American and English content is much more prevalent and much more involved in propaganda… Only looking at Hollywood and how movies have been pushing American superiority for a while it is obvious that English is a special vessel. I’m pretty sure Vietnamese also have some propaganda bullshit going on but absolutely not with the reach of American / English media.

Isn’t it? It sure makes easier to get exposed to the right tropes. And for much cheaper.

Society still picks up the bill through social security though… even just for yourself…

I could connect all my electronic music gear without hubs. Fun times to get cabling right though.

I’m looking forward to how AI Act will be interpreted in Europe with regards to the responsibility of OpenAI. I could see them having such a responsibility if a court decides that their product leads to sufficient impact on people lives. Not because they don’t advertise such a usage (like virtual therapist or virtual friend) but because users are using it that way in a reasonable fashion.

Yeah I found the rocks and islands… still not very common though slightly more than the sound whatever animal is doing which spells « bé »

I’ll need more guidance… I was there last year and « bé » doesn’t ring any bell.

Only ever saw that one in scrabble though…

Depends of a lot of factors. Best case that’s enough. VPN isn’t generally doing much beside obfuscating network of origin and that’s not accounting for leakages. There’s stuff of the nightmares with pixels and cookies cross feeding data from a session to another… And tools like kayak might themselves have incentives to profile you as well. I don’t know that one particularly but in the end if you’re not giving money you’re likely giving data to someone…

That’s a field in data science / marketing that’s been active forever… assume that companies at large have a rating of their prospects & customers & ex-customers alike which includes a notion of wealth. Either derived from consumption habits or acquired through data brokers or both usually.

No you crazy person… but should it bring you peace of mind whatever…

What disprovable information ? You took wrong figures and entirely ignored anything related to costs beside wage… you sidetracked any point on what constitutes a fair wage beside you general « double an engineer’s wage »…

What’s settled here?

First, thanks for the doxxing.

Second, using statbel instead of the cancerous google AI gives another figure of 104k yearly for engineering positions (in IT but other industries aren’t so far behind).

And that still has fuckall to do with what would be a fair wage… and still doesn’t account for costs accounting on top of the salary which they would incur on top of the salary…

Are you so insisting because you deem artists needs a shit wage? Are they less deserving than engineers?

Double an engineer’s salary?! Man… My brut is riiiiight below that… but musicians would not be employees so they would need to add other costs to their incomes so that they reach a similar net revenue… Locally we consider that 47% of what you invoice reaches your pocket - not accounting for expenses like equipment which is crazy expensive in the music industry… is 4.7k an outrageous salary ?! For an engineer ?! Or even an artist?

That’s a new way to discuss… nice…

That « just » carries a lot… and 10k a month brut is far from making anyone a millionaire. They have expenses, taxes… that’s a confortable-ish living wage.

with 1000 supporters you need them to shell a monthly €10 to be viable. That’s unrealistic. I’m not going to support every individual creator to that extent.

I read not so long ago that someone tried to leverage human walking / steps. Now raindrops. I love it :)

With 2 electric cars… Belgium here so it’s not the tundra either but the house is sizeable and doesn’t share walls. Hot water alone was 150/200 kWh a month. It all adds…

Using rain for electricity sounds like too fun to be efficient enough xD I’m gonna look into that :)