The New Coffee Room

I think I see the turnaround.

Music Catalog Sale
In January 2021, Neil revealed that he had sold a 50% stake in his music catalog for $150 million. He sold half the copyright and income to roughly 1,120 songs to an investment firm called Hipgnosis.

Spotify Joe Rogan Feud
In January 2022, Neil posted a letter to social media and his website in which he gave >Spotify an ultimatum in which they either remove his music OR remove Joe Rogan's podcast. He made the demand because he believes Rogan's show spreads vaccine misinformation that leads to preventable deaths. In the end, Spotfiy chose not to remove Rogan's podcast and therefore Neil made good on his threat.

Interestingly, at the time of the threat Neil didn't actually own his master recordings – the right that gives someone the ability to decide where music is licensed (for example, on Spotify). Warner Music owns his masters and essentially did him a favor by forcing Spotify to take the music offline. The real loser in this decision is Hipgnosis which, as we just mentioned, had just paid $150 million for 50% of his royalty stream. Royalty streams are generated on platforms like Spotify.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/neil-young-net-worth/

I watched one of the pretrial hearings. Apparently the defense had a list of witnesses whom they may call. They submitted the list by the deadline (as did the state). Once the list had been submitted, they discovered that one of the witnesses will testify that s/he saw Baldwin pull the trigger, which he has always denied. Having learned this, they want to disqualify the witness.

State objected to the motion.

Judge upheld the State.

This judge, by the way, is the same one who presided over the Guiterrez-Reed case. She can be a bad-ass.

Creepy.

@Larry said in Trump to unveil healthcare plan:

@Axtremus said in Trump to unveil healthcare plan:

Now we know @Larry draws his healthcare comparisons with whatever he thinks he remembers from the early 1970s, before the HMO Act was signed into law in 1973 by Richard Nixon (a Republican, just in case @Larry forgot).

Whatever he thinks he remembers, @Larry simply do not know the facts.

Were you there, ass wipe? No. I was. I'm fully aware that Nixon signed it into law. I'm also fully aware that it was Edward Kennedy and the democrats who wrote the bill and stuck it into a bigger package, and I'm aware that Nixon didn't have line item veto. So fuck you. Go take some piano lessons or something so you can actually play music instead of the epileptic seizures you have now.

Are those the Crown Jewels she's wearing, I wonder?

Nah, never mind. What else would they be?

>Former President Donald Trump will travel to the battleground state of Michigan next week to meet with striking autoworkers instead of participating in the second Republican presidential debate, a person familiar with his plans said Monday.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-debate-strike-f79e9f0db53694206805d0bd3ae6683a

A more in-depth look at zero hedge.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wapo-drops-bombshell-nord-stream-pipeline-sabotage-narrative-ukrainian-colonel-covert

@Jolly said in Trump threatens to move convention if NC restricts capacity:

@Copper said in Trump threatens to move convention if NC restricts capacity:

Skin color is the most important thing right now. But an interesting new gender would help.

Thought we did gender, or decided gender, last year.

Yeah, we really do need a timeline of sorts.

I remember when we were all going to die because of muslims, or terrorists. Something like that, I forget. And, things were getting blown up and such, so that rights had to be taken away for our own benefit. Wait, no, that's now due to Covid, and how it spreads mostly in churches but not at protests. Something like that, I forget.

Seems to me, we should just get it over with. Make all white males guilty without exception, past, present, and future. Except for Marty McFly's dad, also known as the mayor of Portland, also known as Ted Wheeler. He's OK. He's one of us, or one of them.

Ax, help me out here. Is a white male far-left mayor one of us, or one of them?

@George-K said in Trump’s indoor rally:

@Copper said in Trump’s indoor rally:

Hospitals generally don't like presidential visits.

I've worked with several people who will agree with that assessment. A visit from POTUS is a major, major, PITA.

Especially when the surgeon offers to let him cut into a patient.

No worries, France is long way from Louisiana. So is the 49th parallel.

But, Trump.

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https://wgntv.com/news/highland-park-parade-shooting/highland-park-parade-shooting-robert-crimo-iii-court-10022024/

For the second time in as many months, the man accused of opening fire on attendees at the 2022 Independence Day parade in Highland Park, killing seven and injuring dozens more, failed to appear for a scheduled court appearance.

Judge Victoria Rosetti warned attorneys representing Robert Crimo III that if he doesn’t appear at his next court date, proceedings will continue without him and he will waive his right to confront any witnesses against him. Crimo last month refused to leave his jail cell when informed by corrections staff that he was due in court.

Crimo has not appeared in court since June when he rejected a plea deal.

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@Jolly To me, that doesn't make sense. I don't think that the Democrat are in love with Vice President Pence.

Anyway, I looked up the definition of coup
"a sudden illegal, often violent, taking of government power"

@Rainman said in So how should I resign?:

Ax made a post I agree with and find great!
What the hell is going on.

2020

That's what.

What has two legs and flies?

Mike Pence.

@Copper said in We'll let POTUS know later:

There is absolutely no way to measure that.

Poll question about trust in a vaccine, 8/28-9/20. It’s posted in another thread.

@Jolly said in Summing up the Gates haters:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Summing up the Gates haters:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Summing up the Gates haters:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Summing up the Gates haters:

@Horace said in Summing up the Gates haters:

Gates hatred appears on my radar only inasmuch as it's something for people to make fun of. I find that lots of allegedly important ideas are like that. There is power in convincing people that they are smart because "look what all the dumb people in that other tribe think".

My wife's unfriended a handful of folks over the Gates crap. Aside from the COVID stuff they'd appear to be typical conservatives.

Hang on a minute, when did you get married? Did I completely miss that?

Awhile back, dude! Join the video meetups!

Think of it: she has to put up with me at home throughout all this mess. A tall order!

You're Catholic, correct?

When can she apply for sainthood?😄

Well, if I drive her over the edge it'll definitely help her application.