It’s not “damage”
At best it’s “potentially missed revenue”

But by calling it dammage, it sounds inherently like a crime that needs to be prevented. As if someone broke an accountants favorite pen or calculator. They’ll have to spend additional money to replace the damaged item, actually costing them something. That helps them get law makers and enforcement on their side.

But potentially missed revenue sounds very different. That sounds like they have some marketing research to do, in trying to sell their product. Which is difficult to get sympathy for.

No wonder they chose the word “damage”. And the news media goes with it, because they have a similar interest. Their also trying to make money selling raw intellectual property.

People go to multiple social events in a day?
Or are you talking about a week?

Meditation is all about the trying. “Sucess” is in the attempt itself.

When your mind wanders, don’t worry that it wandered. It inevitable will. You can’t really stop that. What you can do is notice when it’s happening. Then pay attention to the wandering. Why did that thought pop up? Now that I noticed it where does it go. It’s like watching what the bus driver does instead of just letting the scenery absorb your attention as it passes by. Or it’s like thinking about how a movie was made instead of letting yourself get swept up in the narrative.

Don’t stress meditation. Half the point is to just chill.

It’s a tangential distraction largely unrelated from the topic at hand.
In this context it’s worth being dismissive of.

So are we all

There you go. Good on you

Paradox of tolerance
Sometimes hypocrisy is necessary

Streaming isn’t the problem. The lables screwing over the artists on their streaming cut is the problem. Stop supporting the lables.

I was playing a role to try to make a point to the OP.

Judgmental attitudes ar an accepted cancer of online discourse. And I try to point it out sometimes.

Why do your feelings about how others pay for things matter to anyone?
Why does it even matter to you?

I was trying to be subtle, but that doesn’t seeme to be working.

The point is, lots of people enjoy music lots of different ways, for lots of different reasons. Just because you don’t use subscriptions doesn’t mean they aren’t valid and useful to anyone who isn’t you.

In short: Don’t gate keep

That’s no way to enjoy music. You can hardly hear anything on that tinny little phone speaker.

But why listen to just one song? It seems a waste to sit down, put on headphones or fire up the stereo, all for only a few minutes of music.

Maybe it’s just my age, but I never understood buying single songs. I listen to whole albums. They were crafted and assembled as a set. It feels like buying one scene of a movie, or one chapter of a book.

The Zodiac isn’t real.
If you enjoy reading horoscopes for light entertainment, that’s harmless enough. But under no circumstances should you ever think your “stars” might have any real effect on who you are or what you’re like. “Pisces Sensitivity” isn’t a thing.

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I like to say: It’s not even an illusion. It’s a dillusion.

I don’t know where this is, but I know both Coke and Pepsi don’t like to allow venders to sell both. They have special terms and pricing for exclusive contracts.

They do tend to be more expensive. But not extremely so. Maybe 20-40% more than a consumer equivalent.