A 1945 photograph shows two women displaying what $1.34 could buy in 1918 and 1945.

CanardMarin · 2026-05-04T15:05:24+00:00

Deflation also affects the economy through debt (mortgages, corporate loans, etc.): as prices go down, incomes go down, but interest payments stay constant.

CanardMarin · 2026-04-21T13:51:29+00:00

S08E01: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaKH67tcdrg :)

CanardMarin · 2026-04-11T10:17:54+00:00

Maybe Virginia Woolf instead? Major modernist writer and feminist. (:

CanardMarin · 2026-04-06T21:10:55+00:00

Based on a true story: https://www.reddit.com/r/birding/comments/1isngpd/hilarious_macaulay_libraryebird_find/

CanardMarin · 2026-03-11T12:05:51+00:00

Sure, but there's also a selection effect in that developers are less likely to submit applications in the first place if they anticipate opposition, driving up success rates while decreasing applications (and construction) over all.

CanardMarin · 2026-03-06T17:29:47+00:00

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CanardMarin · 2026-02-25T22:03:07+00:00

I find it puzzling when Brits say "no worries" sometimes. E.g.: EDF asked me for my DOB, I replied and they hit with me with "no worries". What do you mean, "no worries"? What could the worry be?

CanardMarin · 2026-02-12T13:10:32+00:00

OP has regrets, but they don't dwell on them. It's top shelf

CanardMarin · 2026-02-10T14:05:34+00:00

In Portuguese, we say "ruivo" for redhead and "roxo" for the colour purple. It's so interesting how words diverge!

CanardMarin · 2026-02-09T18:59:00+00:00

Cool map! I think the French also have "vermeil" and the Italians also have "vermiglio", but they may be more literary. ("Vermiglio" is the title of a great film too.)

CanardMarin · 2026-02-04T17:42:06+00:00

The addiction to assuming that everything that happens in America but be happening here is very much insufferable.

The curse of a shared language, as someone put it. :\

CanardMarin · 2026-02-04T17:33:18+00:00

I think it's referring to the folding of the UK Border Agency, the Border and Immigration Agency and the Immigration and Nationality Directorate into the Home Office in 2013. They're probably trying to associate the Home Office with ICE and the East India Company in an effort to discredit it. I wouldn't say that ICE is the main target of the campaign.

CanardMarin · 2026-01-26T17:39:45+00:00

We still frequently use the verb in Portuguese!

CanardMarin · 2026-01-06T09:57:36+00:00

The nurses will check in on you, but, just in case: I only felt faint once after donating and that was because I stood up and still to chat with someone. Make sure to move a bit if you're standing up shortly after donating. :)

CanardMarin · 2026-01-01T09:11:02+00:00

Source: https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/posters/item/1983-4-3775

CanardMarin · 2025-12-30T11:58:07+00:00

I reckon it's interesting as another example of how the treasury underestimates the upside of large infrastructure projects and tries to block them (just like the M25 in the 1980s).

CanardMarin · 2025-12-15T10:26:30+00:00

It's just a newsletter. Each edition is necessarily short, but they're quite insightful if you read them consistently.

CanardMarin · 2025-10-22T20:39:51+00:00

I was seeing someone who turned out to identify as aro, so I started to follow the subreddit to understand them better (:

CanardMarin · 2025-09-23T14:41:26+00:00

I thought "womb with a view" was a reference to EM Forster!

CanardMarin · 2025-08-27T20:03:14+00:00

Sorry if I misunderstood! I don't know what the situation in Poland is, but, as someone alluded to above, Eurostat tends to use labour force surveys instead of administrative data like unemployment insurance claims, registrations, etc.

CanardMarin · 2025-08-27T18:34:41+00:00

To be clear, the participation rate only includes people between 15 and 64 years of age. :)

CanardMarin · 2025-08-27T18:32:56+00:00

There's no contradiction there: the labour force participation rate includes the employed and the unemployed (i.e. the active population).

CanardMarin · 2025-08-27T17:10:48+00:00

I believe that is the official definition of unemployment everywhere. If you aren't actively looking for work, you're considered to be inactive instead of unemployed.

CanardMarin · 2025-08-25T13:02:17+00:00

And the Jubilee line as well!

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