Fire bad. FIRE BAD.

I’d love to be a photography professor, but that just might be my desire to have a stable photography gig with a steady paycheck and not having to deal with galleries and critics.

If there’s a BMI exec there and they want to be a complete dick, yup.

Yeah, it would be a fuck you, but what would it get Palestine practically?

No internationally recognized state, so unable to back any issued currency. Unbacked currency won’t be exchangeable in any country’s banks. Palestinians stuck with useless paper they can’t spend on anything, while their govt spends resources it doesn’t have to print millions of pieces of paper people have no use for.

Stop Israel from murdering them and reinstate their place on the earth. Then we can worry about a fiat currency.

Not necessarily. Parody allows for a “percentage changed vs original work” when deciding whether copyright was infringed. Al was always perfectly within his rights to do the parody, but he’s a stand up guy and tries never to do a song that the original artist didn’t approve.

I’m not Palestinian, so of course take this with a grain of salt, but it just seems to make sense to me to use the currencies of the societies that your people are currently intertwined with, right?

Would forming a new Palestinian currency have any positive impact right now when half the world would refuse to accept it on the basis of there not being a Palestinian state to back said currency?

You can register an email address as “jigglypuff666forever” or whatever nonsense you want. The government certainly doesn’t give a shit, and as long as your family and friends know that a specific string of numbers and letters means “you” in the address book, why does it matter?

If you’re worried about professionalism, I don’t really see much difference between “[email protected]” and “[email protected]” except one tells the world your full name, and the other just gives away that you like gardening. Both are equally G-rated and acceptable, but only one is a security nightmare.

Maybe common, but not advised. The only place I willingly follow real name protocols in emails is in dedicated work intranets where corporate policy dictates how addresses go.

Anything on the open web is anonymized as much as I can make it. Fake address, fake user details, everything. There is no privacy in systems connected to the unrestricted internet.

I never have anything that can identify my real name in the address. Why make it easy for data scrapers?

BMI is specificslly the global version. If you live somewhere that never sees an enforcement member, that’s great for you, but the law still applies. You just don’t live somewhere where they bother to enforce it.

Playing a cover song is not okay, and if someone from ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC happens to be in the bar, you’re paying a hefty fine. There are plenty of dive bars around here with big “No Covers” signs, because both the band and the venue get fined.

The days of playing a fun, drunk encore of your band’s favorite song went out the window when cell phone video starting ratting artists out to The Man.

Source: been a performing musician for decades. I’ve experienced the shift from “A cover? I LOVE THIS SONG!” to “Don’t play that, I can’t afford the fine!” happen to me and my friends firsthand.

If you’re interested in the process of making it, he’s got a YouTube channel called Super Valid Designs where he documented the process of designing the instruments and stuff.

Thomas Midgley, Jr

Invented CFCs like Freon, which caused the hole in the ozone layer, and then later went on to pioneer the use of lead in gasoline, which is estimated to have resulted in the cumulative loss of millions of IQ points from humanity during its use, not to mention lead-derived cancers and other illnesses.

Possibly the single greatest negative contribution to the environment and humanity.

“Economies go up and down, it doesn’t matter.”

Is probably the least politically and economically conscious thing you could have said.

Are you paying attention AT ALL to what’s currently going on in the world? Or do you just not give a shit?

Leaving out the fact that America’s economy is in freefall and it’s currently experiencing a fascist collapse is…a choice.

I use a Pentel Graphgear 1000. Aluminum construction, feels great in my hand, costs less than 10 bucks.