The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP

[Matt!]

@Stromboli1

 

Spoiler

 

[Enrico_sw]

On 8/21/2022 at 5:41 PM, Cult Icon said:

 

Was this work for internal consumption or was it part of a paid report service?

 

Internal consumption. I worked for a big company with lots of international investments and acquisitions.

 

On 8/21/2022 at 5:41 PM, Cult Icon said:

IMHO Macroeconomics comes across as having a lot of over-intellectualization, which is gigantic waste of time.  What is useful is fairly simple and straightforward- reliable sources of data.

 

I think this video has a lot to do with our discussion. The complexity of macroeconomics (multivariable, hard to predict) and the lack of timely feedback makes it hard to master.

 

[Cult Icon]

Think I'm going buy  a new phone tomorrow (iphone )

[Matt!]

 

LFG! 

[Cult Icon]

14 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

Internal consumption. I worked for a big company with lots of international investments and acquisitions.

 

 

I think this video has a lot to do with our discussion. The complexity of macroeconomics (multivariable, hard to predict) and the lack of timely feedback makes it hard to master.

 

What do you think of this (famous in the US with traders) quote " If You Spend 13 Minutes A Year On Economics, You've Wasted 10 Minutes."

 

For longer term investments the economic picture is more important though.  

[Enrico_sw]

10 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

What do you think of this (famous in the US with traders) quote " If You Spend 13 Minutes A Year On Economics, You've Wasted 10 Minutes."

 

Yep

 

10 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

For longer term investments the economic picture is more important though.  

 

Sure, even if it's still hard to predict.

[Enrico_sw]

@Stromboli1 

You vil eat ze bugs...

 

Look at this bozo. He's a Professor, and Director of the Center for Bioethics at NYU. He wants to bio-engineer humans to make them allergic to beef. It's not a fake, it's not a joke, you can cross check this info on many sources. Of course, he says he just "considers the possibility", but doing so (for a "bioethics" guy) is fucking crazy already.
 

 

 

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Pharmacological intolerance to meat

In order to reduce this consumption, Liao suggests artificially inducing an intolerance by stimulating the immune system to work against the proteins present in beef.

 

https://www.bbva.com/en/human-engineering-fight-climate-change/

 

[Enrico_sw]

Director of the Center for Bioethics at NYU

 

This guy is a nutcase.

 

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Pharmacologically induced altruism and empathy

https://www.bbva.com/en/human-engineering-fight-climate-change/

 

[Enrico_sw]

Director of the Center for Bioethics at NYU

 

This guy's résumé at NYU: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/s-matthew-liao.html

 

 

 

[Enrico_sw]

Just now, Enrico_sw said:

Director of the Center for Bioethics at NYU

 

This guy's résumé at NYU: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/s-matthew-liao.html

 

 

 

 

And then they wonder why people think American universities are cesspools

 

[Stromboli1]

24 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

@Stromboli1 

You vil eat ze bugs...

 

Look at this bozo. He's a Professor, and Director of the Center for Bioethics at NYU. He wants to bio-engineer humans to make them allergic to beef. It's not a fake, it's not a joke, you can cross check this info on many sources. Of course, he says he just "considers the possibility", but doing so (for a "bioethics" guy) is fucking crazy already.
 

 

Off to the gulag for people like this and NYU needs their funding pulled immediately. 

 

You are the carbon they are trying to reduce.

[Stromboli1]

28 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

Director of the Center for Bioethics at NYU

 

This guy's résumé at NYU: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/s-matthew-liao.html

 

 

 

 

 

[Matt!]

Charlbi Dean, ‘Black Lightning’ actress, dead at 32

 

https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/black-lightning-actress-charlbi-dean-dead-at-32/

 

RIP 

[Matt!]

[Cult Icon]

^

I think secretly we are all jealous of him in some way. 😛

 

Playboy had it right; they shouldn't leave but should all be collected in one giant mansion.  They will never age and always be around to party for eternity. 🥰

[Matt!]

 

@Stromboli1 @Prettyphile

[PrettyDeadThings]

51 minutes ago, Matt! said:

 

@Stromboli1 @Prettyphile

I don't know how I feel about this...

[Cult Icon]

I heard that movie was made because of expiration of copyrights or something..

 

It is really frustrating to lose track of important documents.  I know it's somewhere in these rooms but there is just too much stuff to go through.

 

Another one is re-connecting with people long lost.  It is either wonderful or bittersweet.   Had a bittersweet one recently.

[Enrico_sw]

On 8/31/2022 at 11:03 PM, Matt! said:

 

And women will still dream of being with him (classical hypergamy).

 

Women who are angry against him are probably sad not to be with him. Men who are angry against him are probably jealous. Nothing new

 

And despite the slacktivist BS that he pours once in a while, I still think he's a great actor.