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  1. Economics is broad and multi-causal. Every participant is a factor. Implicating a single entity and a single cause is as dumb as biden repeating his slogan of ... "putins price hike" Outside of the cuckoo clock chirping strictly about corporations' magical unilateral pricing power, the bulk of the thread has been people discussing monetary policy, consumer incentives, and cost contribution from all points along the supply chain. Greet the moose out front when ya pass him
  2. Inflation is when you thought you had a counterpoint sharing PPI chart. Disinflation is when you suspected you might have shared the wrong thing. Deflation is when you realized nobody gives a shit about PPI.
  3. My favorite cultural half-lore is the Japanese are such obsessive perfectionists, the best of everything in the world exists in that country alone. Like you can plausibly believe that in the suburbs outside Osaka theres a middle aged man who spent 15 years and half his life savings apprenticing in a Budapest etterem, and now he cooks a pork goulash so good it’ll make a Hungarian grandma cry.
  4. Inflation is partisan because when grocery shoppers go to the check-out the clerk asks whom they voted and charge the price based on the answer.
  5. if you accelerate for a long time, above historical rate, and then paused the acceleration, your underlying speed is still high. that’s quite objective. makes sense that people who call dudes cuties would find that confusing.
  6. Which of the 2 measurement is most pertinent and related to the typical expenditure of an individual? if you answer right, you could collect the first wrinkle on your brain
  7. Because how much Conagra pays Deere for a tractor reflects the price of rent for the studio apartment you share with comradeant
  8. Lol, $150 offer sounds like spirit/swa levels of generosity. In my younger days i would intentionally book the busiest flights for work, to enter the voucher lottery. Job load was light and i had all the time in the world. If i got one i would just sit in the lounge and watch movies. Think the (CO/UA) vouchers had equivalent value of $350 or something like that.
  9. ive played basketball since i was a kid, and still dont understand this one
  10. also i bought her tickets to camila cabello and gift certs to the movies because its one of her favorite activities. the concert was cancelled because camila got sick, and the movie GC expired because we never had time to go. so we're pretty bad at this gifting thing.
  11. i think it was about 6 years ago my fiancee gifted an IOU saying we will take a trip to iceland. now we're married and still havent gone. jokes on her though, ive already been there.
  12. Oh, okay. we had a respite in price growth on the basis of last month to this month. Its in the green box.
  13. Tom Aspinall is the real deal in that thin division. I was really disappointed when he murked his own knees against Blaydes, because it would rob HW of the only other true talent (outside of Gane). Jamahal Hill is a pretender. I dont think he would survive even Jiri.
  14. thats a lie. there are no women on the internet. I quite *literally* said I **dont** criticize your lifestyle as hypocritical - which is what someone else did upthread - and 3x said your choice in life should be yours guilt free. maybe once more en espanol instead?
  15. If a person wants to be the Mother Teresa of Earth stewardship, kudos to them, im a fan of self-agency. My point is that harboring weltschmerz over impending catastrophization of humankind is a very regressive belief system. In part because it is blind to the spectacular advancement humans have made so far, and will continue to make to support life. When my granddad grew up, the atomic structure was barely understood. Houses were lit with candles and oil lamps. The “airplane” glided the length of a football field. And he had never seen an automobile. When my dad grew up, there was nuclear energy, television was beamed down from satellites, and a human walked on the fucking moon. Now I can put a solar panel on my roof, harness electricity for free, and have it power a family sedan that goes 200 miles per hour. (Mine goes 160 from hydroelectric power but itll do). Human ingenuity did all that. If two spouses are of reasonable intelligence, make some kids. Chances are theyre going to be smart, capable, and their cohort together will produce some shit we cant even imagine to solve problems we havent even encountered. My comments on being self-centered is not an endorsement of doing wanton wasteful shit, purely for the sake of it. Thats being a bad human. Modding an diesel truck to roll coal for jollies is bad juju. Owning one to occasionally tow a recreation boat is a prerogative that you should enjoy and not feel guilt over. So I will not flag hypocrisy against someone like @trophfor parking a F350 in his garage next to his Tesla. Hes probably a good human being making sensible choices, and a F350 with a Tesla is still better than 2xF350s. I will pick a bone with someone like John Kerry flying around in private jets to sit in climate change conferences. NOT because I think his (“family’s”) jet contributes directly to the future calving of 1m3 of glacier that rises sea level and kills 4 bengali kids. But I think that level of hypocrisy is an insult to human integrity.
  16. The only “hydrogen powered car” im aware of are the extant FCEV represented commercially by a few models. Theres 1 fueling station very near to me. There used to be 2, but one literally blew up a few years ago.
  17. You might not be "against" having children, and I believe you have and love your N-2 offsprings, but the general sentiment of "humans = bad" is common amongst the climate doomer community, and active promotion of population reduction is their belief. It is also a plain fact, and also in that graphic, that wealthier and more educated slices of the population have far fewer children than the rest. That's not an optimal situation, broadly speaking.. *insert Mike Judge reference here*. Compressing gas at high pressures and transporting it from station to station seems way less good than delivering electricity. Which we already do pretty much everywhere.
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