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True, he was too busy approving a record number of fracking permits. We can't expect him to do everything!

Maybe it's location based, but I had a mcflurry about a year ago and was given a pathetically small amount of the topping poorly mixed in a terrible filler ice cream. Perhaps the ice cream in the mcflurry was always terrible, but I hadn't noticed it before when I would get a lot more of the topping. Also, their coffee was better for a time but it has reverted to burnt mud.

Apparently quite a few people have a high tolerance for what they value.

If it's got a connection to the internet, then it's usually a safe bet that the device is spying on you. How easy it is to physically disable the internet connection on my vehicle will be a significant factor in my next purchase.

Prices have gone up while portions, service, and even quality (as low as it already was) have gone down. When does "the free market" start improving things for customers instead of just shareholders?

The guy on the left except I don't even know the amount of time since my microwave was built in the mid-80s and takes longer to cook food (not sure if underpowered when it was built or some sort of degradation took place, it just came with the house).

Life felt easier after high school for me because I had more control over my schedule and what I wanted to do.

Best of luck to them. The new leadership has pretended to be inclusive as a PR stunt, but they likely won't support this in the long run.

israel always does this kind of shit, the slimy bastards.

Car yearns to become train.

Have they not already been doing that?

If it works like subsidies over here, companies will just jack up prices to eat up the full subsidy.

Makes me appreciate how fast planes are travelling.

I dunno about that. Based on this US data, its use seems to be expanding, even more so than renewables: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

This graph in particular shows this:

This must be that innovation which is making the world a better place that these tech parasites keep gushing about.

The exaggeration describes hyperdeflation which is a completely different beast, so it's not illustrative of the impacts of deflation in general. Either way, you're focusing on the raw price amount without considering the value of the items being exchanged. If anything, deflation would help with selling since if a store has an item on sale for $10, a year later at 2% deflation selling for the same price it'd be worth 20 cents more in relation to the previous year's dollar value and the store wouldn't have to increase the price to make up for a loss in the value of the dollar. From the customer's perspective, they don't see a price increase even though the value of their dollar has increased.

Institutional spending will decrease as credit markets seize up. If deflation is predictable at, say, 1-2%, then it shouldn't be a factor since credit would account for that.

What's the benefit of making them fire you over simply quitting after you've lined something better up?

Because deflation isn't going to be at that rapid a pace. If inflation was such that an item priced at $3 today gets priced $4 tomorrow, that means a daily rate of change of ~33.33% which is an insane rate of inflation and would be a problem as well, but nobody uses that to claim inflation is absolutely bad.

Who is going to hold off on buying something if it's 2% "cheaper" after a whole year? People certainly don't put off buying phones even though phones still get way higher than 2% increase in performance every year or two.

The CIA worming its way into a country isn't that country merely deciding to set their alliance in their favor.