Lol it’s like going back in time. I remember the days when sites wouldn’t support certain browsers because of differences in programming (accidental, if you will). Now, we’ve gone full circle and are intentionally blocking use of a site when not using a particular browser. Wouldn’t this be considered monopolistic?
It would be funny if it didn’t hurt so much. Rent is too high, grocery bill has me intermittent fasting, and I walk/bike instead of driving now. Shit is rough out here.
Sadly, while the inflation rate is positive, it's cumulative on the previous >1.5 years of high inflation. So, unless we're paid more sometime soon, we're still being permanently short-changed.
The basket used for CPI is adjusted annually to replicate the average expenses for a person.
The real issue is just how to measure items such as housing and education expenses.
Someone who bought a house 40 years ago probably isn’t paying anything. Twenty years ago and they’re only paying a few hundred. Five years ago and they’re paying a couple thousand. Renting today and they’re paying a bit more. Similar issue with education.
If you live in SoCal or another VHCOL area, you’re probably experiencing a different level of COL change than someone in the middle of Iowa.
And how do you handle the changes in the basket? Did consumer taste change or are people changing their buying habits to match their budget?
CPI is just a way to take thousands of variables and boil them down into one number.
You know that ancient 90s alarm clock radio stashed in your basement? Put it on AM, turn it to the upper end of the dial where there's no stations (lower end tends to have a lot of sporadic noise from appliances and electric fields) and put it on a barely audible volume. Instant white noise generator.
Weirdly enough, that’s kind of how I found out I had tinnitus. I had my headphones on and got bothered with the high pitch static sound, but when I went to unplug it, I found it wasn’t even connected to any device.
To save even more money, switch over completely to a diet of things you find on the ground.
To save even more money, stop bathing, showering and brushing your teeth.
To save even more money, stop living in a house and move into the sewers.
To save even more money, stop wearing clothes.
To save even more money, stop communicating with expensive words, settling instead for grunting, growling and maybe barking like a dog. Consider filing your teeth pointy.
To save even more money, stop using tools. Emerge from your sewer hideout only at night to prowl the streets on all fours, feral and bewildered, eyes grown pale and milky from years in the dark sewers darting maniacally back and forth while your filth-encrusted teeth and nails twitch in anticipation of the slightest movement.
This is how I was able to afford a starter house by age 30. This and a $400 000 loan from my father.
Yeah, I don’t mind porn but I’m defederated on my own personal instance temporarily until more granular federation options are introduced. It clogs up all super fast.
I think some people want Moar Content so they go to All a lot. I start in Subscribed/Hot, Subscribed/New, before I go to All. If I need content because I’m bored, maybe New Comments.
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