There is no “age verification” possible, only identity verification that reveals your age. Once OSes have kill switches installed that operate based on your identity, it’s a pretty straight line to enforcing that only the “right people” have access to computers.
Surely, even if riders are bearing 100% of the excess costs to the NJ Transit system during the World Cup, it chalks out to less than $100 per train ticket? The bus to Foxborough from Boston is rumored to be $95, which… surely renting buses isn’t that expensive?
A day earlier, New York Governor Kathy Hochul tweeted: “The World Cup should be as affordable and accessible as possible. Charging over $100 for a short train ride sounds awfully high to me.”
I’ll get the phrasing wrong, but:
Wanting to love yourself is already the beginning, because from where does the desire flow?
The more that we’re talking through this, the more seriously I’m considering the possibility that the reason BLS data is so divergent from what everyone is saying is because Trump’s DoL is cooking the books.
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we did it, lemmy
I was really hoping to set up someone to respond with the original image? But I guess I wasn’t transparently pedantic enough :/
There’s been a lot of back-and-forth, and I’m not sure anyone from the Iranian FA to FIFA to the World Cup organizers are really very sure what’s gonna happen. I do know it’s taken a lot of fun out of the Iran-Egypt Pride match for me – poking Iran in the eye for their poor record on lgbt issues feels pretty hollow coming from a country that is currently destroying the infrastructure lgbt Iranians rely on.
If you’re (other passers-by more than op) curious, there is a World Cup community for discussing this kinda stuff as well: [email protected] (fair warning, it’s a lot of me posting World Cup stuff, and there is a fair bit of sporting content as well)
Beating CPI nominally means it’s keeping up with rent, insurance, vacations, so I think your first paragraph is a little misguided (though the analysis does seem strong on the whole, please don’t read this as me being dismissive). I find the Statista headline somewhat deceptive – barely keeping up with inflation is another way to say that real wages are rising, which should be reflected as an improvement to people’s lived experience, even though that really doesn’t seem to be the case. And similarly, the idea of the CPI is that when insurance, rent etc are increasing faster than the CPI, it’s because we’re seeing compensatory gains in affordability in other parts of the market basket – groceries, medical care, what have you. I do find your argument that the CPI is measuring the wrong thing to be very persuasive, since it’s about the only thing that makes any sense to me – how else would we see sentiment tanking while economic indicators are rising? I’m just not sure what is being left out, though the idea that interest on credit cards isn’t included in the CPI and has significantly increased does sound very plausible.
Edit: I actually left out the part where we agree the hardest, which is dumb. I’m with you 1000% on the wealth gap being K-shaped and affecting consumer sentiment. I think there’s a real possibility that at a certain level of inequality, it doesn’t matter to Joe and Jane Consumer if they are richer than last year or not because Elon Musk is rich enough to cause Kessler Syndrome and no-one can stop him.
Are you going to limit it only those who are as pedantic as possible, or just those people who are annoyingly pedantic in general? Because I don’t think there are many occasions available when folks can be as pedantic as possible, just a bunch of situations where they are an above average amount of pedantic.
I seriously think this is the most correct analysis – people have internalized “a bad economy is bad for the president” and so if they don’t like the president, they say the economy is bad, regardless of actual economic conditions.
Maybe, but median real earnings have beaten the cpi by ~2.5% since 2021, and the median should be resilient against any kind of K-shaped economy except one divided exactly at the 50th percentile. But the vibes don’t feel ~2.5% better than 2021, and people that I know who are far above the median are feeling the squeeze, so I’m hesitant to just write this off as “K-shape just does that.”
I definitely opened this thread with the expectation that there’d be an unhinged horny comment from you about all this, but it’s just… informative historical facts? With interesting and relevant commentary? It’s good reading but I just… I’m just not sure I’m ready for serious violet08.
I might be missing some subtlety because of the axios paywall, but it is strange to me how completely decoupled our economic indicators have become from what people say about the economy. If you just look at the numbers, “the economy” is the best it’s ever been; if you look at what folks are saying on the socials, it’s the worst it’s ever been. You look at indicators that say that wages are up, sentiment is up, gdp is up, ppp is up, etc, and then everyone on fedi is working six jobs, haven’t been on a vacation in 17 years, and have four separate go-fund-me’s to make ends meet. I’m somewhat inclined to believe the truth is somewhere in between, such that traditional economic indicators (like the value of a bundle of representative stocks or a consumer sentiment survey) are missing quite a lot of the real economic activity and that folks online are confusing “US foreign and domestic policy are awful” for “the US economy is awful,” but we’ve slashed the BLS so thoroughly that I’m open to all sorts of exotic explanations.
If you take this idea a little further, you’ll eventually get a credit union.
The best part of Trump’s makeup is that it is a constant visible reminder that no-one who regularly wears makeup likes him enough to explain how to wear it well.
Thoughts think themselves
If AI companies were “burning cash” that would significantly increase the amount of total circulating money. “Burning cash” in this context means “spending money very quickly,” and that is the definition of circulating money. The fact that the AI companies are not burning cash, but instead signing complicated deals passing around promissory notes for future revenues, is what makes it look like a capital strike.
Imma hook up my game genie for chess 2
Three can keep a secret if two are dead.