Nah. He's cost me more money than anybody here. Outside of a few long term strategic interests, tariffs are a terrible idea.

Just having fun on this one. Whatever party is in charge never takes responsibility for inflation and it's always someone else's fault.

Every Republican and Hillary Democrat (me included) hammered on about tariffs causing inflation when it was Bernie vs Hillary.

Trump goes wild on tariffs, Republicans develop amnesia, and Bernie Bros pivot from blaming corporations to blaming the govt.

But their costs were going up not down.

So... not corporate greed this time? :)

And instead of "shows itself to be correct"

But it would be just one more data point in the evaluation of AI weather forecasting models.
#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-07 06:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

They've been using AI models in weather forecasting for 40 years. In the 2010s it moved on to CNNs & RNNs. 15 years later it's on to GNNs and Vision Transformer models. The new models beat them across the board. Have you used python before? If so, what models have you trained?

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How about to get into grad schools?

#38 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-07 09:11 AM | Reply | Flag:

Graduate with a 3.0, have decent projects. Not hard.

It's still the mantra. The liberal arts, the humanities, poli sci, all the classes the State of Texas makes students take is to increase their voter efficacy.

A person's voter efficacy is inversely proportional to what party they vote for. High = Democrat, Low = Republican.

#34 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-06 07:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

Long term income. You're stuck on outliers. 43% of Baristas have a bachelor degrees. Every degree, in Texas at least, has to have Core Requirements from the humanities to make students more well rounded people. You don't get to skip Writing in the Arts, Philosophy/Ethics, multiple History courses, etc, because you're a biologist or data scientist.

Employers love theatre majors.

#27 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-06 06:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Performing arts graduates face some of the highest underemployment rates of any major, sitting between 62% and 66." -Federal Reserve

College Majors with the Highest Underemployment
Major Underemployment rate
Criminal justice 67.2%
Performing arts 62.3%
Medical technicians 57.9%
Liberal arts 56.5%
Anthropology 55.9%

College Majors with the Lowest Underemployment
Major Underemployment rate
Nursing 9.7%
Miscellaneous education 16.0%
Elementary education 16.1%
Computer science 16.5%
Chemical engineering 16.5%

Are you talking about people who want to be making big money in their field of major upon graduation?

#27 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-06 06:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

Just people that want to pay off their student loans.

I spend ample time in the UH Grad School of Social Work and I'm a researcher on two humanities projects through the school's history dept.

but I don't have a history major or minor, because that's not a great idea in today's world. Keep it to a hobby.

Nobody said that lol. What people said was "wiped off the map", "gone for months", but it was just a single pump house and 2 week outage.

The only offensive Houthi op currently ongoing is at Ta'izz. They tried to cut the roads into Ta'izz were suffered heavy attrition while failing to do that. Moving troops to do that cost them the entire SW coastline as they Giants rolled up the forces there, pushed them into the sea, and as seen in the earlier video ran over those that tried to surrender with MRAPs. Houthi lines going backwards at Marib.

Houthis did well fighting the people that didn't want to fight. Now they're going backwards on most of the fronts, and no major army has even committed to fighting them yet.

2012-2025 religious studies, foreign languages, English, history are all down 40%-56%, because people don't want to be poor.

I didn't create the conditions for people getting those degrees to be underemployed, but most commerce around the world doesn't need an army of historians. There's not that many museums, and they generally don't pay that well.

Those kinds of useless degrees?

#11 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-05 04:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

The Houthis have shoulder launched missiles, but no theater capable air defenses, no air force, and no forests to hide in. Every time they mass up it rains bombs on them.

It's unlikely to be the army dependent on Iranian largesse that's on the local version of cocaine.

On one side it's a deteriorating 40k Houthi force with Iranian & Russian intel and arms support.

On the other it's UAE and Saudi militias & mercenaries + Yemen govt forces, with US & UK JTACs, 40k Pakistani troops, 100k Saudi troops, 50k+ Turkish troops, and a mobilizing Egyptian army.

Now it's a real war, the guys just there to collect a check are dead.

"Strategic time". Define your timeframe and victory conditions.

It's chess

#20 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-10-06 08:05 AM | Reply | Flag:

You think an army that's 80% teenagers on khat are the chess players.

jfc.

Check the link in #14, that's what your "checkmate" looks like. It' Houthis getting Grand Theft Auto'd. Gruesome. So gruesome when I heard the video had appeared online I didn't believe it, then it showed up in a random facebook reel between gary owens and barndominium plans... Meta really should work on that.