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Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009

I thought Russia was the big pusher of misinformation on America's social media and they don't even own any of them.

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a_gelatinous_cube
Feb 13, 2005

err posted:

how is the fed/biden even talking about rate cuts right now? smokin crack



The government got addicted to low rates also and is currently accruing an enormous amount of debt selling bonds at these rates.

a_gelatinous_cube has issued a correction as of 21:46 on Mar 12, 2024

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

Raccooon posted:

I thought Russia was the big pusher of misinformation on America's social media and they don't even own any of them.

Sometimes its the bugs threatening managed democracy and sometimes its the robots.

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007


We've been yelling this for years wonder if it'll get thru some ppl's head now that the NYTimes is repeating it.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


Shageletic posted:

We've been yelling this for years wonder if it'll get thru some ppl's head now that the NYTimes is repeating it.
never. the biggest lesson the wealthy learned from 2020 was "don't give people free money, jesus christ that was not fun"

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Canned Sunshine posted:

So how’s life in the top 1%?

needs to be a really good burrito though, I'm not above paying premium to treat myself on rare occasions

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
burritos have a ceiling of like 6/10

and that's when they put fries inside

Ted Wassanasong
Apr 8, 2020

Workers won't have rights in America still they stop pretending playing ball is how you get them.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

burritos have a ceiling of like 6/10

and that's when they put fries inside

work cafeteria does that on shawarma day: $6 gets you shawarma with fries jammed in there

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute

quote:

Key ingredients for Lopez’s beef birria, like USDA Choice grade chuck, have gone up. When he began the business as a food truck about three years ago, it was $4 per pound; two years ago it was $4.50, and now it’s $6. Because the restaurant uses about 2,500 pounds of beef per month, the $2 increase costs $5,000 per month. Other ingredients he uses like onions have jumped in price from around $11 to $80 for a 50-pound sack. Soybean oil has climbed from $20 to $50 per container. Even mesquite charcoal, a key component for his smoky grilled meats, is more expensive. (According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, food inflation was up 2.2% year-over-year in February, and overall inflation was 3.2%.)

“Nothing that I can think of has returned to pre-COVID pricing,” Lopez said.

Labor has consistently been the restaurant’s largest expense. The S.F. minimum wage ordinance has pushed the rate up to $18.07 per hour. Lopez said some of his longtime staffers make above minimum wage, and he tries to keep raises generous. Items at La Vaca Birria are fairly labor intensive, Lopez said: Staff cook the birria in the oven a day before it’s served, chill it overnight to remove fat from the broth, then braise it until it’s rich and tender.
lmao at the bolded part, "here's a bunch of examples about how absolutely fucknuts food prices have gone up, including an eight-fold increase in the price of bulk onions (food inflation was only 2.2% actually, fake news!!!!!!)

Canned Sunshine
Nov 20, 2005

CAUTION: POST QUALITY UNDER CONSTRUCTION



Mustached Demon posted:

work cafeteria does that on shawarma day: $6 gets you shawarma with fries jammed in there

That sounds amazing

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

I'd pay $22 for a Tex-Mex style burrito, you know the kind that's too big to pick up with your hands and also slathered in mole so you eat it with a knife and fork and it's a whole entree situation

but the regular Cal-Mex street-food burrito absolutely not. I think they're banking on being described as the best burrito in San Francisco to save them here

also can you imagine trying to run a taqueria *in San Francisco* without being able to cater your prices to the kind of person who can afford to live in San Francisco these days

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Nearly 50% of US parents financially supporting adult children, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/parents-adult-children-financial-support

This is going to get real bad real quick as boomers start needing retirement homes and end of life care (insanely expensive) and then die without a penny to their names to pass to their children.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

that’s been happening for for like 15 years already friend

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

readingatwork posted:

Nearly 50% of US parents financially supporting adult children, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/parents-adult-children-financial-support

This is going to get real bad real quick as boomers start needing retirement homes and end of life care (insanely expensive) and then die without a penny to their names to pass to their children.

Assisted living, medicare advantage, and life insurance sellout already exist to loot the boomer wealth

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

readingatwork posted:

Nearly 50% of US parents financially supporting adult children, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/parents-adult-children-financial-support

This is going to get real bad real quick as boomers start needing retirement homes and end of life care (insanely expensive) and then die without a penny to their names to pass to their children.

that's a pretty big figure for a great economy that's never been better and which everybody loves

alternately: man I can't believe that half of people with living parents are so lazy, get a job dustin

Eason the Fifth
Apr 9, 2020

skooma512 posted:

the crunch of the wreckage
the panic and screams

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

Sydin posted:

lmao at the bolded part, "here's a bunch of examples about how absolutely fucknuts food prices have gone up, including an eight-fold increase in the price of bulk onions (food inflation was only 2.2% actually, fake news!!!!!!)

they juice all the stats

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

readingatwork posted:

Nearly 50% of US parents financially supporting adult children, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/parents-adult-children-financial-support

This is going to get real bad real quick as boomers start needing retirement homes and end of life care (insanely expensive) and then die without a penny to their names to pass to their children.

Mildly unrelated but a research group last month posted data that 25% of children in NYC miss a meal every day. Just interesting things to think about simultaneously

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

In Training posted:

Mildly unrelated

Record mild

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe

euphronius posted:

that’s been happening for for like 15 years already friend

Yes but we’re quickly reaching a point where something will need to give. Once the boomers are dead we’ll have a generation of parents without the means to support their kids in this way. They won’t even have houses they can use as a failsafe because those will (legally) need to be sold to pay for their parent’s retirement homes. How do we keep rents going up? How do you keep the extraction machine going when there’s literally no more blood to squeeze out?

Car Hater
May 7, 2007

wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!

readingatwork posted:

Yes but we’re quickly reaching a point where something will need to give. Once the boomers are dead we’ll have a generation of parents without the means to support their kids in this way. They won’t even have houses they can use as a failsafe because those will (legally) need to be sold to pay for their parent’s retirement homes. How do we keep rents going up? How do you keep the extraction machine going when there’s literally no more blood to squeeze out?

The rich will finally be eaten by the uber-wealthy


Alternatively, communism

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

readingatwork posted:

Yes but we’re quickly reaching a point where something will need to give. Once the boomers are dead we’ll have a generation of parents without the means to support their kids in this way. They won’t even have houses they can use as a failsafe because those will (legally) need to be sold to pay for their parent’s retirement homes. How do we keep rents going up? How do you keep the extraction machine going when there’s literally no more blood to squeeze out?

company housing

Pink Mist
Sep 28, 2021

readingatwork posted:

Yes but we’re quickly reaching a point where something will need to give. Once the boomers are dead we’ll have a generation of parents without the means to support their kids in this way. They won’t even have houses they can use as a failsafe because those will (legally) need to be sold to pay for their parent’s retirement homes. How do we keep rents going up? How do you keep the extraction machine going when there’s literally no more blood to squeeze out?

find some more blood. eat your way up the income spectrum (already happening)

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

skooma512 posted:

Well done 47. I've booked you a flight out of the US, in an Airbus of course.

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

In Training posted:

Mildly unrelated but a research group last month posted data that 25% of children in NYC miss a meal every day. Just interesting things to think about simultaneously

uh excuse me this is all false russian disinformation and hallucination in the minds of these children

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


readingatwork posted:

Nearly 50% of US parents financially supporting adult children, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/parents-adult-children-financial-support

This is going to get real bad real quick as boomers start needing retirement homes and end of life care (insanely expensive) and then die without a penny to their names to pass to their children.

Yeah, inheritances are a thing of the past, Medicaid will get your parents' poo poo when they die. The millennial generation is when the gulf between rich and poor became permanent.

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

isn't today the four year anniversary of the covid national emergency declaration?

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
great time to be a home care aid :homebrew:

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Nothus posted:

They all do it. There are many stories online of Mazda denying warranty coverage if the computer tells them you damaged your car while in sport mode.

Is there some way to disable the data collection and home-phoning?

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


icantfindaname posted:

Is there some way to disable the data collection and home-phoning?

Drive an old car

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

readingatwork posted:

Nearly 50% of US parents financially supporting adult children, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/parents-adult-children-financial-support

This is going to get real bad real quick as boomers start needing retirement homes and end of life care (insanely expensive) and then die without a penny to their names to pass to their children.

Their children are going to have their own meager savings drained paying for their care and sacrificing their careers to provide care.

Y MILLENAL NO BABBY

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002

icantfindaname posted:

Is there some way to disable the data collection and home-phoning?

depends on the brand but for some of them, yes absolutely. subarus are easy to bypass.

Scarabrae
Oct 7, 2002

actionjackson posted:

isn't today the four year anniversary of the covid national emergency declaration?

never heard of it

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

actionjackson posted:

isn't today the four year anniversary of the covid national emergency declaration?

tomorrow it looks like

ended april 10th last year

the 9/11 national emergency is still goin btw

Father Wendigo
Sep 28, 2005
This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1767170127915532551?t=-jn44Y7ZouYSP5bvncJJkQ&s=19

Scarabrae
Oct 7, 2002


can we get him to fly to the meeting in a 737MAX?

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Wonder if the government will have a fixed price for the sale too. Now comes the scramble by American oligarchs to gain control of this app.

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

Scarabrae posted:

can we get him to fly to the meeting in a 737MAX?

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F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!

skooma512 posted:

Wonder if the government will have a fixed price for the sale too. Now comes the scramble by American oligarchs to gain control of this app.

It'd at least be funny to watch oligarchs trip over each other for control, only to find that most of the users were driven off of TikTok when they saw it was going to be compromised.

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