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Alpha71

@ Alpha71 @lemmy.world

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  • Youtube or Spotify?

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  • Does it play when the phone is in the pocket? That was the big issue I has with the youtube music app.

  • Youtube or Spotify?

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  • I will admit I like listening to obscure stuff which YouTube does really well. The only problem is that they will play the music video instead of the song on free youtube music.

  • Youtube or Spotify?

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  • That's why I'm asking. I'm trying to decide if I should renew YouTube or get a Spotify subscription. Spotify is cheaper with the three months free introductory offer.

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  • They're on YouTube.

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  • I have bit of a nuanced take on the subject (ie: I'm going to get downvoted into oblivion.)

    So here goes. To me Homelessness isn't the problem. Rampant drug addiction and mental illness are. For the mental illness part, we need comprehensive and affordable mental health care for everyone. That's not going to happen in my lifetime though.

    The drug addiction however...

    Places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver (where I'm from) have followed the decriminalization theory of drug rehabilitation. This posits that by providing clean drug paraphernalia and safe places to use drugs, will help people to overcome addiction. But the current state of these cities prove that this theory is false. In order to make someone change, they have to want to change. When you make drug use easier, there is less incentive for that person to want to get clean. Homelessness and the accompanying problems are to most of them just the "cost of doing business."

    Their lives should be made more difficult as to incentivize them to want to change their ways. Of course there should be certain exceptions, such as when it's too hot or cold out. But we have to somehow give them a reason to change their ways.

    At least where I live there are systems in place to help you get off the street. I would know as I was homeless for a year living on the street. But when COVID hit, I finally had enough and decided to get help. I went to a shelter, got signed up for disability and through BC housing I got myself a room in a shared complex. I'm proof that when you really try, there is help out there for you to make your life better.

    Now bring on the downvotes.

  • Linux reaches 5.25% in Germany

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  • There's dozens of us! Dozens!

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  • Could anyone explain the attraction of discord? To me it's UX is atrocious.

  • Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy?

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  • Ban them all.

  • JWST Has Spotted Six Rogue Planets, Without a Star to Call Home

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  • as would the gravitational interactions that would yeet them out into the big, wide galaxy.

    Please stop using slang words in professional writings. It's embarrassing.

  • YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers

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  • what, women don't shave their coochs? (coochiii? what is the multiple of cooch?)

  • "Last Word" by J.L Westover

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  • I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!