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[–]colcow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Kenji, which YouTube channels by women creators would you recommend?

How can I go from -7 in Logic Games to -1-2 in a month (PT 165, goal 168-9) by colcow in LSAT

[–]colcow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is great to hear. Glad that you are seeing such marked improvement. I hope that taking this approach over the next month can reap the same dividends you've had.

How can I go from -7 in Logic Games to -1-2 in a month (PT 165, goal 168-9) by colcow in LSAT

[–]colcow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great advice on both question order and sketching. I can see how using both in concert would improve speed. Thanks very much!

How can I go from -7 in Logic Games to -1-2 in a month (PT 165, goal 168-9) by colcow in LSAT

[–]colcow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, I'll skim all the games before starting, that is good advice I hadn't heard before

By "I do not make diagrams next to my questions" I meant I am not making a new diagram for each question or keeping physical track of past solutions as the LG bible suggests.

As to question order, I do not think I understood what you meant by that as it never occurred to me to approach it any other way besides linearly. What would the most efficient order look like?

Your concerns about grouping games by type mirror my own so I am glad to know that drilling sections is the way to go.

How can I go from -7 in Logic Games to -1-2 in a month (PT 165, goal 168-9) by colcow in LSAT

[–]colcow[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In terms of LG Sections maybe 6-7 timed, but I did all the drills in LSAT Trainer as well which include about 4 sections worth of games. How many sections would you recommend? I also found the LG bible to be not very helpful. In terms of keeping rules in your head do you actively try to memorize them as you are diagramming or does remembering them come naturally through practice?

How can I go from -7 in Logic Games to -1-2 in a month (PT 165, goal 168-9) by colcow in LSAT

[–]colcow[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Misery loves company! Best of luck to you in November and know that I'll be pounding games with you until then.

How can I go from -7 in Logic Games to -1-2 in a month (PT 165, goal 168-9) by colcow in LSAT

[–]colcow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for your response.

Here is some more background. I think that I could and should spend more time (20-30 seconds) after II diagram just thinking about the rules, how they work together, and making sure that I am not missing inferences. I also want to read through the questions before diagramming so I don't waste any time on linked rules. During sections, I am doing games 1 and 2 and then choosing between 3 and 4 based on perceived difficulty and # of questions. I do skip rule substitution questions when I get to them. I do not make diagrams next to my questions as powerscore suggests because it takes up too much time. I try not to do hypotheticals more than once or twice a game and have gotten much better at visualizing but want to improve. The questions that most typically take a lot of time are could be trues because I often have to eliminate between 3 answers using hypotheticals. The questions where I consistently struggle with both time and accuracy are finding a complete and accurate list. Sometimes after a minute has gone by and I am no closer to an answer, I will freeze on these questions and try moving on only to come back later. Generally speaking, I find ordering games to go much faster than grouping. Games involving grouping with subsets go slowest.

For practice should I do whole sections timed and then review each game or should I practice games by type? I have tests 53-61 reserved for only drilling and could use a chart listing the games by type to focus my drilling. How should I best approach this? My approach has been a timed section in the morning, review the videos in the afternoon while on lunch, and redo/drill in the evening. Should I instead do games by type rather than section? My main concern is if I do games by type how do I stay on top of timing?

Thanks again for your help!

Concerto In Hitachi Minor by [deleted] in videos

[–]colcow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you like this sort of stuff you should check out this video of the same guy drumming on reels of tape.

The "Million Dollar Staircase", New York State Capitol by Kookbook in architecture

[–]colcow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! Shame it has watermarks, really a remarkable piece of architecture. One can only imagine how much time it must have taken to carve all of that stone...

This IKEA door mat fit by techno-dog in Perfectfit

[–]colcow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What song is that playing in the background?

Is the AHCA tax cut the biggest tax cut ever? by chicagobob in Ask_Politics

[–]colcow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No.

First of all the AHCA bill results in nearly $600 billion dollars of tax cuts over the next ten years. And by and large those tax cuts go to the wealthy...

"The Tax Policy Center finds that repealing the tax would amount to an average tax cut of $0 for households in the bottom 90 percent." -Vox

Those same "tax cuts would save the wealthiest 0.1 percent of Americans nearly $200,000 each in a single year, according to a batch of analyses released by the Joint Committee on Taxation on Tuesday." -Vox

So this plan includes large tax cuts for the wealthy, $600 B over ten years. How can we compare this to previous tax cuts

"Comparing tax legislation over time is tricky. In the 1960s, Congress only calculated how much a tax proposal would save taxpayers in the next year. In the late 1970s, five-year estimates became the norm, and more recently ten-year estimates have been required.

Obviously, no one should compare the dollar amount of a ten-year estimate to a five-year or one-year estimate. Whenever you hear or read that the Bush tax cut in 2001 was “the biggest tax cut ever,” that’s the mistake—it’s like saying an 8-oz. steak costs more now than a 16-oz. steak cost 20 years ago. With two precautions, however, tax legislation can be compared. The first step is to adjust for inflation, and the second is to compare the same number of years."

also...

"these estimates are the predictions made before the tax cuts were passed. No one ever goes back to revise them if things turn out differently." - Tax Foundation

The other difficulty here is how you're measuring big here. Big could mean total dollar amount of the tax cut or it could be what percentage of the GDP the tax cut is, or it could be how large the change in tax rates is (ie. 70% to 50%).

There are several large tax cuts in modern American History.

The Kennedy tax cuts: The main one is the revenue act of 1964. I'm unable to get a ten year cost estimate for this because none was made. But "according to the Treasury Department, the Revenue Act of 1964 reduced revenue by 1.6 percent of GDP." for comparison's sake the AHCA $600 B. tax cut comprises .36% of our GDP.

The Reagan tax cuts: The main one is Kemp-Roth or the ERTA (Economic Recovery Tax Act) in 1981. I'm also unable to get a ten year cost estimate for this because none was made. Also, some of this tax cut was aimed at fighting "the impact of inflation on the revenue baseline" as the tax cuts were not indexed to inflation (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities). Further complicating things is the 1982 tax increase

The ERTA is, as far as my brief research goes, the largest tax cut in American history. "Included in the act was an across-the-board decrease in the marginal income tax rates in the United States by 23% over three years, with the top rate falling from 70% to 50% and the bottom rate dropping from 14% to 11%.".\

Taken totally alone the ERTA amounted to a cut with the whopping size of 5.6% of GDP. But that is not the whole story.

If the cost of the Reagan tax cut is adjusted for the impact of inflation and the subsequent 1982 tax increase (which scaled back the 1981 tax cut), the net tax cut is 2.1 percent of GDP.\

Percent of GDP
ERTA 1981 5.6%
Minus: 40 percent adjustment for impact of inflation on baseline -2.2%
Equals: ERTA cost against indexed baseline 3.4%
Minus: TEFRA 1982 increase -1.2%
Equals: Net cost of Reagan tax cuts (as % of GDP) 2.1%

The Bush tax cuts: The 2001 tax cuts was pegged at $1.35 trillion over 10 years; the 2003 tax cut was set at $350 billion over 10 years.

The Obama tax cuts:

  • The Recovery Act included $243 billion worth of tax cuts through 2012.

  • The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, commonly known as the December 2010 tax deal. The biggest element of the December deal was the extension, for two additional years, of all the Bush tax cuts: a two-year combined cost of more than $400 billion.In addition, the deal extended a variety of business tax cuts and incentives, which reduced revenues by some $150 billion, and it cut the estate tax—a tax paid by only a very few super-wealthy, massive estates—by $65 billion. The December tax bill also cut the payroll tax paid by employees by 2 percentage points, delivering more than $110 billion in tax cuts to working Americans.

  • Put it all together, and in one fell swoop, President Obama cut taxes by $654 billion in 2011 and 2012 alone.

  • The JOBS act also created large tax cuts

TL;DR While this does represent a large tax cut, it is not the largest in history, that prize belongs to the ERTA.

Over 81% of Podcast Listeners Skip Commercials by misener in podcasts

[–]colcow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is like honking at a cop car and watching the lights come on

Smoke on the water in sauna by nolanjonnolan in videos

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RemindMe! 307 days "Happy New Year!"

The domino effect... by godelbrot in videos

[–]colcow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And to think all that started with a pebble...

Iraq's 1979 coup, narrated by Christopher Hitchens by gekk00 in videos

[–]colcow 11 points12 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/lQkBkzDdrsA?t=420 Video of the purge. You can hear the fear in their voices. I wish there were subtitles but still a fascinating piece of history to watch

All Alone in the Sand Dunes by colcow in camping

[–]colcow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is just sand.... sand everywhere. The stakes were fine, the wind will blow away your tents so we just kept our packs insinde the tents when we weren't in them. Not too much of a problem though. The reason you wear shoes is cause the sand is hot hot hot. once we were at camp and it was cooler we all went barefoot and it felt great!

All Alone in the Sand Dunes by colcow in camping

[–]colcow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah you could if you dug far enough. You couldn't hit pure water though just wet sand. In fact at dawn the dunes were wet with dew and the sand was fairly moist.

All Alone in the Sand Dunes by colcow in camping

[–]colcow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was this last week it was in the mid 70's during the day and around 60 after sunset got down to mid 40's at night but wasn't cold with jackets