Not attacking you but using your message to say to anyone reading: Is there a lesson here about what our AI future looks like? The OG thread comment is using summarized information to induce anxiety. When everyone has a 'suped-up AI bot running around the net for them, how much more noise like this is there going to be? How many people will have armies?
You missed what I stated, pardoning someone for a specific crime vs what biden(if he was actually doing it) pardoned his son for all crimes he may have done over a 10 year span. Oh wait, that was actually one of the only pardons he actually signed.
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He actually pardoned 5 family members for all non-violent offenses from jan 2014 to jan 2025, does 1 billionaire = 5 biden family members?
Biden pardoned those family members because he knew Trump would personally go after them and make an example of them regardless of what they actually did. It shouldn't have happened, but it's pretty clear why it did.
Also, how on Earth are their "crimes" as egregious as those that Trump has pardoned in his recent term? Seriously, what did they do? How many people did they hurt? You can't just say "corruption" in an ambiguous sense, because then millions of other people would also apply. Also, "I don't know but it's fishy!" doesn't work when we know literally everything in Hunter Biden's life. That was the whole controversy.
The Binance founder directly impacted people in a significant way. The rioters were violent protesters that resulted in loss of life and others fearing for their life. It isn't the pardon itself that is bad, or the number, but the message it sends as to why they would do it. Biden was "if you're in the family of the president, you'll get forgiveness for your poor life decisions". Duh, like it or not, that's always been true, and Biden got roasted for it anyway. He's done, his family is out.
Trump is "if you're rich or you worship me, literal crime is legal".
Earlier you said hundreds. I call bullshit. Including the January 6 select committee members, staff, and police witnesses, the total appears closer to 50.
It’s a strange article. Really focused around gas prices and little about food/home prices.
People can’t eat gas. The impact of a 5% to 10% increase in basic food prices is extreme on most income levels. Especially when you consider families with children.
Gas is underneath the price of everything. And anecdotally, it seems to me like grocery prices have dropped a lot compared to 8-10 months ago. Back then, I remember over and over seeing the prices in the store and being dumbfounded. But now a lot more stuff seems back to a “normal” range. Seemed like once the supply chain crunch eased[0], prices dropped.
They do not exclude gas prices. The Consumer Price Index, which is what most people pay attention to and to which this article refers, currently weights gasoline at 3.7% of the basket of goods it tracks.
You don't recall correctly. All the standard inflation numbers in the newspapers, economics papers, COL adjustments etc. include gas prices (as well as food prices). You're probably confused with "core inflation", which excludes food and energy prices, or some other special purpose measure. The Bureau of Labor Statistics which computes the official US inflation numbers publishes several of those. Core inflation in the US is pretty much only used by the Federal Reserve, as a crude form of smoothing rapid fluctuations (alternatives could be using trimmed means, or rolling averages).
Inflation numbers tend to exclude gas because unlike most other things which tend to slowly rise in price, fuel costs are highly erratic. They are excluded because they add more noise than data.
From 2009 to 2010, the price of gas went up by 25%. From 2014 to 2015 it went down by 25%. Do you think the true rate of inflation is measured by either of those numbers.
Isn’t rising gas prices always given as an excuse for increases in almost everything else (food included) because things must be transported yadda yadda?
>The impact of a 5% to 10% increase in basic food prices
Is it that little? The stuff I buy seems to have gone up 20%+
I suspect my local supermarkets are raising prices partly because of inflation and partly to get fatter margins. Shopping for food on Amazon is sometimes cheaper!
I paid 7.20usd for a dozen eggs this morning. Massachusetts has a law regarding cage raised chickens but this was way far beyond what I was paying six months ago. 2 years ago it was 3-4 dollars a dozen. I remember being surprised when the local chicken growers started charging 5 dollars a dozen.
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