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  • You're average consumer doesn't think like this. Our system is sadistic, and economists are psychopathic to think so.

    But in any case, the meme points to a few things:

    1. Cost of living outgrowing wage
    2. Stratification of cost of goods - with exponential growth, the minute difference in cost between goods or property twenty years ago is now large. Meaning e.g. new cars which were affordable are now a sign of wealth.
    3. Failure to account for disruption due to major economic occurrences(e.g. artificial inflation due to greedy profit seeking, and corporate's oligopoly on job supply)
    4. Gobloads of other nuance

    In other words I'm positing that steady infinite inflation is unsustainable in the long run unless you address all of those or your specific goal is to grow the wealth gap and entrench class separation further. It seems the goal of the political class has been the latter over the last 4-5 decades.

  • I'm not disagreeing but it's annoying when a 20+yr old box shaped car gets the same economy and looks 100x better.

    I think some of that is still marketing. You can pack a higher power engine in a more aerodynamic package with the same economy, the extra 5-10Hp will make it sell better. Also helps to standardize assembly lines across models.

    There's always the matter of following a trend and appeasing the business people's expectations to consider.

  • A small amount of dish soap (drop or two) in a spray bottle of water will break their hydrophobic shell and they'll dry out in a day. Only drawback is if you apply too much (like a lot) it can cause the leaves to get sunburns.

    Water alone and mechanical removal can take several weeks to work. It's fine on one plant but you risk spread to other plants in the house.

    Just my experience growing peppers.

    The dish soap rinses off easily so just wash before eating as normal.

  • Most people are not going to /s their posts. It's worth asking whether a post is sarcasm/cynism before jumping to the conclusion.

    Consider why the specific words are all caps in their comments, and the context in which they post.

    Fuck i miss the old internet...

  • Beyond a diverse sourcing of information one could consider sources which present their bias up front.

    An analysis seated in a well communicated philosophy is better than one with its motive hidden behind a mask.

    Furthermore, information being factual isn't enough to be unbiased. Bias also applies to the selection of information being presented, or more importantly, not presented.

  • He appoints and directs the head of the department who, in turn, can more or less do so. They've been blatantly ignoring status quo and legal authority for a while now, so unless the supreme court gets the case and disagrees, they're unlikely to stop.