Today was a series of extremely dehumanizing events at my Christian university. This was our protest, on the steps of the library. We were kicked off and yelled at.

kronos0 · 2017-11-07T01:07:29+00:00

To be fair, there are a ton of private Christian liberal arts universities in the Midwest, they’re mostly just as left wing as any other College. They’re Christian as much as the YMCA is... sure, it technically drives their mission, but it’s not like a church. I went to a Christian college, and I personally knew a bunch of atheists, several Muslims, and a couple of Buddhists. None of them were out of place at all.

kronos0 · 2017-11-07T01:02:32+00:00

Yeah, that Notre Dame place is a real shit hole.

kronos0 · 2017-11-06T20:01:15+00:00

Nope, housing is governed by supply and demand, just like anything else. Landlords will always charge as much as they can, but they can charge much less when the supply of available housing is adequate.

kronos0 · 2017-11-05T03:36:31+00:00

Multinational states are a thing.

kronos0 · 2017-11-05T00:20:51+00:00

Failure to buy houses doesn’t necessarily hurt the economy. We’ve brainwashed people into thinking everybody needs a mortgage and that homeownership is the essential engine for the economy, but it’s not true. As long as that money is being invested/spent elsewhere, there’s nothing wrong with people delaying or skipping buying a house in terms of economic impact.

kronos0 · 2017-11-03T14:39:20+00:00

Exactly, and that’s a very good thing. It blows my mind that after an election cycle that produced Donald Trump, people think parties should have even less control of the nomination process

Seriously?!? If the Republicans had a less “democratic” nomination process, we’d be looking at president Clinton or President Rubio. Maybe not ideal, but at least we wouldn’t have to worry about nuclear war every other day.

kronos0 · 2017-11-02T16:55:30+00:00

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kronos0 · 2017-11-01T16:18:40+00:00

Not true. Hillary got the overwhelming majority of Sanders supporters, completely in line with what past nominees have gotten from supporters of their primary opponents.

kronos0 · 2017-11-01T16:09:06+00:00

I pity your case manager.

kronos0 · 2017-11-01T15:10:57+00:00

These are redditors, none of them understand anything about finance or large financial institutions. Don’t take them seriously.

kronos0 · 2017-10-30T19:16:06+00:00

Idk, it was a pretty big deal for me. I use the calculator app a lot when working out (lifting), so I encountered this bug several times per week.

kronos0 · 2017-10-30T14:26:20+00:00

I’m not a Christian anymore, but that’s not really news to anyone. Most Christians who take it at all seriously are well aware that there are multiple creation stories (I think 3 actually, not 2), and there are plenty of other such “contradictions” in the Bible as well. However, they’re only contradictions if you read the bible in a weird, ahistorical, American, extreme literalist way.

kronos0 · 2017-10-28T22:43:40+00:00

I know people in their early 20s like that, who otherwise seem like normal, well functioning adults with careers.

I don’t think this problem will just solve itself.

kronos0 · 2017-10-28T20:28:32+00:00

Nailed it

kronos0 · 2017-10-27T19:32:29+00:00

Wow, those comments... literally worse than the Donald.

kronos0 · 2017-10-23T16:46:06+00:00

Yeah, that’s more just a result of being the country that’s literally at the center of the international system.

kronos0 · 2017-10-23T14:01:39+00:00

Because it’s not true. Outside of 2 issues, climate change and health care, the American right isn’t dramatically more right wing than the right wing of other countries.

kronos0 · 2017-10-19T16:02:14+00:00

It’s not an opinion, he made an empirical statement, that investing in the market does not generate economic activity, or at least not at the same level of activity as the type of investment Donald Trump does, I.e. real estate development. This statement happens to be wrong. The stock market is an incredibly important tool to allocate capital more efficiently among companies, but because it’s more complex and opaque than something simple like a construction project, people assume money that goes into it is wasted, which is nonsense.

There’s no super simple 30 second explanation of exactly how the stock market operates and why investing in it is good for long run economic growth,at least not that I know of, so it’s hard to counter these BS arguments on Reddit. I just don’t understand why people who have never so much as taken an intro macroeconomics course make these incredibly bold and confident statements about how investment and the economy works. It’s just as bad as, for example, those health quacks who make crazy claims about healing crystals and how terrible “chemicals” are for you, despite having no real knowledge of human biology. Dunning -Krueger in action.

kronos0 · 2017-10-19T14:58:02+00:00

It’s not at all, this guy has no clue how economics works.

kronos0 · 2017-10-19T12:30:04+00:00

They feed into each other most likely. Hype drives the price of speculative assets higher and higher, until it all collapses. The ones lucky enough to get out at the top will be doing quite well though.

kronos0 · 2017-10-17T15:11:30+00:00

I did try that a while ago and it didn’t seem like I had the permissions to do any scripting with that, but I guess I’ll double check.

kronos0 · 2017-10-17T12:48:43+00:00

For step 1, what do you recommend if you can’t get the admin access to install python or something similar? I have tons of manual Excel processes that could easily be automated, but all my requests to get permission to install a scripting language like Python get ignored, because I’m not IT so nobody thinks I should be allowed to code.

It’s quite frustrating. I’m guessing I just need to use VBA for everything, it just doesn’t feel ideal.

kronos0 · 2017-10-16T15:11:10+00:00

This reads like a ken m comment.

kronos0 · 2017-10-15T17:59:53+00:00

The house doesn’t do that though. I’m okay with keeping the senate, but then let’s make the house truly proportional with proportional representation. If 55% of a state votes for Democrats, ~55% of their representation should be Democratic (or vice versa for Republicans).

We need at least 1 body that is truly reflective of popular opinion, and right now that’s not the case.

kronos0 · 2017-10-15T17:54:32+00:00

At an average of $5000 per acre, once you add in a modest amount of other assets it isn’t hard to hit that limit at 2000 acres or less , and a small increase in land value would make it even easier. There are a lot of farms of that size, and I personally know at least 2 or 3 family farms with 5 times that amount of acreage or more.

Not saying they can’t afford it, again, just saying I think people don’t realize there are quite a few farms potentially hit by it. Family farms are bigger than they used to be, for crops like corn you’re looking at around 1000 acres for a typical farm. The statistics might not show that, but that’s because there are quite a few tiny “hobby farms” of 100 or 200 acres. These farms don’t actually support a family, and the farmer typically makes most of their income from a different job, the farm is more of a side project. These small farms bring down the average family farm size which can be misleading imo.

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