This list seems to confi that Spotify did not donate for J. Biden : https://web.archive.org/web/20210122110624/https://bideninaugural.org/brqrthk6dhdn94xx/

Although, I think I’d still be careful with that limited information:

1. This was an online event during the pandemic
2. I’m not american and I sometime don’t get your culture, wtf is this million dollars event that requires big companies to do substantial donations? If they’re invited it might be “common procedure” that they donate in return? In that case donating would be the neutral thing to do? (Which is still a bit cowardly)

Yeah yeah I 100% align with CAVOK initial’s comment, this seems necessary to me, but sad because the potential aggressors really seem to make the world worse for everyone but themselves. And by “themselves” I don’t mean whole countries, only the sucker leaders.

I don’t get what you are trying to say? You don’t think this money will be used to use material resources and employ people in weapon industry?

And you’re only 3 months in! (6%)

But this money is willpower and material resources that could be spent elsewhere : research, culture, decarbonisation, social programs, housing…

Yeah I agree, reading is very time consuming and a lot of books are not more subtle than any movie or YouTube video. People should just be free to pickup their hobbies as long as they don’t become illiterate (which I don’t think you ca “become”?).

Man, we’re not even 3 months in (6%) and everyone starts preparing for world war 3. Americans needs to step up now.

Well, the comment that showed bust above yours shows an article from NYT doing exactly that 😮‍💨

(From webghodt0101 : https://lemmy.ml/comment/17118372)

What you mean is Greenland is playing with world war 3?

Yeah but I think Kagi is a meta search engine, so at least the technical dependency on Yandex is limited 🤞

I also have high hope for the Ecosia x Qwant project but I don’t think there is any specific funding yet, so it’s just about sharing Qwant’s advancement on building its index 🫤 Let’s stop wasting all our money on AI and let’s build our own datacenters and raise enough funding for a few dozens more search engineers!

Meh 🤷

They were historically completely dependent on Bing (like most other search engines) and while they continued putting some efforts in building their own index, they’re nowhere close to it.

They also recently made a few moves to push advertising and to compromise with privacy (eg. the option to create tracked account to access some AI services).

On the other hands they will probably be more respectful than Google, and the quality of Google’s results seems to be degrading faster than Qwant is improving 🤷

I’d guess Ecosia is in a similar situation. I’ve personally been using Kagi for a while but recent events make me consider moving to a European alternative too.

When the internet archive was attacked a few months ago we were like “who would be dumb and mean enough to do that?”. We have new suspects! 🎉