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hell ya

yah. it’s gene ludwig which was clinton’s 1990s comptroller… so take that what you will. but it’s still doing good work.

i read the methodology for its/his take on UE and it makes so so so much more sense that the BLS stats

all the official numbers are so cooked and fucked. every time i get a chance to share this site i do: https://www.lisep.org/

24% real unemployment v. 4.2% “unemployment”

9.4% true living cost v. 4.1% CPI (the CPI is heavily weighted in areas that do not affect your day-to-day living/life. if you strip down to the essentials of necessity/core living needs - inflation is so so so much worse)

$1,000 weekly earnings v. $1,194

edit: i really want to nerd rage about CPI some more. i fucking hate the CPI. i’m also a bit high rn but whatever

it does consumer-whore adjustments. so like. a faster computer = more for your dollar even though it costs more. but it doesn’t account for this because faster computer = less inflation or something another???

it also does the substitutions: if pork is expensive it doesn’t account for this because you go buy beef or whatever instead. but what if everything increases? oh you buy tofu suuure.

it looks at rental costs not buying homes. sure buying a home is impossible, but this isn’t factored in because “rent only went up whatever %” while down payment + interest rate + housing costs went WILD.

the CPI includes things people don’t buy or put in their budget. jet skis? cool it’s included even though who tf buys jet skis? (okay jet skis are cool… but you see my point?)

if the CPI was actually accurate, it would look at only/weight HEAVILY core living costs. things like: housing, utilities, internet, food, healthcare, transportation, childcare, and personal good like soap, detergent, basic clothing. fuck everything outside of this.

i will always bend the knee to Lady Llyana Mormont of House Mormont

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0aqb0VOMu4

this thread has all the jams in it. random mention: Ultima Online specifically UO Outlands private free server. it’s unreal how gorgeous the game is still to this day. styled graphics/prerendered age so so so so well.

i just finished a playthrough of bg2 maybe three months ago? game is so good.

more modern game, but pillars of eternity 1&2 are stupid good too. the atmosphere/setting of poe1 is unparalleled and the voice acting of both is the best in the business.

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just two stories to hopefully help you. tldr is time and self-improvement/self-care.

first rough break up. they weren’t in my life but always in my mind. that sort of thing. even with new relationships.

6 years went by. i grew a lot. marx, chomsky, lenin, bakunin, pannekoek, etc.

randomly at a house party they were at. a group of us were sitting talking everything going on in the world at the time, local election, etc. they kept interrupting the conversation with their friend to talk about shallow boring nonsense.

needless to say i realized they were… not special for me anymore and frankly just fucking lame.

second hard break up i kept them in my life as a friend. big mistake, whatever. honestly they were just using me for company until soemthjing else better came along. whatever. i was at a music festival with them and the festival was fucking wild and fun but they were so pissy the entire time. i was like, “wow this person actually sucks holy shit.”

mom said it’s my turn to negotiate with trump

can’t wait to watch their heads explode when they get to this loading screen

edit: Oblivion loading screen: If playing on PC, you can change your character’s gender mid-playthrough. No one is stopping you. Cast fireball on citizens or creatures who take issue with your decision.

also, do it in real life too :D

I too speak regularly with Chairman Xi. He says I am amazing and am the pride of the proletariat. … Do not attempt to confirm this with Xi, he said he would deny it.

there’s zero chance Trump and Xi are talking. neither of these two have any idea how any of this works to the degree/level required to come to a trade deal with one another.

when there are legit trade talks it’s going to be entire teams of people over the course of weeks/months with extreme technical understanding of commodities, manufacturing, currency, supply chains, etc.

i liked these because I could jump way way way higher than i ever could on my skateboard

just go to the park and sprint at a bench/table and grind the entire length of the thing. things were fun as all hell for awhile. this was like… god… 1997?

it got old after awhile because while doing sick ass grinds was fun as hell, that was all you could really do. went back to skateboarding pretty quick.