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I want a lot of things that I can’t have. They can want it, but the system doesn’t have to allow it or can discourage it.

I don’t know in what context this parable is used in the book, but this does not explain the need for growth in reality. It does not even show why you would need growth in the parable. No matter how many chickens or how much wheat the village produces, there still wouldn’t be more tokens.

Well, partially maybe. In the past, investors were happy with dividends instead of growth. There are extra factors making growth be preferable over dividends nowdays.

I think your are confusing company growth and prices growing, mixing them together.

no. You can pay interest out of your profits without growing. And many businesses don’t have significant loans.

There are many answers to this.

First, this is not a general capitalism thing. It is more the specific flavor we have. Second, it is not an absolute rule, there are companies that don’t focus on growth, but it is rare amongst massive companies.

The original idea of capital investment is that when you need investment for your company (e.g. to buy better machines, expand production, etc.) you let people invest (by buying shares) and then give them a portion of the profits gained from that investment (in the form of dividends).

However, most companies have figured out that if they don’t pay dividends but re-invest the money, shareholders are still happy because their shares get more valuable as the company grows and they get to grow the company, which is good for CEO paychecks and lot of other things.

There are things like economies of scale (if you produce million units of something per year, it is almost always cheaper per unit than if you produce ten per year). So if you don’t grow, your competitor that does grow could sell cheaper than you and put you out of business.

And a lot more.

Care to elaborate?

It is reportedly around 130 million. I suspect the reason why Disney is freaked out about the loss is that it’s costs are almost entirely fixed. It takes the same amount of money to produce a movie or a show regardless of how many people end up watching it. Unlike producing physical goods where less customers also means less materials and work needed. So losing subscribers decreases their revenue but unlike other businesses, it does not decrease their expenses, putting their budget in trouble much faster.

Well, they can probably get the one month pay they lost out on. They just can’t get their jobs back.

That being said, I both agree and disagree with this ruling. I disagree that there is no irreparable harm by Trump not providing a reason. The law requires it to create transparency and accountability. However, I agree that technically, the inspectors general are not the people harmed by this. So it shouldn’t have been them suing Trump, it should have been democrat congressmen and congresswomen who are owed an explanation.

Ok, but please don’t let AOC be based on congresswoman Neuman, fooling everyone. That thought is way too bleak.

Well, now let’s see what Jimmy Kimmel does. Will he come back toning down his rhetoric or will he start by thoroughly criticizing Kirk and Disney right as he gets back. I don’t think there really is a third option. If he decide to not address this, he will always weigh the consequences of saying something before saying it (even subconsciously). And in that case, he is not worth watching.

I would love to know as well, so I am slowly reading the UNCLOS treaty as I have time. We have no obligation towards US to not sink their ships, but we may have given promises to other parties of UNCLOS not to attack any ships, even those that did not sign.

It’s like if your promise your wife you will be nice to your mother in law. You did not promise anything to your mother in law and she promised nothing to you, but you are still obligated to be nice to her unless your wife agrees to cancel the promise.

So I don’t know if UNCLOS only deals with not sinking member ships or all ships.

Also, touching US ships is historically very dumb thing to do.

It technically may not even be a breach of international law, since the US is one of the few countries that did not ratify UNCLOS, the law that would apply in international waters. The US was evil for a long time and refused to sign anything that would hold them even symbolically accountable. This did not start with Trump. He just went mask off.

Calling for peace talks in this situation is like calling for marriage in couples counseling of a failing relationship, because married couples stay together longer.

Peace talks don’t create peace, they happen when peace becomes desirable because of battlefield and political realities. Arming Ukraine more can shorten the war. Calling for premature talks can only prolong it.

I just finished refining my Jellyfin setup. I use caddy as reverse proxy and use authelia as authentication in front of Jellyfin. This way only users logged in to authelia can access my Jellyfin. And there is an SSO plugin for jellyfin to avoid double login. The tricky part was getting apps to work.

Tailscale now supports buying Mullvad subscription through them and using it with their app. So it solves this issue, although the control you have over your Mullvad tunnel is less and it misses some advanced Mullvad features. Still probably good enough for most people.

I ended up going a different route by buying a VPS and hosting Caddy as reverse proxy. Then I only have my VPS and NAS on tailscale and other devices use the reverse proxy. This allows me to also share links to cloud files or other stuff I host with friends that are not on tailscale.

Targeting civilians is the poster child of war crimes.

You can bomb soldiers. You can bomb soldiers mixed with civilians. You can even bomb civilians making weapons in a factory. But you can’t just starve and bomb civilians for no reason. And you can’t bomb 100 civilians because there is 1 suspected fighter. Has to be proportional.

Wrong. Join. Refuse to do anything but stall getting fired for as long as possible. You get more money. Government gets delayed from hiring a Nazi replacement for you. Bonus points for sabotage like tipping people off about planned raids.

Because the fascist does not endanger their cushy seats. If Trump wins, they will win next election after people are sick of Trump.

If they let people like Mamdani replace them in their own party, they are never getting elected again.