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coyootje,

I agree, I watched one about the Netherlands a while back and it was pretty trash. They’re fun videos for entertainment purposes but definitely not correct.

coyootje,

I quite liked the idea of Movember when I was younger, it seemed like a neat idea to grow a mustache over the month with some of your homies.

Nowadays I have a beard thanks to the lockdowns and the reduced shame of it looking weird at the start so no need for Movember anymore.

coyootje,

I wouldn’t mind paying a little bit of money every month to get YouTube ad free. However, it costs €12 a month. That’s a lot of money if you only care about getting rid of ads. I personally don’t need the other features (downloading videos, background play and YouTube music). If they added a 5 to 7 euro a month tier through which you could get rid of ads then that would be much more interesting to me. Now I just feel like I should keep looking for ways around their pop up shenanigans.

coyootje,

The family plan sadly isn’t an option for me, I don’t have anyone in my family that uses YouTube as much as I do so they wouldn’t be interested in it.

Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)

China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

coyootje,

It’d be funny if he called him “Winnie the pooh” when he meets him to explain himself :)

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The “cord cutting” trend cable execs spent a decade claiming was a fad just broke another round of new records. According to Leichtman Research, major cable TV providers lost another 1.7 million subscribers last quarter, as users flock to streaming, over the air TV, TikTok, or, you know, books. Roughly 17,700 customers cut...

coyootje,

I usually just end up recording them if I really want to watch them so I can fast forward through the commercials when I watch it later.

coyootje,

We have this speed limit in the Netherlands, mostly in areas with housing. It doesn’t really affect busses because they stay on the bigger roads that are 50 kmh (about 31 mph). In my opinion it’s fine to drive 20 mph on the more local roads, as long as there are collector roads where you can go a bit faster.

coyootje,

I’m really curious how these strikes will end. It feels like they’ve been going on for a long time and at a bad time for the studios as well, judging by how many movies are bombing at the moment + the streaming subscriber numbers. I’m just not sure if the studios will be able to ever meet the demands the strike is asking for, it feels like they’re stuck in a downward spiral…

Also, from what I’ve heard here and there it sounds like they have some pretty crazy demands (something about a minimum writers room size of 8 or 10?) which are going to make it hard to ever come to an agreement, especially if those writers also need to be paid in full.

coyootje, (edited )

How do you know they’re able to? Looking at Disney as a specific case, they’ve lost over 1 billion on their movies in the past 2 years and are constantly bleeding subscribers. On top of that there’s also some persistent rumors that they got caught up in the whole FTX debacle and lost a bunch of money on that as well.

Also, as a quick aside: what would you consider to be fair to their workers? The wages I’ve heard being mentioned sounded pretty good to me already, especially compared to other jobs.

coyootje,

Fair enough, I guess time will tell then. I’m just wondering if the Hollywood accounting that gets mentioned below also gets applied to their revenue, meaning that it’s in fact much lower than what they’re saying. But I guess that’s corporate accounting in a nutshell.

coyootje,

Thanks for the explanation and additional context, that helps put things into perspective a bit more. I understand that they want a different kind of monetary reward from streaming, hopefully they can get their deal eventually.

coyootje,

I had a look and the current subscriber numbers for Disney+ are at 146 million, they haven’t been at 164 million since Q4 2022. So they’ve actually dropped 18 million subscribers in less than a year, which is more than 10% of their subs.

I do agree that CEOs earn way too much money, they could get by earning much less and it would be nice if this money went to the other employees instead. However, I don’t fully agree with the statement that writers can’t afford a roof over their heads. I did some googling and the average salary for a writer in Hollywood is almost $70,000 a year. Digging a bit deeper, I found this:

Variety also reports that for a WGA member in 2023, writer-producers earn a minimum of “$41,773 for each 60-minute script, or $28,403 for each 30-minute script.” However, staff writers are the lowest-level writers and are paid differently. In 2023, “[t]he median staff writer on a network show works 29 weeks for a wage of $131,834, while the median staff writer on a streaming show works 20 weeks for $90,920.” (source)

So if these numbers are correct, a writer for a streaming show makes on average $90,920 for a 20 week show. If they have 2 of those shows a year, that’s a yearly salary of more than $180,000 + 12 weeks of vacation at a minimum (don’t know if they need the full 20 weeks to write the show). I know they live in an expensive part of the country but come on, you can’t say that that’s a low wage, regardless of whether you think they deserve more or not. If you look at the average salary in the entire USA (~ $60,000) they make about triple that. Hell, they make even more than double the average salary in California ($73,000) (source)

coyootje,

Or, you know… get a job in IT as a programmer? There’s plenty of work out there in IT at the moment.

coyootje,

If only our public transport was affordable. We pay way more than other European countries (besides maybe Germany and the Scandinavian countries), especially when you consider how little distance you’re really travelling. As an example, to get from Eindhoven central station to Amsterdam central station you take 1 train, it takes you 1 hour and 20 minutes and you pay €22,70 for a one way ticket. If we’re looking at distance, this is about 120 km. This means that to get there and go back home you pay €45,40.

If you travel by yourself you can argue that it’s worth it to take the train there since parking + fuel isn’t that cheap here either. However, as soon as you have more than 1 person the car quickly becomes the cheaper option, even with parking included. As long as they don’t solve this issue I don’t see any success in their push to get people to use public transport. And I know the solution will probably be to make everything even more expensive but that’s not going to help in the long run either…

coyootje,

I like the way most city centers are set up but I think public transport coverage should be improved in most places before the government starts trying to push people out of their cars. My local municipality is trying the same thing and making the same mistake, they’re not improving public transport but they are trying to discourage people from coming by car. How is that supposed to work if you can’t even get there properly if you live in a part of town that either has no connection or it takes you 3 to 4 times as long as it would take you by car to take the bus?

coyootje,

Thanks for the link, I never had a look at that before. If I look at my car, the variable costs per km (without the fuel) are €0,15 per km. The fixed costs are only interesting if you don’t have a car and are looking at getting one, I have to pay those costs regardless of whether I leave it at home or not. That means that taking the car in my example above would add another €18 which does change things a little bit.

However, my main point was that people would flock to public transport if they were using the prices you sometimes see in other countries. For example, in Italy it costs me around €10 to get a return ticket from Florence to Pisa. The trains are slightly less fancy of course but they’re still very serviceable. If they could make it so you pay maybe €30 for a return ticket from Eindhoven to Amsterdam, it would make it a lot more enticing to take the train.

coyootje,

That’s because NS is trying to cheap out on things for some reason. You keep hearing about them removing trains from the schedule or shortening them.

coyootje,

Oh I fully agree with you, it’s just that it doesn’t seem like they invest much in public transport. It feels like you hear more about lines closing down and capacity on the line going down than new lines being created.

coyootje,

Sounds like a nice concept, I wish we had something like that here. And you might think trains run on time but there’s actually quite a lot of delays recently. Because our network is relatively small and almost everything passes through Utrecht all it takes is 1 minor disruption somewhere around there and it’s mayhem.

coyootje,

Besides the amount of content (and the occasional server issues) on Lemmy I haven’t missed anything about Reddit after switching.

coyootje,

I mean, Andor was good but you’d need multiple of those shows a year to actually stay subbed. You can just sub for a month, binge Andor and then unsub. I wish other (Star Wars) content was as good.

coyootje,

Is season 2 still coming? All these strikes are worrying me a bit…

coyootje,

Has it been confirmed that he was one of the victims? From what I could see I the news here they haven’t found his body yet.

coyootje,

I’m not sad that he’s gone but I kinda hoped he’d take out Putin with him. Shame he didn’t push on 2 months ago, he really seemed to have Putin by the balls at that point. Oh well, guess Putins time will still come at some point.

Also, how incredibly dumb of them to put the entire leadership group of their mercenary army in 1 plane. Made them a real nice target for Putin to hit.

coyootje,

It’s the standard Blizzard approach to do that, they used to do the same thing in WoW. I hope they do look at how many times someone’s done it. If they’ve only done it once (or maybe twice), maybe just give them a warning. If more, then consider banning them.

coyootje,

It definitely depends on the country you’re visiting. The tube trains (and stations) in Paris are generally pretty gross but when I was in Copenhagen recently I was surprised by how clean everything was over there.

coyootje,

Speaking as a Dutch person, our infrastructure just isn’t made for cars this size. People basically need to enlarge their driveways to park something like this. So if you need to park a car like this it’s almost impossible. That would stop most people from getting one, except the type of person that does buy one…

coyootje,

Not really, all of the supporting crew is getting shafted this way. They never made actor (or writer) salaries and are pretty much unemployed at the moment because most of them work on a gig basis… I get that the writers and actors have the right to strike but it sucks for more people than just the studios.

coyootje,

I was just about to ask if there were any good Android apps for Kbin… I remember creating an account on the website a while ago but because I mostly browse on my phone I ended up on Lemmy in the end. I’d like to give Kbin a fair shot once a working Android app is released though.

coyootje,

I haven’t gone running in a really long time now but I used to love getting that runners high. When I first started training for an obstacle run I could barely run for 2 minutes straight and in the end I’d finish my 10km and decide to do one more lap because the music was just so good and I felt like I could go for ages. I ended up doing like 4km extra one time. Man I miss that feeling… Maybe I should start doing it again.

coyootje,

Yeah the trains kinda suck sometimes. They’re nice when they’re going on schedule but lately it’s been pretty messy. Also, they’re just getting more and more expensive

coyootje,

It feels more like grabbing 2 shotguns and blasting both feet off at the same time. Unless their goal was to sink Reddit at record speed I have no idea what they’re doing…

coyootje,

As someone who works for a power company, it’s an extremely difficult challenge we’re facing right now to balance the load on the power network. There’s high peaks and low lows, constantly increasing demand, people providing back tons of power through their solar panels and a lack of personnel to even onboard all the new customers. It’s a real issue that’s even leading to some of my colleagues getting harassed in the street by angry customers while working.

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