u/BasalTripod9684

I'm just so sick of these people, dude. I'm a senior. I spent the past 4 years hearing about frats and sororities pulling some new type of heinous, immoral or outright illegal shit every other week and I'm so tired of it. I don't know if we'd just have to start some sort of petition or what, but my god we need to get these orgs out of here.

There is literally no silver lining to them being here. They contribute absolutely nothing to this university in any meaningful way. Surely to God the random bi-annual $1 pie-in-the-face tables don't financially make up for the reputational and very physical damage these groups do to UT and its student body.

I don't know or care exactly who the incompetent pos is who let that concerningly naive statistic of spots supposedly opening up 2-3 times a day actually affect parking policy, but that stupid bastard needs to be out of a job as soon as possible.

Edit: To avoid seeing more of the pattern that popped up in the first 10 minutes of this post being up, I'm going to politely ask y'all to read more than the title before commenting. Pretty please and thank you.

Literally where do I even start. I'm a sleep deprived student who needs to rant, so bear with me.

I'm a finance nerd. By extension that includes crypto in the sense that I think that the concept of a genuine peer-to-peer financial system is just really interesting. I just wish people wouldn't make it so hard to take it seriously by absorbing and regurgitating literally any and everything they hear without even thinking about basic economic/monetary principles.

Bitcoin having a limited supply does not give it intrinsic value. Literally one of the first things that you learn in any intro economics class ever is that the idea that scarcity implies value is just objectively incorrect. It has extrinsic value because people are willing to trade it and accept it as payment. Just like every fiat currency ever.

Don't even fucking get me started on this idea that Bitcoin or crypto in general is somehow completely independent from fiat currency or the US dollar especially. Or this idea that bitcoin is somehow going to replace the dollar eventually as the daily use currency in the US. The crypto market, Bitcoin especially, is objectively more volatile than nearly any other asset class, on account of the fact that that the entire crypto market sees the first and largest swings based on *perceived* potential shifts in the value of the US dollar, before even the actual forex market does, because its largely speculative. Nevermind the fact that over 40% of all Bitcoin in existence is owned by Americans, who will absolutely start selling every sat they have en mass if the dollar actually starts collapsing, which it won't, because its the world's de-facto reserve currency.

Crypto is not *the* future, but it could be at least PART of the future, if people would stop being so stupid about it.

My god I got to campus an hour and a half early for my first class this morning and spent damn near the entire time driving around campus looking for a spot. I'm not even exaggerating. Every single goddamn lot was completely full. Literally the only reason I could even park was because I eventually just bit the bullet and just went to a paid spot.

Does CC parking clear up even a little bit after the first week or two? I expected the first day back to be bad, but holy shit. If it doesn't then I'll be refunding my pass if I can because this is insane.

1. No, I can't blow up a balloon you brought from home or grabbed from the party aisle, its company policy. No, I don't care how much of an inconvenience you think it is.

2. Yes, we are out of that specific balloon and/or helium right now. No, I can't sell you one from the wall. I'd get in trouble, they don't have strings on them, and the fucking things aren't even filled with helium to begin with.

3. No, I don't know where the penny items are. Yes, I do know that the tiktok you watched this morning makes it look like workers try to hide the penny stuff. No, I'm not trying to be cute when I say I literally don't know. They don't tell us that.

4. Yes, you do have to leave your backpack up front. No, I don't care that you're "using it as a purse." You're not being slick.

5. Yes, we have tap-to-pay, just like every other chain retail store in the world.

6. Turn the fucking card the other way around. The bar faces inward. That's the standard for every card reader ever.

7. No, I can't break a $100 right now. We opened 10 minutes ago. Go to an ATM.

8. No, I can't check to see if we have any more of that in the back. I'm literally not allowed to.

9. No, we don't have the goddamn dumplings.

10. No, we don't have any pokemon cards (and if we did, it'd be the shitty 3rd party re-packs with like, 2 worthless cards in them).

So I'm replaying through the game again after not touching it for a while, and my god I swear this game is actively making this first Crimson fight infinitely more difficult than it should be with some unprecedented fuckery.

9 times out of 10 I've watched my missiles literally teleport away from my target right before they actually hit. Its not even subtle, they'll get right behind them, and then suddenly pop like 50 ft to the side. Even when I'm just using guns I swear to God my reticle gets click-dragged to the opposite side of the screen before I even start shooting.

Like, I know you're not "supposed" to actually fight them here, the game literally tells you not to, but I've done it before, and at this point I've tried so many times that the sunk cost fallacy already set in.

Is it actually artificially more difficult or am I just bad, lmao?

I checked this morning and every one of my other scholarships and grants for the year have been applied already, but my Pledge scholarship hasn't been added to my balance yet.

They were late with the last-dollar scholarships last year too, but I just wanted to make sure it wasn't just me lol.