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  • Ich muss gestehen, dass ich mich nicht wirklich mit der Materie auskenne, und lasse mich deswegen gerne eines besseren belehren, aber ich stehe dem ganzen sehr negativ gegenüber.

    Letztlich kann FlixTrain hier doch einfach Rosinenpickerei betreiben und sich nur die besten und profitablen Strecken und Zeitslots heraussuchen. Falls sich eine Fahrt als unprofitable heraus stellt, bietet man sie nicht mehr an. Das kann die Bahn nicht, denn sie muss gesellschaftlichen und politischen Zielen folgen.

    Wenn der Lokführer der DB vorher eine andere unprofitable Stecke bedienen muss, kann es dadurch zu Dominoeffekten kommen. Ein weiteres Problem das es für FlixTrain nicht gibt.

    Und ich bin mir 100%ig sicher, dass wenn FlixTrain als Unternehmen doch auf die Nase fliegen sollte, dann werden sie sofort Wettbewerbsverzerrung schreien und entweder Schadensersatz verlangen oder, dass die Bahn ihren Service verschlechtert.




  • When watching the machete order, did you skip episode 1 like suggested here? Because if yes, then watching it this way and then adding the sequels seems like a contradiction to me. Episode 1 may be a failure in execution, but the core concept imo is solid. Can’t say the same about the sequels, even if they look prettier (to the point of doing stupid scenes just for the visuals).


  • Murderbot: Loved the books, not quite sold on the series yet. The lead being male didn’t take me out as much as i expected (murderbot’s gender is never mentioned in the books and i always imagined it female). My biggest gripe is how short the episodes are, especially when they release weekly (after getting 2 in the first week). For anyone considering it i would probably recommend to just wait until the season is done and then watch it all at once. I planned to do that after the first two, but ended up watching the third this week aswell. Episode 3 is only 23min long opening credits included, for which you can substract another 1.5min or so. The first book is relatively short with 144 pages (according to goodreads), but if that is not enough for a proper season, then they should have maybe just combined the first two?

    The Last of Us: Good, but not great. Maybe having the comparison to absolutely outstanding shows like Severence, the Pitt or Andor this year makes it feel weaker.

    Love, Death & Robots: Very weak season. Opening it with what is basically just a Red Hot Chili Pepper music video kind of set the tone as to what quality to expect from it.



  • They overinvested funds into stuff they didn’t need (disney buying lucasarts and such)

    I do agree that they overspend on a lot of things, but in my book buying Lucas Arts for $4b was a steal. I think they mostly got it for so cheap because George Lucas wanted to be done with it. Even with the way misshandeld it (bar some highlights like Andor), this was most certainly a good investment.

    I mean the sequels were bad and yet those alone made more than $4b at the boxoffice (yes I know that isn’t profit, but just to give some perspective). And star wars is also a powerhouse in terms of merchandise sales, think of the amount of baby Yoda toys being sold.


  • Considering her future job as queen will involve a lot of diplomatic and ceremonial functions it does kind of make sense to me that you’d want her to gain some international experience.

    Also on a personal level i’d imagine it is much easier to have some resemblance of a private life in a foreign country, especially at a prestigious institution where plenty of others share notable backgrounds, compared to going to a local university where everyone knows who you are. In a small country like Belgium you probably don’t even have much choices as to which university even offers a good program in your chosen field.

    Edit:

    Elisabeth initially studied at St John Berchmans College in Marollen, Brussels from September 2004 until August 2018. This marked a significant change in Belgian royal tradition, being the first time that a future Belgian monarch’s education has begun in Dutch

    In May 2020, the Belgian Royal Court announced that Elisabeth would undertake military training. On 31 August 2020, Elisabeth entered the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, studying social and military sciences

    - wikipedia

    Really seems like the worst candidate to make this accuse against



  • That depends on whether you believe that a ban leads to an overall reduction of such problematic imbalances, rather than just shifting shifting the whole industry into illegal markets that are unregulated and hidden, where they might actually get amplified. By banning it you are also giving up your opportunity to regulate.

    Prostitution presents a similar dilemma, which countries handle in various ways. Some ban it completely, others like sweden have the “nordic/swedish” model where only the buyer gets penalized, and in some contries like Germany it is legal (either with or without additional regulations in place). Based on a brief search i think it’s still up for debate whether the nordic model has the desired effects, with the opaqure nature of illegal markets making it hard to properly study the subject.


  • Another aspect of why it often is better is that it allows them to avoid paying taxes on sales and already accumulated profits, which is desirable because of the compound interest effect.

    I think if using something as collateral for a loan would create a taxable event and eliminate this advantage, then they would care a lot less about the arbitrage play between interest rates and average long term stock returns.





  • I think the Saw parts fit in decently. It adds another flavor of resistance to the mix.

    We get the rebellion, which is an organized military like effort, we get luthen who as a spy master pulls strings in the shadows, Mon mothma straddling the line between being in a privileged public position and helping the rebellion, on ghorman we get a more amateurish resistance, Cassian is more of an individualist who finds his own path between the different factions, and with Saw we get a guerrilla like extremist faction






  • I think there should be more variety in how shows are released and it should be based on what the creators feel like suits them best.

    Something like Severance definitely benefits from the weekly release to give everyone time to speculate and keep up the suspense for longer.

    With others it’s nice to just get the full season at once. I wouldn’t even say “bad” shows, but shows that are skewe more towards pure entertainment, action and mindless distraction (which do have their purpose). Something like say Reacher would fit that category imo

    Andor struck an interesting middle ground imo by releasing 3 episode blocks at a time. For me that worked great. It gave us a similar amount of content like a long movie per week, which considering the quality was basically film level was the right balance between giving enough to feel like it was a full load of content, but not so much that you cant keep up and appreciate it.






















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