i-thaphithin replied to your link: ask me questions“Secondly, in this process lest we make some of the farmers jobless.” — HOW DID THIS PAPER MAKE IT THROUGH PEER REVIEW? That is not a sentence. It doesn’t even pretend to be a sentence. Ugh bedtime pretty soon.
i-thaphithin replied to your link: ask me questions
Simple question, because I’m drinking wine. What’s your favorite varietal?
Concord.
At home reading about RA work and realizing that this is very far from my core competency areas. Yay learning, right?
Questions in return, et cetera, as always.
“We don’t mind how they do it if it allows us to have enough liquid assets in order to pay, and do it in time, because we all have bills to pay at the end of the month.” —
Wow, okay. So if this statement (from Catalan President Artur Mas) is indicative of the entitled and wholly uninformed attitude of European politicians, then the Spain is in huge trouble right now.
As more power has been devolved to the regions, they have responded by borrowing more - and fast. As Moody’s recently noted, the ratio of total debt to government revenue in Catalonia is well above 200% and rising quickly. The government ran a deficit more or less twice what it pledged last year, and no one believes they can actually balance the budget (or even come close).
So at this point they are more or less totally out of options for financing the 13.5 billion euro they’re going to have to borrow from new lenders to pay back to old ones this year. Investors are unlikely to buy their bonds, bank loans will probably be very expensive (the neighbouring region of Valencia is currently paying 7% for a six-month loan which is obviously unsustainable), and the region-issued vigourously-nationalist “Patriot Bonds” (if your government ever issues these DO NOT BUY THEM) already account for a quarter of Catalan savings so that market is probably tapped out.
So what is the regional president’s suggestion? Well. He’s demanding that the central government help pay off his region’s debt. Or, if not pay off, then arrange for bonds that pay the average rate of all the regional governments which any regional government can issue but all the regional governments have to pay for. If this doesn’t sound unfair enough, consider that Catalonia is the richest part of Spain.
So that sounds… alarmingly out of touch with reality, right? And demonstrative of the big problem that the Spanish government faces but the Greek, Irish, and Portuguese ones didn’t: Spain is composed of lots of autonomous regions with broad control over their own spending, and all of those regions are going to try to blame the central government for their problems rather than raise taxes or cut spending. And in the end, the central government is almost certainly going to have to bail them all out anyway.
(Source: telegraph.co.uk)
faucet replied to your post: i-thaphithin replied to your post: narrowly…
Who is this imposter? I am the SF contact! No one else!
Wait what you two don’t already know each other? Holy eff how did this happen? I assume all my tumblr buddies all know each other already and that you all have cool adventures together when I’m not around.
At any rate: faucet, this is i-thaphithin and i-thaphithin, this is faucet. You both live in San Francisco. I believe you have what monetary economists call a “coincidence of wants” regarding gin. Therefore it’s high time you were introduced.
i-thaphithin replied to your post: narrowly escaped death on the bus on the way to the coffee shop
Your invitation to stay in SF has been suspended pending a medical examination.
Ah noooo why I promise I’m not infected! My nose always leaks blood like this it’s not a big deal. Please let me get into proximity with your mucous membranes.
At one point I thought it would be funny put together a grey metal box with a triple-pronged metal extension on a cord (like something a shapeshifter might shove into your corpse’s soft palate) and put it conspicuously at the top of my backpack for when I stayed with a tumblr who was into Fringe. But then I realized that this might end up with them panicking and trying to pre-emptively chop me up in my sleep or something. Which yeah would be kind of suboptimal.
Only three passengers on the bus: a cute guy frantically writing in a notebook, an expensively-dressed guy glaring at the other passengers, and me. After the glaring guy got off the bus quite suddenly, the cute guy got a really hacking cough, and stopped writing because he was so surprised at what he was coughing up into his hand.
Managed to get off the bus pretty soon after that. Pretty sure I was about fifteen seconds away from being autopsied by Walter after the credits.
They are drinking and doing homework before going dancing. Where? “A place downtown” but no further details. I don’t even know why the ambiguity over his orientation is so maddening. I mean, it’s none of my business. But it’s pretty much a running gag that every time I see him I get a totally opposite mixed signal.
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d(w), where w is your weight in pounds, is a linear relationship which defines the amount of pure alcohol you need to drink in one hour or less to reach approximately .08 BAC, and thus be legally drunk.
To translate your pure alcohol number into how much you need to drink of a given beverage, simply divide the results of d by the drink’s alcohol by volume percentage. So a 175 pound man, where d(175) = 2.36, would need to drink 2.36/0.4 = 5.9 ounces of 80-proof vodka in less than an hour to cross the .08 threshold.
Reblogging not because we’re all planning on drinking up to the legal limit or anything (seriously, I don’t even know if that is the legal limit, and I don’t have my driver’s license anyway) but because you should all be following cakesandcourage for his awesome data visualizations (if for no other reason).
Also three and a half shots of vodka in an hour takes me to 0.08 apparently. Not sure if I’d call that drunk, but definitely not suitable for driving.