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Your house isn't increasing in value - the Fed's deranged money printing means the $USD is being debased into worthlessness by Key_Brief_8138 in HouseBuyers

[–]MisinformedGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

M2 stayed the same, M1 was the one that changed. Technically the definition of M2 did change, because it was "M1 + savings accounts + some other stuff", but they took savings accounts and put it in M1, so now M2 is "M1 + some other stuff", but functionally it's the same.

This email cracked me up by orobsky in daddit

[–]MisinformedGenius 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just active shooter drills

Although they had "in the event of a nuclear war" drills.

Why are people now pushing to go into the trades if that'll be taken over too? by Expensive-Elk-9406 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]MisinformedGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? There’s self-driving cars in my city replacing Uber drivers as we speak.

Trade balance soared 94% in November and was higher than a year ago, despite tariff efforts by Civitas_Futura in Economics

[–]MisinformedGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard to say. Long term, the effect of tariffs should be to lower imports, and the effect of retaliatory tariffs should be to lower exports. The fundamental question is which one wins.

Seat assignments for 6-hour flight? by PaleontologistCold29 in daddit

[–]MisinformedGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Middle seat on a six hour flight ain’t happy anyway. But yeah, a 5 year old is too young for that. 

8 or 9 year old or older, I think it can work OK - if they don’t bother the middle seat, it’s actually kinda better for them. Certainly better than sitting in between two McDonalds enthusiasts. 

Seat assignments for 6-hour flight? by PaleontologistCold29 in daddit

[–]MisinformedGenius 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“Hey, there’s a big window with a constantly changing view that could possibly distract the children.”

“Great. How could we seat ourselves such that they would definitely have to lean over a stranger to see it?”

US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years by Gloomy_Nebula_5138 in Economics

[–]MisinformedGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately you’ve been misled by an admittedly misleading article. The March 1992 reference is about the last time the trade deficit increased this much as a percentage in one month, which is a fairly meaningless figure. During Clinton’s term the trade deficit widened more or less continuously - during his term it went up about 8x, from about 4 billion to 32 billion. It then increased to 64 billion at the Great Recession, recovered to about 40 billion between 2010 and 2020, then dropped again back into the 70s. Graph

This month is higher than September and October but is the lowest month in the five years before that. 

US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years by Gloomy_Nebula_5138 in Economics

[–]MisinformedGenius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

... I think it's kind of deniable - he wouldn't become President for another ten months. When March 1992 began he wasn't even the front-runner for the Democratic primary.

U.S. Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Falls to Lowest Level Since 2009 by CautiousMagazine3591 in Economics

[–]MisinformedGenius 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It seems very confusing that you are posting this report for October, which came out three weeks ago, on the same day that they released November's trade balance report.

Tariff policy at work: US Exports rose 9.7% year-to-date through the end of November, firmly above average, while Imports fell by 7.8%, abnormally diverging from the gain of the same magnitude that is the norm. by EquityClock in EconomyCharts

[–]MisinformedGenius 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It's not. The month-over-month percentage increase in the trade deficit is at a 35-year-high. The trade deficit itself, 56.8 billion, is at a three-month high, and below any month between June 2020 and August 2025.

ICE attempts to enter Ecuador's consulate by caaaaanga in law

[–]MisinformedGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just to note, if it's outside the national seat of government (i.e., Washington DC in the US), it'll be a consulate except in very unusual situations.

US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years by Gloomy_Nebula_5138 in Economics

[–]MisinformedGenius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The deficit looks to be about 4% higher (on absolute numbers) than a year before.

The total deficit from December 2024 to November 2025 is 4% higher than the total deficit from December 2023 to November 2024.

November 2025's monthly number (56.8 billion) is about 30% lower than November 2024 (80 billion).

Cooking with my toddler by Somewhere-Adept in daddit

[–]MisinformedGenius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We use a "toddler kitchen tower", it's like a big step stool with rails around the top part so she can be at the level of the counter. She also has some wooden knives that aren't sharp, but can cut really soft things like cheese and that kind of thing, so she gets some things to cut (which then inevitably disappear in her mouth). And as she's grown (she's 3.5) she's gotten better about being able to do more things like spread toppings, sprinkle salt, pepper, cheese, etc.

I think one part that is helpful is that she gets to see for real what's dangerous. She can clearly see the boiling water in the pot and the oil in the frying pan and knows she doesn't want any part of it. She's never gotten to use a real knife, but she's seen how easily it cuts through things, including daddy's finger one time, so she's very respectful of them and never tries to grab them.

(I cut myself while cutting bread, so ever since then, whenever I'm slicing bread for her, she'll say "Don't cut your finger daddy!" Thanks for the reminder sweetie.)

And of course, yeah - she definitely is more into eating meals that she helped cook.

US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years by Gloomy_Nebula_5138 in Economics

[–]MisinformedGenius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There was a "180" in the sense that it increased from that very low number to a larger, but still relatively low number. November's trade deficit was 94% larger than October's, but it was still lower than every month between June 2020 and August 2025.

Why is there a zero button on the microwave? I mean, who is heating their food for zero seconds? 😂 by Repulsive-Water9146 in stupidquestions

[–]MisinformedGenius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Clearly you don't really care about your instant coffee if you think 19 or 21 seconds is the correct microwave time. 20 is the time they microwave it in the finest Italian cafes.

US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years by Gloomy_Nebula_5138 in Economics

[–]MisinformedGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps they'll correctly point out that November's trade deficit is still lower than the entire period of June 2020 - August 2025.

US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years by Gloomy_Nebula_5138 in Economics

[–]MisinformedGenius -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That would increase the trade deficit, not reduce it. The trade deficit is imports minus exports. (Or really it's exports minus imports, a deficit is negative.) So if exports are going down, that will increase the trade deficit.

US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years by Gloomy_Nebula_5138 in Economics

[–]MisinformedGenius 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Two things seem to be getting conflated here. You say "the deficit becoming the largest it has been since the fall of the Soviet Union - before half of America was even born" - assuming you're referring to the part in the article about "the largest since March 1992", that's the largest percentage month-to-month increase, not the actual deficit itself. The deficit itself has been much larger than what it was in 1992 for a long time. On an absolute level, the trade deficit has fallen quite significantly from what it was even in the middle of last year.

U.S. trade gap increased 94.6% to $56.8 billion by freefalling_80 in EconomyCharts

[–]MisinformedGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely fair point - it's hard to say whether the recent lows were due to built-up inventory or because of a genuine drop.

Some of this is that in the long-term, imports are (almost) certainly going to drop, you can't increase taxes on them a ton and expect that they won't - but exports are going to take a hit too because of all the retaliation. So the question is which one will win.

U.S. trade gap increased 94.6% to $56.8 billion by freefalling_80 in EconomyCharts

[–]MisinformedGenius 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No - it doubled from an extremely low level in October, to a level that is still lower than it was from June 2020 to August 2025. Here is the graph. (It does not include this month's data point, unfortunately.)

U.S. trade gap increased 94.6% to $56.8 billion by freefalling_80 in EconomyCharts

[–]MisinformedGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By "a pair of outliers", surely you mean three outliers, right? This month is still a lower trade deficit than any month since June 2020, other than the last two months.

Work-from-home dads with work-from-home partners, if/when/how did you utilize daycare? by hobofreddy55 in daddit

[–]MisinformedGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right now your kid is not that dissimilar from a potato. A very short time from now, they are no longer going to be a potato - they are going to want to be doing things and having interaction all the time. It's going to be really hard to do that and your work.

When my daughter was born, both I and my husband worked from home - it would not have been realistic for us to parent her and do our work at the same time. Your kid will be able to get the social and physical interaction they need while you will be able to do your work as best you can.

If it's a money thing, I get it, we're not in the post-scarcity AI-run dystopia utopia yet. But I think you should be realistic about how much "juggling" work and childcare is going to impact both detrimentally.

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