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Calling it, Sol is a Sith. He was Qimirs master, then Qimir somehow left (yes: somehow, Qimir left!) and Sol has been trying to convert another Padawan to his cause ever since.

Now that would be a hell of a twist! Qimir is clearly not the master. He still feels a lot weaker than what I expect a full on Sith Master to be like. Also, he says that he wants a pupil instead of an apprentice. I expect the actual Sith Master to be revealed at the end. It would be really cool if it was Sol himself.

Also, see how Qimir killed all Jedi that saw his face but didn't really run behind Sol much? I dunno...

But we’re just militant right?

Those EYYVIL hippies! Telling us not to commit murder??? TELLING US NOT TO DRINK COW TITTY JUICE??? HOW DARE THEYYYY

I’m a scientist, not an economist

I'm neither lmao. We just had a macroecon credit in my degree program, which is where I learnt about this.

Halp!

Now onto this... You're kinda right but kinda wrong in that fractional reserve banking "creates money". Here's a way to think about putting your money in a bank. By opening a bank account, you are not putting your money in a vault. You are loaning it to the bank. The bank then loans it out to another person, who then "loans" it to another bank. Hence, fractional reserve banking is a natural side effect of this logic. What would happen if we had a 100% fractional reserve? Well, the bank wouldn't be able to loan your money to anyone then. It would essentially become a vault.

Therefore, fractional reserve banking is necessary to make loaning money possible. Loaning money is necessary for obvious reasons.

Now to the "creating money" part. Sure, at the macro scale, you get a lot of virtual money in the economy. At the micro level though, individual banks aren't creating money. They still have to get the money that they've lent out back. If they fail to do so, they're going to go bankrupt. Banks would never go bankrupt if they could print money on a micro scale, right?

Okay, so now let's zoom out back at the macro scale. Now, you can accelerate or decelerate the economy by controlling the ratio of money that is in circulation vs money that is out of circulation. It's simple- more money in economy = more demand = more profits = more investments in increasing supply to be competitive = more work done. If this demand however drops, profits drop, and increase in supply drops. This is very bad as no work will be done. However, if demand increases too much for essential goods (like food, housing, etc.), it is bad as it can cause problems for people till the supply can catch up. The economy is going too fast in such cases.

Now, you can slow the economy down by many ways- by increasing interest rates, increases the fractional reserve and so on. This way, less people are going to borrow (you just reduced demand by this simple technique). You now reduced demand in your economy and slowed it down. The opposite can be done to speed the economy up.

Choosing to wear my favourite color to school isn't "brand indoctrination". It is called being a free individual. If parents can refuse to buy their kids non essential, unaffordable electronics they can refuse to buy them fast fashion branded clothing. The solution to capitalism being shit isn't simply eliminating choice.

I am not Swedish, but I would like to join you in the procedure of vomiting at the idea.

Nothing like making the masses complacent since childhood by controlling nonessential fashion choices.

Thank you for the post. The mental gymnastics that people go through to justify murdering these animals is crazy

Awww did we hurt your feelings?

How would a point like cat be one dimensional? It would be zero dimensional. A one dimensional cat would be a line.

Animals (cows in this case) feel pain, fear, grief and so on. Plants don't. We can survive just fine without murdering millions of sentient animals.

Killing dogs and eating their meat is animal abuse. Doing the same to cows isn't. Quite hypocritical if you ask me.

It's a little more complicated than that. Without fractional reserve banking, the economy would be more difficult to control. I would recommend a quick macroecon video or something.

I myself took quite a while to really understand why this was legal even during my macroecon credit. It actually makes sense when you think about it.

Awww so cute! Now lemme murder this beautiful creature so that I can enjoy a good steak for myself! In no storybook would I ever be considered the villain! /s

Just made coffee using freshly ground beans for the first time (was using pre ground coffee powder this whole time). Goddayum is it like having something else entirely!!! It's so sooo smooth and butter-ey?

This is going to make my mornings a lot more special now!