It’d be a good idea for everyone. The plans being floated around the BRICS would just replace US puppet strings for Chinese puppet strings.
How to get a currency that doesn’t have any one country holding the puppet strings? I dunno. It’s tempting to say crypto, but…yeah.
Taking tankies out of the picture, in cases of union actions, you should follow their lead on boycotts. Sometimes, a boycott causes the business to say “sorry, we’re losing money now and couldn’t possibly raise wages”.
Before a strike takes place, a union may or may not call for a boycott. Let them make that call.
That basically is my point. It’s eye opening for people who don’t think about drugs that way.
There’s new approaches to it. You would usually hear creationists say things like “true science agrees with us”. It was nonsense and they never understood how science works, but there was this assumption underlying it that science was correct. They existed in a culture that at least conceptually embraced science and were coming at it from that angle. They were trying to co-opt the aesthetic of science rather than dismissing it entirely.
With attempts at funding freezes in health care and agencies under gag orders, we’re seeing a much broader attack on science as a concept.
Sir, this is a futanari website.
Smoking rates were around 40% up through the 1970s. If you didn’t smoke, you almost certainly got it second hand. Which implies that up through the smoking bans of the 1990s, everyone (except maybe some farmers and other outdoorsy types) were on a psychoactive drug 24/7 at least a little.
Helps that most people don’t smoke a pack of joints every day.
Some of it is also styles. If you came of age in the 1970s, then 50 years on, you probably dress and have your hair done like it’s the 1970s. We associate those styles with old people and then see the same styles in old photos, which makes the people in them look old.
That’s only a partial explanation, though. A lot of that stuff did age you faster.
You can only mine so much gold, money can be printed infinitely
Good. When there’s more economic activity, there should be more money in circulation.
And there will be a point, albiet far in the future, where we will have depleted natural gold reserves to the point where mining costs will far exceed the profitability
Asteroid mining. Making that viable will cause the price of gold to plummet. If our economy is based on that, it’ll cause a depression.
And treasury bonds are merely Fiat currency on steroids
Good.
I’m hoping sodium ion takes over the ebike market. It’s less energy dense then the very best lithium batteries, but most ebikes aren’t using the very best lithium batteries, anyway. They’re cheaper and alleviate the safety concerns (which are mostly overblown, anyway).
Especially since it leaves out some very important items like you know: Real estate, energy costs, insurance, et
CPI includes all those things.
. . . there are new standards of living which includes additional utilities and commodity items.
Which is why CPI is tweaked regularly to match what people actually buy.
There have been various other ways to measure inflation that have popped up over the years, such as the MIT Billion Prices Project. Nothing ever matches perfectly, but they show the same overall trends that CPI does.
Scarcity Gold is a finite resource, meaning its supply cannot be easily increased,
Wrong. You get more of it by mining it, just like any other metal. During the 19th century, there were several monetary panics set off because the price of gold fluctuated. Not because a pandemic brought supply chains to a halt. Not because bird flu killed a lot of chickens and sent the price of eggs skyrocketing. Not because a boat got stuck in the Suez Canal and stopped up global shipping. Not because of any more fundamental reason than someone found a new mine full of gold.
gold prices tend to move inversely to the value of a currency
You can just as easily buy treasury bonds.
Those are all useful properties. It’s still no more important than any other commodity. There is no reason whatsoever to say it’s the “true measure of inflation”. That’s goldbug nonsense.
About the only thing they are good for is carbon copy paper. You have to press hard to make it work, and better pens tend not to like being pressed hard.
It’s also a use case that’s almost dead. Writing checks is a rarity, and most people only come across the odd contract like that once every few years, at best.
Did you know brands will make specific Costco versions that are meant to mimic the expected item but be slightly modified to use cheaper parts or less material.
The opposite for food products. I’ve heard from people who supply Kirkland-branded stuff, and with the level of requirements put on it, those same people have no problem at all buying there.
DNS over HTTPS bypasses pihole, and you have to do some effort to make it work. DNS in general is such a mess.
Yeah, no. People who like pens don’t touch Bic.
Smudging inks mean they tend not to dry as fast. The downside of less-smudgy inks is that they dry out faster in the pen, gunk it up, and make ballpoints useless.
Telling current high schoolers that “these are the best years of your life”. Doubly so if the teenager in question is clinically depressed, and this is a misguided attempt to cheer them up.