kossa

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, I would expect that to be true, as in “where a McDonalds opens up, there’s less demand for local family owned restaurants”, but I would not take the rate of self employment as proof.

  In developed countries exist more laws against pretended self-employment and more small businesses incorporate, thus lowering those numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One aspect I haven’t read about: competitive pressure and economics of scale.

  So, imagine two carpenters: they both produce one chair a day. They sell it and can sustain their families with that. Now the one carpenter works a little overtime and uses sharper tools: he’s able to produce two chairs a day. He still needs only to sustain his family, so he could sell the chairs at 50% discount. But he goes for 75% of its original price. Still cheaper, he has more.

  Everybody wants to buy those chairs now: they’re the same, but one is way cheaper. The other carpenter loses business, he can’t sustain his family anymore, because he needs to sell one chair a day at least. To keep up, his business needs to grow now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only that this swap economy, where people had to bring cows and tables to the market and trade those for 200 breads is a myth. That never existed. Modern anthropology says that trade was always measured in debt. Trade outside of your local community was handled via valuable ores, or other small valuable stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, with my banking login the scammer could look at my balance. To withdraw they would need a TAN as well and therefore my banking card. Good luck getting hold of that with malware ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Totally me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Strange, never heard it with French. I only know it as “Polnischer Abgang” 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Traditional vaccines work, because your immune cells learn about the “key” they need, to open up the virus and destroy it.

  mRNA is basically just shipping the “keyhole” instead of the whole virus organism for your body to learn the pattern. So no crazy “gene therapy”. It is just more precise.

  Like, back in the day, people used maps to navigate. Now you use crazy GPS space stuff to do the same. Just better technology for the same end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Along with unpausable cutscenes. My kid will cry exactly during your 10 minute cutscene, and I want to know the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My 4yo always threatens “I won’t invite you to my birthday party!” I always respond with “Yes, thank you, please don’t.” Which is confusing, because apparently it is the go-to threat in daycare to force ohther children to do something 😅. Then I am immediately invited again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bonus points for finally settling for one of the options, only to throw a tantrum afterwards, that the other option was the preferred one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  5 Gang unite ✊

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cuppa Jill⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OG German nickname is Gänsewein - the goose’s wine.