Bezos asks WaPo's last remaining employee to come up with three full time salaries to eliminate
a lot of emergency powers don't even conceptually make any sense. How in the world can there be a tariff emergency so urgent that you cant wait for congress?
bsky.app/profile/nich...The Trump era exposed how badly Congress erred over decades by granting the president emergency powers in certain situations while also making the president the one who decides when we’re in those situations.
ICE can’t mask except when ICE’s boss says it’s necessary? Repeating that same mistake.
tfw there's a tariff emergency
tax wonks hate roth but it would be really beneficial to normies if we converted HSAs to roth HSAs so that people can move their contributions in and out freely without taxes or penalties
this would make it really easy for everyone to max out their HSA contributions without worrying "what if I have a non-medical expense?" You could take out your contribution and it would be the exact same as if you hadn't contributed
i have compiled a complete list of savory dishes you can’t use fish sauce in:
you absolutely can make a roux with oil instead of butter and it's kind of weird nobody does this given that oil (unsaturated fat) is healthier than butter (saturated fat and even a little bit trans fat)
"liquid butter" is usually unhydrogenated soybean oil mixed with some hydrogenated soybean oil (saturated fat). It would make a lot of sense if they instead just put some butter flavoring in canola oil
other things aside, "every four weeks"??? Is this a chemotherapy protocol? Are they really saying they will bill on a different day every month, in order to recoup an extra two (2) dollars over the course of the year?
bsky.app/profile/bgru...I was curious to see what the WashPost would do to retain subscribers, so I started the cancellation process -- and they came back with a $2/month offer, which is crazy
a lot of these food takes make inappropriate use of relative numbers. "food relative to income" is a measure of how cheap food is, not how much people eat out. I don't get why Mike Bird did food relative to all sales instead of restaurants as a share of all food
A much higher percentage of food spending is restaurants now than in 1990, and people eat way more total calories, even though food relative to income has fallen a bit. That tells us food, including restaurants, have gotten cheaper and people (partly as a result) have gotten wealthier
vast majority of the replies are trying to find some angle to cast doubt on the data or reinterpret it as a sign of stress. People are richer and food is cheaper! Being richer doesn't mean no money problems, it means having more things despite your money problems
I do think restaurants have gotten better* since the 90s, and there's definitely way more restaurants around than in the 90s, but people don't eat restaurant food more because it has gotten better, they eat it more because they are wealthier, and this has supported more and better restaurants
*"better" could be judged in a variety of ways, not all of which have been improved. What I mean by better is basically craveability. People crave Chipotle
example here of how the internet enables scammers. Both are food grade lye, same price tag, the one on the right is in the bulk-style container, so it's cheaper per gram, right? Actually it's a fake bulk-style container that's half the size of the one on the left!
all of home depot's potting soil got wet and froze solid
