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But let's not forget how the boomers royally fucked over their juniors. Do you know the surest sign of a bubble? FRAUD.
Can you imagine getting a PhD and being unemployed? I\u2019d be pissed, bitter, angry at the world. I would spend my time convincing others to feel the same way.
— FURU\u2019R\u2019F\u2019 (@1withdirt) January 16, 2021
Remember the recession? I do, since it happened right when I was entering college. One of the big things that tipped off Burry and other autistics was fraud in the mortgage market.
The PhD is the same: everyone lied to the recent buy-ins about their likelihood of success.
I interviewed at five different graduate schools when I was looking into PhD programs. 4 out of 5 directly and blatantly lied about their placement rates.
It was hard to figure this out because it wasn't on their website; I had to look up all the school's completed dissertations
Why would they do this? Well, professors want grad students for several reasons: teach more courses, get more students, grow the dept, get more funding, etc.
So many completely hoodwink students into signing into PhD
When I was working on my PhD our department brought in an outside group to evaluate the department and it was recommended they scrap the grad program. Advice was rejected because would result in faculty positions lost. So they keep churning them out.
— Max Castle, deposed former president (@realMaxCastle) January 15, 2021
It keeps getting worse. Two years ago I interviewed for a job at a mediocre university that created a _new_ PhD program. There are already no jobs, and they created a new PhD
I bombed a Skype interview two years ago because I said, "you _created_ a new PhD program?" Turns out it's nice to vote yourself RAs who will have terrible job prospects. Little sign of slowing, except for a few departments that took covid breaks.
— Evil (Political) Scientist (@knrd_z) January 15, 2021
Dear White People,
— Absurdistwords (@absurdistwords) March 17, 2018
Racism is just fascism that hasn't caught up to you yet.
The same people who stormed the capitol are the same people who gleefully support police violence against Black and Brown people.
The same people who terrorize churches and synagogues.
The flags I saw at most often at the assault on the capitol?
Trump Flag
BlueLivesMatter Flag
Confederate Flag
This is not a coincidence.
This is literally how it works.
America's racism was leveraged to minimize and dismiss white violence.
The police stood shoulder to shoulder with this mob of violent supremacists up until the moment that they turned on them.
America made police into gods.
Those gods conferred their blessing onto white terrorism, not realizing that fascism is fickle.
White supremacists seduced America into defending their views, making space for them, shielding them from accountability and elevating them into positions of power.
Racism is how the Capitol got stormed.
Anti-Black hatred is the foundation upon which the attack was built.
Here’s a ‘Master Thread’ of my main write-ups this year.👇
First, a special thanks to all the brilliant people I’ve met & learned from on Twitter. To name a few:
@profplum99 @hkuppy @Convertbond @contrarian8888 @jam_croissant @pineconemacro @verdadcap @WayneHimelsein @LT3000Lyall @HFI_Research @SahilBloom @coloradotravis @SantiagoAuFund
Why Inflation Will Kill the Ponzi Sector and Catalyze the Growth/Value Rotation,
9/19/2020
Why Inflation Will Kill the Ponzi Sector (and Catalyze the Long-Awaited Sector Rotation from Growth to Value)...
— BVDDY (@BvddyCorleone) September 19, 2020
A thread.
This topic was a black box to me a few weeks ago. I will try to crystallize what (I think) I now understand.
Why Fund Flows and the Shift to Fiscal Stimulus Will Drive the Rotation,
10/8/2020
1- For the record, I\u2019m most convinced that the 2 primary drivers of this sector rotation will be i) fund flows and ii) the shift to fiscal stimulus. https://t.co/TQ2mUwHJhg
— BVDDY (@BvddyCorleone) October 8, 2020
Inflation, Rising Yields, and Risk Parity: The Biggest Danger in Finance,
10/10/2020
Why the Biggest Risk in Finance is Inflation (and a rising 10Y Treasury Yield).
— BVDDY (@BvddyCorleone) October 10, 2020
A thread.
Hint: it has to do with the ubiquitous Risk Parity framework.
Yes, There's a Safe Way to Have a Cannibalism Fetish. The Armie Hammer Story's Not It. https://t.co/uNXxKs1ZQn
— Cosmopolitan (@Cosmopolitan) February 11, 2021
Let's take the trad perspective for a second and assume same-sex romantic relationships are morally wrong because they do not fulfill the purpose of sex, procreation. Even so, even in those same sex bonds, there is a natural and good thing being sought after, even if incorrectly.
Even if the primary purpose of sex, from the trad perspective, is not being fulfilled, other natural aspects of the sexual act are: physical solace and the comfort of another person's embrace, and the tenderness and kindness lovers express to each other through sex.
So that even if one assumes gay sex is unnatural, it is only so because it seeks through unnatural means to live out a perfectly natural goal: love, mutual enjoyment of the lovers, the generosity and tears of the bedroom.
True perversion is desire turned inward, locked in itself
Perversion is sexual desire with NO connection to nature, because it is not externally attracted to other people, but inwardly fixed on one's own particular state of mind. It may take on characteristics of natural sexual desire, but only incidentally.
Local 🌆vs.🏛️ State - A Thread🧵
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For starters, we should clarify that we are focused on our 3 current asks:
1. Support for a new schools moratorium
2. Creation of a citywide comprehensive plan for schools
3. Curbing of tax incentive abuse
This thread will largely be focused on the above. But first!
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General Remarks
Funding for local public school districts comes from 3 primary sources: local, state, and federal. According to the 2020 @SLPS_INFO Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), 80% of revenue comes from local revenue, 13% from the state, and 7% federally.
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Local funding is primarily generated by property taxes, state funding gets dispersed from GR and a few other sources (lottery, etc.) to each district statewide based on the Missouri Foundation Formula, and federal funding comes in for various federal programs.
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State lawmakers frequently tout "fully funding" the Foundation Formula, but this is deceptive. The tried-and-true method to get to this is reduce the bar for what it means to "fully fund" the formula.
Some refs: https://t.co/3K9vhoIQJp &