I’m gonna make my own social media platform that has up and down arrows that generate random numbers next to a message like “At least some people probably like this.” And if you post too frequently a banner appears at the top of all the pages with your IP address. Also viruses. Just lots and lots of viruses.
That’s $3895/mo to $4797/mo, so the median full time worker is earning an extra $902/mo in that time span.
I don’t know how he was calculating “typical household” or what quarter he was working with, my point is that the net dollar amount is pretty misleading for an article headline. It sounds like the typical household is $700 worse off, but they definitely are not.
We have an appropriate measure for answering this question, real wages. It’s below pre-pandemic numbers but it’s catching up as wages are currently rising faster than inflation.
The time period was over two years, not four. Two years ago it was $996/week in Q2 of 2021. That’s $4316/mo or a $481/mo increase in that span. Still not $700 a month worse off, but they are worse off.
I think you are reading the “stuck at 2019 levels” and reading that as the starting point of their assertion.
The best part of the online discourse is all of the ill-informed Argentines that voted for him thinking he wasn’t a far-right populist, and that he’s just a libertarian. The mental gymnastics (and maybe the astroturfing) are real. “He’s not far-right, he’s just anti-abortion, doesn’t believe in climate change, and isn’t all that in favor of democracy”
You have to advocate for yourself. If you don’t get a raise they’re effectively paying you less, even as you get more experience, because of inflation.
In 2009-ish my local US House rep had his bio edited from an office in the Capitol building. Repeatedly, in fact. I've always wondered it was done by him or an intern.
Based on the blisteringly dumb things he'd say in public, and the fact that he was one of the vanishingly small minority of Republicans to get redistricted out of his very safe seat in Ohio by his own party - I'm betting that he did it on his own time. Not that I think his "retirement" had anything to do with the Wikipedia bio. It's just something that would fit with his ideas of "having a cunning plan."
16-10-20 - given that we’re all learning about Georgia law tonight, it was fascinating to read that they also have a “lying to the government” law like the one that so many people cite in federal cases
I read an article about it recently. If a student asks to be called by a name other than the one they were registered with (for example, Benjamin asks to be called Ben or William asks to be called Sir Buttface) the school is supposed to inform the parents and get approval. A “side” effect of this is outing trans kids to their parents.
The other (minor but possibly cumulative) effect is that it annoys every parent whose child doesn’t go by their birth name. Enough little cuts like that and the GOP loses plenty of voters.
First they came for the millionaires, and I did not speak out - because it’s only 4 fucking percent and they’re still not going to lose any sleep over their bills or if they’ll ever retire.
The interesting part to me is that the article is talking about a reduced Russia centered around St. Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, all of which are in the Western part of Russia. I could see China eying any splintered territories in their area for annexation "stabilization". And I could see some of those territories deciding that it's better to stick with an imperialistic Russia than it would be to get "subdued" by China.
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