In a better world this would be the reason, but he always was and never did and it didn’t stop him from making an obscene amount of money off of his BS previously

From the ideology that gave us Jeff Sessions saying he liked the KKK until he found out they smoked weed, “I liked Israel until I found out they were Jewish” sounds about right

I think I remember reading that the act of remembering something is neurologically indistinguishable from just straight up imagining something, but I might be making that up

For real tho, everyone’s memory is crap and most people won’t/can’t take the time to research things they think they remember

I don’t care about it being on YouTube, but this community is supposed to be for articles and not videos. As someone who likes being able to ctrl-f for things, and as someone who’s had jobs where I wasn’t supposed to have my phone and had to sneak looks at the news I really appreciate text.

“This is definitely happening because AI technology is just so good and definitely, definitely not because a long series of catastrophically stupid decisions by oligarchs and their elected lackeys has led to massive dysfunctions in the global economy, so all you little people out there definitely want to keep investing! Now excuse me while I go make a completely regular and non-urgent call to my broker…”

Paywalls, for one thing

That’s the Biden administration brand moderation I’ve come to know and loathe

I mean,

Union leaders say the veto is an about-face from promises she made on the campaign trail. In February, a month after entering office, the governor attended a rally in support of the bill held by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), according to the Virginia Mercury.

but yeah, their endorsement of her looks pretty silly now

I mean, I’m never going to admit it to you because I ragebaited myself at the beginning of this and now you’re putting an unseemly amount of effort into defending evil shitheads, but I hope I’d add an edit to my first comment in an effort to promote factual accuracy in the community generally

Fuck off with the Heritage Foundation bullshit. Maybe having multiple metrics for slicing the same underlying pool of data could be useful, but then dumbasses with PhDs get lost in their little numbers and do stupid shit like “Hey, if we used core CPI for cost of living adjustments in benefits programs that’d save the government a bunch of money,” forgetting that poor people actually have to buy food and energy because they don’t give a shit because they’re bad people.

Maybe when our governments stop using “expert” economist advice to fuck over poor people and give taxpayer money hand over fist to wealthy scumbags I would be open to some more abstracted metrics and have a bit of trust in the eggheads, but since I’ve spent my entire adult life watching highly educated fucking idiots do the exact opposite fuck it, core CPI is a scam.

Nope, energy and food don’t get counted because a) respected economist: “tHeYrE tOo VoLaTiLe!” b) me: fucking rich bastards and the government economists that work for them lie like rugs (the reasonable truth is probably somewhere in between those two but I got too frustrated to be reasonable like ten years ago)

e; Actually nope, I screwed up and assumed CNN was reporting core inflation (which does exclude food and energy prices and gets used for adjusting the payouts of a lot of different benefit programs and such), but they decided to go with overall inflation. Core is at 2.8% overall is at 3.8.

Bernie’s fate was less bloody than Rosa’s at least

Nah, free subways or busses or whatever they end up doing, no more means testing. Every single paperwork barrier is an opportunity for perniciousness.

That data might be useful for food industry and agricultural industry regulators, but it really doesn’t tell us anything about hunger. Like, just because Americans are making most of their expenditures on other things (probably healthcare, childcare, transportation, etc.) doesn’t mean they can afford food, probably the opposite if anything.

Meanwhile,

the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its Household Food Security in the United States report, assessing that 13.7 percent of U.S. households were food insecure in 2024, marking the highest prevalence of U.S. food insecurity in nearly a decade. According to the USDA, this household food security report will be its last. In September, the USDA announced the “termination” of future reports with the claim that reports were “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous” and did “nothing more than fear monger.”

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https://www.csis.org/analysis/last-us-hunger-data-what-we-lose-termination-usdas-household-food-security-united-states (arc)

Ugh, when we finally fix this country by ramming a new VRA down the throat of every single red state tyranny out there we absolutely need to make some kinda ranked choice system the standard

Honestly they’ve repeatedly been worse than I have been able to imagine

Yeah and that scumbag knows a lot about thwarting the will of voters (arc)

In this economy?

Yeah, I just did a quick search that turned this up as the most likely place to find more info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_skull_pile,_ca1870.png

but I’ve seen this photo probably hundreds of times in a bunch of different textbooks and articles over the years