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It’s not 50% more though. I track my groceries closely going back almost ten years and it’s more like a 15% increase in staple items compared to 2018. Processed food, luxury meat and frozen food is like 30-60% higher (my data on this is less robust) but milk, eggs and bread is not 50% more expensive unless you are buying the most expensive options.

You can literally go look at commodity market price history. Wheat is 9% above 2018. Cheese is 6% higher. Milk +17%, rice +10%, eggs +12%.

Eggs at Aldi near me are legitimately not that much more expensive than $1.40. I think it was like $1.89 in store price for the cheapest ones. That’s why I don’t understand this whole thing. Eggs aren’t even that expensive. I feel like the whole country is collectively gaslighting me.

It doesn’t matter because it was never about the price of groceries.

It doesn’t matter because republican voters don’t actually care about the price of eggs. They only pretend to if they think it will help them win. It’s actually amazing more people don’t understand this considering it has been a pattern in US elections for like 40 years now.

Sabotage Democratic outreach and voter engagement efforts right?

I can’t wait until we get to 2028 so we can talk about how eggs are more expensive than they are now. Oh wait, that only happens when democrats are in office

I mean what you saw last night is exactly why your revolutionary movement will be snuffed out. If the fascist has that kind of popular support, there is no revolution, only martyrdom. Maybe civil war.

Just stop doing it. You won’t quit until you really want to stop, and then it’s actually kind of easy. You hear this from a lot of people who quit, that all the circumstances and programs and nicotine substitutes are kind of secondary to the mental aspect of it.

You can actually see genetic pressure away from adult lactose intolerance in populations where milk and cheese are historically consumed

Damn and I think my sauce is too sweet if I even add a whole tablespoon.

Bro straight up ask your friend to get you laid. Lower your standards and just follow his lead to check that box. Don’t over think it - the goal is to get into a 1 on 1 situation after some drinking (not too much) then just go for it. Don’t worry about it being embarrassing because your goal is not to see the lerson again, its to fuck. Everything will come much easier after that, trust me.

I cannot emphasize the lowered standards thing enough. The sexual context itself is surprisingly stimulating. Even if it goes terribly it will throw a switch in you which just demystifies the process

Right but you then control the appreciation on a much larger asset. In terms of pure net worth and net present value, trading up is a huge gain even if it doesn’t generate more short term liquidity.

You can also rent out the smaller place and get both cash flow and NPV upgrade.

No rich person is living in a 325k ranch house.

Not that this is “ok” but it’s why “buy whatever you can as soon as you can” is good advice. If you’d put whatever you had into a shitty condo four years ago, and kept saving at the same rate, you’d likely be in good position to trade up soon.

I see a lot of people I know end up in the same position because they’ve been waiting for either the exact right circumstances or for prices to “crash.” All the people i know who started with anything they could afford now have a huge amount of equity in nice homes. The difference is real and primarily about timing more than income or location.

Lemmy has some of the most obnoxious Dunning Kruger shit on any social media platform, especially when it comes to politics.

Yes, just like the few two times.

Bonus: they are all troll accounts

Yeah there is something else going here. No domestic markets are actually down in this interval. OP must have bought some individual stocks.

I PUT ON MY ROBE AND WIZARD HAT

It sounds like the squirrel bit someone and then showed signs of rabies

Change my mind