chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Median price of export goods will be a key indicator to watch as Trump's trade war kicks off - find out more how "MPREG inflation" could hit YOUR pocketbook in the new year 000
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/10/2024The degree to which none of them are asking whether they've corrected for post-Dobbs effect -- NOT EVEN in AZ where there's both a POTUS race and an abortion referendum -- is even more comforting. 913817
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 19/10/2024Aaaand they're not driving to Taco Bell! It's win-win! 000
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.socialJさん( ֊’ ワ ‘֊)🌸 @soukatsu.bsky.social · 19/10/2024PSA for ENG-speaking folks looking to discover JP/KR/CN accounts and having difficulty—🦋discovery settings have a sandboxing feature that defaults to languages enabled on your phone. change that by going to Settings > Basics > Languages > Content Languages and select the ones your want (or none/all) 3532272306
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.social Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/10/2024btw this is still available covidtests.gov 10262115
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 18/10/2024Sometimes you will be in subcultures that stop checking your worst behaviors and even start encouraging them, and it feels like you’re doing something righteous, even good, but even if it feels good being validated in this way is not worth the cost You can do better 2235
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 18/10/2024The absolute psychos who make the base of the GOP primaries think "Trump's ideas are popular", when it's actually "Trump says so much bullshit that everyone has stuff to agree with while easily dismissing everything else as hyperbole", so it's really hard to get a new Trump from that pool 000
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 17/10/2024And there have been a bunch of calls for insurrectionist protests since J6, like at Trump courthouses, and the militia cosplayers are like "if there might be actual consequences, we're not going" 030
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/10/2024"facial recognition technology for surge pricing" is how someone at mckenzie spells "racial discrimination" 251112298
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.socialWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 17/10/2024Golly. Another case of Tim Pool and Benny Johnson promoting bogus Russian propaganda. I mean, what are the odds?nbcnews.comThe disinformation pipeline: How Russian propaganda reaches and influences the U.S.Storm-1516, a Russian disinformation group, aims to influence the U.S. election through viral videos that rely on fake whistleblowers and fabricated photos and documents. 25012
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 16/10/2024Tbh, I saw someone sing this at karaoke last weekend, and it turns out the YMCA has like a million verses, this is probably in it 000
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 16/10/2024which were basically "airline price war" unsustainable long term. 2, a ton of new consumer services were being run at a loss between 2010-2018, propped up by VC dollars, and it turns out a private burrito taxi costs a lot more when a private equity firm isn't paying for half the cost of every order 041
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 16/10/20242 things that I don't see talked about: a bunch of cheap things had been stuck anchored at $1 and when that barrier broke, went up to $1.50-2 because they had basically been saving up inflation. Seeing a Twix jump from $1 to $1.80 at the checkstand is right in your face, same for Dollar Menus, 152
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 16/10/2024Not to be super shady to OP, but are they replacing the sacrificial anode in their water heater every year? I didn't even know that was a thing until a few years ago, when it was far too late to try and replace the one on my 20 year old tank. How much other maintenance am I accidentally not doing? 030
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 16/10/2024I was shopping for a 50" 4k to replace my dual monitor setup, looking at Craigslist and Facebook, then realizing that I could get a brand new one for the $250 people were trying to get for their old models. Like, so much screen for so little blows me away 020
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 15/10/2024POV: The girl who peaked in HS wants you to remember the good that exists within our stressful and chaotic world, that we fight our inevitable disappointments with gratitude for the beauty that we receive, and while the future may hold tragedy, without hope, we guarantee it 040
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.socialMike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 14/10/2024By way of my far-flung network of correspondents comes this piece of good news from the bad place twitter.com/keithboykin/... 414135
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 14/10/2024I'm a big "if you had to look to find it, put it back in the first place you looked" believer 010
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2024Tim Walz: "He crossed a line ... Trump over the weekend talked about using the Army against people who disagree with him. Just so you're clear about that - that's you. This is not some mythical thing. He called it 'the enemy within.' And to Trump, anybody who doesn't agree with him is the enemy." 5332401065
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 14/10/2024Yay! Please criticize the hell out of her - It's important to have a strong left wing too, it's how we drag the country to progress, despite the deeply entrenched status quo 010
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 14/10/2024If you're playing SC2, there's a really interesting nodding scene, you should look up the Real Scale mods, they're a blast 000
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 13/10/2024I've been thinking a lot about that paper that was going around last week, that like 0.1% of users are the ones starting fights, and the overall poster vs. lurker ratio of the Internet, and how heavily the narrative is shaped by that .1 percent 010
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 13/10/2024Not an IR person by a long shot, but I do wonder if Netanyahu is threatening Biden with "let us do what we want on our borders, or we're going to send our Air Force to Iran, and good luck dealing with that" 000
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 12/10/2024I thought this was an abstract painting for like, a solid minute, with the big blocks of solid color 000
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 11/10/2024That was true a few years ago during the big shortages and production slump, but inventories have gone the other direction now and are back to pre-pandemic levels. We're seeing the return of dealer incentives that weren't there for the last 4 years, and MSRP pricing seems to be the usual right now 010
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 11/10/2024Especially given how "this new disease MYSTERIOUSLY only kills those who don't obey the government" is such a self-reinforcing meme, and government bioterrorism to control the population through so-called vaccines is already such a storied conspiracy 000
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 11/10/2024It's going to be a Rosetta stone in 200 years, you're going to see memes about how a scrub is NOT a reference to a nurse until later on in the period 0161
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2024This is a powerful ad that deserves to be spread far and wide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djwp...youtube.comIt Couldn't Happen HereYouTube video by The Lincoln Project 321001549
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 11/10/2024Americans have lots of money, and spend it on nice cars, though; $50k is solid luxury car territory. A new base F-150, most popular vehicle in America, does run $45k base, but you can grab a new Toyota Tacoma for $30k. 120
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 11/10/2024The early 90's has 3-5% inflation, so that's a reasonable extrapolation, but at least where I'm at, a Big Mac meal is $10.50 (and a on-special double cheeseburger meal is $5), and having looked around for basic cars in the last year, those are $20-30k (a new Toyota Corolla is $23k) 010
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.socialStephen J Pumpkins @jaybeans.bsky.social · 10/10/2024This an AP photo of the back of the auditorium where Trump gave his latest rally. It only holds 7,000 people 38022
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 11/10/2024Judgement-free, this is a man who has willed his entire career path to let him argue with strangers as a lifestyle, he is the least ambushable person on the East Coast, possibly the Lower 48 130
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 11/10/2024I don't know why I find it one of the funniest things, but the first bit of the Village People's "Macho Man" on 1/4 speed on YouTube just cracks me up youtu.be/Zg3q6qW2aKo?... 000
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 10/10/2024I'm certainly comforted by thinking it's either a win for Harris or the subtabs are true and there's a major invisible realignment in US politics that is totally out of our control 000
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 10/10/2024I know it's a stereotype, but my go-to for non-college is contractor, where you make good money, but you also are directly writing tax payment checks, and I think the higher visibility of paying taxes explains a lot. 020
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 10/10/2024Especially given the "if Trump doesn't like this report, he'll go find another vendor that will show him what he wants to see" dynamic that we know Trump demands 010
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 10/10/2024On the other hand, there's a pretty good incentive for a polling vendor for the Trump campaign specifically to only show things that can be spun to Trump as good news, at least if you want to keep getting paid to do more polls for Trump 030
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 10/10/2024I met an older woman at an activist's birthday party who told me her proudest moment in life was being at the Seattle WTO protests, and while I didn't say anything because I'm not an asshole, like, they did not slow down globalization! 000
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 10/10/2024Like, Occupy and the Tea Party took place at the same time, and Occupy definitely had more people out protesting! Meanwhile, the Tea Party took over local parties and has run the House of Representatives for the last decade. Not that that's the only factor by a mile, but it's still important! 320
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 10/10/2024I'm gonna bang this drum the rest of my life, but 60,000 Americans in body bags is what got the US out of Vietnam, and while protests are an important window into popular sentiment, the mythos that college protests were instrumental in stopping Vietnam has mostly hurt the left's effectiveness 100
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 09/10/2024I challenged myself the other day to name the heads of state of the US's major allies and other notable foreign nations, and oof. 000
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 09/10/2024The hopeful part of me thinks that if the Facebook brain poisoned people are undecided, that's not exactly a positive sign for Trump 000
Reposted by @chatham.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 09/10/2024Remember when Biden kept a Republican as Fed chair and he was absolutely fucking GOATed? 0213
chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 08/10/2024I had to convince my mom, who writes postcards to help elect Dems, to not vote for a Republican in our Lt. Governor primary, since she's still got a part of her that wants to believe in bipartisanship and getting the view from all sides 120
