This isn’t even a far-fetched title on a forum for dividend people Foreign serial acquirers are downright actual “serial criminals” when they have invested all their money for decades into inorganic growth and investors have not received their pay in the form of dividends
For the first time since the army, I’m facing a jump of several months away from working life / studies, as it’s now my turn to go on parental leave to care for our 10-month-old daughter.
So, for a while, you won’t see me on inderesTV, but I’ll at least be monitoring the forum as much as other commitments allow. Now, however, the primary focus is to enjoy this unique moment and be as present as possible to support my daughter’s growth and development.
Rewarding moments, the best of life.
For the undersigned, the company’s development was 10 years behind schedule. In that situation, there wasn’t much else to do but continue. The children and I lost a lot that can never be gotten back.
Once, in a university course, a person who had founded, grown, and sold several companies began their presentation with the words “In Finland, there is only one person more hated than a serial killer, and that is a serial entrepreneur.” Next came text about the complications caused by Finnish legislation in the field of entrepreneurship. I felt great sympathy and concluded that salaried employment was my calling. Still on that path.
P.S. In that course, I began to greatly appreciate those who become entrepreneurs, and I still feel great respect for them. It requires grit, faith, and perseverance. If someone founds a company and gets rich from it, that’s a wonderful thing. Knowing the taxation, an entrepreneur is only the fourth to benefit from the company’s success, after the tax authorities, employees, and insurance salespeople.
An idea was born at lunch, the sensibility of which I’m not so sure about, but let’s try swarm intelligence. There are such smart people here that it will surely become clear if there’s any sense in the idea.
Finns should stay in working life longer. Then, when retirement age comes, it would be economically desirable to be able to stay at home for as long as possible, and only go to an institution when there is no other option.
There is quite a lot of researched information on the impact of physical and mental condition on the functional capacity of the elderly. I wonder if it would be sensible for the municipality to pay for a physiotherapist’s visit to an elderly person’s home once a month. While getting help for minor aches and pains, the physiotherapist’s role would be to create a program for maintaining and improving condition and to monitor the client’s development. The experiment could be started with those aged 65-70.
12 visits a year cost money, but could this way delay institutionalization by, for example, two years? Could a physiotherapist, with a little extra training, identify symptoms where early referral to a doctor would help? For lonely seniors, a monthly visit might also become the highlight of the month.
There are more physiotherapists than needed, and too few practical nurses. A calculation scribbled on the back of a virtual cigarette packet would at least support some kind of experiment.
I still believe that tangible debt-free assets will hold their value better in the future than in recent years. In my opinion, there will be a shift where, by buying a share, one truly owns more than just promises, and preferably owns debt-free, even if earnings/revenue are sluggish. And this is not intended as a recommendation to anyone for any specific debt-free company that owns assets.
The above, lightly expressed, implies a downturn for others, but you disagree with that, and a few usernames are scoffing again with the silent approval of the moderators.
I grant complete freedom to opposing opinions, and I hope it goes well.
Some forum readers have probably followed the journey of the interesting visitor 3I/Atlas in our neighborhood, also known as the solar system. This is a comet that has arrived from outside the solar system – or at least is assumed to be so, although other opinions have surprisingly been found online.
The comet was first observed in July and has been followed relentlessly ever since, and the longer it has been followed, the stranger it has begun to appear. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who studied, among others, the Oumuamua comet that visited in 2017, has listed 10 peculiar characteristics of the comet, which perhaps alone are not quite so strange, but when all of them are found in the same object, its interest rises to – I would say – astronomical proportions. I list Loeb’s points below:
Its retrograde trajectory is aligned to within 5 degrees with the ecliptic plane of the planets around the Sun, with a likelihood of 0.2% (see here).
During July and August 2025, it displayed a sunward jet (anti-tail) that is not an optical illusion from geometric perspective, unlike familiar comets (see here).
Its nucleus is about a million times more massive than 1I/`Oumuamua and a thousand times more massive than 2I/Borisov, while moving faster than both, altogether with a likelihood of less than 0.1% (see here and here).
Its arrival time was fine-tuned to bring it within tens of millions of kilometers from Mars, Venus and Jupiter and be unobservable from Earth at perihelion, with a likelihood of 0.005% (see here).
Its gas plume contains much more nickel than iron (as found in industrially-produced nickel alloys) and a nickel to cyanide ratio that is orders of magnitude larger than that of all known comets, including 2I/Borisov, with a likelihood below 1% (see here).
Its gas plume contains only 4% water by mass, a primary constituent of familiar comets (see here).
It shows extreme negative polarization, unprecedented for all known comets, including 2I/Borisov, with a likelihood below 1% (see here).
It arrived from a direction coincident with the radio “Wow! Signal” to within 9 degrees, with a likelihood of 0.6% (see here).
Near perihelion, it brightened faster than any known comet and was bluer than the Sun (see here).
Point 9 is very interesting. Comets naturally heat up when they approach the Sun. The light they emit is on the red spectrum, as they are cooler than the Sun. According to current physics, the 3i/Atlas comet should be approximately 20 times cooler than the Sun’s surface (approx. 5800 K) and its spectrum clearly red. However, according to observations, the light emitted by the comet is on the blue spectrum, indicating that its surface temperature may be hotter than the Sun’s surface.
And last but perhaps most interestingly. 3i/Atlas has been observed to accelerate in a way that gravity does not explain. Naturally, the acceleration could be explained by the fact that at least 15% of its mass has evaporated from the comet as a gas jet, which has propelled the comet.
If these anomalies are all associated with a natural comet, then the non-gravitational acceleration of 3I/ATLAS must have resulted from it losing at least 15% of its mass, as I calculated here. This should have resulted in a massive debris cloud around 3I/ATLAS, carrying over 5 billion tons of gas. It would be impossible to miss this massive cloud in upcoming observations during November and December, as 3I/ATLAS comes closest to Earth on December 19, 2025.
Now it will be interesting to await further information on what we will see of the comet’s nature after its solar orbit.
More lightly, what do you think could explain the non-gravitational acceleration, if it’s not the natural evaporation of the comet’s mass? I think it’s most likely this.
I’ve been following. Sometimes earlier this year, while staying up in the wee hours of the night, I read predictions for 2025 to pass the time. It was predicted that in the second half of the year, our understanding of the universe would change because we would finally get evidence of extraterrestrial life. Now it’s been fun to read all sorts of speculations about this comet. No, I haven’t tried on a tinfoil hat.
For the evening, I installed Fooocus (AI image generator) on my own machine, and unlike some previous experiments, its installation went quite straightforwardly until it was working. Here’s the AI’s view on the prompt “helsinki”
It’s nice that the coffee room sometimes features different physics/astronomy topics; I haven’t ‘had the chance’ to follow the news flow on the subject for a long time - even though the topic is extremely interesting.
Don’t these together sound a bit like the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy? A bit like I happen to be ???cm tall, my car’s license plate number is ???-???, once I saw one celebrity on the street and the very next day another celebrity - individually these are not so strange, but the probability that everything aligns like this is perhaps 0.0001%.
Well, in the name of truth, it must be stated that the comet 3i/Atlas’s name comes from two things:
3i = Third interstellar object observed
Atlas = the telescope that discovered the comet
So this is sample number three, meaning the basis for comparison is not very large. Of course, our understanding of the composition and structure of space objects is vastly greater than what these three objects have taught us. Based on everything known about space, 3i/Atlas is an extremely peculiar object, and the aforementioned 10 points are things that have come as a particularly great surprise to researchers.
Perhaps the most convincing thing about this is that behind these observations is a distinguished scientist, not some tinfoil hat guy posting on YouTube. No one can factually dispute the anomalies raised by Avi Loeb. Interpretations of them are, of course, abundant on the internet.
Lastly, even if this turns out to be a completely natural object, it will rewrite entire chapters of astrophysics, and hundreds or thousands of scientific papers will surely be written about it in the coming years. It is undeniably the most significant astrophysical phenomenon of this century so far.
Are there people here who really enjoy watching videos about the wonders of space from YouTube (or elsewhere)? If you happen to come across any good videos that make you think about the bigger picture, feel free to share the link.
I’m watching this right now:
It’s somehow calming and nice to watch in the evening.
Space fascinates me, I joined URSA as a member so I can get the Tähdet ja Avaruus magazine delivered to my home.
I must say that the magazine is an exceptionally well-made, high-quality, and interesting publication. I recommend those interested in the field to join; for a small amount of money, you get interesting reading material just often enough.
(It’s not always fun to read financial articles, sometimes it’s good to have something completely different. )
Perhaps the greatest excitement doesn’t last very long, as few want to wake up at night to look at planets and stars, and once you’ve seen them, then… However, at the end of December, the finest constellation, Orion, is often sought with the naked eye, though with binoculars, you can see it even better..
Now that we’re talking about space, I’ll put Lemmino’s new video here. An excellent and humorously told two-and-a-half-hour compilation of interstellar messages sent into space by humans over the decades. I recommend the channel anyway.