Blueberry
2d ago
There is this famous graph of consumer price changes in the last 20 years:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/price-changes-goods-services.jpg
Massively cheaper: Technology like software, computers, big hd televisions.
More or less same: Material consumer products like furniture or clothing
More expensive: Food and Housing
Massively more expensive: Services like childcare, college, hospital services
that new iPhone will cost more regardless
That is extreme nitpicking, but this is not true. iPhones do cost basically the same over decades for the the base model, and the pro models even got cheaper:
https://i.redd.it/fo16m7rgh4nb1.png
The launch price of the iPhone 6S in 2015 was $650. Inflation-adjusted that had the buying power of $885.01 today. And 10 years later now the new iPhone 17 costs only $799 (exactly the same price price as the iPhone 12 five years ago).
Blueberry
3d ago
There was also this from the author:
kept seeing people tw RED HOOD #1 for suicide, and for the life of me I could not figure out why until I remembered it opens with a bunch of cops shooting themselves. i just don't really consider them people.
Blueberry
4d ago
There's some funny nutpicking
Jezebel at monday: "We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk"
https://www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some-etsy-witches-to-curse-charlie-kirk#
For the “POWERFUL HEX SPELL,” I had to provide Kirk’s date of birth for “accuracy.” The witch performed the hex, but her response was unsettling: “I just completed your spell, and it was successful. You will see the first results within 2–3 weeks. However, I did notice disturbances… negative energy not only from you, but projected at you. Likely from toxic family members, co-workers, or new acquaintances.”
Blueberry
4d ago
The last question he ever got was:
"Do you know how many mass shootings in the last 10 years there have been in America?"
“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk asked back.
Then he was shot.
I bet the assassin waited for a question about gun control/gun violence.
Blueberry
10d ago
Where is the muslim info coming from? In the first picture here he has a big cross as a tattoo. Gangster or not, a muslim wouldn’t have that:
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/15276040/man-behind-dundee-knife-video-gypsy-gangster/
Blueberry
17d ago
My guess is the NFT craze (same as art market) was fueled by washing crypto. It died down though, and one can see what wallet paid for what, so I don't know how to wash bitcoin.
Blueberry
17d ago
If they had a good life or just vanished into private life I agree. But some porn starlets from the 2000s died (drug overdose, suicide, just life) and their content is unwhackable to me now.
Blueberry
17d ago
One whale spend in eleven month 4,7 million on her:
Blueberry
1mo ago
In Germany the parliament instructed the medical association to make new rules which don’t discriminate according to sexual orientation. So the change was ordered by political correctness. New rule is now that for a blood donation you can’t have in the last four month a) two or more sexual partners at the same time or b) analsex.
Gay organizations complained of course that analsex in itself is not causing HIV and there are plenty (heterosexual) monogamous couples who are now prevented from donations (IF answering honestly).
I guess this can’t be solved socially, but only by the coming HIV vaccines.
Blueberry
1mo ago
Out of the loop: can someone give a short explanation who Hlynka is and why he is banned? (I am a long term regular, but I don’t often (almost never) give attention to user names.)
Blueberry
1mo ago
This is how oat/soy-milk versus cow-milk was normalized in Germany. Now in the big cities almost every cafe has the option to use oatly (and near students/university oatly is the normal option).
There are some startups in Berlin trying to make casein protein from yeast. With casein one could make cheese (mozarella, gouda, cottage cheese, camenbert etc) virtually indistinguishable from cow-cheese. The current cheese alternatives all suck, especially on pizza, and are nutritionally worthless with almost no protein.
Blueberry
1mo ago
About a week ago, a user here posted that Epstein's status as a Mossad agent was pretty much an established fact at this point,
Just for the protocol: 4 weeks ago 2rafa effort-posted that it is very implausible that Epstein was propped up by Mossad or that Israeli Intelligence was using him to blackmail people:
https://www.themotte.org/post/2240/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/345489?context=8#context
If you were Mossad and wanted to blackmail people ambivalent or hostile toward Israel into supporting it, you'd target rich Chinese, Indians, gentile Russians, and above all rich Sunni Muslims, particularly in the Gulf. You would not target Alan Dershowitz. The blackmail argument betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of the basic purpose of blackmail. It also betrays an understanding of diaspora Jewish politics and Mossad's influence over it. Most critically, those rich Americans who were more skeptical of Israel do not appear to have associated much with Epstein (likely because that isn't really their crowd). Epstein bragged about working for intelligence agencies; that is the one thing you don't want your agent of blackmail to be doing.
Blueberry
1mo ago
https://acoup.blog/2025/08/01/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-iiia-family-formation/
The marriage patterns of high elites in a society are often quite different from the marriage patterns of most of the society. The classic example of this is to note that students are often mislead by European aristocrats in the medieval and early modern periods marrying very young and so they assume that everyone in medieval Europe married very young, but in fact, as we’ll see in a moment, medieval western Europe is notable for very late (mid-twenties for women, late twenties for men) typical age at first marriage among the general population.
Blueberry
1mo ago
The vibe riding is an interesting thought. I guess it is the same in music/fashion/art: cool people surf the wave at the exact right time, uncool people are too late, but few stay relevant over decades without becoming a dinosaurs.
Blueberry
1mo ago
My bet for the next corporate play: American Eagle is advertising with an attractive Black (my guess is a men to avoid direct comparisons between two women) and another cheesy word play (“black is beautiful” or something like that). That won’t go as viral though as there is not much controversy left.
Blueberry
1mo ago
And her children look like her, so a secretly-adopted-conspiracy can be dismissed.
Blueberry
1mo ago
Italy voted a porn starlet into parliament:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Staller
In 1985, she switched to the Radical Party, campaigning on a libertarian platform against nuclear energy and NATO membership, as well as for human rights. She was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, with approximately 20,000 votes. While in office and before the outset of the Gulf War, she offered to have sex with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in return for peace in the region.
Blueberry
1mo ago
we should expect the actual undoing (if it should ever happen) of woke will be mocking it and making it low status (somehow?
Matt Walsh making Robin DiAngelo pay $30 to his black camera man was effective in that even mainstream media talked about the scene and she vanished in shame:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9JSjAnGwzqI
But mocking is difficult, as the superweapon of political correctness was to make mocking cringe, one can’t make deriding jokes of gay/fat/trans/ChingChong/disabled/mentalIllness/unhoused/otherness when it is punching down. Sort of a jiujitsu move: being gay was low status and destroyed careers until coming-out got the quality of braveness. This can be easily transferred to other former icks.
On X they post pictures from him as a kid with lots of guns and his conservative mormon family. The internet fried his brain but I can't say if in the antifa or far-right direction....
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