In article <verr9t$2squh$1@dont-email.me>,
recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>
> On 10/17/24 12:36 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> > In article <vere5c$2q4h9$2@dont-email.me>,
> > recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >>
> >> On 10/17/24 9:51 AM, Skeeter wrote:
> >>> In article <ver1fr$2ohqk$1@dont-email.me>,
> >>> recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/16/24 8:27 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >>>>> In article <veph2p$2ejus$1@dont-email.me>,
> >>>>> recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 10/16/24 6:10 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >>>>>>> In article <6710329b$1$2385545$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
> >>>>>>> brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com says...
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Oct 16, 2024 at 1:35:02 PM MST, "-hh" wrote <vep81m$28g54$1@dont-email.me>:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On 10/15/24 8:05 PM, pothead wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> On 2024-10-15, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> On 10/15/24 5:54 PM, pothead wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> On 2024-10-15, citizen winston smith <sss@example.de> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/15/2024 1:36 PM, -hh wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> You're now trying to claim that the "what has changed?" is that there's
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> adults now seeking to have genetically normal kids undergo sex change
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> operations.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Were you "in the navy" Huntzy?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> https://youtu.be/nmGuy0jievs
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Cuz you are as gay as a swabbie with no shore leave.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> I'll bet hh volunteered to take other sailors "night in the barrel", if you
> >>>>>>>>>>>> get my drift.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Pun intended.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Oh, we certainly do: you know that you're mad because you can't dispute
> >>>>>>>>>>> facts on the topic, so you try to "Shoot the Messenger" instead. Lame.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> -hh
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Mad?
> >>>>>>>>>> Hardly.
> >>>>>>>>>> I stopped getting mad when I was about 12 yo.
> >>>>>>>>>> It's a waste of energy.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> So if you're denying that it is due to anger, then what *was* your
> >>>>>>>>> motivation to sling such a lame Ad Hominem? After all, you did choose
> >>>>>>>>> to post, so there must have been a reason. So if its not you being
> >>>>>>>>> upset & butthurt again, then just what was your motivation?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> He seems unaware of his own emotional states... unless you have a signifiant
> >>>>>>>> issue pretty much all people experience anger from time to time.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> I prefer to look up from my spreadsheet and observe what the world is is
> >>>>>>>>>> saying.
> >>>>>>>>>> That's something you seem unable to do.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On the contrary: I find that worldviews are expanded by using objective
> >>>>>>>>> data, and helps to reveal my own potential personal biases.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Where Pothead makes things up, such as his recent claims that I am somehow
> >>>>>>>> responsible for Carroll's flood bot.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> You can spin your numbers all day and night but the fact remains that
> >>>>>>>>>> the number 1 issue with voters is the economy/inflation and the polls
> >>>>>>>>>> show that people blame Biden/Harris for the mess.
> >>>>>>>>>> And that is a fact.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> And people are _never_ deceived? Or make a mountain out of a mole hill?
> >>>>>>>>> Case in point:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Initially Biden was trying to convince the people that Bidenomics was working.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> So then, just what is the definition of "working" here?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Because if it is real wage increasing to catch up with inflation, we
> >>>>>>>>> know that it is already 98% of the way there by one metric, and is 102%
> >>>>>>>>> of the way there by another metric.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> We are still struggling based on Reagan and his absurd trickle down. Trump's
> >>>>>>>> work to redistribute money to the very rich did not help. Nor did the
> >>>>>>>> pandemic. Nor the war in Ukraine. Or Israel.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I was better off when Trump was in office.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> By what measure?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> He and his handlers found out rather quickly that people were not buying
> >>>>>>>>>> that message so he stopped promoting it.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Or...that was Biden's message and since he's no longer running, Harris
> >>>>>>>>> has emphasized different top messaging points.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> The Biden/Harris administration will go down in history as the worst
> >>>>>>>>>> administration ever, even topping Jimmy Carter.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> And why was Carter so bad in your eyes? Inflation again, but this time
> >>>>>>>>> from Nixon/Ford? Are you old enough to remember the GOP's "WIN" (Whip
> >>>>>>>>> Inflation Now) campaign and wage freezes? How did those real wages
> >>>>>>>>> catch up?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Wages have not come close to keeping close with productivity. Used to be a CEO
> >>>>>>>> made 40x the average worker. Now it is several hundred times.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> So?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The CEO:worker pay ratio shows the increasing wealth concentration at
> >>>>>> the top, which is decreasing the prosperity of the US middle class, for
> >>>>>> higher CEO pay means less for the rank & file, which is why more middle
> >>>>>> class households are failing instead of rising up. It is the inevitable
> >>>>>> outcome of the GOP's "Trickle-Down" economics starting from Reagan.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -hh
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I couls afford to do stuff.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> So what you're saying is that you lost your job due to CoVid?
> >>>>
> >>>> Or are you saying that you've not gotten raises, either because your
> >>>> employer has not been kept up with the national average for wage
> >>>> increases, or didn't think you were worth paying more?
> >>>>
> >>>> Or did you (or spouse) retire, so your income has dropped from that?
> >>>>
> >>>> Or are you just complaining that you're getting old and can't physically
> >>>> go out boozing every weekend? /s
> >>>>
> >>>> YMMV, but my hourly rate has soared, such that I don't need to work long
> >>>> hours anymore.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Crime wasn't as bad.
> >>>>
> >>>> Interesting claim, because National crime statistics show that most
> >>>> crime rates have continued to go down, despite the public's false
> >>>> perception that things aren't getting better:
> >>>>
> >>>> "Using the FBI data, the violent crime rate fell 49% between 1993 and
> >>>> 2022, with large decreases in the rates of robbery (-74%), aggravated
> >>>> assault (-39%) and murder/nonnegligent manslaughter (-34%)."
> >>>>
> >>>> <https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/>
> >>>>
> >>>> TL;DR: half as bad as it used to be.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thus said, there have been changes in opportunistic nonviolent property
> >>>> theft, such as stealing FedEx deliveries, washing checks stolen from the
> >>>> mail, etc, but property crime still been trending down over time:
> >>>>
> >>>> "The FBI data also shows a 59% reduction in the U.S. property crime rate
> >>>> between 1993 and 2022, with big declines in the rates of burglary
> >>>> (-75%), larceny/theft (-54%) and motor vehicle theft (-53%)."
> >>>>
> >>>> -Ibid
> >>>>
> >>>> So what evidence do you have of crime being "worse": is it merely your
> >>>> personal perception? Or true for just your highly localized region?
> >>>> Because on a National macro level, the claim does not ring true.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -hh
> >>>
> >>> Moron.
> >>
> >> Translation: Nailed It.
> >>
> >> So what was your career path before CoVid ruined it?
> >>
> >>
> >> -hh
> >
> > I was already retired. What does that have to do with you being a moron?
>
> Oh, so then what you're really saying is that you failed on your own
> retirement planning to take inflation into account.

I never said any of that liar.
>
> So then, was your personal planning failure due to recency bias?
> Or have you always been bad at math & finances? /s

<blink> Anyway prices are almost double than what they were.
>
> Because there's not been a major enough Market downturn to blame it on
> Sequence of Returns risks since ~2008.

Gas? Food? Keep sucking up that kool aid.

Oh and you're still a moron.
>
>
> -hh