Exactly. I get the frustrations of the son and grandson of factory workers that finds it hard to imagine anything more than working at Walmart wanting to tear it all down. What I don’t understand is my neighbor in Dana Point.

Yeah, insta-fail is just lazy design. Becoming undetected again is fun.

https://youtu.be/J6bv92W4YnE?feature=shared

Found it, enjoy!

And Mel Gibson. When they were lobbying to get rid of the regulations, the supplement industry did commercials that had Mel’s home getting raided by SWAT-looking guys for having supplements.

Google images of “oasis band members.”

Even in Maine and Nebraska, two of their electrical votes are statewide just some are allocated to CDs. A state’s electrical votes are determined by their total number of senators and representatives. The ones that correspond to the two senators are statewide.

I don’t have any books anymore. I took them all, several hundred, to Goodwill a few years ago. I hadn’t bought any in years because I’ve buying ebooks exclusively for a long time now. I have about 700 in my reader and almost any Internet connected device I have access to. My reading list is too long to reread anything, I thought others might get some use out of them.

Not having books in the house doesn’t mean what it once did.

Yeah, this is easy. Find a house, airplane, or mega yacht that costs just over 100mm, offer 100mm cash today, then wait 29-30 days for your billion.

I wonder about that. During the deepest part of sleep does your brain have enough activity to maintain a continuous stream of consciousness? If you go through two sleep cycles in a night does yesterday you die, and you from the first sleep cycle who only dreamed die, and you’re a new consciousness in the morning?

Is there any chance that comment was satire?

You don’t think the ‘greedy’ food production industry is gonna raise their prices for restaurants?

It doesn’t matter what I think, or what you think. The intermediate PPI I linked is what they’re paying. And what they’ve been paying has seen annualized deflation of ~5% for most of a year now. Why? I’m not sure. Maybe because we can’t stop eating but restaurants can close their doors if their profit margins disappear so their demand is more elastic. It doesn’t make sense for suppliers to drive their customers out of business. Maybe it’s something else, it doesn’t matter. They’re paying what they’re paying, and what they’re paying has been deflating at 5% annualized for a while.

Or are you saying…all the restaurants in America, along with all the grocery stores, are conspiring to keep prices high for consumers?

No need for a conspiracy when there is a lack of incentive to do anything else. Why would they ever charge less than we’ll pay?

And no single mom & pop shop is like, hey, we could lower our prices

Have you not been paying attention for the last 40 years? Small business in competition with giant corporations have to run razor thin margins to stay competitive. And if one did manage to find a little fat to cut, Walmart et al. will just run at a loss until they’re gone.

As long as we can pay, they’ll charge more. Where is the money coming from? I don’t know, maybe it’s the increased savings rate during COVID I read so much about, maybe something else. For things with inelastic demand people will deplete savings and run up credit cards. Once that money has been extracted…blood, stone, etc. The prices will come down, but not until maintaining them is literally impossible. Anything else would violate fiduciary responsibility to the shareholder.

The only reason it didn’t go up 20% is you can’t get blood from a stone so they had to take a haircut on their profits. Click the food tab, you can see there has been an annualized ~5% deflation for most of a year now. That’s the point. Inputs don’t determine retail costs, they charge as much as they can.

And yes, restaurants do buy from wholesalers. The chart I liked is specifically intermediate inputs. If you’re so ignorant about the way things work that you think restaurant owners are going to the grocery store, I don’t know what to tell you.

When the cost of produce goes up for you, it goes up for McDonalds, too.

That’s not happening at all. There has actually been deflation in inputs.

If you want to know how bad we’re being fucked, search for the PPI, the producer price index. CPI, the one we always hear about, is the measure of inflation to us, the consumer. The PPI is the measure of inflation to producers, what they pay for goods and services to produce the goods and services we buy.

The PPI has been back to “normal” for a while now. Pretty much as soon as the post COVID logistics issues were mostly ironed out. The difference between PPI and CPI changes is almost all profit.

We don’t get daily articles on the PPI though, I wonder why.

Tell people about PPI whenever you can, online or off, the more people know, the better. It’s easy enough to say inflation is just down to greed but being able to back it up by comparing two simple charts will help people really understand.

PPI

CPI

Thanks for the info. Looks like I’ve got some work to do.

https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/consumer

You can go here to get a copy of your report.

If you’re in California you can limit their collection and dissemination in the future and have your data deleted.

If you dig into your car’s infotainment system to opt out of everything you can find, don’t forget any app you might have installed.

I’m my opinion, a lot of the best stuff in the eu has been stories that are light on the space wizardry.

I watched the miniseries then the show, and there was some additional stuff I watched also but I don’t remember exactly when. There was a spinoff called Caprica, it was good but never got a second season.

Here is a watch order that includes a couple movies and webseries, but it puts Caprica at the beginning. It is a prequel but I think it would be better watching it after everything else like it was released.

Edit: if I remember correctly Caprica either has some serious spoilers or there are some things you wouldn’t understand if you hadn’t seen the main show, I don’t want to say anything more but I don’t know why they recommend it first.

Same here, I think I started it during the lack of new content after the 07-08 writers strike. I thought it would be a mid sci-fi show I would put on for background then it turned out to be awesome.

It would certainly help explain middle management’s obsession with return-to-office policies in the face of all the evidence that WFH increases productivity.

You can’t even assume everyone can agree on the same definition of rational. If a business owner is a sadist they might value treating their employees like dirt more than the money they’d make if the business ran more efficiently. For a dickhead, rational self interest could mean forgoing profit to cause misery.