It’s hilarious to watch economists dismiss the social sciences as pseudoscientific when economics itself is 80% malarkey and hogwash while the social sciences are only 50% worthless dead ends and sewage.
But economics has more math! So it has to be better! Mathing it up, though, only means it’s just as wrong, but more abstrusely, and with more of the Greek alphabet.
It appears that “peaked” has nearly completely replaced “piqued” as in “piqued your interest.”
Needless to say, this leaves me in a fit of pique. I’m at peak pique, therefore.
US has backed right-wing coups up and down Latin America for 100+ years. Not one was about democracy. All have been to enrich the global elite. But we’re supposed to believe this time in Venezuela – which has the world’s largest oil reserves – is different?
— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) January 24, 2019
I don’t really understand what’s happening in Venezuela, but I do understand that what the US is doing is all about the oil.
No oil, we wouldn’t care a whit about Venezuela and it wouldn’t be all over the news. When’s the invasion start?
I wish I’d had zero math education after elementary school and had been able to start advanced linguistics, literature, language, anthropology, etc. classes in sixth grade or so instead of wasting so much time on something so worthless to me. Even attending a college instead of sixth grade would’ve been fine. I was more than capable of it.
Any of that was impossible for several reasons: my middle and high schools were fairly bad and there were maybe two other students at most in the whole county who could’ve handled the same material I could’ve. So there was no reason for it to be offered. No money, no market.
I do wonder sometimes, though, how it would’ve been if I’d had better educational opportunities and better teachers, but then that likely would’ve pushed me into academia which for me would’ve been a huge mistake and something I would’ve regretted. It worked out in the end, and not just in a sour grapes way. But I do still wonder if I’d grown up elsewhere what would’ve been different.