StopJoiningWars
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- Comment on Sorrows you could not comprehend 5 days ago:
Sounds like the U.S.
- Comment on 'Enough Is Enough': Indian Doctors Stage Nationwide Strike After Rape, Murder of Trainee 4 weeks ago:
Compassion is synonym with inaction. So many people are “compassionate”, but the ones who really solve all this are the people in the judicial system who put those people behind bars.
I understand your point, but some of these (the 11 year old notwithstanding) have no coming back. Compassion now will just allow them to hurt someone else later.
- Comment on 'Enough Is Enough': Indian Doctors Stage Nationwide Strike After Rape, Murder of Trainee 4 weeks ago:
Sad? Sadness won’t change anything. Be angry and put those monsters on trial, maybe even execute them. There’s no coming back from some of the shit people do in India.
- Comment on Get High Like Planes 4 weeks ago:
It’s just having a good time
- Comment on Anon sets a trap 5 weeks ago:
If they would be working for me there is a clear hierarchy. Being shitty to them on top of that is just cruel.
Your words, not mine.
- Comment on Anon goes to the gym 5 weeks ago:
You’re just telling them to go die and not take precautions.
- Comment on Anon sets a trap 5 weeks ago:
No, from your words alone I can tell you’re in a position where you have people under you, and you believe they should “know their place”.
Propagating what you’re claiming you experienced yourself is a surefire way to prove you are acting haughty and any of your “points” should be discarded outright.
- Comment on Anon sets a trap 5 weeks ago:
Oh but you are being shitty by equating a hierarchy to superiority.
Check your privilege, cunt.
- Comment on Anon sets a trap 5 weeks ago:
I can’t tell which would be worse,
You trying to say me saying everyone should be considered equal is invalid because you think I’ve never worked a service job.
Or you attempting to say I am below you for having worked them.
Either way, you’re a cunt, so dearly fuck right off.
- Comment on Anon sets a trap 5 weeks ago:
From a moral standpoint maybe, but not an absolutist one.
- Comment on Anon sets a trap 5 weeks ago:
There’s no such thing as “below” someone. All people are equal.
- Comment on Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine 2000 vs 2024 5 weeks ago:
And he looked better in the first one.
- Comment on Anon likes hobomaxxing 1 month ago:
what -maxxing?!
- Comment on Quite a poor performance imo, lower than expected 1 month ago:
Gotta agree with that.
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 1 month ago:
The “economy” will exist whether it’s a capitalist system or something else. Blaming the system is a stupid take when it’s the actors within it causing the issues you complain about.
It’s like blaming gravity.
- Comment on Quite a poor performance imo, lower than expected 1 month ago:
To be fair, people call chess a sport, and then there’s e-sports. Neither fit with the definition of physical exertion.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 1 month ago:
This is what you claim to have done: “a joke about how bad the state of the academy is in promoting neoliberal economics”
And this is what you actually said: “Economics is not real bro”
I shouldn’t need to spell it out any further than that.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 1 month ago:
Learning from mistakes is an improvement. That you’re mad about it doesn’t make it any less true. And clearly you don’t know what straw-men are given I’ve quoted you in my reply.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 1 month ago:
We could just skip a few steps down the list and agree it all just comes down to maths.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 1 month ago:
You could literally apply this nonsensical logic to any other field that uses maths and say “it’s mathematics, not X”. This is a non-argument.
“Policy Making is Politics”, politicians implement policies, but the ones behind the scenes who actually do the math to optimise these policies and advise politicians are economists.
“Conclusion-Driven” this is just plain false. There is an overwhelming amount of empiricism in the economics field.
“Economists have predicted 8 of the last 2 Recessions” … and have learned from these mistakes. These were described and studied in detail in my course, and you then go on to say that macroeconomics do not seem to be falsifiable. Yes there are no ways to ethically have experiments in economics, but there are plenty of workarounds to not being able to experiment. Natural experiments are rare but they do exist, as well as a myriad of other data science methods to derive conclusions from real life scenarios.
Finally, “when I worked in Finance”. Finance is a single field of economics, it does not encompass all there is to learn from economics. There is also a conflation from those who study finance courses that what is taught in economics courses is similar. It isn’t. Economics is a STEM field, while finance is a business field.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 1 month ago:
Which is why it’s explained in economic courses beyond your baseless ideas that there are better models to calculate standards of living than GDP. But you’d never know that. Because you know nothing of economics.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 1 month ago:
You’re confusing the study of economics with specific economic ideologies. Clearly you’ve never studied the subject and are very much biased.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 1 month ago:
Economics gathers and interprets data like any other STEM field, don’t know what else to tell you. The stuff I learned in my degree is very much real.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 1 month ago:
Econometrics, data science, behavioural economics, game theory, micro and macroeconomics, public policy, all of it uses the scientific method and is empirical.
Could you clarify which part of economics you believe is not scientific?
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 1 month ago:
Of course a hexbear tankie would think that. Sincerely hope you’re joking, but maybe I shouldn’t hope to not get severely disappointed.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 1 month ago:
Having done a degree, yes. It’s entirely empirical.
- Comment on It's an epidemic 2 months ago:
Oh god I could have just been changing the extension all along to open this stuff in Photos?? God damnit.
- Comment on Anon bakes some cookies 2 months ago:
Thanks! I’ll look into it then. Seems perfect.
- Comment on Anon bakes some cookies 2 months ago:
Like a soup or something?
- Comment on Anon bakes some cookies 2 months ago:
What gets me in the kitchen is ingredients having different prep times, preparation steps, and containers. I have a small kitchen… It becomes pure chaos and not worth the effort very quickly.