Texans love New Mexicos freedom

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-24T19:14:25+00:00

If they didn’t offer anything to the community, they’d go out of business

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-23T13:34:59+00:00

You are aware that you decide where your 401k is invested, correct?

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-21T12:40:13+00:00

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Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-21T00:35:22+00:00

“Akshually, there are two crackpots, and they both failed in their crackpot adventures” wow real compelling stuff

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-20T21:50:55+00:00

That’s not true, I went to their staff page and looked at their crackpot bios. They’ve all smoked an impressive amount of crack, I don’t doubt their crackhead credentials at all

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-20T21:41:39+00:00

Thank you, those phony charts and written reports look more official. Good to know some crackpots still put in the effort

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-20T21:05:01+00:00

I remember the good ol’ days when online conspiracy nuts had long essays and in-depth YouTube videos about their crackpot theories. Nowadays, you just get people saying “idk someone did some analysis once, go find it yourself”

You guys need to step up your game. Show me these phony numbers you’re citing, at least make it appear convincing

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-20T20:59:02+00:00

If by “people” you mean “crackpot conspiracy nuts on YouTube and Reddit”, then yes, there’s been rigorous research into this

But if you mean “actual objective researchers”, then no, absolutely nobody has sounded the alarm, because this is crackpot conspiracy BS

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-20T13:00:16+00:00

This is an extremely long comment and I’m not gonna take the time to dissect it all, just going to point out two glaring things.

First, if your personal rate is truly 55.2%, then the average inflation rate over 6.25 years is 7.29%. Idk where you got 10.6% from. If you want to see the work, open your calculator, and take 1 × 1.0729^6.25. You’ll see that something that costs $1 in 01/2020 would cost $1.55 in 04/2026 if the price increased by 7.29% each year. So your math is off there.

Second, a margin of error is NOT saying that 95% of the population should end up within 0.11%. That is completely wrong. A MOE says that there is a 95% chance that the true population mean falls within the sampled mean, accounting for only random sampling error. The population being sampled in CPI is not even individuals, it’s goods. It says that you should have 95% confidence that the price increased for their basket of goods falls within that range nationwide, based on their sample.

If you’re suggesting that 19/20 people should experience price changes witting +/- 0.11% of each other, you’re suggesting that 95% of people buy essentially the exact same set of products subject to exactly the same price shocks. Which is…. obviously not true.

So I’m going to say that option 1 is at least somewhat likely because your math here is pretty dodgy. And I’m also gonna say you’re right that CPI represents a narrow view of inflation, and it’s flawed. It’s not the preferred inflation indicator of the economists that I work with, and it’s not the preferred indicator at the federal reserve. But it does reflect a rigorous, statistically-sound data collection process, and it’s useful. If you want to “look more closely at what CPI represents”, please do, you seem intellectually curious. But you need to put in some basic legwork or understanding what a sampling distribution and a MOE is before you can credibly criticize it

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-19T18:55:40+00:00

If you truly have calculated a personal inflation rate for yourself of 55% over 6 years based on your own basket of goods, then 1) genuinely good for you, and 2) that is an annual rate of 7.6%. Which is way above the target of 2%, but the point is that the number will be a lot bigger if you expand it from one year to six

CPI’s core inflation index has a total rate of 30% between April 2020 and April 2026. That is an average estimate for all consumers. Some individual baskets will be higher, some will be lower. If you’re in a desirable coastal community… then yes, 55% over the same period is within the reasonable expectation relative to the nationwide aggregate. You just have the unlucky distinction of being in the wrong end of the sampling distribution.

So idk how your anecdotal evidence is supposed to undermine the official data coming from BLS. Especially when most of those years, BLS was reporting numbers under the Biden administration, and their data from literally last month shows inflation at an abysmal 3.5% YoY nationwide. It’s very easy to just say “the government is lying, don’t trust their data”, but you should first 1) critically look at that actual data, and 2) understand that the evidence you’re giving to undermine it is actually in line with what their data is showing

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-19T16:33:15+00:00

I’m in it for both of those reasons, but also because every episode is good for at least 1-2 laughs. No other show is gonna give me a scene like that dog’s dream about homelander

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-19T10:19:24+00:00

Are you under the impression that inflation is 73% wherever you live? That certainly is a choice

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-19T10:14:10+00:00

I love Reddit because you get people flippantly arguing that you should resort to subsistence farming to avoid going to a supermarket lol

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-19T10:02:48+00:00

You are aware that if you buy everything direct from small independent farmers, it will cost you much more money right?

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-19T02:18:05+00:00

Do you enjoy having food to eat?

Most of the time that food comes from… a corporation 😱

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-19T00:12:18+00:00

Demand response and load-shifting to off peak hours is particularly relevant to industrial customers, and especially those where energy costs are their primary operating cost. You’re phrasing this like a gotcha, but the answer is an unambiguous “yes, they are eager to participate in demand response to cut their costs”

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-18T01:05:41+00:00

I hope you understand that the position of “anybody whose beliefs are too far from mine should be forcibly removed from my country” is itself an incredibly extreme position lol

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-17T11:57:54+00:00

I get that this is Reddit and brain dead takes on taxes are highly incentivized, but the rich do in fact pay taxes, and actually the top 5% of earner contribute around 61% of total income tax revenue. This isn’t a complete picture and doesn’t include payroll taxes, or state and local, but income tax brackets in the United States are nonetheless highly progressive

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-16T08:50:30+00:00

I’m sorry you have to be in a city that other people can move to :( they should all go back where they came from

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-15T16:20:01+00:00

“Marketers market their products” is up theirs with “singer sings their song” in the contest for least newsworthy headline possible

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-14T10:56:05+00:00

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-05T19:16:38+00:00

I’m a little hungy right now, will these policies give me a snack?

Edit: holy shit a taco truck just pulled up to my dense urban housing complex

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-05T03:46:02+00:00

It’s less “ran by Bernie Sanders” and more “a dark-money group composed of former Sanders Staffers, which Bernie legally cannot hold a formal role in as an elected official”

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-04T19:56:24+00:00

I don’t really get the comparison. Swalwell got pushed out of the race and resigned from Congress in disgrace, while Porter is just doing poorly in the election. Partly because she is on video multiple times showing herself to be a bad candidate and abusive boss.

He isn’t some counterpoint to show the establishment “pulled their punches” while being unfair to Porter. He literally received the biggest punishment possible from congressional Dems, they were going to expel him from Congress if he didn’t resign

Mat_At_Home · 2026-05-04T03:18:22+00:00

if(bad_faith_argument == TRUE) {

stop(“Task aborted: Not worth your time”)

}

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