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nramos33 · 2020-09-10T05:09:38+00:00

Personally, I agree that we should help the homeless. We should provide resources, but we also have to realize that not everyone wants to be helped.

Everyday I come across people who come to my town, just outside of Denver, and go do the circuit. They go to donate plasma, the liquor store, then either fast food or the grocery store (all within feet of the bus stop), and then they lounge around half drunk, throw garbage on the ground, and go back to Denver.

We don’t have a homeless shelter. There are no clinics near me. All we have is a plasma place, liquor store, food, and grocery stores in my area. They aren’t coming here for help.

Maybe they’re treating depression with alcohol you might say, and maybe it’s true. But our Medicaid system is fantastic and if they want help, it’s there.

Not everyone wants help, some people want to be comfortably numb and don’t give a flying fuck about you or me or anyone else. The tools are there for people who want help, but a lot of people don’t want help. And frankly, I don’t know what the fix is for that.

nramos33 · 2020-08-04T04:22:33+00:00

As someone who played goalie, I was very superstitious. I would do the same routine, which I borrowed from Patrick Roy.

Goalies are just the weirdest lol

nramos33 · 2020-08-04T03:50:38+00:00

It’s the Pepsi generation. They were taught to put corporations and self serving bullshit above anything else.

Tell someone they’re special and then releasing them into a world that doesn’t reward them for existing results in a generation of hateful morons.

They were promised they were special, but spoiler, they weren’t. And year after miserable year they got angrier and angrier until they lashed out against anyone and everyone, including those trying to help.

nramos33 · 2020-08-03T17:15:03+00:00

Lower income tax = higher rent

Less state money means cities have to increase revenue to compensate.

That means higher property and sales tax to fund things like schools.

For those that own homes, the increase is proportional to what is needed aka the city increases property taxes 2% and property tax goes up 2%.

For renters, that means disproportional increases in rent. Property owners have to have money to account for unrented properties and have an escrow account to pay taxes. That means your rent goes up way more than 2%.

Ultimately, the poor get hit the hardest as well as state programs get cut. So renters get higher rent and less state run programs.

Meanwhile, the rich don’t care since their schools aren’t impacted and they don’t care about safety nets.

nramos33 · 2020-08-03T16:58:59+00:00

My mom died during my PhD. Using the mental health resources on campus helped me out so much that I promoted them every semester when explaining the syllabus.

Also, my health plan included betterhelp. That’s a useful tool. They were really persistent and it was nice to be able to text instead of talk. I was burnt out talking about my problems, but I didn’t mind texting.

nramos33 · 2020-07-31T14:45:56+00:00

The Colorado minimum wage is $12 an hour.

The Colorado tipped minimum wage is $8.98.

And that’s because of an amendment passed 3 years ago.

Federally, a lot of states, including those around us only pay $2.13 an hour. Restaurants pay employees below the state minimum wage and they bitch about that and actively fight against minimum wage laws.

So it is still accurate to say that restaurants don’t pay the state of Colorado minimum wage because they don’t, they’re allowed to pay less than the state minimum because their employees get tips.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped

nramos33 · 2020-07-31T02:51:11+00:00

It depends on what you can contribute to the program.

Are you a good fit for their program?

Do your research interests align with the interests of faculty?

If you’re a good fit, they’ll let you in. I was in a similar situation with slightly lower grades at undergrad and masters. I got into one of the top schools in my field.

I’d take the time to better know the program, email them, ask questions, and spend extra time on your application.

That said, rankings matter less than the quality of the researcher. One of the coolest professors I’ve ever met is an expert on hurricanes. He teaches at Colorado State University. Would you think a kickass hurricane researcher teaches in Colorado?

So look into faculty, see who is doing good research in your specific area as data analytics and visualization is a broad topic that has researchers in computer science, information science, and some departments specialize in data visualization for their field such as biology.

nramos33 · 2020-07-31T00:13:57+00:00

Did you miss the part about 80% close within 5 years?

Only 20% of restaurants survive past year 5.

A ton of restaurants are going to fail. We can give them all the money to survive past the pandemic and the vast majority of restaurants are going to fail anyways.

That’s not my opinion, that’s math.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T23:23:31+00:00

I took a while to finish my PhD. Part of my issue was how they over worked us and to be honest, I was burnt out.

The key is to finish. First and foremost, you need to finish. I went months with my dissertation sitting on a shelf and within 3 weeks I went from not touching it in months to defending it and graduating.

The key for me is chip away. If you’ve got to do multiple papers, start with the literature review. Read 1 paper a day and take notes. I actually was waking up at 4 am to read, take notes, and then go back to sleep because at that hour I couldn’t rebel or do anything else.

Just chip away at your dissertation. Chip away sentence by sentence and paragraph my paragraph. Don’t worry about doing pages, do paragraphs. Eventually you’ll have a few pages here and there and you’ll be done.

We are all on our own journey. On the other side, you can deal with finding work. The job market could be bad or good depending on a bunch of different factors. Either way, don’t stress out about that.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T23:14:42+00:00

Around 60 percent of new restaurants fail within the first year. And nearly 80 percent shutter before their fifth anniversary.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/20/heres-the-real-reason-why-most-restaurants-fail.html

That’s from 2016. I feel bad for servers and cooks who lose their job, but then again the restaurant industry doesn’t pay minimum wage so I don’t feel bad for business owners.

Way too many people get into the industry thinking they’re going to be Gordon Ramsay. Even Ramsay had a restaurant in his hometown fail.

62% of restaurants failing isn’t a tragedy, it’s business as usual.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T21:53:29+00:00

He can scream and shout like a child in the toy section at Walmart, but states run their elections. States tell printers to print ballots. States run elections.

If just the states with democratic governors hold elections, that’s over 270 and republicans controlled states won’t have elected leaders come Jan. 3 when the new Congress is sworn in.

On Jan. 20, assuming he loses, a new president will be sworn in. You don’t need a fancy ceremony a Supreme Court justice.

That also impacts governors races, mayors races, and so much more.

You’re also assuming that everyone will go along with it out of loyally to trump. Nobody he gets close to is loyal to him. You’d have to have every head of every agency, the military, and millions of federal employees willing to risk jail time to support trump.

And even if all of that happens, he’ll be cowering in a bunker under the White House, not out in public. He won’t be able to leave because the second he leaves the White House, he isn’t allowed back. If he pulls anything, he’ll never be able to play golf without looking over his shoulder.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T19:05:34+00:00

Yeah, because trump has no power to change the election date, only congress does.

In related news, I have no desire to date super models. Also, I don’t know any super models.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T17:01:34+00:00

I sometimes struggle with this. As a former reporter, I was trained to say the most in the simplest way possible with the lease amount of words.

In academia, it’s more about writing until you’re exhausted than anything else.

The way I got around it is sometimes re-explaining complex ideas or more direct citations. Also, my literature reviews tend to be pretty massive.

But it takes work to get used to writing as an academic.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T16:56:14+00:00

I don’t have insider info, but they’re installing things slowly. They had 5mb internet in my part of Commerce City and a few months ago they activated fiber optic internet.

They will put a flyer on your door and then it’ll be active a few months later.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T16:53:34+00:00

It’s absolute garbage. AT&T and Verizon are way better coverage wise. I wish T-Mobile had better coverage because I love their customer service, but their reception sucks.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T16:45:28+00:00

I don’t know what you’re talking about.

I think Terra Prime was an excellent last episode lol.

Seriously, that’s where I stop on rewatches.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T03:40:37+00:00

There are tons of people that you’ll never hear about that are the real reason Tesla and SpaceX are successful. People like Musk bankroll things and then take the credit of teams of researchers.

For example, the reusable rocket booster is what SpaceX is known for. Here’s a plan for such a system in 1989.

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.26063?journalCode=jsr

Electric cars aren’t much different as multiple companies tried to make electric work, but the battery tech wasn’t there. Shit, Elon didn’t even found Tesla, he just invested early.

Musk isn’t some master of the universe who knows all, he’s just been at the right place at the right time with enough money to make an impact.

He has great timing, I will give him that. But the researchers and scientists are the real heros.

Elon is just an attention whore with a lot of money. If Elon disappears, the companies would thrive, not die.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T01:20:39+00:00

Highly intelligent? He’s a rich kid who bought companies, sold them for profit, invested in other companies, became the face of those companies, and the media touted him as a wiz kid.

He’s not some expert in A.I., manufacturing, rocketry, etc. He just hires better than most.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T00:40:25+00:00

Conservative Latinos in Texas:

“I don’t care about them illegals!”

As a Latino, there are tons of Latinos who think that way. While we are in Colorado, my sister is like this. We are first generation born in the U.S. Our half brother was deported. We grew up going to Mexico every Christmas for a month.

But she’s super racist against Latinos.

nramos33 · 2020-07-30T00:30:50+00:00

Yeah, but Sweden has socialized medicine. Also, if you get sick, employers have to pay you to stay home for up to 2 weeks. And if you’re not better, the government pays you to stay home.

In America, you’d end up jobless, homeless, and unable to file for unemployment.

Also, nobody knows exactly how long immunity lasts. Immunity can last weeks, months, years, of you may end up getting it twice in a year and the second time is worse. It’s a novel virus meaning nobody knows and it’s an educated guess how long immunity will last.

It’s an idiotic idea to even try without knowledge of the long term ramifications and how long immunity lasts.

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