6% unemployment in the USA during the presidential election?
How about a friendly wager on this, @MaMoMVPY ? https://t.co/YtOSDLhDpd
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) May 11, 2020
Barry, why go easy on that dingus? Employment will probably not even be below 16% in November, much less 6%. How could anyone think something so absurd?
You can’t justify it. This will likely push tenure off the cliff faster. Already many places are over reliant on adjuncts, eliminating tenure tracks positions, and that trend will continue. https://t.co/HWEgEU8cYo
— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) May 11, 2020
If the coronavirus collapses the house of cards that is university education, that would not be a bad thing. It’s not a good value for most even at $5,000 a year — but at $70K per year it’s robbery.
Fact about me: I have played several hundred chess games in my life, and never won a single one. Not even once.
The funniest loss was to a seven-year-old in a Cracker Barrel when I was sixteen or seventeen. I mean, I knew I’d lose but everyone else watching was shocked. I was in the chess club in high school in my successful attempt to be more social. By the way, I try to win all the matches. I’ve never deliberately lost. Just no talent.
Chess is like math for me. Have no idea what’s going on, nor why. Nor any hope of figuring it out. But I still had fun in the club.
Are people this stupid to not understand that Golding's vision was an allegory of his own day? The dehumanizing experience of boarding schools, abuse, bullying, group-think vs. the rosy narratives proposed by boys adventure fiction? https://t.co/S6aaYSnsLM
— Joachim Boaz (@SFRuminations) May 9, 2020
My friend, they are indeed that stupid. Most cannot do a three-key keyboard shortcut with weeks of training.
So of course they do not understand literature, commentary, satire, authorship, abstraction, layers of meaning, ideas and their ecosystems, complex dynamic systems or even the existence thereof, or that the world can be any different than it is.
So no, most hardly understand anything at all.
As an American currently in South Korea, it’s very interesting to me the stark contrast of how different the two countries’ response to coronavirus is. I don’t think most Americans fully understand the lengths that South Korea has undergone, so I’ll try my best to explain.
— Michael Kim (@michaelvkim) May 9, 2020
America is incapable of doing anything even remotely close to this, for an entire variety of reasons, practical and ideological — all self-inflicted.
We are so fucked, both from Covid-19 and climate change to come.