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Help someone with zero financial education start from nothing

You should only invest in things you understand!

When you buy a stock you don't just give said company your money. You actually own a piece of that company. When said company has more money than it needs it could pay out dividends to its shareholders. And then you get your percentage of that total dividend.

How often these payments happen depends on the company and if there is a crisis they will stop completely.

ETFs are basically groupings of things. EG there are ETFs that follow the MSCI World, but theoretically there could be an ETF for "Italian companies that sell green Keyboards" or any other rule/grouping you could think of.

If you buy ETF you buy a share of said ETF. So not any stocks of random companies. The ETF then uses your invested money to invest according to what it specified in its description. When those Investments gain money your share gains value, when they fail your share loses money.

There are 2 types of ETFs: accumulating & distributing. They distinguish what happens with dividends. (& have other implications e.g. with taxes)

I think if you buy less then 1 share you dont actually own a part of the company. Someone owns the share of which you bought the part of and that someone then has to give you your part of the dividend they received from the company.

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Save The Planet

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I think the higher demand for AC is predictable as well, no? Climate change has been known to be a thing for a while now... And every home could have solar to offset the local powersurges (which would lead to problems as well, but what I am trying to say is: its not our fault that the state has not prepared)

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How are you doing?

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But that Ignorance is how boomers got us into this mess, no? And ignoring issues because you can't do anything about them is what the elites want you to do, no?

Yes I am doing the same currently, but I feel like I lost to the system. I still have a bit of hope that something will change soon, but what if it doesn't? And will it change without me? Every other thing I have to do myself or it just won't happen, why would politics be different?

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Please use AI

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The thing with is: if you have passion for something you want to let others experience these feelings as well. And i dont need to know someone to tell them about my passion projects and they only need the tiniest of positive response for me to enjoy helping them... I hope you have something you are passionate about to understanding what i am trying to convey. The crucial part is the "i dont need to know someone well to enjoy helping them" and i know for a fact that a huuuge percentage of people share that mindset. Sooo:

I know there is someone in your life that would love to share their passion for cooking with you!

And btw: suggesting there is someone in your vicinity to help you with your problem leads to them masking around for help leads to the person broadening their circle which makes it evermore likely to find someone which actually wants to help.

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Dann können aber witzige Kreis Abhängigkeiten entstehen. Also wenn deine nicht rein kommt, wählst du für ne andere die dadurch rein kommt. Wenn jetzt wer anderes für deine zweitwahl gewählt hat und die ja auch ohne deine zweit Stimme es nicht geschafft hätte, zählt dann seine erst oder zweit stimme

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Pirates ask EU Commission to look into killing of video games

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Peer2peer connections are very difficult. Mainly because clients are behind a NAT which allows only connections from inside to outside. So when a client wants to connect to another client one connection comes from outside and is blocked. There is a "bug" called NAT holepunching to still connect but that's not a trivial task and doesn't work on all setups. I recently tried out webRTC for a multiplayer game but I still don't know what to do with people where that connection can't be established. SteamAPI has a P2P feature as well, and when they can't establish a p2p connection they just silently route the packets over their servers.