I mean it’s totally possible it’s higher in your local area. It’s a national average so there are also local factors at play that aren’t visible in it.

No worries I didn’t take it as anything rude.

Sure but that’s not what the poll was asking. It just asked whether COL was higher or lower between them.

But maybe you’re right that there are better questions to ask.

There was a period (the start of the Russia/Ukrainian war) where gas prices were higher than now. So it’s not that crazy I don’t think. The best way to compare two periods would be to average the prices over time but people can’t do that on their own really.

It’s really not too bad. Just imagine weighing yourself down and laying flat on the bottom as they crawl over you. As long as you don’t try to move they won’t bother you.

I guess people still don’t realize that e-bike subsidies are proven to be more effective for reducing carbon emissions than EV subsidies.

No it’s all part of the propaganda campaign to convince them they’re dangerous and subhuman. After years of hammering the idea home, the solution is to get rid of them rather than provide treatment.

The whole basis for the ethnic cleansing is that immigrants are a threat to you. Infectious diseases are a tried and true line of attack.

Desert land is cheap and we’ve wasted billions on subsidized public water infrastructure. So it’s entirely rational from their perspective.

One of the few times it is 100% the president’s fault gas prices went up.

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Well I’m just saying that the elimination of “criminals” does reduce crime in a sense. I personally don’t think it’s a very ethical means of doing so but it is effective.

If I trusted my friend so deeply that they would not judge or harm me in any way I wouldn’t mind if they saw my whole life. But that’s a lot of trust that isn’t very realistic, especially for a detached and unaccountable government.

Well I think this is a bit contradictory. Dissidence is merely one form of crime from the state’s perspective. So it is somewhat effective at reducing behavior the state will punish, though not completely effective obviously.

Now I would agree that the harm here is not worth it. If you had a completely trusted authority that only used it in a responsible way for serious crimes then it could be useful but I don’t see how that could happen.

Amazing that this tree is 10 quadrillion years old.

Not just OK with it. That’s the goal.

Huh? It seems accurate to me.

You don’t. The US can’t be fixed until the people want it to be fixed. And right now they don’t.

He’s just hiking the Appalachian trail, no biggie.

Maybe the concern is less scrupulous actors will soon be able to develop similar models?

The grifters have all the money and power. It wouldn’t be much of a contest.