It surely feels good to see a fascist lose. That’s enough for me these days.

While the artistic merits of these people is without doubt, also consider that the ruling Medici family had a vested interest in establishing Florence as a cultural and political center of its time. It’s not like other cities of the 15th century did not have any remarkable artists (particularly in Italy), but Florence is a prime example of a political entity that used soft power to promote its art(ists) and thus itself.

Falls Du Musik machen möchtest, um Geld zu verdienen, dann ist die Antwort leider klar: Nein, es lohnt sich nicht.

DIe Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) über die die meisten Künstler’innen und Musiker’innen ihre Sozialversicherung abrechnen, gibt jedes Jahr die harten Zahlen zu den Einnahmen der bei ihr Versicherten heraus. Musiker’innen sind dabei die Berufsgruppe, die im Jahr am wenigsten verdient, und zwar zwischen 14.143 (Frauen) und 19.434 (Männer). Wohl gemerkt: Das sind Durchschnittswerte, dh. Musiker’innen müssen damit rechnen deutlich weniger zu verdienen.

Während AI natürlich zusätzlichen Druck macht, sind diese Werte nicht erst seit kurzem so schlecht. Es ist bereits seit Jahrzehnten der Normalzustand. Sicherlich gibt es außerordentlich gut verdienende Künstler’innen/Musiker’innen, aber diese sind die Ausnahme und man kann nicht damit rechnen zu ihnen zu gehören.

Man muss natürlich noch erwähnen, dass die KSK nur die selbstständigen/freischaffenden Musiker’innen versichert und es noch fest angestellte Musiker’innen gibt, etwa in Orchestern oder in Ensembles. Diese Karrieren bahnen sich aber langfristig an, etwa durch Teilnahme an Jugendorchestern oder Förderprogramme. Die meisten dieser Wege schließen sich irgendwann, wenn man älter wird.

Ich weiß, dass das eine sehr ernüchternde Antwort ist, aber ich wollte hier Deine Frage geradeheraus beantworten und hoffe, dass Du Dir davon und den anderen Antworten ausgehend selber ein Bild wirst machen können.

Wo es Dich auch immer hinführen mag: Viel Erfolg!

There are some responses already, but I will offer yet a different one: From a technical viewpoint, middle-middle is best. The seat in the middle of the middle row.

The reason is because movie theatres need to get calibrated: The sound and the picture get adjusted for the best possible viewing/sound experience. This calibration process usually targets the middle of the room, because this ensures that even the edges will at least have a decent sound and a decent picture. Nonetheless the middle-middle position will be where sound and picture are optimal. You sit at the centre of the area targeted by the sound system and where are at an optimal distance from the screen for the sharpest picture.

Of course, that is theoretical. Specific movie theatres may have a variety of reasons to go for a calibration that favours different spots and whether people want to sit in the middle-middle is a wholly different question.

This is - unfortunately - not surprising. Niantic has always been in the business of selling/using user data for profit, they were a spin-off from Google after all. Their first big game, Ingress, was used to train Google Maps.

Why, thanks for disseminating the queerphobic talking point that seeing queer people makes children require therapy, Mr. Wholesome-Pixar-Movie-Guy. (Yes, I know the statement can be read differently, but it resembles the right-wing’s narrative to a T, so there is no reason to assume he meant anything different.)

This framing is misleading. France’s armed forces have denied having given any such authorization (articles in French news outlets 1, 2), instead France has clarified that US’ support aircraft are temporarily permitted to use one particular airbase in Southern France according to NATO rules. (3)

I know this is a hard pill to swallow for most people, but our conscious thoughts are not necessarily “ourselves”, even though they often get framed as such. We are the whole, the uncountable unconscious small machinations, as well as the big thoughts.

As somebody else mentioned: Reacting first and thinking about it later was most often advantageous for our ancestors. “Flee from the lion first and think about that was necessary later.”

But that does not mean that the process of arriving at the point of “Flee from the lion” isn’t individual and very much “ours”. It’s just the fastest part of our brain taking the lead and everything else following.

Wir dachten sie wollten uns fressen, dabei wollen sie einfach nur mit uns rumhängen.

Yeah, people have to understand that right-wing politics considers science merely a tool to accumulate wealth and power. Thus right-wingers will not acknowledge that science pursues scientific truth, but rather insist that science that contradicts them must be a challenge to their interests that aims to embolden their political opponents and thus must be expunged.

We all know what is going to happen…

I understand the feeling. For me personally, the pandemic years are just a blur and I am incapable to tell them apart.

I can imagine it being a LEGO set.

For those who aren’t aware of it: “Shinigami Eyes” has become far less reliable and in some cases outright harmful due to the creators of the extension flagging people (yes, even trans people) they personally disagree with. One example is the creators denying the existence of intersex people, thus many advocates for the rights of intersex people are now flagged by Shinigami Eyes.

Thank you! I am. I meant the Hohenzollern branch that ruled in Prussia.

The whole ceremony. I need to show off that dress.

🫂

Probably an enemy to lovers plot line…

Ah, that’s a deep cut. I am surprised someone remembers that. And I curse myself how it reminds me of him acting surprised when people did not appreciate his Burzum t-shirt at GamesCom. Fun guy… /s

Thanks for pointing it out. Unfortunately, I can’t find an option to change the alt text.