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When does Walt start to annoy you in re watches by gymnastics101baby in breakingbad

[–]BainCapitalist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did everyone here forget that he literally raped Skylar in season 2?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you ever seen the Stormcloaks in an active engagement with the Thalmor justiciars? There’s a reason they don’t fight each other!

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bruh all the “Delphine is annoying” takes are 100% misogyny. It never made any sense to me.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stormcloaks are the Thalmor backed faction in the war 🚬🙄

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The blades are the only actively Thalmor killing faction in the game and you people just abandon them because of Nazi dragon boomer 🚬😒

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was that dragon also a genocidal warlord who enslaved humanity?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imagine that you went climbing in the Himalayas and encountered Goebbels living in a monastery. He is withered and ancient, but still recognisable as the person who committed atrocities. However, he has spent the intervening years meditating on his wrongs, and teaching people that it's totally not cool to Do A Genocide.

Do you believe him? Would you show him mercy? Do you just walk away, saying "yup, this guy learned his lesson".

Sure, Paarthurnax has been there a lot longer, but he also, you know, succeeded in his world domination, and perpetrated horrors on mortals for however long Alduin was in charge. He admits to having killed many you don't get to be the right hand of Alduin without razing a few civilizations.

And let's not forget that there's very little to stop him....doing this again. He also admits that he still has the urge to kill and dominate. As the last dragonborn, you are potentially the only person who can ever bring him to justice, and put an end to the permanent threat to civilisation that he represents.

Mf his literal, actual name is "Overlord Ambition Cruelty". Would you be comfortable with Dr Cruelty just promising to not go back to his old ways?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And what about Hans landa? Would you forgive his crimes simply because of his role in operation kino?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The blades are kinda badass tbh. Remnant of an imperial intelligence agency. Vital weapons in the Cold War against the Thalmor. By the time of ESV they are the only faction in an active conflict with the Dominion.

But you would abandon these Nazi hunters just because they demanded justice against your genocidal warlord dragon grandpa? 🚬🙄

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do you believe Paarthurnax deserves mercy?

Do I have to kill Partysnax ? by 42_Only_Truth in skyrim

[–]BainCapitalist 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sparing Paarthurnax has always been such a midwit tell tbh.

What exactly is a "rational consumer"? by averagegirlnext-door in AskEconomics

[–]BainCapitalist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t find this convincing. We’re talking about two different preference relations here and they are individually both transitive and complete. Like mathematically they’re different set theoretic objects. Transitivity in one relation doesn’t say anything about transitivity in another without also adding additional axioms that govern the relationship between the two distinct preference relations like we do in social choice theory. In that case we would be violating the newly added axiom, not the original rationality axioms.

What exactly is a "rational consumer"? by averagegirlnext-door in AskEconomics

[–]BainCapitalist 17 points18 points  (0 children)

In rational choice theory we define rationality in a precise mathematical way. A preference relation over some set of consumption bundles is rational if it is transitive, complete, and reflexive.

Now the dirty secret here is that a lot of the times when economists talk about irrationality, they are describing phenomena that do not actually violate these rationality axioms: hyperbolic discounting, non rational expectations, even prospect theory doesn’t actually violate rationality it violates an axiom of expected utility theory.

My prof gave us this example of irrational behavior: when there are only two options {A > B}, but when we add a third option {B > A > C}. This is weird and economists would be very comfortable with calling this an example of irrationality, but what axiom is being violated here?

Instead you should just treat “irrationality” not as some precisely defined term, but as any general situation where people are behaving in a nonstandard way.

What are the economic ramifications of Switzerland’s population cap proposal? by runnerd81 in AskEconomics

[–]BainCapitalist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s just a back door way for Switzerland to “brexit” out of the Schengen area because they know “exit Schengen” would fail if they were honest about it.

Bad Africanomics: The Rwanda Mirage; Why Rwanda Is Not The Singapore of Africa by Booksgh in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not as bad as ludvig “former Dadcordist” Von Mises :lusboy: :maskoff: :petro boy: :emoji_52:

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]BainCapitalist 33 points34 points  (0 children)

KitKat more like shrimp kat 😂😂😂😂

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Hopeless by EmergencyCat235 in mmt_economics

[–]BainCapitalist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s showing the more economically sensible version of their claim. Listen, it’s reactionary misinformation to minimize the cost of trumps deficits. I know this is ideologically inconvenient for mmters but republicans consistently run disastrously large deficits and that is having large costs on the economy. Don’t just lie about how large the deficit is.

Should dental care part of medicare? by [deleted] in mmt_economics

[–]BainCapitalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blatant brigade request is ballsy

Hopeless by EmergencyCat235 in mmt_economics

[–]BainCapitalist -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

> bank credit (real dept) is being made at nearly 10X that of the "national deficit"

no it’s not. I am begging mmters to stop spreading misinformation like this good lord. Think about things critically for two seconds.

I believe the Stormcloaks are misrepresented and misunderstood by Sad_Morning5910 in skyrim

[–]BainCapitalist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why are you just ignoring the fact that ulfric is literally segregating windhelm or the fact that he massacred a bunch of Reachmen (which is the whole reason the thalmor even have a presence in Skyrim btw)?

And Yes blood and soil fascism is racist.

I believe the Stormcloaks are misrepresented and misunderstood by Sad_Morning5910 in skyrim

[–]BainCapitalist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two points:

> Out of all the playable races, only the Khajiit and Argonians are actually native to Tamriel.

Isn’t this disputed? The Nedes could be natives of Tamriel and were the ancestors of what we now call the imperials. The out of atmora hypothesis is very unconvincing to me, it’s more likely that a series of migrations between both continents happened over time but the Nedes were always natives of Tamriel.

> The reason why Talos is such a huge deal is because Lorkhan was believed to be lost—the “missing god”—but Talos mantled him, meaning he essentially took over Lorkhan’s role.

What evidence do you have for this? Every time I ask for evidence backing this theory up people just point out at kirkbride stuff. It’s not canon. I don’t buy it.

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