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Comment · 12 days ago
This is an insane take. Where does it stop? Are we going to be tracked and surveilled from every service?
Comment · 5 months ago
Blaming an event that happened in 1789 for the first and second world wars seems incredibly far fetched. Maybe we should blame the aggressors who started the wars.
Comment · 5 months ago
Is income tax stealing?
Comment · 5 months ago
Did you not read the article?

Ellison's warning came during an hour-long Q&A at an Oracle financial analyst meeting in September 2024.

Comment · 7 months ago
From the article: the Moneypoint plant will continue to serve a limited backup role, burning heavy fuel oil under emergency instruction from Ireland’s transmission system operator EirGrid until 2029.
Comment · 7 months ago
The top comment currently on this post is talking about the cost impacts being transferred to the poor and middle class with lots of discussion. I think people are well aware of and discuss the social impacts.
Comment · 8 months ago
The same way that an employed person would plan for this. Catastrophic insurance plans put a cap on how much your medical bills can be.
Comment · 8 months ago
FIRE doesn't depend on having a tech job. Its all about income to expense ratio. Planning for medical events is something that gets talked to death in these communities.
Comment · 8 months ago
Manhattan doesn't have enough groceries? Do you have a source for that? Everywhere in the city I go has plenty of grocery stores.
Comment · 8 months ago
How does that not violate their right to freedom of speech and assembly?
Comment · 8 months ago
Non-citizens have constitutional rights as well. The DHS having the ability to produce subpoenas without judicial oversight is definitely a bad thing.
Comment · 9 months ago
You really think that every other administration has had this level of incompetence? The current bumbling and corruption is absolutely unparalleled.
Comment · 9 months ago
Sure, but they are accounting for size shrinkage which the original poster was saying they didn't.

I don't really know how you can account for quality either. User surveys? Ingredient sourcing? But then again I think this kind of reporting is just a general barometer. Some other comments are pointing to data sources that might do more of this.

Comment · 9 months ago
Even if ice cream is lower, if the price of staples is going up you have to make cuts elsewhere.
Comment · 9 months ago
In the article it says:

To account for possible changes in package sizes, we focused on the price per unit, whether it was an ounce of salsa or a square foot of aluminum foil.

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