DaveO
@daveon.bsky.social
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Caution may contain opinions. Quality of opinions varies.
I write SF, buy my books :)
Trunk Line - the series - https://amzn.to/4lAURez
I am, rather cynically I fear, wondering how screwed our next 1 term mayor is going to be.
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I am, rather cynically I fear, wondering how screwed our next 1 term mayor is going to be.
Then treat it however you like. 🤷♂️
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Then treat it however you like. 🤷♂️
So? You could have looked yourself, I told you where it was.
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
So? You could have looked yourself, I told you where it was.
Did you look?
It’s on her website.
It’s on her website.
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Did you look?
It’s on her website.
It’s on her website.
bsky.app
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
MullerSheWrote posted some stuff she had had from FBI internals.
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
MullerSheWrote posted some stuff she had had from FBI internals.
Blink.
I watched it. I am not convinced I needed to watch more of it.
I watched it. I am not convinced I needed to watch more of it.
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Blink.
I watched it. I am not convinced I needed to watch more of it.
I watched it. I am not convinced I needed to watch more of it.
Reposted by DaveO
It'll be like they like him and want him to be our king, huh?
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It'll be like they like him and want him to be our king, huh?
People who grew up in Ireland or people who are Irish by birth who didn’t grow up there? Just asking.
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
People who grew up in Ireland or people who are Irish by birth who didn’t grow up there? Just asking.
There is an irony that is not lost on me that American supermarket food was thought of as cheap and now isn’t compared to other industrial countries who also have had periods with relatively high inflation.
Supermarket inflation isn’t just down to food prices but also a collapse in competition.
Supermarket inflation isn’t just down to food prices but also a collapse in competition.
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
There is an irony that is not lost on me that American supermarket food was thought of as cheap and now isn’t compared to other industrial countries who also have had periods with relatively high inflation.
Supermarket inflation isn’t just down to food prices but also a collapse in competition.
Supermarket inflation isn’t just down to food prices but also a collapse in competition.
I tend to buy the same stuff so I notice and that large block peaked over $20 for a few months and I’ve seen it locally for as low as $16.99. So yes. Prices move around for foods especially if the price inflation isn’t all core.
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I tend to buy the same stuff so I notice and that large block peaked over $20 for a few months and I’ve seen it locally for as low as $16.99. So yes. Prices move around for foods especially if the price inflation isn’t all core.
I buy the same eggs at roughly the same super market. When those eggs (cage free Wilcox farms) go from $4.99 in Safeway to $12.99 and then ‘drift’ back to 7.99/8.99 I noticed.
Large block Tillamook 2 yr in my Safeway was $12.99, it’s now $18.99 - 40% up over 2 years.
Large block Tillamook 2 yr in my Safeway was $12.99, it’s now $18.99 - 40% up over 2 years.
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I buy the same eggs at roughly the same super market. When those eggs (cage free Wilcox farms) go from $4.99 in Safeway to $12.99 and then ‘drift’ back to 7.99/8.99 I noticed.
Large block Tillamook 2 yr in my Safeway was $12.99, it’s now $18.99 - 40% up over 2 years.
Large block Tillamook 2 yr in my Safeway was $12.99, it’s now $18.99 - 40% up over 2 years.
The same reason eggs were high hit poultry. Turkey is way down this year, for example.
Chicken is coming down although remains high compared to other countries.
Dairy is down considerably over 2 years ago.
Processed foods are, ironically still high. Chips and cereals especially.
Chicken is coming down although remains high compared to other countries.
Dairy is down considerably over 2 years ago.
Processed foods are, ironically still high. Chips and cereals especially.
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The same reason eggs were high hit poultry. Turkey is way down this year, for example.
Chicken is coming down although remains high compared to other countries.
Dairy is down considerably over 2 years ago.
Processed foods are, ironically still high. Chips and cereals especially.
Chicken is coming down although remains high compared to other countries.
Dairy is down considerably over 2 years ago.
Processed foods are, ironically still high. Chips and cereals especially.
Ok. You keep tilting at this windmill and tell people to suck it up and let me know how it goes for you.
I was alive and working in the 80s. It took decades for people to adjust to the inflation. You’re misremembering how it was.
I’m old enough to think a 10% mortgage was a good deal.
I was alive and working in the 80s. It took decades for people to adjust to the inflation. You’re misremembering how it was.
I’m old enough to think a 10% mortgage was a good deal.
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Ok. You keep tilting at this windmill and tell people to suck it up and let me know how it goes for you.
I was alive and working in the 80s. It took decades for people to adjust to the inflation. You’re misremembering how it was.
I’m old enough to think a 10% mortgage was a good deal.
I was alive and working in the 80s. It took decades for people to adjust to the inflation. You’re misremembering how it was.
I’m old enough to think a 10% mortgage was a good deal.
We had a LOT of staples impacted by the same things and either food prices will drift back down relative to payrolls or there will be continued issues.
Food in the US in supermarkets was already more than peer nations and now it’s much much worse.
It’s not just the core price involved.
Food in the US in supermarkets was already more than peer nations and now it’s much much worse.
It’s not just the core price involved.
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We had a LOT of staples impacted by the same things and either food prices will drift back down relative to payrolls or there will be continued issues.
Food in the US in supermarkets was already more than peer nations and now it’s much much worse.
It’s not just the core price involved.
Food in the US in supermarkets was already more than peer nations and now it’s much much worse.
It’s not just the core price involved.
You can keep saying that but nobody who has entered the work place post GFC has ever really experienced high inflation AND interest rates increasing before.
They have nothing to compare it to.
I thought it was silly to moan because in the early 80s in the UK it was double digits for a while.
They have nothing to compare it to.
I thought it was silly to moan because in the early 80s in the UK it was double digits for a while.
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
You can keep saying that but nobody who has entered the work place post GFC has ever really experienced high inflation AND interest rates increasing before.
They have nothing to compare it to.
I thought it was silly to moan because in the early 80s in the UK it was double digits for a while.
They have nothing to compare it to.
I thought it was silly to moan because in the early 80s in the UK it was double digits for a while.
As I said people continued to expect prices to improve all through my childhood. 🤷♂️
I was born in the late 60s and they would moan about this and especially gas prices all the time.
They eventually adapted but it took DECADES and in the US the democrats are still seen as bad for the economy for it.
I was born in the late 60s and they would moan about this and especially gas prices all the time.
They eventually adapted but it took DECADES and in the US the democrats are still seen as bad for the economy for it.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
As I said people continued to expect prices to improve all through my childhood. 🤷♂️
I was born in the late 60s and they would moan about this and especially gas prices all the time.
They eventually adapted but it took DECADES and in the US the democrats are still seen as bad for the economy for it.
I was born in the late 60s and they would moan about this and especially gas prices all the time.
They eventually adapted but it took DECADES and in the US the democrats are still seen as bad for the economy for it.
It’s a perfect storm especially if you live in a city that was expensive to start with.
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It’s a perfect storm especially if you live in a city that was expensive to start with.
The fact is prices slammed up a little over 3 years ago having been stable over decades and nobody young has any experience of that and other factors haven’t kicked in yet like the feeling their pay will go up.
The fact is the labor market is also tight in a lot of previously good jobs.
The fact is the labor market is also tight in a lot of previously good jobs.
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The fact is prices slammed up a little over 3 years ago having been stable over decades and nobody young has any experience of that and other factors haven’t kicked in yet like the feeling their pay will go up.
The fact is the labor market is also tight in a lot of previously good jobs.
The fact is the labor market is also tight in a lot of previously good jobs.
Prices do revert though, food especially if there was a reason for the increase. Eggs for example. Poultry prices are coming down.
Toilet paper has not and I still get sticker shock.
Imported stuff isn’t until this lunatic quits fucking around with trade and tarrifs.
Toilet paper has not and I still get sticker shock.
Imported stuff isn’t until this lunatic quits fucking around with trade and tarrifs.
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Prices do revert though, food especially if there was a reason for the increase. Eggs for example. Poultry prices are coming down.
Toilet paper has not and I still get sticker shock.
Imported stuff isn’t until this lunatic quits fucking around with trade and tarrifs.
Toilet paper has not and I still get sticker shock.
Imported stuff isn’t until this lunatic quits fucking around with trade and tarrifs.
There is only one response.
Arkell v. Pressdram
Arkell v. Pressdram
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
There is only one response.
Arkell v. Pressdram
Arkell v. Pressdram
I can assure you my parents thought prices would come down again until they realized they weren’t going to but my father’s pay rises eventually covered that.
And I grew up somewhere with higher core inflation than the US had at the time.
And I grew up somewhere with higher core inflation than the US had at the time.
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I can assure you my parents thought prices would come down again until they realized they weren’t going to but my father’s pay rises eventually covered that.
And I grew up somewhere with higher core inflation than the US had at the time.
And I grew up somewhere with higher core inflation than the US had at the time.
I think we have to accept that unlike people my age (50s)where you assumed there would be inflation and your wages would kinda catch up eventually nobody who entered the world of work after the GFC has seen that or understands it. Basically anybody under about 34.
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I think we have to accept that unlike people my age (50s)where you assumed there would be inflation and your wages would kinda catch up eventually nobody who entered the world of work after the GFC has seen that or understands it. Basically anybody under about 34.
No it wasn’t though.
It was pretty high from 1965 onwards and stayed high relative to the prewar period. The period in the mid 80s was high compared to the post GFC
Period with way higher interest rates.
It was pretty high from 1965 onwards and stayed high relative to the prewar period. The period in the mid 80s was high compared to the post GFC
Period with way higher interest rates.
November 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
No it wasn’t though.
It was pretty high from 1965 onwards and stayed high relative to the prewar period. The period in the mid 80s was high compared to the post GFC
Period with way higher interest rates.
It was pretty high from 1965 onwards and stayed high relative to the prewar period. The period in the mid 80s was high compared to the post GFC
Period with way higher interest rates.