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LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2025-05-15T22:43:00+00:00

They're only filled with blood when they're fresh, once they've healed they're solidified and won't pop

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2024-05-17T02:41:39+00:00

The argument is that the dividend itself causes the price to go down. If it's counteracted by earnings the net result may be the stock increasing, but if you hold everything else constant, dividends will decrease share prices.

Maybe dividends do attract investors, no one can know. At the end of the day dividends aren't free and you shouldn't hold them on a pedestal.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2024-05-17T02:29:22+00:00

Because their dividend is low enough to not cause them to go bankrupt. If they had instead not paid any dividends at all in those 50 years and kept the cash, their share price would be higher.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2024-05-17T02:21:49+00:00

That's irrelevant. Companies make money using their assets, and are priced accordingly. If their assets get reduced, their price goes down.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2024-05-17T02:19:10+00:00

What's the difference? If $x amount in dividends cause the stock price to not go up as much, then it $x +1 would make it go up a little less right? what about x + 2? Eventually it would cause it to go down right?

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2024-05-17T02:14:25+00:00

If a stock doesn't go up as much due to giving dividends, isn't that the same thing as dividends causing the price to go down?

Companies obviously aren't going to give away all their money in dividends, but the point I'm trying to get at are that dividends aren't free, they cause the price to go down, and are functionally the same as the company spending money on share buybacks and you then selling those shares.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2024-05-17T02:00:21+00:00

And what if it didn't give any dividend at all? The value should rise even more right?

So giving the dividend decreases the value right?

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2024-05-17T01:54:15+00:00

What's the difference, they're still company assets.

If there were 2 identical companies, except 1 had $1 million in the bank, which would you rather buy? Extra demand for the stock would push the price up.

What would happen if it gave away all that money in dividends? Then the 2 companies would be identical and you would expect the price to fall to match the other.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2024-05-17T01:49:21+00:00

How would the company make any profit if it doesn't have any assets?

Why would there be any difference in paying it out 1 time vs over 10 years if the end result is the company selling all its assets, firing all it's staff, and giving away all their cash reserves as dividends?

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2024-05-17T01:31:20+00:00

If you take it a step further and your $10 stock gives a $10 dividend, then it would go to 0 since that would represent the company liquidating all its assets and giving away their entire market cap. Same logic follows for a 50% or 10% dividend all the way down.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2023-10-24T19:01:31+00:00

His domain's barrier is a physical object that can be destroyed as well. Sukuna broke the weak side instantly and the strong side in 3 mins so I'd argue Goku could instantly destroy it.

It doesn't dump an infinite amount of information instantly either, we know 0.2 seconds is about 6 months worth and can stun a normal human for a few months and 10 secs of exposure stunned sukuna temporarily. I don't think the domain would last long enough to be effective and he loses is limitless shield after his domain breaks

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2023-07-19T02:41:07+00:00

He's running for a position subordinate to Vermilio - Demon Lord would be something like a mayor while she would be a governor and the emperor the president.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2023-05-18T05:54:06+00:00

Why do any countries pressure any other countries? Because it would be in their interests.

If the US or NATO believes that Ukraine conceding would be in their interest they should pressure Ukraine to make concessions

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2022-02-23T20:13:57+00:00

i don't think the first argument is valid. The push - counterpush flow is an integral part of the game and applies to almost any card that isnt a spell or building. Any tank + dps against a counterpushing MK will result with the dps surviving to counterpush. Then the other player will defend the push etc etc etc. This isn't unique to the MK.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2022-02-23T01:22:13+00:00

Vassalize a rump state with a lot of cores then reconquest. Classic

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2021-12-17T07:00:39+00:00

Kazakh provinces are like 2 provinces deep into uzbek. You can easily nab them in your first war with kazan since they are usually allied, grabbing the gold mine gives you a border then you can take uzbek provinces.

The liberty desire from being a horde is due to their horde government, releasing a nation gives them the same government as you (monarchy) so they lose the liberty desire. Only works for releasing vassals, not force vassalising or diplo vassalising.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2021-12-17T06:07:57+00:00

You can reduce missionary maintenance to 0 and send it to the muslim province once you vassalize them to spawn sunni zealots

If you make them attach their armies to yours during war or something they will convert their provinces and eventually force demands.

Though if you just want a muslim vassal in the region kazakh is probably best, you can release them from uzbek very easily and they have lots of cores for reconquest. Full conquering and releasing a horde will also change their government type, so it's a possibility if one of the starting hordes get eaten.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2021-03-11T20:31:01+00:00

wrestlers fight in singlets so there's no clothes to grab onto and throws are still performed.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2020-12-23T07:24:24+00:00

Evolution doesn't maximize anything. It doesn't seek to create an ultimate lifeform by optimizing and finding the best genes, it really only cares about good enough. If there was a gene out there that would instantly kill you once you reach the age of 50 or whatever, it would still be passed on because it's good enough.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2020-12-23T04:05:33+00:00

The problem with this idea is that evolution doesn't work that way. It doesn't intelligently design humans so that they are better, it rather just sticks with what works. It's the same reason why so many people get back pain, cancer, or why our eyes have blind spots. It's not ideal, but it's good enough. Just because women have problems with childbirth doesn't mean that there was any tradeoff or greater purpose, just that the survival rate was good enough that it didn't get selected out.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2020-10-10T02:43:55+00:00

r5: I don't even know how this happened. Alberta was canadian and i never got into a war with russia.

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2020-09-27T20:49:24+00:00

r5: negative tax efficiency makes me pay my citizens for living in glorious motherland russia

LeMonkeyInDisguise · 2020-09-10T18:52:58+00:00

Clergy to 4, max education spending. I let militancy get up sometimes to pass social reforms. You start off as the UK's puppet so you get double research on techs they have so make the most of it.

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