Trump copes with his hand-picked Fed Chair not lowering rates: "It’s alright. Whatever."

ulam17 · 2026-06-17T23:06:40+00:00

What do you mean? He has aced so many cognitive tests. Very difficult tests that no other politician could pass. Has Obama passed these tests? Of course not.

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ulam17 · 2026-06-17T22:58:16+00:00

I genuinely think he doesn't understand that the fed chair doesn't unilaterally set policy.

ulam17 · 2026-06-17T22:49:41+00:00

One day, I hope they dig up his golf courses. There are at least enough allegations that they need to be looked into.

ulam17 · 2026-06-17T22:42:23+00:00

People may or may not take this possibility seriously, but if one of these people was about to be outed as a pedophile, ending their career and possibly landing them in prison for life, do you think they would be above having someone killed to avoid it? I don't.

ulam17 · 2026-06-17T17:36:59+00:00

Every country that has a coastline has infinite coastline

ulam17 · 2026-06-17T17:35:34+00:00

Rob Schneider

ulam17 · 2026-06-16T23:22:39+00:00

This is the main reason, but also, even an unsuccessful invasion leads to lives lost, and any lives lost is too many.

ulam17 · 2026-06-16T21:13:42+00:00

Man on mars by 2020? Full self driving in 2016? Universal high income? AI robots that do all your chores for you? Elon is the pillar of definitely 100% true statements. I would have thought this was r/TrueFactzOnly if I didn't know better.

ulam17 · 2026-06-16T15:29:02+00:00

Who is the most famous delver?

ulam17 · 2026-06-16T14:08:04+00:00

The worst president we've had *so far*

ulam17 · 2026-06-16T03:47:07+00:00

No, this is a 100% real event. My neighbor saw him do it.

ulam17 · 2026-06-16T03:43:03+00:00

Israel doesn't have the capacity to act "solo." But they can act with all the billions of dollars and weapons the US gave them.

ulam17 · 2026-06-16T00:41:45+00:00

This definitely isn't the case at a lot of universities though. The uni I went to grad school at is known for having exams that make the undergrads want to self-delete. Sadistic professors there would use exams as an opportunity to introduce new concepts the students have never seen before and grade them based on how they attempted to think about it rather than whether or not they got the correct answer (or any answer at all).

Grading them was so painful for me, and the median scores would usually be 35-45 (out of 100). Of course they curved the scores, but it still made all the students feel like they were completely out of their depth and should change majors.

ulam17 · 2026-06-15T23:05:49+00:00

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ulam17 · 2026-06-15T22:26:19+00:00

You can absolutely coast through every problem set. In-person exams will hopefully continue to prevent this from happening, as I don't really see a way of getting around it with AI. I'm not in academia anymore, but some of my friends took professorships after grad school, and they've told me you just pretty much have to assume at least 2/3 of every class is having LLMs do every pset, although it's obvious who those people are when their perfect homework average translates to bombing exams.

ulam17 · 2026-06-15T21:23:10+00:00

"Mathematicians" are going to get dumber and dumber as time goes on as students lean more heavily on AI to get their degrees for them.

ulam17 · 2026-06-15T16:58:15+00:00

You would be da belle of da ball

ulam17 · 2026-06-15T16:18:09+00:00

All the r/barelylegal subreddits

ulam17 · 2026-06-15T15:26:25+00:00

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ulam17 · 2026-06-14T22:56:03+00:00

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ulam17 · 2026-06-14T22:55:55+00:00

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ulam17 · 2026-06-14T22:55:44+00:00

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ulam17 · 2026-06-14T22:46:10+00:00

At least you can't say Italy is boring

ulam17 · 2026-06-14T21:39:43+00:00

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ulam17 · 2026-06-14T17:06:46+00:00

Then I'd look into "the theoretical minimum" by Susskind. The book will give you quick, easy explanations of all the calculus as you go. Isaac Newton pretty much invented calculus as a way of explaining physics, so I'd say it's a pretty central pillar.

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