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On 6/5/2025 at 6:18 PM, Brisketexan said:

I'm a big fan of the "enshittification" trend of making it hard to....fucking give a merchant your money.

Go to CVS to buy a battery for my car key fob.  Go to the self scanner.  Scan single battery.  Try to swipe card.  Nope.  First, have to push the button on screen "finish and pay."  Then "pay with card."  Then "do you want to join rewards, yes or no."  Then "do you want to donate to save the gay whales for Jesus, yes or no" then a final button of "ok."  

Dude.  The entire process should be....scan battery.  Swipe card.  Transaction confirmed, leave CVS.

Don't forget your 6' receipt with coupons so you'll get more practice with the CVS process next time.

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2026 COLA Prediction Rises to 2.5% as BLS Faces Challenges With Collecting CPI Data

TSCL predicts Social Security’s 2026 COLA will be 2.5 percent, up from last month’s prediction of 2.4 percent. The TSCL model’s prediction has increased for four consecutive months.

Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics faces unprecedented challenges collecting data for the price index used to calculate the COLA. According to the Wall Street Journal, a hiring freeze at the agency has forced the Consumer Price Index program to cut back on the number of businesses where it measures prices. In April, the agency said it had used a less accurate method for estimating prices more than usual, due to a shortage of workers, and it has stopped collecting consumer inflation data in three cities.

So essentially we’ve DOGE’d the BLS to the extent they don’t have enough people to give accurate data and so their estimate of inflation that will wind up as the COLA interest increase for Social Security may be under reported.  

They now predict a 2.5 COLA.  up .1 every month for three months.  The interesting thing is this comes out with many months to go yet in the year.  if July August and September are not that bad but October November December skyrockets - the olds are just fucked for 2026.   

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