@uncledoomer there's a "deliver Diet Coke" button in the Oval Office right now.
there isn't a "deliver Coke Zero" button anywhere.
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insane that diet coke drinkers are basically the permanent underclass of coca cola drinkers. it's regular and coke zero. what's diet coke? oh a legacy product that we still begrudgingly offer support for because users refuse to migrate to strictly better offerings
Andreas Storm@avstorm
Coca-Cola unveils a new global brand identity
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@bumbadum14 tailgating in a soccer game would turn into a riot very quickly
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Have you morons never heard of tailgating?
Ryszard Swetru@swetru_r
Czekam aż ktoś wreszcie nauczy Amerykanów koncepcji parkingu wielopoziomowego
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@MaxNordau he has to be a Qatari psy ops or something. this is just objectively not funny. and I'm a dude who finds everything funny.
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fwiw if crude imports fell to 0, U.S. crude would last 360 days at current demand, not 43 days. the 43 days figure assumes no domestic production, which is silly.
it's generally safe to assume traders know what they're doing on basic stuff like commodity futures, and if you think otherwise, you can bet on it instead of trying to convince people on Twitter.
what I've found over years of economics discussions is that the people who have the least amount of actual expertise are most insistent that they have discovered something new. in these two threads you've basically synthesized 4-5 pieces of bad information into a worldview.
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We're at year number 2 of me screaming on the corner like a mad man.
_its_not_real_@_its_not_real_
But really how is oil flat over three years with: * houthis shipping antics * general near record inflation * Ukraine Russia war * Iran popping off random stuff Something is fundamentally weird and wrong. Who knows how long it can last, no way I'm going to try to call whatever it is.
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@WorstLightskin @TerryWatkinsJr1 most say 70% good 30% bad because that is literally the state's official verdict on the era and has been taught in textbooks for 40 years.
do you think Columbus was a great person because American textbooks glorified him for decades?
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@TerryWatkinsJr1 Terry if you're in China ask your neighbors their feelings on Mao
Most say 70% good 30% bad
What % of good do you think George Washington was for America?
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He has no place in Democratic Circles whatsoever.
Shannon Watts@shannonrwatts
"I never would and never will criticize Mao Zedong… one of the great leaders of this world... who changed the entire universe … There was a lot of fucking excess... but China would not exist without Mao." Mao’s rule caused 40M deaths through policies like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, making it one of the deadliest regimes in modern history.
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@alz_zyd_ he's correct but not in the way he thinks. Zhuge Liang was mediocre.
if a Chinese person tells me his role model is Zhuge Liang my estimate of the person's IQ immediately drops by ~10 points.
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It was bestowed upon me. I would never dare to claim it
ChessTro Vert@ChessKaiJ
@alz_zyd_ wealth came from conquering theft trickery primarily You should remove that Zhuge Liang picture from your icon you don't qualify
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one thing I'll say in defense of him is that he know he's being screwed by academia on account of his race and gender, but this hasn't turned him into a bitter rightoid. He believes in his principles and are willing to suffer for them.
this is the opposite of the alt-right chud. the typical alt-right chud is someone who has never developed skills in life but nonetheless convinced himself that he's being screwed over by H1Bs.
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David Austin Walsh complains about not being able to find a job in academia. But the problem is he studies one main thing, and goes online and shows that he's really bad at understanding it.
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@LeftismForU that's hilarious, an urban youth with sagging pants decided to just stomp on them
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Pro Palestine protesters attempted to shut down and disrupt a rave the The Boiler Room in NYC by laying down on the floor in middle of it.
They ended up getting stepped on and jumped on, and were the ones upset that it were allowed to happen to them without the event being shut down.
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@Dienomadisch @motivatedjoy not to mention that an U.S. official basically gave the go-ahead to Saddam.
so much destruction caused by one dumb bitch.
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@motivatedjoy Oh, we definitely remember.A 34-nation coalition teaming up to break Iraq when it was already exhausted from a 10-year blockade and an 8-year war, right alongside Kuwait’s dirty games of stealing Iraqi oil when the country was at its lowest. No one forgets that level of hypocrisy
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@jamesklug I agree with these socialists that we should be more like Sweden. switch to a 25% VAT tax.
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The socialist obsession with Scandinavia will never not be funny
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@wil_da_beast630 taxes on dumb people is good. taxes on rich people is good. "grass-fed steak is better" is a tax on dumb rich people. I will never dissuade others from this myth. let it do its magic.
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This is just factually true.
Grain feed for cattle was a sought-out luxury for most of history.
Hitchslap@Hitchslap1
Unpopular opinion: Grain fed steak is way better than grass fed. It’s more tender with more marbling. Enough with the grass fed propaganda.
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a certain philosopher of mind once noted that 80% of the undergrads she teach are physicalists, while most of the grad students are Cartesian dualists. She seems to think this reflects well on the discipline.
this field takes very smart undergrads and spend 10 years to force them to unlearn basic scientific facts and engage in mysticism
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@GhostCoase my experience with philosophers of mind is that almost all of them are incapable of defending (or even explaining) their work in ordinary language
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@RumCoves if you're actually a woman you wouldn't need a wristband that says she/her.
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If this is true, glad to hear there's a hospital somewhere respecting women's rights to a single sex ward.
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also, it's a common delusion among math people that they're the smartest people in academia. This is reinforced by the fact that they spend all day teaching calculus class to dumb undergrads and rarely engage with other disciplines.
going by GRE verbal scores which are not taken into account in STEM (thus avoiding confounding factors) but highly correlated with g, physicists are smarter than economists, and economists are smarter than mathematicians.
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everyone can do undergrad real analysis, which is what adcoms care about. Math beyond that level only matters for the <10% of grad econ students who are doing micro theory, and there are already a bunch of IMO medalists competing for those jobs.
academic econ is just very competitive. the "failed mathematician becomes genius in another discipline" fantasy actually works if they switch to sociology or political science (I've known recent cases for both) but it doesn't work in econ, because a lot of elite math talent have already taken this route.
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Some people seem to think that pure mathematicians could just dominate any field they entered, if only they tried
lol bring it
interstice@an_interstice
People in math-adjacent fields like economics shouldn't be so smug. Displaced pure mathematicians will invade and take over adjacent disciplines like the sea peoples in the late bronze age.
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@hyperdiscogirl an entire religion could develop around this holy site
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imagine if your mind was scraped of its cultural knowledge and you saw the golden arches on their red field shining anew above the trees. you would fall to your knees at its beauty
mr_eggs 🇵🇸@scrumble_eggs
The George Washington National Forest is so beautiful.
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@ConceptualJames they're going off the fact that the Comintern adviser to the early CCP was a Russian Jew.
ignoring that his mission was a failure. His dumb tactics caused the KMT to purge communists, and the communists purged their own pro-Soviet faction soon afterwards.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_B…
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