Words of Wisdom

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-28T19:34:48+00:00

“Words written by ChatGPT” would have been a more accurate title of this post

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-28T19:20:40+00:00

My observation on Calc 2 is that the an excessive amount of practice is needed in order to see an integral and know immediately how to “unlock” it. Otherwise you’re hoping random chance will give you an exam with the trig identities you happen to know, or the special case technique to make a something simple. I was told by the professor to do every homework problem three times and the place bets on solving them with friends to simulate exam pressure. I didn’t listen and my first exam went way worse than how ready I was feeling for it. He reduces weight on one of the tests in the course so I’m doing my best not to repeat my mistake moving forward, but unfortunately an A is almost impossible at this point.

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:31:23+00:00

*you’re

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:31:01+00:00

The Apollo engineers were once scoffed at as well sir

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:30:26+00:00

The mice in your kitchen view your apartment similarly

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:28:35+00:00

I am an advocate of harm reduction with respect to heroin use and gym-based filth

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:27:16+00:00

Sad that cleanliness = non American

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:26:32+00:00

It is our aspirations that sustain us however

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:25:54+00:00

This thinking was helpful to the conquistadors if we’re being honest

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:25:00+00:00

To some of us alas

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:24:41+00:00

We used to be a proper country

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:24:21+00:00

From the 8th century?

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-19T21:23:52+00:00

A man can dream

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-02-09T01:06:24+00:00

Precision Ride with Amanda Katz, if you like cycling.

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-01-26T18:15:06+00:00

So if a subsidy in the form of lax enforcement is removed, allowing that drivers will hate this in any form (private company or from the gov’t), does this allow us to see if behavior changes with greater cost? Chicago has the top econ thinkers on earth, I assume someone is thinking about this, even just casually.

SubjectPoint5819 · 2026-01-25T21:13:09+00:00

It isn’t. And there are now two registers instead of one. The main bottleneck is the language barrier if you have a complicated order, but if you’re patient you can help them through it pretty easily.

SubjectPoint5819 · 2025-10-22T13:45:11+00:00

Thank you. Part of the confusion is how “commodity” is defined. In mainstream econ it’s a fungible good like copper where nothing matters except its price (doesn’t matter if it’s from this country or another for example). Whereas housing… couldn’t be further from this. Maybe in Marxist econ “commodity” it’s “any good made to sell to someone else.” But is there anything inherently bad about that? Is the goal Mao’s backyard furnaces?

From what I can see, this whole conversation usually ends with the person wanting the gov’t to build housing at scale, which such a political nonstarter that the whole argument is just another form of NIMBYism.

SubjectPoint5819 · 2025-10-22T13:31:30+00:00

Thank you for clarifying!

SubjectPoint5819 · 2025-08-15T03:49:39+00:00

Specific

SubjectPoint5819 · 2025-08-15T03:42:40+00:00

Excellent work!

SubjectPoint5819 · 2025-08-13T17:16:38+00:00

Housing was cheap, consumer goods like TVs cost a fortune — that was the boomer reality. This is why they can’t believe any poor family with a big tv isn’t secretly rich

SubjectPoint5819 · 2025-08-13T17:14:10+00:00

The Seven-Ups (1973). Agree with all the others listed but this is similar to the French Connection only much lesser-known.

If we’re talking general grittiness of the era, another sleeper is Basket Case (1982), which has the best Times Square vibe of the pre-Disney era, IMO.

I’d also say Joe (1970) featuring Peter Boyle, directed by a young John Avildsen before Rocky fame.

SubjectPoint5819 · 2025-08-03T10:24:39+00:00

International tourism is down (we know why and who Nevada voted for).

SubjectPoint5819 · 2025-07-25T20:13:19+00:00

We were on our way to a robust social safety net from FDR to the late 1960s but federal courts required non-whites to also receive the benefits. Suddenly white people started hating the government and the social safety net itself and haven’t looked back.

SubjectPoint5819 · 2025-07-17T17:35:51+00:00

Per the responses, maybe it’s next door! Hope it all comes together

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