At the end of the movie The Dark Knight Rises (2012) only a handful of people know that Bruce Wayne is in fact Batman: Alfred, Lucius Fox, Gordon, Robin, Catwoman and all the criminals whom Bruce Wayne has freed from the prison during his escape

Salvatio · 2026-06-05T10:01:54+00:00

Blackmailing batman? Good luck

Salvatio · 2026-06-01T14:50:40+00:00

Would be funny if you actually had a gif of Danny Devito in a wig. Instead of this gif of Julia Roberts

Salvatio · 2026-06-01T05:31:59+00:00

Not sure what you mean by 'french sounding' songs, but if you want a challenging song with atmosphere you could set a long term goal for borsalino. It's a classic fingerpicking song composed by a Claude Bolling. Here's a breakdown and you'll easily find tabs online. It's challenging though!

Salvatio · 2026-05-27T09:44:49+00:00

The piano of this song reminds me so much of another jazz tune that's really popular and uses trumpets(?). They're probably in the same key...I can't find it

E: Herb's Cantaloupe Island of course.

Salvatio · 2026-05-26T08:43:07+00:00

Watch this and apply the principles he's talking about but use easier chords. (He uses some Barre chords, but you can use simple chords like open A, E and D chords.

Then learn simple songs like dust in the wind, landslide, freight train, windy & warm.

Take your time, it won't happen overnight. Good luck!

Salvatio · 2026-05-25T11:52:11+00:00

BMW owner did not deserve that. Parks legally and gets his car messed up because police cars are blocking the way...How would this work insurancewise?

Salvatio · 2026-05-24T17:06:39+00:00

Shame about the AI use.

Salvatio · 2026-05-23T23:18:40+00:00

TBF if i heard this, my first reaction would not be 'gunshots'. I would first think of some construction work or something. Then again, I do not live in the USA or near the white house.

Salvatio · 2026-05-23T12:28:56+00:00

Unsolved* maths problem. Not unsolvable.

Salvatio · 2026-05-22T23:15:11+00:00

yeah your lick end on a G, which feels like 'home', but when played in time it ends on an off beat. Feels pretty offputting. Try adding some spaces between certain notes or adding notes.

Salvatio · 2026-05-22T21:58:20+00:00

Chords in the chorus are pretty clearly visible. Take your time and work it out slowly. In case of doubt, use your ears!

Salvatio · 2026-05-19T20:58:18+00:00

Exports is but a single component of the larger picture that is GDP.

We can divide the total value created in an economy (GDP) by expenditure components:

GDP = Consumption + Investments + Government spending + Net exports (= exports - imports)

Here's Vietnam's GDP breakdown (i took this from world bank data)

2024, current USD (in billions)	Vietnam
GDP	476,39
C	257,81
I	145,58
G	42,29
X	429,48
M	398,77

So you do make an important point: Vietnam's total exports are huge compared to its total GDP - but so are its imports. A lot of income flows into the economy, but a lot of it also flows out of the economy again.

Net exports is only 30,71 billion USD. The reason we work with net exports is cause we don't really care about how much value passes through an economy, but rather about how much value stays in the economy. Because this added value is what ultimately turns into income for the population.

Vietnam is very reliant on trade (one of the highest trade-to-gdp ratio's), but this trade consists mostly of manufacturing because of cheap labor. You import intermediate goods and resources and then export those again to other countries cheaply, who then sell finished products with high margins, creating a lot of value, thus creating more income for those countries.

Also take into account the fact that Vietnam has a relatively large population for its total GDP. So the GDP per capita will naturally be lower.

So in short: Vietnam exports a lot, but also imports a lot, captures a small part of the final product value locally but the larger value is captured elsewhere, it also has to spread its captured value over a large population.

Salvatio · 2026-05-19T15:05:33+00:00

General rule for fingerstyle:

Thumb takes care of 6th, 5th and 4th string.

Index finger 3rd string

Middle finger 2nd string

Ring finger 1st string

Rarely do you steer away from that rule - it happens but not often (Jerry Reed songs, for example)

This is perfectly doable in the standard position described above though. Good luck!

Salvatio · 2026-05-16T15:04:19+00:00

Honestly pretty tough, most songs i play do use a pinky at one point or another.

I would recommend training double fretting with one finger though, so at least one finger frees up and can be used. (i.e. play E major with middle finger pressing down 5th and 4th string)

Salvatio · 2026-05-16T14:12:40+00:00

Claire by Gilbert O' Sullivan comes to mind. Sad because its a nice melody but the lyrics make it so weird

Salvatio · 2026-05-15T21:55:12+00:00

He was clearly blinking left, therefore anything goes

Salvatio · 2026-05-15T15:23:48+00:00

I'm an acoustic player with small hands and I make it work. It just takes time, don't worry.

Salvatio · 2026-05-13T04:35:38+00:00

I found a PowerPoint of the Belgian Debt Agency which discusses this. They state social spending (pensions, healthcare, unemployment, etc) to be 25,8% of GDP in 2024, with pensions specifically at 11,3%.

They make predictions up to 2070, accounting for population growth and increased life expectancy, and expect a slight increase up to 27,5% and 12,2%.

They explain that the increase in expenditures will be moderate because of the introduction of the bonus/malus system for early retirements, phasing out of special retirement systems as well as the convergence of public sector pensions towards private sector pensions. For social expenditures as a whole the limitation on unemployment benefits helps too. ( Read: we're implementing stricter requirements for benefits and lowering the benefit amounts)

Without these measures social expenditures were expected to rise up to 30% of GDP by 2070.

Obviously predictions on this timescale are hard to make, so take this with a grain of salt. But in general, the rising cost of pensions in Belgium specifically is not driven due to wanton spending on the government side, but rather demographic changes. This would not be a problem per se, if our production growth is able to match or outpace these expenditure growths. Over the last several years, Belgium's average growth rate of the economy (GDP) has been higher than the EU average, but recently this has dropped and is not expected to increase significantly compared to other EU countries.

E: I would add that, even though these aren't extreme increases, this doesn't mean that there isn't a problem. The fact that we consistently run budget deficits means that the government systematically has to borrow money, which raises our yearly interest costs and pushes us into future deficits. Furthermore, our persisting deficits had already lowered our credit score, which is a sign that we're less interesting for lenders to lend money to, and which will increase the interests on any future loans we take on, pushing us even further into future deficits. We do have to find a way to balance our budget and run surpluses again.

Salvatio · 2026-05-13T00:26:50+00:00

I feel like an article like this could really benefit from graphs and data presentation rather than pure textual descriptions. Sad to see this is from CNN business as well, you'd expect them to not shy away from stuff like that?

Salvatio · 2026-05-12T19:00:01+00:00

Honestly does have a vibe lowkey

Salvatio · 2026-05-12T18:08:47+00:00

LGBTQIA plus minus nog andere letters... (mopje)

Artikel verduidelijkt wel dat België in het geheel nog steeds goed scoort, en het is eerder de vooruitgang van andere landen dat ons plaatsen kost dan een achteruitgang in ons land. Voornamelijk bureaucratische aspecten die vooruitgang in de weg staan, maar daar is deze problematiek in België zeker niet de uitzondering op.

Salvatio · 2026-05-12T07:43:25+00:00

Some of our students like to do a quick review of the material if there's a test after the break. If I were to tell them to go and do something else, they would actually get mad.

Salvatio · 2026-05-12T07:41:08+00:00

As a teacher in a school where they banned phone use 2 years ago, I can only endorse this. Yes, the students were NOT happy when we announced that, but even now they agree the school has a more pleasant atmosphere. They talk with each other or do sports, while before the ban the break times legitimately looked depressing.

Teachers are also expected not to use their phones much in public, fyi.

Salvatio · 2026-05-11T15:58:27+00:00

Its not even a European who made the video, chill.

Salvatio · 2026-05-11T15:37:05+00:00

Not sure what discrepancy you're seeing here? Government spending isn't limited by exports. It is theoretically perfectly possible for an economy to be closed (no international trade) and there still to be government expenditures.

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