, is an investor and strategic partner at SNÖ Ventures. Both have made investments in the defense tech sector, with Ek through his firm Prima Materia investing in Helsing and Thiel through SNÖ Ventures investing in Nordic Air Defence

    MUSIC used to be used for Peace

    but now....

    ask Jimi to teach us ounce more what is music



    Machine Gun
    Song by Jimi Hendrix ‧ 1970

    Machine gun
    Tearing my body all apart
    Machine gun
    Tearing my body all apart
    Evil man make me kill ya
    Evil man make you kill me
    Evil man make me kill you
    Even though we're only families apart
    Well I pick up my axe and fight lik a bomber
    (you know what I mean)
    Hey and your bullets keep knocking me down
    Hey I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber now
    Yeah but you still blast me down to the ground
    The same way you shoot me down baby
    You'll be going just the same
    Three times the pain
    And your own self to blame
    Hey machine gun
    Oooooooooo
    I ain't afraid of your mess no more, babe
    I ain't afraid no more
    After a while your your cheap talk don't evern cause me pain
    So let your bullets fly like rain
    'cause I know all the time you're wrong baby
    And you'll be goin' just the same
    Yeah machine gun
    Tearing my family apart
    Yeah yeah alright
    Tearing my family apart
    Don't you shoot him down
    He's about to leave here
    Don't you shoot him down
    He's got to stay here
    He ain't going nowhere
    He's been shot down to the ground
    Oh where he can't survive no no
    Yeah that's what we don't wanna hear any more, alright
    No bullets
    At least here, huh huh
    No guns, no bombs
    Huh huh
    No nothin', just let's all live and live
    You know instead of killin'

    Songwriters: Jimi Hendrix
    Machine Gun lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
     
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    Peter Thiel is now one of the most dangerous people.
    His company Palantir, please read up on it, his clique is and will be a nightmare for us.

    AI Kill and Control System by Palantir
     
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    done
     
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    Worth pointing out that we all invest in weapons of war, none of us is innocent.
     
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    "€600 million investment in AI military defence" sounds like a very expensive anti-virus & spyware/malware software package to me.

    Defence not offence, so this is just a fancy way of saying anti-hack stuff bought.
    Where's the supprise.

    Do you think someone miss read the price when renewing their Norton or McAfee subscription?
     
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