Agreed. They really limit how many enemies you face at once in that game. Any more would be unplayably difficult.

People who buy cybertrucks are against that kind of thing. People who don’t buy cybertrucks are happy to let them suffer the consequences.

Yes, that. The US DoD has been playing this trick since the end of WW2, and it keeps working.

Half Life: G-Man confirmed.

I did that by doing an ebike conversation.

Oh, also, you’re wrong that this excludes housing and healthcare:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm

The CPI represents all goods and services purchased for consumption by the reference population. BLS has classified all expenditure items into more than 200 categories, arranged into eight major groups (food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communication, and other goods and services). Included within these major groups are various government-charged user fees, such as water and sewerage charges, auto registration fees, and vehicle tolls.

Energy is a little more complicated, but it should be included in the graph above:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/common-misconceptions-about-cpi.htm

Has the BLS removed food or energy prices in its official measure of inflation?

No. The BLS publishes thousands of CPI indexes each month, including the headline All Items CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the CPI-U for All Items Less Food and Energy. The latter series, widely referred to as the “core” CPI, is closely watched by many economic analysts and policymakers under the belief that food and energy prices are volatile and are subject to price shocks that cannot be damped through monetary policy. However, all consumer goods and services, including food and energy, are represented in the headline CPI.

In other words, what do you use to back up your assertion that wages have not matched inflation?

So, do you have a more comprehensive set of data? Because when people were posting about this circa 2012, the above link is what they pointed to. Now that it’s not showing the same answers, people suddenly don’t like it.

Edit: a more robust way to make a similar argument is to point out the disparity between wages and productivity since the 1960s. That’s a huge gap, it’s only gotten wider, and it’d take a long time to fix without a revolution.

That became something of a meme post-2008 financial disaster, and it was true then. It’s not true anymore. That’s what I meant by it not being true in certain time periods. It depends on where you put the start and end dates.

As of now, median wages are significantly better off in real terms than any time in the 1980s: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

This pops up every couple of years. It goes nowhere because it won’t work.

Positive vs negative freedom. Right-libertarians refuse to believe positive freedom exists, because their whole worldview shatters if you go there.

That isn’t the typical use of a car and you know it.

For once, it looks like the answer is that they do see some big checks. From an article someone posted further down the thread:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24197477/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-payroll-redacted

Lowest paid department is hardware, with an average of about $430k/employee.

Now, that is an average, and it’s hard to tell from here if a few highly paid employees in each department are throwing that number off.

Interesting. Looks like the hardware people are the lowest paid department.

Which maybe makes sense. They’ve started to see some success there, but not the way Steam or TF2 has.

That’s a factor, yes, but deflation can easily make a company unprofitable.

If you have debt, inflation eats away at that debt. If you’re paying 5% per year on that debt, but inflation goes up 3%, you’re actually only paying 2% on that debt. That’s good for people who have debt, and bad for the people who invested the initial money for that debt. With deflation, it’s the opposite.

This assumes your wages go up with inflation, though. Over the long term, that does tend to happen, but there are certainly periods where that is not true.

You have been banned from c/pyongyang.

It’s partially translation issues. Maybe double translated from Korean - > Ukrainian - > English? North Korean is supposedly becoming its own dialect, as well.

That said, there’s a lot in there that sounds like the individual giving their whole personality over to the group. More so than a normal military. That comes right out of the BITE model, what’s more commonly called “cults”.

It’s used in high school English classes all the time. My teacher used a piece of paper to cover the nude bits. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of good Romeo and Juliet movies to choose from. DeCaprio version is good, but it is an odd setting.

Even ignoring the child porn issue, it’s just an OK version of the play, at best. DeCaprio version is really good, even if it’s set in modern times.