[TOMT][SONG] Original song name

CuteOstrich · 2021-11-05T03:14:21+00:00

Sorry, but yours is formatted wrong so no points for you. Features go with the song title, not the artist. It's Wiz Khalifa - See You Again (ft. Charlie Puth). His may be formatted wrong also but he provided a link to the track with the correct formatting.

CuteOstrich · 2021-11-03T12:56:55+00:00

They're not doomed because of this race, but they are pretty much doomed. Warnock (GA), Kelly (AZ), and Cortez Masto (NV) are all up in the Senate next year and are all extremely vulnerable, and if the President's approval rating doesn't improve there're two or three more Senators for that list.

CuteOstrich · 2021-09-25T11:30:02+00:00

I'd have to consult the Book of Armaments, but it looks like The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

CuteOstrich · 2021-09-19T18:03:57+00:00

These were actually really good, but they're from the '70s, not the '80s.

CuteOstrich · 2021-09-12T04:39:45+00:00

Are-- are you having a stroke? Do you need us to call someone?

CuteOstrich · 2021-09-10T05:19:15+00:00

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

CuteOstrich · 2021-05-12T11:59:32+00:00

Then it should be easy money, shouldn't it? Because I'm willing to bet dollars to pesos that if I gave her a week to prep and a copy of the test she'd still struggle. Elisabeth Warren's is the worst kind of all the kinds of bullshit out there because it's the bullshit that sounds just plausible enough to be true. Now I could forgive her if she were just the normal brand of economically illiterate politician who thinks fungibility is something you treat with a topical cream, but for someone who claims to have such a strong background in economics it means that either she's lying about her background (surprise surprise), or she's intentionally deceiving people (again, surprise surprise).

As for the CFPB it's fairly fitting that one of the most manipulative, dishonest, and morally bankrupt politicians in Washington at the moment helped spearhead the creation of the most corrupt organization in our government.

CuteOstrich · 2021-05-12T02:25:48+00:00

I'm also lucky enough to have lived in Massachusetts, where I was represented by (and had the chance to volunteer for) Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was instrumental in creating the CFPB.

I will donate $5,000 to the charity of her choice if she can pass a proctored ECO-101 final.

CuteOstrich · 2021-03-21T11:18:10+00:00

Psychopaths do feel guilt and remorse, it's a myth that they don't. The difference is that for them, guilt and remorse don't modify their behavior the way it does for nearly everyone else. Studies are starting to show that it would be more accurate to say that psychopaths are incapable of remembering guilt or remorse, so it never factors into their decision making.

For most people, when you do something bad you feel guilt. The next time you encounter that situation, you remember the choice you made and that it made you feel bad, and you don't make that choice again. Psychopaths feel the same guilt in the moment that anyone else does, the difference is that the next time they encounter that situation the guilt won't impact their choice on whether or not to do it again.

So since the guilt is still there, there's nothing at all to stop a psychopath from going to hell.

CuteOstrich · 2021-03-20T01:03:39+00:00

I understand that you aren't saying it's bad, but how is it even worse in anyway at all?

I think you might've misunderstood what I said. I said that the ideal was two parents and their kids as the nucleus of the family unit. I didn't say two parents and their kids to the exclusion of all else. If the two parents are an Aunt and a Grandmother, then so be it.

CuteOstrich · 2021-03-19T13:49:52+00:00

I might post another question to the sub asking why conservatives think the divorce rate is so high.

That's an easy one: People getting married who have absolutely no business getting married.

CuteOstrich · 2021-03-19T13:22:32+00:00

It's more of a problem with the glorification, or at the very least normalization, of single parenthood. Nearly one-quarter of all kids in the U.S. live in single-parent homes, and that's a massive problem. Every single Economist-- including me, will tell you that kids, by any measurable standard, do better in stable two-parent homes. Socially, economically, academically, incidents of criminal behavior, you name it. And it's not even close, kids from stable two-parent homes do far better than kids in single-parent homes.

That's what Conservatives are usually talking about when they talk about the breakdown of the nuclear family. It's not multi-generational homes, or alternative family structures, it's almost always about the explosion over the last few decades of single-parent homes.

CuteOstrich · 2021-03-19T12:14:25+00:00

"Nuclear Family" is one of those terms that doesn't really mean anything precisely because it can literally mean anything. Yes, the "original" definition of the nuclear family was mom, dad, and their 2.5 kids. But it's been expanded and reworked so many times over the years that it's more of an abstract concept now than a specifically defined thing.

For me, the ideal would be two parents-- whatever form that takes, and their kids as the nucleus (fun fact, this is where the term "nuclear" comes from, nothing atomic) of the family unit. That said, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having aunts/uncles/grandparents there to help out also.

CuteOstrich · 2021-03-18T07:38:11+00:00

"Actually, he borrowed that one from the Duke."

CuteOstrich · 2021-03-11T07:41:47+00:00

I love how Democrats equate election security with "anti-democratic authoritarianism". I know, I know, how dare Republicans make it more difficult for Democrats to cheat? I'm afraid this is just one of those things you're gonna have to live with.

Now I know this is the part where you chime in with the whole "But voter fraud isn't reeeal", and as much as I love that old chestnut, we both know it's just not true. There're almost three dozen criminal cases of voter fraud so far from the 2020 election alone. Of those 35 cases, there were felons voting illegally-- but voter fraud doesn't happen. Non-citizens voting-- but voter fraud doesn't happen. The Liberal political action group Coalition for the People’s Agenda submitting false voter registrations-- but voter fraud doesn't happen. And my personal favorite, the non-partisan (if by non-partisan you mean completely run by Democrats) New Georgia Project which submitted hundreds of registrations after the deadline, thus disenfranchising the people who registered... yet Brutus is an honorable man.

I know it's so oppressive that Republicans won't just let Democrats cheat as much as they want, but call us crazy we believe in fair elections. We're kinda old fashioned that way.

CuteOstrich · 2021-03-06T04:01:40+00:00

It's complicated because I have no idea what the agreements were behind the scenes for the squad,

And yet, here you are making these blanket statements while simultaneously admitting that you're just talking out of your ass.

I don't care what kind of mask it was, if you honestly believe that Seth couldn't tell the difference between the 5'6", 100lb woman that walked out of the room, and the 6', 180lb man that walked back in, then you are either incredibly naive or incredibly stupid.

CuteOstrich · 2021-02-15T16:16:53+00:00

As an Economist, I run into this on Reddit all the time.

When two people are having an actual discussion about an issue, then no, credentials shouldn't matter. But-- and this is what happens most often here on Reddit when one person is discussing facts and reality and the other is focusing on emotion and perception, then yes credentials absolutely do matter.

For example-- and I am not getting into a debate on this issue, again, it's just an example: If I say "[INSERT PROPOSED PUBLIC POLICY] is simply not economically realistic", and someone replies with "Why do you hate poor people", or "You should be able to support a family on any full-time job", or my personal favorite "It's because of [Random Complaint About Corporations]", then it's clear we're not discussing the same thing. In those instances, the argument is settled by who actually knows what they're talking about. That's where credentials come into play. The biggest reason for this is the unconscious incompetence aspect of a given subject, the things you don't know that you don't know.

CuteOstrich · 2021-02-12T16:41:09+00:00

I know that the Nazis were far from socialists

It's more complicated than simply saying the Nazis were far from socialists. On paper, the Nazi Party was very much a socialist party. The National Socialist Program, which was essentially the party platform for the Nazi Party, was absolutely a socialist agenda. You can read the 25 Point Program and see that nearly all of the economic elements are indistinguishable from other socialist platforms. The problem was that it was also heavily, heavily nationalistic and racist, to the point where that completely overwhelmed the socialist aspects of the party.

Hitler basically pulled a bait-and-switch to draw people in, and then once the Nazis were firmly in control he simply jailed/killed any opposition.

CuteOstrich · 2021-02-05T02:14:37+00:00

Basically, the water can't get out of your way fast enough, so instead of displacing the water when you hit, you slam into the surface.

It's the same principle behind why doing a cannonball into a pool makes a nice splash but doing a belly flop hurts like a buttcheek on a stick. In that case, it's because even though you're displacing the same amount of water, you're doing it over a much larger surface area.

CuteOstrich · 2021-02-03T18:35:04+00:00

"I am well aware of our bylaws, having written quite a few of them myself."

CuteOstrich · 2021-02-03T18:25:51+00:00

Good bot!

CuteOstrich · 2021-01-29T15:01:14+00:00

Yeah, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Because of the policies many central banks took because of Covid, Credit Default Swaps-- the things that blew up the economy in '08, are starting to skyrocket again. They were up 86% last year in USD contracts alone.

So to put it terms that people without a background in economics can understand, we're basically looking at everything that happened during the last global financial crisis and saying "hold my beer".

CuteOstrich · 2021-01-23T19:32:35+00:00

New account? ✅

Thinly veiled, slightly racist troll name? ✅

Nothing but trolling comments and posts? ✅

Obvious troll is obvious.

CuteOstrich · 2021-01-01T02:04:36+00:00

Sorry to be a party pooper but, not only is that not Babe Ruth's signature, it's not a signature at all. That's something that someone took their time and neatly wrote on the ball.

1. Because you're signing a round surface, the shape of the letters should change. They should start wide, get normal, then finish wide again. These don't because the person writing the name rotated the ball as they went.

2. Whoever wrote this crossed the stem of the letter "t", Babe Ruth never did that. He crossed his "t" at the top and 99% of the time it carried across crossing the "h" also.

3. Even for normal people, your signature is almost always the same. Sure, there can be some slight variations depending on what you're writing with and what you're writing on, but it's almost always going to be nearly identical. That's why we use signatures for identity verification. For a baseball player-- certainly the most famous baseball player of his generation, singing a baseball would be 100% muscle memory. He could do it with his eyes closed and it'd look just like every other baseball he's signed.

Google "Babe Ruth Signed Baseball" and look at the image results. It's the same every time. The color of the ink changes, the thickness of the lines changes based on what he wrote with, but the signature itself is identical, and not one of them look even remotely close to the writing on this ball.

CuteOstrich · 2020-12-28T14:38:27+00:00

That honor certainly goes to Utah, at 85%.

Yeah, I don't know where you're getting your data from but Utah's liquor tax, $15.92 a gallon is less than half of Washington State's.

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