Re: inflation, growth in pure gross/intake has to increase to match the currency devaluation, and that can mostly be done by adjusting your prices in line with inflation. Employee count, market shares etc. can all hold steady, all else being equal.

Niece playes Smash. Calls DK “Donkey Donk”. I corrected her for awhile, then I decided her way was really better.

Correlation correlates to causation, but doesn’t cause it.

Weekend at Biya’s?

OR maybe you should team up on the incremental progress for now, and then show them why more work is needed. You don’t need to be the divisive one.

It is possible to improve on the methods and priorities of previous attempts.

Like 77.3 million American voters, sadly.

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Is she related to Princess Peach?

Honestly, because I take most things as both serious and facetious until I can properly de ide which it was intended as, and I tend to imagine at least a subset people also do that and might decide I wasn’t joking. And I had a little hesitation about being unclear.

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Oh, I thought it was a kind of lingerie my mom used to wear.

I HAVE to say this is a joke.

I think Pod Save America said that Fox News was talking about very minor protests happening now at an ICE place in Portland - where there have been one to four people protesting - and showing both that footage AND footage of much more significant action from 2020, presumably without making it clear that some of what they were showing was from years ago.

That might explain a lot.

One of my local schools just up and disappeared in a puff of smoke. I couldn’t make out the green numbers that were hanging in the air for awhile afterwards to see how much budget it got them back.

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Hey now, President Camacho may not have been a terribly smart man, but he definitely wanted to get the smartest person in the room working on real problems to find real solutions. Don’t drag his name by comparing him to Trump.

When we NEED to be in a Scooby-Doo cartoon, where the villains is generally a white male landowner who gets caught.

That’s a fun way to get out of answering a legitimate question: ad hominem attacks.

Survivor of crime becomes crime-fighter, survivor of catastrophe saves people from disasters.

“Be the person you needed when you were younger” feels applicable.