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#3 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2016-02-03 20:35:00

Aurelianus Augustus wrote:
Railey2 wrote:

thats a perfectly normal workload though :/

How is that a normal workload? Do you even college?

I go to uni and yes that is a normal workload. If you take uni seriously, you can spend more than 10 hours every day just studying by yourself, going to lectures, writing essays and working on uni-related projects.

Even though exams tend to be a bit more stressful than other uni-related work, yours was still just 3 hours.
If 3 hours of work is a lot for you, maybe you should consider not going to uni.

(how much you have to work depends a lot on your subject though. Engineers can be happy if they get away with less than 10 hours a day <_<)

#4 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2016-02-02 22:15:56

Mahogany wrote:

I just did a 3 hour English exam, came home, and then ended up writing a PR response in a tournament thread that took 40 minutes to compose

I still don't feel tired

The wonders of medication

thats a perfectly normal workload though :/

#8 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-12-10 19:19:42

UnderminE wrote:

>they give loadsamoney and treat cops to an expensive dinner

looks like justice has been served.

#9 Re: Off Topic » 卐 Politics 卐 » 2015-12-10 16:06:31

Plakkis wrote:
Railey2 wrote:

% of total GDB is just a scale you can use, like the absolute value in €.
The point I am making is that 100% of GDB in debt is not necessarily a bad thing. The debt = negative equation in peoples heads is not accurate.

And what happens when there's no control of the debt at all, there's nothing coming back and the country is just wasting the money instead of doing things with that could bring money to the country?

You hit the nail on its head, THAT is the real problem: When a country doesn't invest right and just piles up debts without putting the money they get out of it to use.

This includes sustaining bloated public sectors, pouring money into questionable gigantic projects, indulging in ludicrous Ponzi schemes, etc.

The debt as such is not the problem, but that is what most people following contemporary politics seem to think. Debt becomes a problem in conjunction with shitty choices in investment.

#10 Re: Off Topic » 卐 Politics 卐 » 2015-12-10 15:33:49

% of total GDB is just a scale you can use, like the absolute value in €.
The point I am making is that 100% of GDB in debt is not necessarily a bad thing. The debt = negative equation in peoples heads is not accurate.

#12 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-12-10 14:12:26

NotEvenDoomMusic wrote:

Welcome to the middle east,
where the law of physics does not apply and only the law of quran matters

They certainly proved that one thing they don't interpret literally is  9,798 m/s^2

#13 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-12-10 13:38:02

They do not realize that all of these bullets are coming down again. Its the equivalent of throwing a rock straight up in the air when you are in a crowd, not expecting it to come down again and hit someone.

Bullets of .30 caliber can already reach terminal velocities of ~90m/s, enough to kill a person.

This is really really stupid.

#14 Re: Off Topic » 卐 Politics 卐 » 2015-12-10 05:07:39

Plakkis wrote:

[...]
-Just like any other "1st world country" we're completely broke [...]

The US has been in debt since 1835. It is probably the most common misconception that national debt is necessarily something negative or unwanted. The word "debt" carries a very negative connotation, since it gets associated with.. debt collectors, losing your property and all these other things.

National debt is very different though. It is a macro-economical mechanism that gets used for both the states and investors benefit. It has been a very valuable strategy for the last century and it is a very valuable strategy now.

Debt can be positive if the state is making smart investments as opposed to paying public sector salaries that are blown way out of proportion (hello Greece).

First and foremost it is a way for the state to get lots of money while simultaneously creating a save haven for private investors, which helps out economic growth a lot.


Most people I've met have this "debts = bad" equation in their heads, but that isn't true. Reality is way more complicated than that, but most of the voters have no clue.

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