Further evidence of my complete decline as a human being: batch cooking makes me very happy. Control over calories and expenditure. I have become the kind of person Radiohead used to write ironic songs about.
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Further evidence of my complete decline as a human being: batch cooking makes me very happy. Control over calories and expenditure. I have become the kind of person Radiohead used to write ironic songs about.
Harrell casually joking about the RTO policy that significantly contributed to his own city staff leading the independent expenditure campaign against him.
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Harrell casually joking about the RTO policy that significantly contributed to his own city staff leading the independent expenditure campaign against him.
To put this grossly wasteful expenditure in perspective...
Germany gives Ukraine €3 billion to help fight against Russian attacks, while the U.S. spends $2 billion to change the name of the Dept. of Defense to feed Trump’s ego
www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth...
Germany gives Ukraine €3 billion to help fight against Russian attacks, while the U.S. spends $2 billion to change the name of the Dept. of Defense to feed Trump’s ego
www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth...
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
To put this grossly wasteful expenditure in perspective...
Germany gives Ukraine €3 billion to help fight against Russian attacks, while the U.S. spends $2 billion to change the name of the Dept. of Defense to feed Trump’s ego
www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth...
Germany gives Ukraine €3 billion to help fight against Russian attacks, while the U.S. spends $2 billion to change the name of the Dept. of Defense to feed Trump’s ego
www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth...
My source is data from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
My source is data from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey
Being a VR dev has just been a decade of being jump scared by new hardware, from half a dozen or more vendors, you will be expected to support, suddenly, with no external financial assistance, and no way to tell if doing so will pay for the resource expenditure of supporting it.
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Being a VR dev has just been a decade of being jump scared by new hardware, from half a dozen or more vendors, you will be expected to support, suddenly, with no external financial assistance, and no way to tell if doing so will pay for the resource expenditure of supporting it.
I do not care about sound quality, I care about never hearing anyone’s speakerphone conversation ever again. I think such an expenditure would probably improve the health of my literal heart
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I do not care about sound quality, I care about never hearing anyone’s speakerphone conversation ever again. I think such an expenditure would probably improve the health of my literal heart
Never used door dash….that’s quite the McDonald’s expenditure
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Never used door dash….that’s quite the McDonald’s expenditure
IMF:n uusi raportti Suomen taloudesta kannattaa lisäsopeutuksia, mutta vaatii niiltä järkevää suuntaamista ja huomiota myös tulopuoleen: ”consolidation measures must be well-targeted and efficient, with attention given to both revenue and expenditure.”
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
IMF:n uusi raportti Suomen taloudesta kannattaa lisäsopeutuksia, mutta vaatii niiltä järkevää suuntaamista ja huomiota myös tulopuoleen: ”consolidation measures must be well-targeted and efficient, with attention given to both revenue and expenditure.”
I'm going to anger the TL and tepidly defend Economics as a field. It's untrue that economists reject the idea that government expenditure is bad. It's just that the economists who do argue for free markets are useful to capital and are therefore held up as experts to manufacture consent for policy
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I'm going to anger the TL and tepidly defend Economics as a field. It's untrue that economists reject the idea that government expenditure is bad. It's just that the economists who do argue for free markets are useful to capital and are therefore held up as experts to manufacture consent for policy
📊 New review. Sweat the small stuff: A review of the use of accelerometers to estimate energy expenditure in wild animals ➡️ buff.ly/9XJbIwT
"The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"
"The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📊 New review. Sweat the small stuff: A review of the use of accelerometers to estimate energy expenditure in wild animals ➡️ buff.ly/9XJbIwT
"The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"
"The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"
ACA subsidies are cheaper ($350B/10 yrs) than the ‘subsidy’ to corrupt corporations for employer-sponsored insurance (ESI), “the third largest expenditure in the sprawling federal tax code” & “estimated at $5.9 TRILLION over the next decade“ that benefits “upper-middle and high-income households..”
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
ACA subsidies are cheaper ($350B/10 yrs) than the ‘subsidy’ to corrupt corporations for employer-sponsored insurance (ESI), “the third largest expenditure in the sprawling federal tax code” & “estimated at $5.9 TRILLION over the next decade“ that benefits “upper-middle and high-income households..”
The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%.
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%.
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
I will also note that it’s one thing to make a throwaway endorsement. Annoying, but maybe not huge.
But it’s certainly A Choice to *buy* 5-figure glossy mailer campaigns - worth 31% of the PAC budget - on behalf of the harassment candidate.
But it’s certainly A Choice to *buy* 5-figure glossy mailer campaigns - worth 31% of the PAC budget - on behalf of the harassment candidate.
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I will also note that it’s one thing to make a throwaway endorsement. Annoying, but maybe not huge.
But it’s certainly A Choice to *buy* 5-figure glossy mailer campaigns - worth 31% of the PAC budget - on behalf of the harassment candidate.
But it’s certainly A Choice to *buy* 5-figure glossy mailer campaigns - worth 31% of the PAC budget - on behalf of the harassment candidate.
Blois lives in Saint Louis Park and Haley ran the anti Melvin independent expenditure which both feel like context worth mentioning.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Blois lives in Saint Louis Park and Haley ran the anti Melvin independent expenditure which both feel like context worth mentioning.
Non-payment is mostly much more deadly for small businesses which suffers with secondary insolvency much quicker than large companies. 2/5 is huge number and it will get much worse in the last weeks of the year. State budget is cutting every possible expenditure, regional budgets are empty.
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Non-payment is mostly much more deadly for small businesses which suffers with secondary insolvency much quicker than large companies. 2/5 is huge number and it will get much worse in the last weeks of the year. State budget is cutting every possible expenditure, regional budgets are empty.
ahem, it’s millions not billions - an error we thought had been fixed and apologise for. The plot showing expenditure is correct
November 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ahem, it’s millions not billions - an error we thought had been fixed and apologise for. The plot showing expenditure is correct
Locutus creativity tip: Everything has been done. Just follow the formula. Thinking for yourself is a wasteful expenditure of energy.
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Locutus creativity tip: Everything has been done. Just follow the formula. Thinking for yourself is a wasteful expenditure of energy.
Oh I'd love to see how much his "employee" salary expenditure is.
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Oh I'd love to see how much his "employee" salary expenditure is.
Looking at expenditure, the picture is...confusing! Growth in Q3 is largely driven by investment (although not from business, which fell on the quarter!). The (poss) good news is ONS can find more expenditure than output, suggesting scope for revisions. Concerningly, consumption remains weak.
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Looking at expenditure, the picture is...confusing! Growth in Q3 is largely driven by investment (although not from business, which fell on the quarter!). The (poss) good news is ONS can find more expenditure than output, suggesting scope for revisions. Concerningly, consumption remains weak.
This looks like nonsense to me, so I looked up Uzbekistan 2024 budget expenditure, & it is ~ $34 billion.
Are you telling me that a country whose budget is $34 billion is planning to invest 1/3rd of their budget expenditure per year over the next 3 years in the US?
Does that sound logical to you?
Are you telling me that a country whose budget is $34 billion is planning to invest 1/3rd of their budget expenditure per year over the next 3 years in the US?
Does that sound logical to you?
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This looks like nonsense to me, so I looked up Uzbekistan 2024 budget expenditure, & it is ~ $34 billion.
Are you telling me that a country whose budget is $34 billion is planning to invest 1/3rd of their budget expenditure per year over the next 3 years in the US?
Does that sound logical to you?
Are you telling me that a country whose budget is $34 billion is planning to invest 1/3rd of their budget expenditure per year over the next 3 years in the US?
Does that sound logical to you?
It's not even half! BBC News & Current Affairs spending last year was £324m from a total operating expenditure of £4.4bn. It's just 7.2% of what the BBC does, so could easily be got rid of to save the rest.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It's not even half! BBC News & Current Affairs spending last year was £324m from a total operating expenditure of £4.4bn. It's just 7.2% of what the BBC does, so could easily be got rid of to save the rest.
Who approved the expenditure? Congress? Where did the money come from? Is that why he wants to halt SNAP benefits? This won't be the first time a President stole from a safety net. (Reagan and Social Security).
Donald Trump has put the American people in a fix. youtu.be/Wwac04-ogdw?...
Donald Trump has put the American people in a fix. youtu.be/Wwac04-ogdw?...
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Who approved the expenditure? Congress? Where did the money come from? Is that why he wants to halt SNAP benefits? This won't be the first time a President stole from a safety net. (Reagan and Social Security).
Donald Trump has put the American people in a fix. youtu.be/Wwac04-ogdw?...
Donald Trump has put the American people in a fix. youtu.be/Wwac04-ogdw?...
They have a very simple decision making rule: If an expenditure doesn’t benefit the rich, it’s a waste of money.
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
They have a very simple decision making rule: If an expenditure doesn’t benefit the rich, it’s a waste of money.
So the months of grinding expenditure of political capital, threatening, ridiculing, cajoling, suspending your own MPs - was not only morally gutless, but also wildly self-sabotaging?
Recite after me: we have always been at war with EastAsia. The two-child benefit cap has always been bad.
Recite after me: we have always been at war with EastAsia. The two-child benefit cap has always been bad.
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So the months of grinding expenditure of political capital, threatening, ridiculing, cajoling, suspending your own MPs - was not only morally gutless, but also wildly self-sabotaging?
Recite after me: we have always been at war with EastAsia. The two-child benefit cap has always been bad.
Recite after me: we have always been at war with EastAsia. The two-child benefit cap has always been bad.