Deflation can be really damaging because it disincentivizes things like investments and longterm projects. Here are a couple of examples:

• One of the biggest issues with mortgages is if you are under water (can you pay off your debt if you sell the house). With deflation, you could buy a house today and owe more than the house is worth tomorrow.
• If the total cost to manufacture a car is $X, but by the time I can sell the car the market would only pay $X-50, then I’m actually better off not making the car.

Essentially, high deflationary pressure causes people to hold their money and not spend it. It’s what happened in Japan around 1990s-2010s resulting in basically negative growth in their economy - Source

Hyper inflation is a similar issue, but on the other end. The value of money is lost so quickly that things like life savings can become worthless due to money losing its value so rapidly.

I mean, you don’t get paid everyday, missed paydays are the metric of pain people are feeling.

Surprisingly, actually two different agencies. You have CBP (Customs and Border Patrol) which do - customs and border patrol, and ICE (Migration and customs enforcement) which do - mostly immigration stuff.

Yeah, I couldn’t find an article going into that level of detail on what “packaging” meant, but I have to imagine it’s the more involved process.

I believe packaging here is more involved than just putting them in a container.

https://www.agsdevices.com/semiconductor-packaging/

Which means, these chips are made in Europe, but actually finalized as a real product in China.

Isn’t this basically what turned into the “Manosphere” with people like Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, and Charlie Kirk.

Basically moving away from explicitly “dating” to general “manliness/Alpha” stuff, but still preying on typical male insecurities.

Yeah, just imagine what would happen if he had gotten in an accident. Even ignoring abducting the child, can you imagine what a mess that insurance report would be?

I’m sorry, you think it’s normal for federal agents to drive away in a citizens car WITH a child in it?

Not to mention it was a 1 year old, and the family doesn’t know what happened with the child during the HOURS they had here I their custody.

Maybe this is a “whoosh”, but this is something the IRS (under Trump) decided to do. So no voting was directly involved.

I imagine that it would be a decision that just affects things going forward to avoid all of that.

~~~~The fact they got a case at all says that people were still willing to allow a case.~~~~

Edit: I was wrong, apparently they dropped it down to a misdemeanor so they didn't need to get it past a grand jury.

Even if that stat is correct, you’ve made the wrong conclusion.

This stat is saying if your partner chokes you in an act of violence (non-consenually) then the risk goes up. The key point being that if someone is willing to choke you in violence, they’re likely to escalate further.

As Avenue Q says - Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist.

But also, I never said anything about racism. To me it seems like there is a large part of the US that is willing to give up the ideals of our country (due process, free speech, voting rights), if they can get the policies they think they want.

I mean, I’m not the original commenter and I don’t think they’re literally nazis myself. But ~39% of Americans have stood with Trump through both presidencies. When every poll (popularity, opinions on ICE, shutdown, etc.) seems to land around that same number, it means there is some consistent cohort there.

I get where you are coming from.

I think the hard part is it’s hard to know how sincere these people are behind their personas. Like Trump playing down covid while taking the vaccine himself, where does the grift start and end.

I’m sure she really did grieve his passing, but at the same time it feels like this is all publicity stunts to cash in on his death. I know I wouldn’t be up to a big public appearance like that if my SO had been murdered.

I don’t disagree with you that democrats need to be doing more. But when half of the country seems committed to tearing the country apart, passing multiple pieces of meaningful legislation (don’t forget things like Build Back Better) sadly feels like a high bar.

And I apologize for the accusatory tone, I know that’s not something directly in your control. But let’s also be honest, the Republicans are the ones preventing Healthcare expansion in your state, democrats may not be perfect, but they’re not the ones holding power in your state.

I could get two out of cava, but I can also get two meals out of Chipotle so a bit of a wash from my perspective.

Cava is so expensive though, I think it’s like $4-5 more than a burrito bowl by me.

That’s not the democrats fault. That means the people voted for Republicans and chosen not to expand medicaid. Vote out the Republicans denying you Healthcare if that matters to you.

Laws were changed back around the 80s (I believe) to create this pressure. It used to be that people would still get paid, but apparently that was too functional for us.