Low key this is a great way to convince people to switch away from fossil fuels.
Most people seemingly don’t know that coal/gas stations work by essentially boiling water. Most are horrified at how trashy and underdeveloped the concept is compared to high tech alternatives like solar, wind, or hydro.
Apologies for my pointed tone, but the demotion of Economics as a lesser science due to lack of controlled experiments is a pet peeve of mine.
Economists do run experiments, or work very hard to try to hard quasi-like experiment designs.
Angrist Krueger won a Nobel for showing that increasing minimum wage actually increases overall employment, by utilising data in border towns in NJ/NY where the differing laws across state lines constituted a natural experiment.
Amy Finkelstein won a Bates medal (basically a baby Nobel) for her work in health policy, which involves being the lead investigator in coordinating the large scale Oregon Health Insurance Experiment that randomly assigned participants with health insurance.
It’s even possible, though much more difficult, on the macro side. Scholars such as Emi Nakamura look at high-frequency data of bond markets to see how markets and the economy respond to the actions of the Federal Reserve.
More recently, “General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence From Kenya” won the Frisch medal for conducting randomised, large scale cash transfers to low income, isolated rural communities, where due to the isolation, could make it arguably similar to UBI.
Actually good Econ channels:
Money and Macro
TLDR News (though their non UK/global coverage is a bit sus)
National Bureau of Economic Research (live streams economic research conferences, wouldn’t recommend actually watching but you can get a feel for what Econ actually does)
Unlearning Economics (maybe only 70% correct, but very engaging and not as “mainstream”)
Shit tier channels (at least for Econ):
Economics Explained
Kurzgesagt
Infographics Show
Alright now that you got me started I’m going to crash out for a little bit.
I fucking hate how Econ-101 types conflate the economic definition of rationality with the general definition of rationality.
This, combined with a fundamental misunderstanding of what economic rationality is in the first place forms their justification for looking down on people’s “irrational” decisions, which are basically anything other than selfish asshole behaviour.
First, economic rationality simply means that given some set of choices, you are able to order them in terms of their utility, and that your decisions are consistent with this ranking. Utility, as every economist stresses, is entirely dependent on every individuals needs and wants, and there is a wealth of research which shows that people enjoy charitable decisions, like shouting a meal for a friend, or volunteering.
Even then, it is well known (and immediately taught) that rationality is basically impossible to hold in reality, and this most people are economically irrational. E.g. for a fast food set of a burger, fries, and drink, when comparing two items I prefer burger > fries, fries > drink, and drink > burger, which forms an impossible order of utility.
And even for seemingly frivolous/trashy decisions like gaudy designer bags made by poorer people, there is extensive economic evidence that the resulting recognition of wealth from their peer groups results in net positive effects such as promotions/better networks. This is no different conceptually to the “quiet luxury” purchases of rich people - the only difference is that only other rich people are able to recognise the “simple” $700 plain t shirts. In either scenario, depending on the individual, there is a strong case for these decisions to be “rational”.
On a related note, these types also play a few games related to the prisoners dilemma, and believe they are the experts on matters of public policy (in most cases, that the tragedy of the commons is inevitable and we should give up).
Except that the prisoner’s dilemma is a stupid and unrealistic thought experiment. Elinor Ostrom won a fucking Nobel prize by documenting extensive evidence that if everyone in a community is properly represented and co-ordinate, the tragedy of the commons does not occur; the tragedy of the commons does occur if any participant wields too much socio-economic power.
Pink, because then you can fold Queen Elizabeth II into a whale giving head
Econ 101 types are so insufferable and are often the C+ student in Econ 101.
Supply and demand only works in perfectly competitive markets where all parties have perfect information (literally taught in Econ 101).
Companies know this, and do everything in their power to ensure this doesn’t happen, because any surplus due to assymetries flow to the participant with the advantage (also taught in Econ 101).
Non-US countries start Christmas literally the day after Halloween.
Hard disagree. The anti-trans crowd overlaps with the general right wing, where low T beta male cuck is a common insult.
I agree that transphobic bigots do not have a consistent world view. Still, appealing to hypocrisy may have some effect, because this crowd exhibits a dichotomy where they outwardly hate people who can’t produce their own hormones “naturally” (be they trans or cis), yet themselves often seek out such products (just look at the popularity of testosterone boosting supplements).
The EA/Ubisoft/Rockstar servers are so shit and their games so large that it’s actually near impossible to download their games on a slow internet connection, because they would just timeout after 3~4 hours.
Downloading a cracked, compressed FitGirl repack over P2P and just ignoring the crack was unironically the only viable way to legally enjoy the games I had purchased back when I had slow internet.
The repacks are windows .exes, yet even work flawlessly via wine. FitGirl truly GOATed.
I was repeatedly told that when I got older I would “understand” why policy makers made the terrible decisions they did, and that it was immature to believe they were cartoonishly evil.
Instead, I learnt that the reality was even worse than cartoonishly evil.
It is actually impressive how Windows Update not only breaks Windows, but also other OSes on completely different drives
(Yes it broke my dual booted Linux, and then somehow even broke Linux again even after I moved it to a completely separate drive)
Obligatory compilation of the spooky predictions from Revelations about that antichrist, which Trump seems to hit
Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions: - Benjamin L. Corey - http://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
Tbf seems to be common across all hyped assets, not just hyped AI stocks.
invest in
companygoldmlmtimesharehousingcryptoAI
someone says “your investment is worthless”
angry noises
Society: “don’t be afraid to fail!”
Also society: actively punishes failure with intricate systems such as admissions, CV screening, and increasing fewer safety nets
Perhaps, but it is documenting an open secret in the LLM space. System prompts as security is basically the best we have, and it’s jank af. People literally have competitions with cracking the latest models, often succeeding within hours of release.
You can get a feel for yourself as well:
Gandalf | Lakera – Test your AI hacking skills - https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
plocate is much faster and requires less resources. macOS users should use mdfind instead
They’re huge in networking equipment like 5G towers, usually in top 4 at least.
Before Chinese sanctions, the biggest players were basically Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, and ZTE.
Funny meme aside, it wouldn’t actually work because cremation is way too hot to pop corn. At around 1000 Celsius, the corn would instantly carbonise and turn to ash, just like the rest your body.
Even baking corn at 200 Celsius (typical oven roasting temperature) is already too hot for corn to pop, and burns it instead.
We Fact-Checked That Viral Popcorn Cremation Meme - https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/unpopped-popcorn-cremation-meme
They wouldn’t wear face diapers during covid but no problem wearing
kotex on their earsadult diapers to mimic the rapist
Trump Supporters Wore Diapers at Rallies? | Snopes.com - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-diapers-over-dems/
No, first wave feminism was originally for the women who were wealthy and powerful.
People really underestimate how racist everyone used to be. The suffragettes were all for equal rights for all, but seethed when black men got voting rights before them, due to the implication that while middle class women were lesser than black people, who were viewed as subhuman.
Rebecca Felton was an major figure in the American suffragette movement, and was a proud slave owner that advocated for lynching instrumental in the establishing the Jim Crow South.
Hence the need for the subsequent waves of feminism.
Rebecca Latimer Felton - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Latimer_Felton
The Suffragettes Were Not Allies to Black Women, They Were Racist - https://www.edpost.com/stories/the-suffragettes-were-not-allies-to-black-women-they-were-racist