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  • I think it’s actually much harder for small artists to succeed now, even with the proliferation of stuff like social media sites and music apps. Most streaming services pay artists practically nothing, and from what I understand, touring is less profitable than it used to be because the artists are getting a smaller cut of the profit than they used to from merchandise.

    Stuff like Bandcamp and Patreon help, but those platforms are pretty small compared to something like Spotify. It’s probably easier to get your name out there because of social media/Youtube, but I don’t think it usually makes up for how little money they make from listeners. This is also ignoring piracy.


  • Regarding Palestine, a number of groups have done stuff on stage or donated money and so on, but there don’t seem to be a ton that have written music specifically about the war. I’m guessing this is partly due to a lot of record labels supporting Israel on top of just so much other horrible shit going on in recent years. You could probably find more stuff if you looked for music by people from the countries directly involved.

    Pretty much the same situation for Ukraine I think. Bands like Jinjer are vocally pro-Ukraine.

    It’s much easier to find one-off songs about a specific issue than like entire albums right now AFAICT (again probably partially because of how much crap is going on). A lot of groups also seem afraid to really hammer on specific points to avoid alienating fans I think, so it’s sort of just the state of music as well IMO.





  • My dude, the chips aren’t manufactured in the US. If the tariffs don’t apply to the chips that are inherently imported from outside the US since basically only TSMC and Samsung make them at this point, then there is no tariff at all. Companies in the US import the chips, then use the imported chips as part of their products. All the companies in the US do is assemble the imported parts (and sometimes not even that).

    EDIT: Ah, there was a miscommunication. I think we’re both saying the same thing at this point. Well, mostly the same, since this doesn’t really help US companies and just drives up prices for everything.



  • Looking into it, the US implementation goes down into the components, so yes. Except, I believe it’d be $50 chip @ 100%, other components at whatever tariff rates they may have, and then the 15% per-country/region tariff applies to all of it on top. So if the other components have no tariffs, it’d be $172.50. I’m now wondering how expensive everything would end up if you have tariffs on materials as well.

    In any case though, it becomes ludicrously expensive no matter what because you’re at most dodging the 15%.

    EDIT: You can also dodge some of the tariffs if some percentage of the product is made in the US. I wonder if you’d be able to dodge the chip tariff if the materials for it were partially sourced from the US. If possible, that’d probably be cheaper for companies than actually trying to manufacture chips here.

    EDIT 2: Actually your calculation may be right, I’m having a hard time finding how they’re actually meant to be calculated. Admittedly it seems a bit weird to me that the rate would override the country-specific rate and thus be the same for chips from the EU and China, but I suppose none of this makes sense in the first place.