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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I think that your message is pretty clear if they’re not somebody trolling on the internet asking everybody to reason things out for them. It must be so withering for them to wander through life hearing things and not being able to reason any of it out. I agree with your unpopular but factual opinion, based on our voting and actions as a herd we likely do deserve another great depression whether we think it’s good or bad. A reversion to the mean is not “edgelord bullshit”, simply a basic understanding of fucking economics. It may be an unpopular opinion, but there are plenty of people who do have some knowledge and experience in the world who are equally concerned that we don’t change our policies, because that would be the only thing that stops us from actually getting a reversion to the mean and a depression cycle










  • I’m not sure why you take issue with the facts that the word aggravated in this context means that the people are implied, or that adding words is not easier to read. It’s okay that you didn’t know what aggravated means, but it still doesn’t change the fact that this is redundant information. Redundant information is harder to read, and the specific gender of the victim does not add anything to the context for the headline, a de facto harder to read title. It’s possible that this was done on purpose, or that the author was also unaware that aggravated means people are involved and felt they needed to add words.







  • I think one of the issues is that many of these metrics don’t align with our reality. An example that appears to be wholly overlooked by the supposedly astronomically high employment is a lack of blue collar skilled workers. I’ve been trying for more than a year to schedule an appointment with a contractor to evaluate my roof for replacement because it started leaking. The waiting list is astronomical, and when I asked about why that is they said they cannot find anyone to do the work. Somehow I have to feeling that the statistics are not reflecting reality, because numbers in aggregate rarely demonstrate the root cause of a problem.