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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Maybe it's because I took economics as far back as high school, but even just from reading high school history books I knew what a Tariff was. How the FUCK did they not know that?

I am also willing to bet that they will eventually blame the democrats for breaking the system, as they always do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

Maybe thr PA education system didn't include things like the great depression

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

One thing that fascinates me is that Trump's definition of tariffs seems more like the definition of kickbacks.

As he was (is?) a landlord, he may also think of it as seeking rent, like how malls get rent from the stores inside.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

As a foreign asset, I think Trump is just actively performing a proxy war to drain the US of money, power, and resources for Russia. If you think he's going to be doing anything else - lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

It can be both. Lying is more convincing when it's felt as truth by the liar.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago) (4 children)

There’s a fair portion of people 21+ that have difficulty playing blackjack because they can’t add to 21. Last night I was asked by a grown man what 9+1+3 is.

You’d be surprised how incompetent some people are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 57 minutes ago (2 children)

Even if you're competent at arithmetic in school, those skills can definitely atrophy. I say this as someone who's unreasonably slow at basic arithmetic despite being an ex-mathlete; I got complacent because I've been learning and using graduate level maths, so I thought that would keep me from getting rusty. Nope — it turns out that basic arithmetic that you'd use in daily life is a different "muscle" to the kind of maths you use in academic research (which is obvious in hindsight)

I can't imagine how much I'd be struggling if I didn't have a good foundation to be starting from

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

You aren't alone. Historically before calculators were common, engineers and mathematicians would actually have books with basic arithmetic answers already done, or they would hire people (usually women) called 'computers' (no joke, that's what the term was used for before computers as we know it were invented) to do the basic calculations for mathematicians so they can focus on the more complicated stuff.

So even a highly talented mathematician from the 1910s and 1920s would still struggle as you do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

Math anxiety is real tbf, I can add that up real fast without the pressure of someone looking at me waiting for me to solve it, but the second another person is watching I can't even think about the math I just obsess about how I should be solving it faster and how they now think I'm dumb because instead of doing the math I'm thinking about this bullshit and it's taken 10 whole seconds which is a lot longer than it sounds..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Holy shit. I never put this together.

Last time I was at a casino I kept asking myself: who honestly thinks any of this is a good idea, or thinks that any of these are "games" in the conventional sense? Now I know.

Edit: I have also been confronted with people that simply cannot do addition, period. It's wild.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Funny you should mention a casino. Remember when Donald Trump bankrupted multiple casinos? That is actually quite impressive given how often casinos attract people even during recessions as they get stressed and desperate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

The quickest and easiest way to win at a casino is not to buy in, don’t play. You’ve got the right idea!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I worked in customer service for 7 years. I am aware... so very aware...

To give you an idea, when I worked for Verizon mobile, it was a few times a week that I came across a client who did not know how to hang up their cellphone calls. No joke. It took such a while to get them off the hook it wasn't funny. And if you ask me why I wouldn't hang up on them, it was because Verizon had a strict no hang-up policy. You were not allowed to hang up on a client no matter what. It was grounds for immediate termination.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Maybe it was a HR call to test your patience with customers