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Feb. 24th, 2012 07:19 pmToday I got a second set of holes in my ears. Taking bets on how long it'll take my folks to notice. I lost.
Also read a book on copyright. In related news, people at the individual level are, with rare exceptions, awesome. People in the aggregate, especially the very rich aggregate with no goals other than to make themselves more money, suck donkey balls. I mean, I knew that, but sometimes it's good to be reminded.
Apparently the RIAA's vision of Internet radio is five to seven companies making all the money, instead of thousands of people and companies competing for slices of the pie. And there's the potential for thousands of Internet radio stations—but not given the amount of money that has to be poured into each track to make it playable under RIAA-designed rules, money that traditional radio stations don't have to pay.
In unrelated news, there's this person on Facebook. Let's call her K. We're Internet friends, have been for a while, though lately it seems we only talk when she reposts on Facebook one or another graphic to the effect of "It's 'one nation under God', like it or leave it" and I point out that I'm an atheist who can't and won't leave. And sometimes, like the past few days, I get into arguments with other Facebook friends of hers, for instance let's call her S. K and S are radiating Christian privilege, which I am now tired of attempting to correct, and K has said flat out twice now that she will post what she pleases without regard to whether it hurts me and if I don't like it I should unfriend her.
I miss being friendly with K, though evidence suggests the K-me relationship is not at all important to me. And it feels like unfriending K is letting the Christian privilege win. But phrasing it like that just underlines the lack of importance this relationship has to me. What do y'all think—to unfriend or not to unfriend?
ETA: K's friend D just called me a troll. I feel as though I have conquered an atheist rite of passage. Or possibly an Internet rite of passage that's nothing to do with atheism. \o/?
Also read a book on copyright. In related news, people at the individual level are, with rare exceptions, awesome. People in the aggregate, especially the very rich aggregate with no goals other than to make themselves more money, suck donkey balls. I mean, I knew that, but sometimes it's good to be reminded.
Apparently the RIAA's vision of Internet radio is five to seven companies making all the money, instead of thousands of people and companies competing for slices of the pie. And there's the potential for thousands of Internet radio stations—but not given the amount of money that has to be poured into each track to make it playable under RIAA-designed rules, money that traditional radio stations don't have to pay.
In unrelated news, there's this person on Facebook. Let's call her K. We're Internet friends, have been for a while, though lately it seems we only talk when she reposts on Facebook one or another graphic to the effect of "It's 'one nation under God', like it or leave it" and I point out that I'm an atheist who can't and won't leave. And sometimes, like the past few days, I get into arguments with other Facebook friends of hers, for instance let's call her S. K and S are radiating Christian privilege, which I am now tired of attempting to correct, and K has said flat out twice now that she will post what she pleases without regard to whether it hurts me and if I don't like it I should unfriend her.
I miss being friendly with K, though evidence suggests the K-me relationship is not at all important to me. And it feels like unfriending K is letting the Christian privilege win. But phrasing it like that just underlines the lack of importance this relationship has to me. What do y'all think—to unfriend or not to unfriend?
ETA: K's friend D just called me a troll. I feel as though I have conquered an atheist rite of passage. Or possibly an Internet rite of passage that's nothing to do with atheism. \o/?