Family or rally any retired person who doesn’t understand that you are working and trying to survive in this fucked-up word, and get upset when you can’t take days off whenever they please, trying to guilty-trapping you or just being condescending about you being busy.

As an academic, yes, please pirate stuff.

Fuck parasites publishers that make profit on our unpaid job and gatekeep knowledge.

A nice read about publishers profits: Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free or if someone prefer the newspaper format

I feel you, I have it permanent as well and similar story about LP. Luckily compared to other horror stories I read, mine seems relatively “low” so I am thankful for that. In my case it was a couple of hi-fi headphones and amp thanks to a shitty person who made me believe that if you don’t blast your wars you cannot feel everything a system like that has to offers.

Not at all since I got tinnitus :(

I never went too much but I enjoyed them from time to time, I tried to go only for bands I really loved and were unmissable (I still can’t forgive myself for not going to a Linkin Park concert). Not sure I would enjoy now with all the crowd, plus the rising costs. I would prefer a pub or something similar to stadiums for sure.

Merch is usually super expensive so unless I can’t find it anywhere else, not really.

Hmmm I see this on my free account and my api hits for sure were reset after 24 hours. Although I never downloaded something from them, so I am not sure about downloads.

I think they are capped to like 3 downloads per day