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  1. the current e-mini futures contract did. 🎉
  2. his entire schtick of 'everything is falling apart due to capitalism' is basically like him rebelling against his parents.
  3. stores around here have all 3 systems simultaneously: manned checkout; self checkout; prescanned checkout, where you had already scanned the item using your phone or portable store device while you shop. i use the latter 2 options and its great. the only downside of self-checkout is when shitty stores have very few checkout stations, most of which are self-checkout, AND their customers are too dumb to operate them. thats a fault of the store's decision, not an indictment of the self checkout system.
  4. Yeah. Sure. All universities should IPO and be governed by a shareholder proxy voting system, was truly the argument I surreptitiously advanced. Go with that, little buddy
  5. I mostly like eggs but quiches might be top 3 worst foods in the world. Its the main dish at the work cafeteria today.
  6. Can you show where the massive price increase in entertainment spending is?
  7. covid era: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/07/net-worth-gains-in-2020-were-the-largest-for-the-least-wealthy longer term: you can change the reference datum yourself: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=EVn4
  8. Play the whole tape. newdoc: schools are unaccountable and dont stand the scrutiny of a business question: why should everything be like a business answer: businesses have aspects that are good, eg desperation for survivabilty. then comes the chorus of the NPC about business bad. companies hosting vocational training is good, actually. well-resourced companies funding academic institutions towards mutually beneficial areas of research, and fast-tracking employment into said resourceful companies is an even bigger net good. denigrating anything corporate-adjacent because apparently being Big Business is itself a taint, smells like the kind of luxury ideas middle class children concoct when they thing it’ll get them big points on reddit.
  9. Its Olive Garden, so you have to address the waiter as “cameriere”, “bambino”, or “mario”.
  10. Texas is the worst driving in the US in my experience. Although after having a taxi driver in Belgrade take my coworker and I in the wrong direction on a highway ramp... I'll not complain about Texas drivers for a while.
  11. 1. The govt grants flows more easily into UoP, because it has no admissions standards. You know this - because you literally said they targeted those students. Interesting how you pivoted from being generous with literal interpretations to basically arguing on semantics. 2. It doesnt matter for the terminal outcome: school would eventually fail, on its merit. It matters for the path: it would have failed much sooner, had the spout been drier. Do you want to argue against the distorted effects of 'free' money? 3. I didn't suggest for-profit is how universities should be run. I saw the hackneyed 'durrr business bad' softball lofted up and I'll swing at it everytime. (Even you wouldn't deny the bloat in the academic ecosystem and that elements of business' "ruthlessness" would actually be positive). I'm unabashedly pro-capitalism because I've lived outside that system and seen how well capitalism works for me. (sucks if it dont for anybody else). Really, the existence of UoP neither proves 1 thing or another. With or without it, schools like Our Lady of the Lake or Concordia wouldn't suck any less. Atleast Phoenix gave everyone a athletic stadium for a few years....
  12. The schools inherent shittiness and uncompetitiveness led to its decline, which is a feature of the system. It was sold due because of unprofitability. The school was kept alive longer than it deserved due to easy money -- grants from the government -- with no barrier to enrollment. But yeah, the name of the student on the check matters? Thanks for clarifying how that works. Must've been an enlightening discovery.
  13. "When the guy said corporate sponsorships are bad, he seemed to suggest something else". One marvels at your well-rounded education.
  14. University of Phoenix was kept afloat by govt $. It was consistently the largest recipient of Pell Grants and GI Bill in the country. (The nearest ones were also for profit -- Kaplan, Everest, Ashford, etc). It also suffered reputational loss and declining enrollment, leading to its recent sale. It was sold to a non-profit. Bets are open as to whether that makes it a better institution.
  15. Do you think this phrase "Maybe the corporations can just sponsor the schools" I quoted actually means something else?
  16. What a fucking trainwreck it would be if Amazon were to sponsor Cockrell for its Science hub. Not to mention what would happen at MIT, UCLA, USC, Columbia, John Hopkins. Could you imagine?
  17. War has been great for Palantir. I even crossed into the green with my positions. Sonos is near breakeven. Getting beat up on natty gas though.
  18. I steer clear of topics about politicians, elections, legislation, (until it crosses over into topics of business). Have you considered not skewing my threads?
  19. Are these 'corporate drones' the people begging for student loan forgiveness because they're paid slave wages? I like they're such a perpetual villain in your personal movie.
  20. Q: Why must everything function like a business (not be a business... but function like one) A: Because business as we all know* it is the most ubiquitous and best example of a system with the shortest feedback loop and most direct accountability. Is it perfect? No. (what's that Churchill saying about Democracy?) And apparently we don't all know, because some people insist on acting like they're trying to impress girls at an emo show.
  21. Could you pretend like it's not your first year in college? corporation badddd, bro
  22. Imagine if the founder of car and airplane companies and banks were not motivated by profit, all of the cars and airplanes and banks that would even exist today:
  23. Every product you own, touch, and use, including that with which you accessed Surly, was the consequence of a manufacturer saying "lets make the worst product at the highest prices because we dont have to care". Oh, wait...
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