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They started to lose leverage after all the Guild Busting activities of the middle 20th century, which all came to a head when Space Guild leader Jimmy H'offa got murdered and buried in the sand dunes.

timeline design. amazing how it looks even better now 3 decades later

Are you still playing around with it 2 years on? I think ive found enough use cases for wanting one: bike accessories, coffee accessories, toys for my kiddo, various organizers for the office and around the house like screwdriver holders. Also found a product/company I want to support. Prusa Research started by 1 young guy out of Prague, grew enough to verticalize the whole supply chain, makes everything in house, all products are modular, scaleable, open-source, etc. Can get a Mini+ kit for around 500.

Academy sucks ass and never has anything I need. I leave disappointed 100% of the time. Fishing stuff? Nope. Kids soccer cleats? nope. Camping gear? nope. Real men prefer Dick’s

It never sat right with me….that Harold looked like an extra tall 13 year old girl

That's using a single-sided view of the market. But it takes 2 sides to make a market. The marginal new participants are shopping entry level houses. The larger houses are discretionary. IF the larger houses become more unaffordable, lower demand will reduce its price. New buyers still want want your entry level house, AND its existing occupants want to stay in place (because they cant afford the larger one), so it will command higher relative value. "Salary increases have not kept up with inflation" is simply untrue. Family house ownership rate is the same it has been for decades. House ownership rate by age bracket is the same as it has always been. Latest Housing Affordability Index is above 100. 100 = median family earns enough for a mortgage on a median home. If you have more children, yes you have to feed and clothe them. Is that somehow a uniquely unsolvable problem now compared to any time and place in history. In the past, were larger houses discounted for families and children given free food vouchers or something?

Are all the reddit volunteer moderators going to quit once they learn that the site's CEO and COO earned a combined 300 million dollars last year?

you know day 1 is going to look like the nubian version of this:

i am inclined real spies look and work like this. this transcript of an air force lt colonel getting catfished by someone posing as a honeypot

Love something as much as the EU loves to regulate. Thats why its 30 countries and 500 million people has so many innovative tech companies such as Spotify, Adyen, Nokia, and….uhh…that finnish Angry Birds one

None of that “FRED” fucking bullllshit is going to convince me that cost of groceries isnt out of control until its compared against the bottom earners of people working in diners and coffee shops using a superior statistical measure like median. Rigor! Only on mondays.

Top 4 most popular sport in America. Oldest sport league in the country. Hey, what size should we make the playing field? Whatever the fuck you want!!! (college field, but same lack of regulation)

We all know averages are fake news because theyre skewed by all those high earners in fabrication and warehousing and shipping; and the upper crust of the slice of people in below-supervisory roles, like assistants to the regional manager. Theres a real hiearchy down there too!

Fellas, dont let the federal reserve, the census office, the bls, or the cbo trick you with numbers and lines. Its the weaboo cisco technician and his gut feelings that really has a pulse on the national economy.

I think there's unexplored, untapped potential in the government identifying the most difficult problems to solve... and then deploying a squadron of ex- meter maids on those jobs.

well, the thing is, fatty was right. maybe not in the percentages, but the fact that the cost of eating out (black) matched wages (dashed red)-- specifically wages for individual, non-supervisory employees in mostly very blue collar jobs. the other lines are cost of food at home, and blended total food spend. you didnt specify a timeframe but mentioned "previous twenty years" so i rounded up to a nice 2000 start date. switching gears to talks of the "middle class stagnation/shrinking", these might rile people up a bit: this is from the Congressional Budget Office's late 2023 publication of Distribution of Household Income, pages 26 and 28 and then this one...if you consider 20-80th income as middle class, its size has been constant. in fact if you segregate the middle three quintiles as working class (20-40), middle class (40-60), and upper middle (60-80), itll show the "middle" did shrink because they promoted upwards into the upper middle!

My comment to fatty was facetiously pointing out that people here often make spurrious claims, and then ignore — worse, get offended!!— when contradicted by actual objective data. I dont know what fattys real underlying belief was, whether he was being sarcastic, but I do know the relative cost of eating out stayed constant to earnings, but the total cost of food went down over the long term. To pre-empt any cherry picked slicing of the data, YOU can pick any timeframe you want. 5 year, 20 year, 35 year, etc, and we’ll see what the numbers say. We agree to plant the goalpost before we snap the ball…otherwise its a waste of time

Academics make all sorts of claims even with peer review, so no single finding is the absolute infallible truth. If their method is robust enough, it deserves a better rebuttal than casual dismissal.

What politics do they harbor and what did they introduce into the dataset that they studied? Kirk Herbstreet analyzing a game of football doesnt involve him running onto the field and throwing it.

Solidarity in bearishness. I stand with wally ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

They didnt inject politics into it. They found that politics was a predictor of the change in health responses and differentiator between different classes. You could also look at that groups prior body of work to see if the nature and conclusions of their studies were politically prejudiced. And it helps to read the other paper that decomposed the correlation to social media use (which trended the same rate well before 2012)

do it wally. cost of spx puts are cheap. vix (30d vol) is basically skirting historical lows.

update: this was going good for a bit, but has inverted the other way. cousin jensen is embarassing cousin lisa. im still holding onto it