Nostalgia isn't based on whether the days were actually good or bad but I'm also pretty sure normally formed adults aren't thinking about Nazi Germany as the good old times.
Nostalgia isn't based on whether the days were actually good or bad but I'm also pretty sure normally formed adults aren't thinking about Nazi Germany as the good old times.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16
I think you're taking the whole thing a bit too seriouslyOriginally Posted by Wookie06
Well, yeah, most CEOs from back then are dead.
I'll take that as a compliment, that I'm taking much of anything seriously, however if there's a tinge of sarcasm to your recent posts then that would explain a lot. And by recent I'm only talking about the two I noticed about voting and Fanta. Okay, I'll try to go away for a bit again.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16
I’m sure they will care, they have principles haven’t you heard?
I've seen too many people who actually do. :-(
Mind you, it's mostly old farts who are still not old enough to actually have lived back then but are old enough to have lived through the bad aftermath.
Sorry for the lousy German
The political economics “hair of the dog”
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Everything is bad now. Everything used to be better. This is because the way we used to do things was better, not because we are suffering the consequences of it today.
It'd be shocking, the number of ministers she's lost in the last year, if any of them were in any way competent.
They should probably bar anyone that went to public school from holding office.
hey wot the f
Don't listen to him, saberopus, if you want to go into public office, you can do it.
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I should probably point out that "public school" in the UK means a private school because of stupid reasons.
[It's a reference to the public schools act of 18whogivesatoss.]
then I'll just say wot the f again at this new factoid
wait what? Public means private? Is this like how in America conservative means liberal?
No. It’s because the schools were run by the public, rather than by the state. In North America they’re called private schools because they’re private property. I’m sure this says something about our respective cultures.
yeah they're mostly thinking about jim crow america
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
Because it just popped up and is a little bit relevant:
"50 years ago everything was much better", Heinz typed on his new Galaxy S9 Plus smartphone.
Sorry for the lousy German
Watched Death of a Nation. Some moments are hilarious. Much of it is boring.
I had the thought though, so much of what he expresses are true facts with no context. It's a stellar example of why being able to contextualize knowledge is as important as knowledge. When you grasp for straws with no context, any interpretation is possible.
I'd recommend it for nobody but Wookie.
Adjust for inflation, US wages have increased very slightly since 1990.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...d-for-decades/
However, rising health care costs probably account for some of the missing growth. I expect that a glut of labor worldwide has contributed to the increasing difficulty for lower skill first world laborers to continue to demand a vastly disproportionate amount of the world's resources for what is increasingly the exact same work.
It's stupider than that and, as always with Britain, it comes down to class.
Public schools are public in that any member of the public can attend (provided they pay the fees). Prior to that schools had strict entry requirements based on faith or your parents needed to be gentry or members of a prestigious guild.
Government provided inflation rates are based on the BLS monthly Consumer Price Index. You can read all about how BLS determines CPI here and make up your own mind about it: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/homch17.pdf
The up-shot is, CPI isn’t a magic black box that tells you the true value of inflation. It’s a flawed metric based on a carefully curated set of sample statistics, and in my opinion it’s been gamed in the US for political advantage just like unemployment statistics are (U3). Pay extra attention to the parts about who is in their sample and what they intentionally exclude from the basket.
These criticisms are super mainstream by the way. I’m not creative enough to invent my own criticisms of CPI. US government inflation statistics have been described as horse**** in publications as boring as Forbes and the Economist (although not in so few words). Even BLS acknowledges their methods are flawed.
Considering how many of these people live in run down ****hole towns I don’t think it’s credible to argue that there’s a glut of labor. There’s clearly a lot of work to do that isn’t being done. The problem is inefficient capital allocation, not excess people.I expect that a glut of labor worldwide has contributed to the increasing difficulty for lower skill first world laborers to continue to demand a vastly disproportionate amount of the world's resources for what is increasingly the exact same work.
But yes, there is no real reason an average American worker should make more money than someone equally skilled who lives in a different country.
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If anybody wants a TL;DR, the official US inflation rate is based on the categorized expenses of urban wage earners.
So, for example, if you’re a rural person who has seen food double in price over the last 5 years, that isn’t included in inflation.
Or if you’re an unemployed student who is paying 10 times the tuition that his parents paid, you are also not included in inflation.
Or if you’re a retiree whose out of pocket healthcare expenses have skyrocketed, that also isn’t included.
But if you’re a software engineer in San Francisco, your expenses are considered. Not your house, though; that’s not consumption, it’s an investment.
Substitutions also aren’t included. For example, if food prices double and you realize you can’t afford to shop at Whole Foods anymore, so you go to Safeway instead. You’re paying the same price you were before, but now it’s for weird cleaner-flavoured Safeway produce instead of Whole Foods produce. What’s the inflation rate on food? 0.
The net result here is, the US inflation rate narrowly excludes all of the **** parts of the US economy. BLS insists that it’s not doing it - at least, not on purpose. But it’s all written right there in their own methodology guidebook.
If you want to understand how much money Americans are being paid, what you really want is a CPI-adjusted discretionary income. This is the amount of consumption Americans have left after paying for all of the stuff they’re pretty much forced to pay. Unfortunately, however, the United States government does not measure it.
(Just in case anybody thinks I’m being too hard on the US here, let me give you some examples of what Canadian CPI excludes: food, energy, housing. They might as well use the ****ing Big Mac index.)
Also, I'm visible in one of the scenes in this documentary.
Time to create an IMDB page, Reid.
**** yes, this is going on my resume.
I knew a guy who had "Undrafted Free Agent Quarterback" on his resume for a while. Unsurprisingly, he found himself unemployed for long periods of time.
Man, I'm only a few paragraphs into reading this article, but this is very interesting stuff. A $50 million private penthouse in the Moscow Trump Tower for Vladimir Putin in the months leading up to the election, and then covered up? Oh man.
I'll just batter my way past this opening sentence
which I have read in countless forms over the last 18 months, in order to get to the article.President Trump could be forgiven if he feels like the walls are closing in on him.
What an obnoxious statement. Of course Trump can’t be forgiven.
build a wall and make Bob Mueller pay for it
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We can only hope.
If he is impeached and convicted, how long before every Republican changes to "I never supported Trump"?
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Hey look Steven, you were right
https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/...m4pj/the_left/
Apparently they think the French protests are theirs???
There's no limit for the stupidity of Trump supporters, is there?
A rare moment of lucidity on r/the_donald.[–]nurayn 21 points an hour ago
Most leftists that I've seen posting about it are supporting the protestors cause they're mostly working class people. They also see the disproportionate force being used as evidence of police brutality and the extent to which a capitalist government will defend its power.
Liberals may oppose these protestors but leftists do not. The left does not support Macron, who is a centrist at best, and more accurately a neoliberal.
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[–]northface39 19 points an hour ago
That's precisely why the media won't cover this. The protest is against neoliberalism, and there are people from the left and the right there. It would be as if Hillary were elected president and Trump and Bernie supporters joined forces to protest against her. It's the neoliberal's nightmare.
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Oops I mean, **** those leftist globalists
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