#economics is hard

[another-superstition]

i’m taking a small break in the library from econ but my focus today has been very writing based,

so hi.

the worst part of this is i don’t know what to write about.

do i write about the boy who currently holds my fascination?

or do i write about the crushing feeling that i’ll always be alone?

or maybe i combine them somehow,

into some weird prose-poetry combination.

because i can never make decisions,

and my rambled writings are truly no different.

at least i’ve got the comfy spot in the library today, though.

[study-diaries]

Study Trick That No One Told Me.

Division of subjects:

Every subject is learnt and graded in a different way. You can't use the same study techniques for every subject you have. You have mostly 3 types of subjects:

Memorization based

Practical/Question based

Theory/Essay based

Memorization based:

Mostly Biology, Sciences, Geography etc are fully based on memorization and so you'll use memory study techniques like flash cards and active recall.

Practical/Question based:

Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Accountancy etc are practice subjects. The more you do your questions and understand how a sum is done, the better you can score.

Theory/Essay based:

English, history, business studies etc are theory based. The more you write, the way you write and the keywords you use are the only things that will get you your grades. So learn the formats and the structure on how to write your answers

Note: Some subjects are a combination of the three. Like Economics etc

The reason we divide the subjects is because you can adopt the right study methods for the right subject. Like ex: business studies is mostly based on how you write your answer and the keywords, if you're gonna spend your time memorizing in this, it's a waste of time and energy.

Hope this helps :)

[lukashaaa]

Patho fanart of varying quality

[generallyjl]

this twitter blue shit is absolutely murdering me genuinely what the fuck are you little weirdos talking about

"george washington wants you to pay $8 a month for free speech" is not the serious take you want it to be but it is sooooooo absurdly fucking funny

[girlishwhimsies]

thinking about the economic divide in the outsiders again. sigh.

[so-much-for-subtlety]

yk that jellied eel post got me so nostalgic. I’ve lived in the U.S. for 14 years now and never imagined going back home to NZ but I can definitely imagine it now, maybe another 10 years in the U.S.

[toastby-4s]

Idk if whoever wrote this knew what they were doing but...

the way my heart *stopped*

the actual title is "Dead Boy Detectives season 2 on Netflix cancelled? Check latest renewal status", but the damn Economic Times had to play us like that...

[rotzaprachim]

my god i think it's time for leftists to never make fun of the entire discipline of economics or act like acknowledging the existence of money is inherently right wing ever again now that we have a right wing president who was voted in on the specific promise that he would make things more expensive by people who swore he would make them cheaper!

[maybe-boys-do-love]

*sobs* life isn't fair, kan, i know. and death isn't fair. we want the best for our loved ones and it's not fair that they can't always get it. how do we move on from that??? he just wanted you to be happy. the work he did, the support for the community, it was for his lonely little girl to live as happy as a life as he could give her. *continues to sob for the rest of the week*

[coulsonlives]

This dude spitting facts! Please consider listening to this if you have the time, it's just under 3 mins. :)

(Inb4 all the people who claim this video is 'defending boomers' when there's a big difference between explaining something and justifying the outcomes.)

[capsofcotton]

Somehow my jazzprowl tfone fic has become instead a scathing critique of capitalism how did we get here

[study-diaries]

127 days left

Today wasn't bad, could have done better but I'm honestly really proud that i almost completed my to do list T-T

Today I:

Completed 6 lessons in Arabic

Completed 2 lesson (Part 1-3) in Business Studies

Tomorrow's to do list:

Wake up early and revise Arabic + learn 1 more lesson.

Study Business Studies 4 chapters for midterm

[mosstrades]

im having an absolute unadulterated blast with the Ethersea prologue for many many reasons, it's beautiful and exceeds all my expectations.. but also. there's many moments here that genuinely make me go "oh god damn, these people are Americans." the Quiet Year system is a profoundly fascinating and revealing game - nothing tells you quite as much about how somebody sees the world than asking them to imagine a new one.

[chicago-geniza]

Read too much Pride & Prejudice and Downton Abbey fanfiction and now get freaked out by how kinky the concept of marriage is. You vow to worship your spouse with your body. You're signing a contract about property rights and also sex. It's the most hard-core mutual objectification agreement two people can enter into under the law? It would be so fucked up if marriage were real

[ocdhuacheng]

god wakes up in the 21st century

god is hit by truck-kun

god gets to ride in a car

god gets an X ray

god finds out the concept of medical debt

god becomes an internet sensation

god causes local economic collapse

And finally

god tries boba tea

[sufficientlylargen]

I feel like companies should be required to pay dividends to stockholders. Like, that used to be a thing that most companies did - if you owned a tiny piece of the company, then you got a tiny piece of the profits.

Without that, though, stock has no real value except what you can persuade people to pay you to buy it from you (except in a few specific and uncommon situations), which makes it basically just beanie babies or tulips again - the only way owning stocks makes you money is if the amount people are willing to pay for your stocks keeps going up, which it generally does until it suddenly doesn't. And the value of a stock isn't a function of how well the company is doing, it's a function of how well other people perceive that the company's stock is going to do, which is why things like gamestonk can happen.

I dunno, I just think that the whole system would make slightly more sense if owning shares in a company meant getting shares of the company's profits.