These numbers are wrong. Actual changes (Aug 2023): gas: -3% airline tickets: -13% used cars: -7% hotels: 3% suits: -5% bacon: -6% oranges: -4% tires: 2% furniture: -1% milk: -4% coffee: 1% deliveries: 6% bread: 6% baby food: 8% soup: 4% cereal: 4% eggs: -18% dry cleaning: 6%

maybe selling an $8 megaphone to anyone in the public square and offering them direct monetary incentive for impressions during hyper-sensitive geopolitical events isn’t all that beneficial to society or the health of the public conversation

Used to think "knowing how to cook" meant having a massive set of built-up intuitions for how complex flavors pair well or how to get just the right consistency and texture in food but it turns out when people say that they mean "the ability to read"

id scream my lungs out all day too if i was built to sled penecillin thru an alaskan tundra and you had me cooped up in a florida duplex

pint of milk has the same amount of calories as a pint of ipa but you’d never drink 4-5 pints of milk with the boys on a friday night. that’s why you have weak bones and a b12 deficiency.

At my company of 35,000 employees, we dug into the employees who had the biggest impact on insurance claims. 16% of the employees accounted for 70% of the insurance claims. That 16% is why everyone’s health insurance rates go up each year at large businesses in the US.

as a 6 foot tall woman i can confidently state that every inch a guy is taller than 5’11” is one standard deviation away from having an interesting personality

A very urgent warning from today's Randall Munroe: Minnesota is getting shorter. xkcd.com/2887/

My wife has close friends whose husbands are notably worse than me and I highly recommend this arrangement

People will post graphs trying to argue the economy is good actually while 50% of americans still have a sub-median income

You know you're getting old when the radio stations and bars play music you don't like, but the supermarket is throwing out banger after banger.

this doesnt bother me because i am not as talented as the rizzler

The reason the ownership arbitration is taking so long is because after watching this season both sides decided they actually don't want the team and started arguing for the other side to take it

The old conservative/liberal debates seem so pointless now. There's no ideology that tells you to do tariffs like this. Same thing with anti-vaxx, which is also part of MAGA. Smart/stupid is the most important political divide of our time, not right/left.

I thought the Wolves had no chance against Phoenix last year. I thought they had no chance against Denver. I thought they should be able to beat Dallas pretty easily. So I’m thinking they’ve got no chance against LA

"I'm broke" - Cheap (can't spend) - Stigmatized for lack of funds - Have hit rock bottom "I'm choosing to stay below the first apron" - Frugal (could spend but won't) - Revered for financial willpower - Doing well enough

Six figs mostly doesn't mean anything anymore and it's definitely not enough to live on, it adds up to at most 300 calories assuming each one's large