i always catch recommendations from the help desk librarians. Some of the best books I’ve read I’d never have picked up otherwise. We were chatting about it and they decided to plug in the books I gave good feedback for, just to see.

It was a comical five minutes.

that sounds like they’re defrauding you.

or not.

I’m okay with taking multiple tries.

Where we eat the corpses of all the billionaires we’ll be killing. No sense in letting that meat go to waste!

don’t eat junk food! instead, compost and eat the veggies.

Like, one of the first classes they make you take is exactly how to do that. Though, I don’t find it surprising either. I find it depressing.

That’s an essay I would have been failed for in high school. A ba in psych is still going to be science heavy.

The teachers were right to fail her and it’s pretty clear that OU is punishing them anyways.

Because the student is a crisis actor who ran to Turing Point to pretend she was some how persecuted for her beliefs.

“That’s brilliant! you’re hired!” - Ye Old Porta John’s middle manager. “now. what should we call this advertisement stream…?”

(edit: Fuck. they’re going to run with this, aren’t they?)

You’re still wrong.

the M1 money supply is the vast majority of the m2 supply in 2020, it was 18 trillion and peaked at 21 trillion and then went down to 19.5 trillion. That’s not “80-90%”. That’s 16.67%

And once again:

The increased money supply caused rampant and near catastrophic inflation that is the root of today’s affordability crisis.

So do you get the point yet?

Not sure who downvoted you, lol. You’re quite correct (I just didn’t want to get into the weeds, heh.)

and yes. it’s good to remember that not all debt is “bad” debt. Especially on a national level. I still think it’d be nice if they passed a balanced budget, though. (and one that covered everything that was important. like healthcare and housing and infrastructure and climate resiliency and stuff, and not bombs for genocidal maniacs)

This is factually incorrect.

the M2 money supply expanded from 15 trillion to ~22 trillion from 2020 to feb. 2022 Then 1 trillion or so was removed by apr 2023.

You’ll notice that inflation tacked that fairly closely. when there was an explosive growth of the m2, inflation was insanely high and then when some was removed, inflation began cooling off.

Also, Please go study some history.

This is what caused hyperinflation in the Wiemar Republic

This also caused hyperinflation in Hungary,

This is what triggered hyperinflation in Zimbabwe

In fact, there are many countries that have experienced hyperinflation, in which printing money is a common factor.

Is it possible that there’s some wiggle room, where the effects won’t be so bad? sure. Does that make it good economic policy? not really. COVID wasn’t about perfect, or even good. If you’re on fire, it’s natural instinct to start patting the fire out with your hand. It burns your hand, and that’s not good, but it’s better than burning to death, right? Same concept.

said another way… they think our food cleanliness is somewhere between “dirty as fuck” and “You eat that?!”

to expound on that. we’re talking about a junior in a psychology major. It’s a science heavy major.

She should know how to:

• cite sources
• Discern good sources from bad.
• understand that the bible is not a good source for psychology.
• know how to right a fucking essay and answer the question that was being asked.

There were all of two sentences relating to the article which she was supposed to talk about. Those two sentences were basically “I disagree with this article”.

Her only source- if you want to call it a source- was the bible. But she didn’t even bother cite specific parts of the bible, just waxed inelegantly about “traditional” gender norms and insisting that bullying people because they weren’t cisgendered is good. (which is what the article was about, IIRC, bullying of noncis kids in middleschool.)

(for people interested, Forest Valkai has a good break down on the essay, and why she failed

except nvidia drivers.

fuck nvidia.

I’m not sure if Troggle is supposed to enjoy this or not.

you jest, but imagine the captive audience for advertisments. Just lock the door until the add plays so they have to watch it.

well. That’s shitty.

a hearth!

(or do you mean Troggle’s cave. Because Troggle is an ass and deserves to get his shit burned?)

cash is largely minted by the government, and they usually aim to maintain “enough” (currently 2.3k billion dollars currently?)

Most of the money supply is not in physical cash, though- they call that the m1 supply which is found in things like savings and checking accounts, other kinds of deposit accounts, etc.

Currency is added to the economy by buying back government securities (think bonds). Specifically this is the Federal Reserve. we also pay interest on money held at by the Fed. (Banks invest the money.)

Printing more money doesn’t make more value- it actually reduces the individual value of a dollar.

That value needs to come from somewhere.

When a currency is backed by some commodity (we backed by silver and gold, historically.) that value comes from whatever is backing it (ie you could go to a bank and get that stuff.)

Today, the dollar is backed by the confidence of the people using it. Specifically, the confidence in the US government. The value is also affected by supply and demand for that currency.

If the US suddenly decided to print the trillions dollar coin, the market reaction wouldn’t be all that hot. There is some wiggle room but generally not a lot.

If you want to know what happens when you push it too far, check out the Weimar Republic (Germany), Hungary after ww2 and Zimbabwe in the late 2000’s

It’s very much not-good.

In the US, at least, the government has 2 ways it can fund itself.

Taxes, which are collected through a variety of means- income tax, for example, or import taxes, etc. these funds go into the treasury, which then get doled out to pay for things.

If taxes are insufficient, or there’s some type of emergency that requires an excess of funds more quickly than they can levy with taxes… the government takes on debt. Specifically, they use a number of different instruments including bonds.

The “national debt” is the the sum of all those bonds, loans and whosiwhats its that are taken out to pay for things. it’s the debt that the national government owes to others.