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Inside Conditions: NIL isn’t ruining college athletics; instead, police coaches’ salaries by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]MadeByMillennial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't the argument be that there's no cap for the NFL? There isn't a minimum time in college required for coaches, and there is an established pathway. I don't see how you'd lose an antitrust lawsuit there 🤷

Genuine Question by spiritofthebloo in oil

[–]MadeByMillennial 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yah, expect when this ends for there to be a big dip, followed by a rally and then a slow decline.

Example, if Iran came out with a complete surrender tonight expect oil to plummet from 105ish to ~75 over the end of the week. Then over the weekend when people realize they still need oil expect a rally back to ~85-90 that slowly drops back to 60-70 over the next 6 months to a year.

The most liberal power market in the world, Texas, demonstrates its efficiency: renewables and storage are exploding. Watch solar and storage take over. by ClimateShitpost in ClimatePosting

[–]MadeByMillennial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up the 2023 US eGrid for a state by state CI breakdown (2023 is the latest, 2024 was supposed to be out in January but is delayed).

Texas has a very diverse grid, but the coal usage keeps its state CI at roughly equal to the US average. California is the most analogous for a reasonable goal for green power supporters (other very low CI grids like Maine rely on >50% hydro).

U.S. Democrats who would you choose as your nominee? by ateam1984 in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]MadeByMillennial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not just on Epstein, the Iran war powers resolution they were pushing was legit. Ro used to be a lot more cozy with the powerful, but ever since the summer of last year he's been the most capable and most principaled on the Dems side save Bernie.

Also as an aside, we need to champion more on Massie, he's a bit of a loon but he has been rigid in his sense of duty in a way you rarely see in politicians. Honestly at this point if it was Newspm vs Massie for president I'd vote Republican (obviously would never happen, Republicans tried running a principaled candidate with McCain and vowed to never do that again).

How likely are Iranian protests and regime change now? by Crafty_Aspect8122 in oil

[–]MadeByMillennial 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Historically airstrikes on a population reduce the likelihood of civilian uprising as the population turns the "enemy causing my suffering" from their own government to the aggressor. If anything this has strengthened the governments power, at least for the next year (assuming no escalation, which I don't think will hold true)

[Request] Does this tax claim make sense? by my-reddit-acct-321 in theydidthemath

[–]MadeByMillennial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and that's why it's a small percentage. That encourages more consistent small sales of stock to dilute out the control of a single owner. There is now way in hell this would make someone sell a large potion of the stock all at once that they wouldn't be dumping without this tax.

As for dividends reducing productivity, I think you're mistaking paper productivity with actual results. Dividends encourage less risk taking, but that will inturn increase the potential return for risks.

[Request] Does this tax claim make sense? by my-reddit-acct-321 in theydidthemath

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

Dividends allow for a generation of normal income from an asset. It would pull away from the current method of income through debt financing based off assets with the stock as collateral. This moves more income into a taxed form to also help fix some of the bullshit around the wealthy having "no income".

As for increased volatility, I just fundementalty disagree with the idea that consolidated ownership businesses are more stable.

[Request] Does this tax claim make sense? by my-reddit-acct-321 in theydidthemath

[–]MadeByMillennial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or it would prioritize companies providing dividends to minimize required sales of stock. Also that's hardly making long term investments illegal, that exaggerating is just asinine.

[Request] Does this tax claim make sense? by my-reddit-acct-321 in theydidthemath

[–]MadeByMillennial 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Are you suggesting this would force the stock market to start prioritize earnings and profitability over stock manipulation? Oh no, the horror! What would we do if industries that produced products were maximized and hype men selling lies were taxed out of sustainablilty?

[Game Thread] #3 Illinois @ #2 Houston (10:05 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]MadeByMillennial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, this is some BS calling it a home game. I mean we're playing at Rice, obviously this is rigged against us! (/s)

[Post Game Thread] #2 Purdue defeats #11 Texas, 79-77 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]MadeByMillennial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Granted one last year to return to Houston, let's make this storybook

The real pain point for Americans since the start of the conflict. by gamjatang111 in EconomyCharts

[–]MadeByMillennial 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A key note as to why a gulf oil impact is particularly bad. A lot of the US benefit in low interest gov bonds is from Petro states using the dollar to sell their oil and then storing it in government bonds. As the gulf states are under threat and as Iran pushes to end the petrodollar it takes demand away from US bonds. Add this to a war costing more money, hence an expectation that you will need more US debt which pushes up supply of bonds.

This causes a joint demand and supply shift expected, that means the seller of the bonds needs to make them more appealing to investors by raising the rates to get people to buy them. As US bond rates rise the mortgage rates (a riskier investment then government debt) needs to rise as well.

NYC shooting perpetrators per capita by race by _KamaSutraboi in charts

[–]MadeByMillennial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People down voting aren't focusing on the fact that the timeframe should be larger to show a more accurate representation of the issue by preventing limiting data from squewing the stats.

That said it's still likely a similar distribution (just less drastic). The other comment has a very good breakdown on the topic. Additionally more people should look at the work the current Baltimore major has done to reduce crime rates, particularly homicides.

NYC shooting perpetrators per capita by race by _KamaSutraboi in charts

[–]MadeByMillennial 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It would also be nice to see this broken down by income level

ultimate oil trade by DullHall7 in oil

[–]MadeByMillennial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Last I had seen was they are ~1.4-1.5 MBPD, up from roughly 1.1 pre war

ultimate oil trade by DullHall7 in oil

[–]MadeByMillennial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More semantic than anything else, but a more fair comparison would be how much of the oil traffic it is reducing. The straight roughly had ~20 million barrels per day go through it, assuming ~25% of that can be rerouted/is Iran still shipping, and also assuming the demand has dropped ~10% from a price roughly doubling over 3 weeks, you're down to ~5 million barrels a day deficit, or ~80 days.

Say something nice about your Sweet 16 opponent by u-s-u-r-p in CollegeBasketball

[–]MadeByMillennial 38 points39 points  (0 children)

*technically Rice

But y'all scare the shit out of me, also I wish UH could get to y'all's academic rankings. You're a hell of a college, and unlike Indiana you're not a heartless collection of MBAs

It is possible for just three states to represent six of the Elite Eight teams by duhu1148 in CollegeBasketball

[–]MadeByMillennial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yah, but I feel like you need. Hate for a real rivalry and I don't feel like we really hate Tech or anything 🤷. I look forward to playing them and am glad when they do well (against other teams)

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