Exactly. It amazes me how he’s convinced so many people that the air-quotes aren’t even there. He’s from the Upper East Side. His parents were radio executives. So no wonder he infuriated by Spike Lee’s criticisms of gentrification (which were only, “Why can’t we spend the money to make low-income districts safe and…

To you. But it rang a loud bell with millions of women who knew immediately how precisely this represented their experience.

If you accused a woman of ‘womansplaining’, it wouldn’t be called sexist. People would simply roll their eyes, like they do when white people cry ‘reverse racism’.

“Mansplaining” is the presumption by a man that a woman implicitly knows less than he does about a topic, and the subsequent expounding by him of details that she either already knows or knows to be incorrect. It’s never been just “men professing expertise in women’s matters”.

Canada would penalise companies from ‘countries that have caused it economic damage’.

If it isn’t the end of the world, the system will need a complete overhaul because it doesn’t fucking work. If I see one more flabbergasted basic Democrat on the TV saying the phrase “checks and balances” in a shellshocked voice, I’m going to kill someone. There are none. It’s a farce. It’s incredibly poorly designed.

so this is the fuckin bar now

Not at all. This is an argument that’s been going on long before marriage equality in the UK, a push for some other kind of legal status than marriage. It had largely gone quiet by the time marriage equality started to turn around, after any hope had died of a “common law” relationship definition or similar alternative…

I don’t think what he said made any difference to her brand. But I can see how this move is an attempt to elevate his wife’s profile by making her look like she cares about this. And later, that elevation will grow to include him. It’s all insulation.

I did see that, but given your total misuse of the phrase “infringement of their IP” earlier, there was no way to be sure that you really understood what does and doesn’t constitute a violation of copyright laws. For all I know, you could be one of the many who think it should be fine for streamers to just play some…

“Keemstar claims to have spoken with Juice Wrld’s record label, Interscope, who apparently said that its “automatic system hit big streamers by accident.” Kotaku reached out to Interscope and Twitch for comment, but as of publishing, neither had replied.” 

Better yet, she now denies hiding and says she “crouched down in order to hear better” on the phone. And yet also claims that she only pretended to call the police.

She was playing at being a businesswoman. I have never and would never call the police on children playing outside, no matter how loud they were. I would never even tell them to keep it down. And it’s summer, ffs.

“Ettel later told HuffPost she ducked to “find a quiet place where I could hear.”

They should have read the ToS. They should have contacted the vast numbers of aspiring producers out there who are happy to see their work used for free.

According to Keemstar. Please consider the source.

Because I’m a professional musician, and that’s how unauthorised use has been handled by my publisher. The publisher let them keep the videos up with the chosen soundtrack, in exchange for a very reasonable fee. We would obviously prefer that they’d come to my publisher in the first place, but as it was they were able…

Yes, that’s what “could be” means.

The hairdresser plays music for atmosphere. You might not realise why you weren’t going back, but the morgue-like chill of a music-free establishment would be off-putting. The hairdresser pays a licence to PRS (or the national equivalent).

Radio stations play what they want, keep a list of what was played, and then submit their info to the collections group and pay their bills. Twitch streamers need to figure out a way to do the same (or maybe Twitch itself should help them), or make partnerships with musicians/publishers who are happy to make a…