“…high paying jobs are.”

And that is the problem.

Capitalism run amok with the increasing need to push the line higher and maximize profits resulting in gluttony eating up all the spare money in a market.

“Desirable area”

Yeah. The problem is that the goalposts keep getting pushed away faster than income is keeping up. Someone might have what is considered a good paying job, but the buying power for major purchases like cars and homes keeps taking hits. On top of that the bills get steeper and steeper. Six figures should be a fortune.

Middle class didn’t mean a big McMansion or desirable area. It meant a modest house in a small lot in a boring suburb of someplace like Detroit where you’d work for Ford or something.

Our ideas of what kind of house we should have is really distorted. It’s like pickup trucks. What was considered an everyday pickup 40 years ago was 1/3rd the size of the behemoths available today, and of course today’s trucks cost $80,000 compared to the $6,500 of something like a ‘85 Toyota Pickup ($20k in today dollars).

Looks like they paid off the big debts with the Big Tech salary first, then took the lower pay job. So yeah, if you grind out the big bills first it’s absolutely possible.

Lower 6 figures today is middle class. Or at least what middle class buying power was 40 years ago.

I do not understand why people cannot see him for what he is. He’s shown everyone over and over again exactly what he is. Yet somehow they tell themselves this time he’ll actually do something right.

Fuck this.

Run all the samples through a computer, write a prompt telling it to create music in the style of (x), and keep tweaking the prompt to reiterate the result until something desirable emerges. No skill or understanding of music required, just keep hitting “generate” or whatever until something gets spit out that sounds good.

Vs

Thousands of hours of music making experience, understanding of musical styles, lyric arrangement, composition, heck…even music theory and the ability to read and write musical notes…and take all of that and make something original that, with permission of the original artist, uses modified clips of others’ tracks.

Sampling isn’t the defining difference.

Pown’d.

Cross body phone sock.

Ah, gotcha. Thanks.

Yeah. I know. Wishful thinking.

There wasn’t as big of a price drop as I thought there would be when the crypto mining switched to ASIC from GPUs. Don’t know if all that hardware just got dumped or is sitting in a rack rotting somewhere. Hope that we get cheaper prices when the bubble pops, this artificial scarcity sucks.

https://gpseducation.oecd.org/CountryProfile?primaryCountry=GRC&treshold=10&topic=EO

It seems it’s on par with a lot of the EU, and exceeds other countries in some areas. It does have a shortage of some undergrad degrees, and without a degree, unemployment is higher. Having been to Greece several times in a major city, English is spotty. Younger people are far more likely to speak/understand it. I would expect in more rural areas the English is even harder to find. One thing I did note (anecdotally) while there was the number of very educated people doing “unskilled” work like driving cabs because the economy still sucks. I ran into a college professor driving an Uber because the pay for teachers was so poor.

None of this is an indictment of the education system, and data would seem to indicate Greece is doing OK as far as that goes. At least for those that stay in school.

Comprised of email addresses and passwords from previous data breaches,

So these are previously “hacked” data, and now the aggregator has been hacked?

AI crap. Infesting everything. Search of all kinds, photo management, telephone menus, who knows what else. And it does none of it well.

Mid proficiency - the countries wanting to learn anything but Russian. Top proficiency - the countries with excellent education systems.

The economy is doing great! -Trump

Just more word salad that sounds good to him. The US is rife with what are effectively monopolies that squeeze the consumer who will have few choices other than competitors who are doing the exact same thing.