You know, everyone’s getting pissed off at seeing these numbers but it is over many years.

They’ve already lost 20% of their buying power just in the last 4 years, and that’s if you go by the fake CP lie. Reality is you need food and shelter and transportation a lot more than you need a new smart phone (my phone is from before covid), so cost of living has gone up a lot more than it says for actual people.

It isn’t really the company’s fault that inflation went so high, but as a defense contractor they are one of the beneficiaries of The extreme government spending that led to the inflation. The fact that they’ve mismanaged themselves into Oblivion isn’t really material here, that’s entirely self-inflicted. Every time one of the Frontline workers tries to speak out they get assassinated…

It’s similar to hydroelectric – if it works and it’s cost effective, people will use it and consider it a privilege… Some green energy works really really well.

More coal for China to burn manufacturing disposable junk for us to buy!

The same paypal that thought they can fine you for TOS violations?

Deleted my account, nothing of value was lost.

The establishment media is destroying itself by breathlessly cheerleading every “beat” that turns out not to be true and not in any way mentioning that the numbers have been revised so heavily all year.

If they’re going to mindlessly read press releases, you might as well just read the press releases.

Came looking for plastic free-fall recipes, came away disappointed.

Absolutely, if you care about historical works you should make sure that you have a copy that you control.

A large portion of the things on my jellyfin are like that, because once they take away media ownership, and they can change or take away your stories at any time.

It’s really simple when you think about it, the taste of any fermentation is going to be the taste of what you put into it minus any of the sugars. Maple syrup is sugar and the liquid extract from a tree. So once you remove the sugar, all you have left is alcohol and the liquid extract from a tree.

It’s actually one of the reasons that I think my need made from honey turned out to be so lovely, is once you take the sugar out of honey what you’re left with is extract from flowers.

It wasn’t a terrible idea, but I tried to make maple syrup mead, and it tasted exactly like breaking a branch off of a tree and trying to suck it. Like, that green tree taste. Complete waste of some very expensive maple syrup.

The d day level of medal of honor was a serious moment. It’s like “yeah, you keep dying and it’s frustrating. You’re watching all these other people die. But that’s what it was actually like.”

There was a moment where I had made it to the buildings and looked back and saw my brothers in arms being mowed down and it’s a different experience than seeing it on TV.

It seems like the thing to do if you don’t use printers is to erase the cups packages from your system to close that port. Not sure it’s even patched yet.

It’s actually pretty decent as a generic 90s square RPG, but fails miserably as a sequel or even as an addition to the Chrono trigger universe to the point that I’m pretty sure most people just pretend there was never another entry in the Chrono series.

I always figured slime is a story about the power of friendship, so sometimes you need some chatting around a table because friends don’t just use demon lord powers on each other all the time.

One thing is that education isn’t the same globally. You should probably have an other option to account for that.

Then you say “this argument doesn’t exist.”

And it replies “you’re right! That argument has never been a part of package x. I’ve updated the argument to fix it:” and then gives you the exact same bleedin command…

Turns out trying to capture a gas from the air at the scale of gigatonnes is really really hard.

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

Facts.

Industrial scale power requires massive destruction of nature. That’s the nature of trying to light and heat millions of homes, especially in the winter. The question must become what is the least harmful most effective thing to do. It isn’t as simple as “solar farms and wind farms” since you have to heat and light those homes when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. “Batteries!” Sure but the environmental devastation from having to build battery banks that large would be overwhelming, not to mention having to size your solar and wind to provide all the province’s power while the sun shines and wind blows meaning there’d be way more than you expect, and then after 30 years you’d have to do it all over again because the batteries, windmills, and solar panels would all have to be replaced.

Water looks nice when it’s at a scale that can’t power anything too. In fact, even small enough scale fossil fuels don’t look that bad. The problem is when you make it big enough to actually provide all the energy you need. One big reason why “reduce” is the most important thing we can do.

The job numbers have been revised in a downward direction pretty consistently[1]. The year over year numbers from the BLS were revised massively downwards a few weeks ago, by 800,000 jobs.[2]

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/the-biden-admin-has-overcounted-new-jobs-almost-every-single-month-this-year/ar-AA1jlasf

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/21/nonfarm-payroll-growth-revised-down-by-818000-labor-department-says.html

Just remember that of the last 12 months, there’s been something like 11 downward revisions. The bureau of Labor statistics has been doing an abysmal job with its preliminary numbers.

I’m not saying to completely disregard the data, but in a previous month I ended up making the mistake of listening to some of the old podcasts I used to listen to from NPR and APM regarding money, and I don’t remember which one but one of them was just going on and on about how good the numbers were with absolutely no mention of the fallibility of those numbers.