Inflation is supposed to be a calculation in changes of relative currency value. The way that it is calculated depends on the government and the day.

Generally they create an index of goods that they track. Changing what goods to track is the easiest way to manipulate the results… and boy do they ever manipulate the shit out of the results. What you choose to put into the index and what you exclude greatly influences the results. Common things that are left out of indexes include rent/mortgage amount, taxes, utilities, medical cost, education cost etc. small things that account for more than 75% of people’s income…

Pruchasing power calculates how much goods a person’s wage can purchase after all their “basic necessities are out”. . It includes all the costs that the good price indexes leave out.

Not just inflation - Lock it to purchasing power.

I have done it a few times over the years but never on my main driver. Until last month… I bought a new laptop for my business and immediately installed Linux on the entire drive. I never initialized the win 11 that came with it.

So far I have had a few hiccups with getting some things working. I have also yet to find a basic WYSIWYG editor for my very basic HTML business webpage on Linux. So I am keeping my 6 year old laptop with win10 up and going on my desk for now.

If what I want to buy is under $200 and locked up, I usually go to another store to buy the item. I am not waiting for an employee to show up and unlock $200 item.

It often only takes a few months of huge losses in sales for the shelves to all be unlocked at a store.

Since Reagan they have been pushing a “War on Drugs”. For those people “Since we are at war killing people is perfectly fine.”

Cops shooting an unarmed drug dealer in the back is okay with them. So is using the military randomly kill people in other countries.

I just bought a Win 11 laptop last month for work.

It runs my Linux distro extremely well.

That really is the only logical conclusion.

Profit driven increases from unregulated market consolidation combined with interruptions in the supply chain due to disruptions in trade networks by the orange moron and pals dumbfukery.

Assholes are getting richer by starving kids.

What’s even better is that 45% of the production is for ethanol. Almost all of this is used for blending with gasoline in vehicles. A massive transition toward electric vehicles and public transit would eliminate the need for this. So 45% of the land used for corn production is not needed.

Irrigating corn improves its yield by up to 70% in many regions of the corn belt. Investment into irrigations systems could decrease the land area needed for raising corn by another 50-60%.

Bottom line: We really don’t need to farm 60 million or so acres in corn we currently do in the U.S out of the 80-90 million averages.

3 years and almost 2,000 comments.

Also didn’t make the list.

Don’t worry those trees are slowly dying because of extensive use of volatile herbicides like dicamba and 2-4D.

Most people handle the infection easily. Its dangerous to the immunodeficient, infants and the elderly.

The main risk is from dehydration. So the first recommended treatment is over-the-counter anti-diarrheal medications and drinking lots of fluids.

If it lasts for more than a week or you suffer from symptoms of dehydration (clammy skin, dizziness, not peeing etc) you’ll need to seek urgent medical care. Someplace that can give you an IV.

Not a medical DR, I just play one occasionally for shits and giggles. So this could be correct or a bunch of bullshit.

Those are pretty decent results.

When I went to college my net worth was $0.

10 years later after college my net worth was -$45,000.

My wife is a teacher to teenagers (high school). She gets called mom on a regular basis. Especially when she wakes one of them up from a little classroom nap. It happens often enough the kids don’t even give each other a hard time.

Now when they call her grandma… She doesn’t find that endearing.

Corporations lying on their books to decieve investors? Shocking!!!

That only happens on days that end in Y.

They do murder brown people inside the country and nearby it’s borders as well.

So late Sunday.

A few caught fire and are burning out. If you look at a cutaway of most tankers, most of the critical compones are found under the bridge. The fuel tanks, engines, pumping station etc.

The hulls can be repaired an put back into service but it will take time and considerable expense.

I bought a machine right before 7 launched to replace my XP machine. Vista SP2 was solid by then. I ran it for over a year because it was extremely stable.

I waited a bit over a year to install 7 on the machine when it’s SP1 came out.

FYI the bottom right in the picture is a real sunflower call Sun Gold.

https://www.applewoodseed.com/product/sunflower-dwarf-sungold/

Of course only comes in yellow.