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GenEcon ,

Holocaust? Wasn’t ‘genocide’ drastic enough anymore?

GenEcon ,

Thats some really hard BS.

How do you think is hit harder by Inflation: someone working for 50 k a year and negotiating a raise every other year or someone with 500 k on the bank?

Inflation hits the wealthy people the hardest! Not something I despise, but your claim is still complete BS.

So why do we aim for ‘close to, but below 2 %’ inflation (2nd BS claim: no one aims for 2–3 % inflation). Because it has shown to be the most efficient to reduce unemployment and force rich people and companies to actually invest. Without inflation companies would need to fire people a lot more, since they can’t lower their expenses for their workforce in a different way. And sometimes they are struggling with their productivity and can’t stay competitive in any other way. Lowering wages is not allowed in most countries.

It also forces rich people to invest. If there’s no inflation, I can just get rich and then do nothing. If the value of my money decreases 2 % each year, I need to actively participate in the economy, at least by lending my money to other companies so that they can invest in new things.

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)

Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year’s $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...

GenEcon ,

How does this work? Spotify has a deal with the music publishers, where they give 70 % of all subscription income to the music companies. The music companies (Sony, Warner, etc) then split the money based on the share of streams.

How can Apple pay out 2.5x70 %, so 175 %? Are thes losing with every subscription?

GenEcon , (edited )

The problem is that Spotify is losing money each year. They aren’t profitable. And if they are keep focusing on music, they never will. Their deal with the music labels says that they need to give 70 % of each subscription to the music labels. So by getting more people to signup, they only marginally increase their revenue. Same goes for raising their prices.

Thats why they tried focusing on Podcasts and Audiobooks. Those are a lot more profitable, either by adding ads (Podcasts) or by charging a premium (audiobooks).

GenEcon ,

They pay less than Tidal claims it pays. So far Tidal has a really bad history of publishing correct numbers.

GenEcon ,

That whole article is BS, they even say it themselves:

Rates are rarely paid at a flat rate per stream

There is no payout per stream. Instead a fixed percentage of the subscription price is shared among each streamed song. So why does Tidal pay more then? Either their subscriber numbers are still incorrect (they have a history of publishing way higher numbers than in reality), their subscriber listen to less music (which is the main reason Apple Music pays more per stream on paper, since its often bundled) or their audience focuses more on a single artist (or a genre).

GenEcon ,

From the 10 Dollar, taxes will be deducted. Afterwards Apple or Google take their share (if you subscribe using the App). Of the remaining money the Music labels take 70 %, and Spotify keeps 30 %. The music labels pay a fraction of the 70 % to the artists, depending on the contract and the artist’s share of streams reported by Spotify.

Racist violence in Germany reaches record highs, support groups warn (www.euronews.com)

Violence against politicians has been dominating the headlines, but instances of everyday racism and antisemitic attacks are causing German victim advice centres to sound the alarm. Euronews travelled to Thuringia, a right-wing hotspot, to speak with a victim of neo-Nazi violence....

GenEcon ,

I helps. Last week ago a Neonazi was stupid enough to do the Hitler salute and has now to face the consequences.

GenEcon ,

Most people don’t realize we loose weight by breathing, not excrements. You breath in O2, you breath out CO2. Same volume (since gases have more or less the same volume per molecule), but 37.5 % heavier. That’s how you loose weight.

GenEcon ,

In comparison to other countries far right positions are far less common. The post-war generation really changed the society. For example the far right AFD has less than 15 % of public votes (compared to ~30 % in other European countries) and racism – while present – is far less common than for example in China, Russia, US or Japan.

Its not perfect, but the fact that people shouting far right phrases making national news, shows that the german society hasn’t shifted as far to the right as other countries.

GenEcon ,

Its news because it happened in a public setting. Neonazis are less afraid than ever to show their true face even on social media.

GenEcon ,

And still Mercedes is the car company with the highest autonomy level of any car manufacturer. And no one talks about that.

GenEcon ,

There was actually news that an Egyptian spy manipulated the peace process. His task was to talk with Israel and Hamas regarding a ceasefire. He manipulated the Hamas offer – which Israel accepted – without talking to Hamas with the goal to make Israel back off from the agreement.

So far no one knows why he did that. If he was Putin’s puppet or if it was orders from Egypt. But it shines a bad light onto Egypt’s role.

GenEcon ,

Putin loves chaos and dissent in Europe. Everything that escalates the situation in Israel and Palestine is good for him.

GenEcon ,

The funny part is: the authorities warned him a long time ago, for example 2023 {fr.de/…/verfassungsschutz-maximilian-krah-afd-sor…) and the warnings go back as far as 2019.

GenEcon ,

Its actually also a media problem. For example, the largest Tiktok account of a german politician belongs to Maximilian Krah, of the far right party AFD. Just yesterday it was revealed that his personal assistant is actually a Chinese spy. Krah himself voiced a lot of pro-Chinese opinions before, like being pro annexation of Taiwan and denying the genocide on the uigyurs.

This begs the question if his Tiktok popularity is based on a non-biased algorithm or if the CCP made a deal with him, boosting his Tiktok popularity in exchange for being pro-China.

Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft (www.bloomberg.com)

Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft. Russia is preparing to enlist more contract soldiers as it presses its invasion of Ukraine, aiming to avoid at least for now another mass call-up that could undermine popular support for the war

GenEcon ,

Poor countries you can exploit: Nepal, Kazakhstan, India, Usbekistan, etc.

GenEcon ,

I personally think the role of the soviet union in WW2 is underappreciated, too! But thats my point: soviet union, not Russia! The majority of victims in WW2 where Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians, Poles, Belarusians and Lithuanians – the same countries now fighting Russia (except for Belarusia)!

Russia never was the good guy and Putin deserves nothing of the praise for the soviet unions role in WW2. Maybe invite the Poles, Ukrainians or Baltics insteac!

GenEcon ,

And instead stop advancing AI and other high tech? Or where should the people working in manufacturing come from?

GenEcon ,

Thats not how embassies work. Embassies aren’t a ‘you get out of jail free’ card. Hitler or Putin couldn’t just hide at an embassy and thats it.

Itt works in a way, that one state offers a second one a piece of land under its protection. That piece of land belongs to the second state as long as the first state allows it. If they want to claim it back, they have to go through a formal process.

Thats why the actions of Ecuador are unheard of: they offered Mexico a piece of their land under their protection. And then they violated it.

Israel attacked an embassy of Iran under Syria’s protection. Thats not off the limits but of course can be seen as an attack from both countries.

GenEcon ,

Still. Raiding embassies is the worst you can do. Its basically an invasion of a foreign country. Even states like Russia do not do that.

GenEcon ,

Okay… i should have made it more precise: attacking a foreign embassy on your own ground. Basically the idea of an embassy is that its protected by the state, in which is located and its counted as soil of the embassies state.

Here is it explained in more detail: nytimes.com/…/interpreter-israel-syria-embassy.ht…

GenEcon ,

Holy shit dude… even Israel is defending itself (although without caring for civilians), not attacking. Are you seriously comparing Russia to Israel or even countries more or less allied with Israel? How delusional are you?

Besides that: all pollings show that the average Russian is pro-war. Its not ‘the ruling class’.

GenEcon ,

Hamas attacked Israel, Israel is defending itself against it, by invading Palestine. I don’t think that they are doing the right thing there and Netanjahu needs to be stopped, but initially they actually had a casus belli, which is a lot more reasonable than what Russia had.

GenEcon ,

You can look it up: novonordisk.com/…/private-public-partnerships.htm…

GenEcon ,

10 % would mean that more than 9 of 10 research projects need to succeed. The reality is closer to 0.5 of 10, which would require a profit of 2000 % of R&D. Rules like that would stop private funded research. Which is something we can debate, but it should be noted that this would just mean, that countries need to fund medical research, which is currently 270 billion per year, which is 20 % of the US budget. If you want to stop private medical research, you need to raise taxes – plain and simple.

GenEcon ,

Which might be a hints that they didn’t got a funding.

GenEcon , (edited )

Germany has drastically reduced their coal share, too. Just look at this Chart: umweltbundesamt.de/…/3_abb_bruttostromerzeugung-e…

In 2023 the share of coal decreased to 26.1 % of all electricity – which is close to other nations like the US with 20 % coal. In fact, per kWh germany produces on average 380 g of CO2, while the US produces 389 g, which is half of Poland’s 690 g CO2 per kWh.

I know its a meme at this point to shit on the german electricity market, but the sucess in the last 5 years is something other countries should admire, especially countries like Poland who claim to heavily invest in nuclear power, while they are in fact do nothing at all – and except for maybe France. They are 2nd to none in terms of CO2 emissions, even though they pay a hefty price for that.

GenEcon ,

Thats straight up wrong.

  1. They didn’t retire them early, but decided not to upgrade them. They where 40 years old and needed massive maintenance now.
  2. Germany was highly dependent on russian gas with nuclear as well – even more, if you consider that Germany got its Uranium from Russia, too. Also Gas and Nuclear Energy fulfill a completly different function. Nuclear is not really flexible, so its a baseload source. Gas is highly flexible, which is the reason its a peak load source. Nuclear competes with renewables and a bit with coal, but not with gas.
  3. No idea where you got this Fakenews, but no politican of the german greens was involved in any scandal with Russia – in fact its the opposite: they have been the most vocal anti-Russia party for years now and warned about dependence on Russia for the last decade already.
GenEcon ,

So its fake news because he isnt a member of the green party – and actually never was an advocate of the end of nuclear energy. He was vocal about increasing the run time of nuclear reactors in the public, actually. Also, all german parties – except for the far right – were part of the process and at one point or another confirmed it. There is just no majority in Germany for nuclear power. One of the reasons is the high price (see France, which needs to subsidize their energy prices with billions each year to stay competitive), but also the problem with nuclear waste, which no one wants. Its not like in the US, where we have lot of empty space where no one is bothered.

Still, the public debate is intense, even though nuclear power was only at 5–10 %. Meanwhile in the last year alone renewables producing 4 % of the energy demand were built. And each year lost by debating, more fossil fuels are burned.

GenEcon ,

Fast travel for example? Either I allow it or I don’t. But both decision have a huge implication on the game design.

GenEcon ,

Of course. The problem with waste is still there and you can also replace Nuclear with renewables, like Germany did. Nuclear shut down, coal also 20 % down, renewables on record heights.

GenEcon ,

As someone using android/windows in private life and MacOS for work, I can confirm. As long as its Apple, it works. But as soon as you use any third party software or hardware, its completly bugged.

GenEcon ,

Talk to families of unjustified imprisoned people or to the people itself. His ‘fixing’ was done by basically imprisoning everyone, which just happened to be close to any suspect gang member. There where even cases where a mailman was imprisoned because he just happenend to deliver a parcel during a raid.

Yes, he fixed the gang problem for now. But at a high price – the loss of a fair justice system. He imprisoned 1.2 % of the total population in just 2 years.

I know that freedom vs security is a fine balance and once security suffers significantly, you are willing to give up quiet a lot of freedom. But since he just imprisoned everyone and their relatives, its only a temporary fix – unless he wants to imprison them for life.

GenEcon ,

Thats what I meant with ‘if security gets really low, you are willing to sacrifice a lot of freedom’

My major complaint is, that he doesnt have a plan for the time after they will eventually get out of prison.

GenEcon ,

Definitely! But a ‘friend of the family’ is not really a perfect source.

GenEcon ,

Everyone reading this piece full of buzzwords and without any source and thinking ‘yeah, this seems trustworthy’, is completly delusional.

GenEcon ,

Actually he did say the same for Gaza: vaticannews.va/…/pope-francis-angelus-appeal-ceas…

GenEcon ,

Its pretty well documented that Russia kidnapped Ukrainian Children for ‘reeducation’. Its a text bookcase of a genocide.

GenEcon ,

Holy shit… you are completly spinning it around. Insane…

For context: the ICJ said they aren’t allowed to rule about Russia commiting a genocide. But Ukraine has asked the court to check if Ukraine did commit a genocide in eastern Ukraine, like Russia claimed. Its Ukraine asking for this investigation.

‘“In the present case, even if the Russian Federation had, in bad faith, alleged that Ukraine committed genocide and taken certain measures against it under such a pretext, which the respondent [Ukraine] contends, this would not in itself constitute a violation of obligations” under the genocide convention, the ICJ said in the ruling read out by its president, Joan Donoghue on Friday.

The ICJ, known as the World Court, said it did not have jurisdiction to rule on whether Russia’s invasion violated the Genocide Convention, or on whether Moscow’s recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk, two breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine, amounted to a breach of the convention.

But the judges said they would allow Ukraine’s request for the court to rule that there was no “credible evidence that Ukraine is committing genocide in violation of the Genocide Convention” in eastern Ukraine.’

GenEcon ,

Did he do so?

The last I heard was that he wasn’t ruling out sending ground troops to Ukraine – which is what UK is already doing. Mind, that ground troops aren’t soldiers per se, but mostly technical personell supporting the usage of weapons, for example repairing equipment and helping with the programming of missiles. But I haven’t heard any plans from him – just the classical strategic ambiguity.

But to be honest, I don’t follow french politics in detail.

GenEcon ,

So Russia’s worse than Hitlers’s Germany?

GenEcon ,

It also infuriates me if the use ‘improving the optimum’ or claim something is optimal without the proof, for example ‘this is the optimal configuration of a production system’ after a comparison of 2–3 different variants.

GenEcon ,

Thats only Chinas and Russias stance. Unfortunately the UN has no power at all.

GenEcon ,

I just checked: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation

Since the end of the cold war (1991), only China, Russia and Norway annexed territory. Norway’s annexed parts didn’t belong to any other state, though. And you can debate if Israel is currently annexing the Gaza strip, but on paper it was Israeli already.

So yes, its Russias and Chinas stance.

GenEcon ,

I am confused… its a banned book in germany.

GenEcon ,

Actually its quiet difficult to get Rum or Tobacco as an ordinary Cuban. Ive talked to a few Cubans that told me that they haven’t had a Mojito – the Cuban signature drink – in years, because there is no carbonated water.

So it seems like their poverty is actually helping their health.

GenEcon ,

Its mainly touchscreen due to two reasons: 1. Touchscreens are significantly cheaper than analog controls. 2. Touchscreens support the ‘publish now, debug later’ approach of Tesla and a lot of Chinese car manufacturers.

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