A good rule of thumb coming out of this, if your country rebrands the military to the Department of War, it’s not to fight Johnny Foreigner. Who knew the capitalism loop of fighting wars for oil and then selling the lightly used weapons to our domestic police could come back to bite us in our collective GLP-1 thinned ass?
Yeah, My kitchen knives were once auto leaf springs. Soak 'em in the olive oil after use to keep the rust down (the knives, not the leaf springs). Arrr.
Still reading the story but just hit that line and came here to snarkily post, “another MongoDB success story”. I should probably talk to my therapist about this desire to be seen as funny.
This isn’t quite true. I’m in the last stages of organizing a record club (basically a book club with a much lower commitment) and I started by talking to a small handful of close friends who I knew were music nerds because I am picky and shy by nature and the most annoying thing is how many people got wind of it and wanted in. People are starving for these sorts of things. Try. Fail. It’s ok, it’s just going to take a couple of us to make a few hits and we can start to sew some of the fabric of society back together.
Short of unrolling it all and weighing it by the pound the math involved in the cost of TP is complicated. That said, McDonald's use of discriminatory/surge pricing complicates the actual cost of a big mac too.
Even by the pound would be hard... quality two-ply vs low-grade gas station TP... The price per unit is also difficult to compare... are you getting the costco packs that still have the larger per-sheet area or the new, smaller sheets.
Not to mention, in general it might be a counter-intuitive index... If the spend per person on TP on average goes down, is that an uptake in bidets, lowered tp costs, or economic affects and people choosing cheaper options?
That said, I still think it could be a "fun" index to track over time.
Go knock yourself out: social security, health, Medicare, income security, veterans benefits. If you want to exclude veterans benefits that’s fine too. Still 60%
Yeah sure, all those Brazilian and Ugandan 65 year olds that are emigrating to the US for the Medicare. It's not like you need critically need nurses or tax generating young people in general.
Sure, if they’re actually critically needed they will win in the auction. 10x H1B and green cards like I said will provide a lot of access. Ideally we use a points based system that rewards youth but there’s only so much skill in US policy making.
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