I was just ****ing with ya.

While the teacher and police pay/pension situation is pretty ridiculous in many states, I've permanently suspended caring at all about it given that the increase in the recent spending deal, agreed to by Chuck & Nancy (aka the absolute WOAT "leaders" ever) increased defense spending (already more than the next 10 highest spending countries combined) by $80 billion, a large multiple of annual public sector nonsense.

Yeah I don't really care that much anymore either. Much bigger outrages.

Damn, it's like the end of an era.

I’m curious what chuck and Nancy were supposed to get, as the minority party, in the spending bill? They’re the minority, should they force the majority to give majority funding to their pet projects?

If you're asking about forecasting, then ones that get paid to produce forecasts for a living.

Sorry, what was the point again? Something about the "Trump economy" being good for poker and therefore don't hate this ****er that lays some blame on schoolkids for getting murdered?

Ironically, one of the clearest signs that he was a mentally disturbed anti-social ****stick is that he was a MAGAhead. Its one thing for an old that grew up during segregation to support another racist old dotard, but a young kid? Yeah, they have issues. But we are so politically correct these days that we can't say that. We need to stop being so politically correct. If we don't get smart it will only get worse.

Checks out.

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Almost? You look pretty bad my Dude.

10 years

lol

Then the 2nd half of my post that you didn't bold is true.

You made your point in the first 4 words. The next 400 were just a waste of energy

Incidentally that person just won the Nobel Prize in Economics. But Mason thinks he is wrong. Both sides!

wat

Also, "but mah tax dollers" is a bad meme that needs to die. The government prints money into circulation and then taxes people to take it back out. The framing of "the taxpayer" sets up a debate environment that's extremely conducive to right wing priorities and it isn't accurate. Not hating on you suzzer just pointing something out that every thinking person needs to have on their radar.

Also, just an observation that Mason shutting down 2p2 politics because he disagrees with the consensus view of the smart posters there would be an extremely sad end to my personal experience with poker and with TwoPlusTwo, which looks something like the below:

Finding poker -> Learning that many parts of the poker world/poker community were shady -> Finding 2p2 -> Learning that despite reputation/shadiness of much of poker, there were indeed plenty of smart and indeed extremely ethical people that occupied that
world -> Convincing friends/family of this point -> Online poker gets shut down, turns out huge swaths of it were in fact extremely shady, plenty of egg on my face for defending it as legitimate -> Taking comfort in the fact that 2p2 still exists, is owned/operated by people who hold the open exchange of information to be a core value -> Finish the story.

The Buffalo school district union had a clause that would pay for plastic surgery. Teachers were getting boob jobs paid for by the state. http://eagnews.org/buffalo-schools-s...ssive-deficit/

In LA USD it costs like $500k to fire a teacher for bad performance. And then they still get hired back some of the time. Standard play is to offer terrible teacherst $50k to go away. Otherwise they just don’t fire anyone. Something like 10 teachers out of 30k were fired for poor performances over a decade. http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-t...y03-story.html

The second one has the double whammy of not only costing taxpayers millions but being terrible for the kids.

And yes it does matter where that money comes from. If UPS union wants to negotiate for boob jobs I don’t care. But when a public sector union does it with public tax dollars, and also puts in tons of money to get friendly politicians elected to sit across from them st the bargaining table -that **** matters.

But again the existential threat to democracy we have in the WH right now is a lot higher on my radar.

For state and local taxes, you're right. I still don't think it's useful to use the "taxpayer" framework, but that's off topic. The boob job thing is something I'd just never care about but that's hilarious.

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The part about peer review being meaningless if there is no accompanying empirical work? That's not really the case. There are absolutely problems with scientific peer review, but I don't think lack of empirical work in a paper is one of them. There are pure theory papers in econ just like there are in physics, psychology, biology, etc. So the peer review in that case will evaluate things like theory development quality, assumptions, plausibility, novelty, and overall contribution; the empirical check is left for the empiricist. And trust me, the reviewers are absolute savages.

A lot of new economic theory is based on data peers can check.

America Is Under Attack And The President Doesn't Care

I mean, sure, it's probably bad that our president is Putin's puppet, doing everything he can to help Putin so long as he and the GOP get some small amount of (illegal) help from Russia. And so what that Putin has been supporting authoritarian parties around the world, like AfD and the GOP. Who cares so long as the economy is good and something something poker, right?

Freedom and democracy? Don't need it. Just need a strong economy.

The owner of the MagazineplusBullets Forum made a thread almost exactly like this recently.

Workers allege Disney withheld $1,000 bonuses until employees agree to lower wages

https://thinkprogress.org/disney-uni...-bff5b8caa0fc/


Can't spell trickle-down without trick.

Am I the only one that think adios should be banned for this post? What's the benefit of allowing a member to participate in a political discussion if he is arguing in a completely disingenuous manner? At least poconoder and Mason make (horrible) points and take positions on things.

"Tell us about some of your political beliefs."

"I'm just one guy, what does it matter, DUCY?"

It's not a discussion at this point, it's just a monkey mashing his fingers on the keyboard.