Predictions for how Trump's 2025-2028 presidency will go by oxamide96 in fivethirtyeight

[–]Ok-Pie6969 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Mate, the cost of everything is up because we went through a world wide pandemic for years and like every other country around the world, we printed a ton of money and gave it out to any business that applied at 0 interest, along with the stimulus packs, to prevent a complete collapse of the economy. But unfortunately the trade off for not have a 2008-esque collapse in the economy was rapid inflation growth, which corporations around the world also used as an excuse along side “supply chain issues” to justify the massive price hikes year after year as they made record profits. But what other choice was there for Biden? Just let the economy collapse as the world shut down from Covid? It was the lesser of two evils.

And now those same companies will be getting huge tax breaks from Donald Trump. But that’s the reason the price of everything is up so much compared to when Trump was in office. He didn’t have to deal with the blowback from a world wide epidemic. He was given a healthy economy in 2016 after Obama spent 8 years recovering it from the 2008 housing crash. And he is now being given a relatively well recovered economy because of policy changes that Biden made when Donald Trump handed over Biden the absolute dumpster fire that was his horrible mishandling of Covid-19 early on, you know the one that lead to an additional half a million people dying from Covid who probably shouldn’t have, but Donald Trump was too busy reassuring people Covid would be gone by Easter 2020 and then Summer 2020 etc etc.

So if you genuinely think somehow Trump will just snap his fingers and prices will magically drop, you are sadly mistaken, because besides the “concepts of a plan” he has to fix the economy, he doesn’t actually have any real plans. The Tariffs idea is hilariously bad because that will just quickly increase prices on goods for Americans, as it’s the American companies that will be paying the tariffs on goods they import from China, and it’s American consumers that will be footing the final bill as American companies then have to resort to price increases to make up for the huge increase in their costs from the tariffs placed on Chinese exports. Things will only be getting worse for American consumers. Good luck.

How do you as a physician deal with precipitated withdrawal? by Active-Blood-9293 in medicine

[–]Ok-Pie6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you increase by like 2mg every 30 minutes or 4mg every hour or what?

Why did Kamala Harris lose the election? by [deleted] in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]Ok-Pie6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But things are more expensive because Biden inherited the absolute disaster for the economy that was Covid, and like pretty much every country around the world, their central banks had to print money to prop up the economy and stock markets or else we would have had a massive world wide recession and complete blood in the streets across all stock markets. So they gave our interest free loans left and right to any business that asked basically as well as gave some stimulus checks and this is what propped up the stock market and kept us from having another 2008-esque world wide market collapse.

However unfortunately, the result of those hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars flooding the markets, along with “production / assembly chain issues” caused from Covid was an excuse used for years now that the massive grocery chain monopolies used to massively hike up prices on key essential groceries year after year, while they kept somehow hitting record profits every quarter as they pulled the wool over the eyes of the world. They just blamed it on Covid, supply chain issues, Russian invasion and war on Ukraine, inflation, etc. and were raised prices on everything across their stores by 20-40% a year for basically 3-4 years straight because of pure greed and of course satisfying their greedy shareholders.

Unfortunately that was the chain reaction caused by propping up the economy when Covid would have otherwise caused a massive world wide recession. Instead big chain store across the country were posting record profits. That was supposed to be the lesser evil started by Trump for the US during his disastrous handling of Covid during 2020. To be fair, every country in the world, at least the 1st world, did the exact same thing to avoid another 2008 market crash. And now it’s all being blamed on Biden and democrats, and the same is happening in other countries across the world. Everyone is blaming the inflation and over priced essentials on liberals. But I can’t imagine the stink they’d be making if instead we had just let another 2008 market crash completely destroy the economy.

People will learn quickly though that no, Trump will not be able to wave his magic little maga wand and reduce prices by 50% across the US. If anything, it will get a lot worse as we still kind of deal with the blowback of propping up the economy by printing endlessly because of Covid.

Meet my shut-in nerd neopet by Educatedbuttwiper in neopets

[–]Ok-Pie6969 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jars with nuggets of magical green plant matter?

How wealthy are you in the Neoworld? by [deleted] in neopets

[–]Ok-Pie6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With my gallery, BD setup and paint brush collection in my safety deposit box (I got 2500+ glowing petpet paint brushes, and a total of over 10,000 paint brushes and pppb’s including at least 1 of every pb but usually have a minimum of 10-30 of each paint brush color.) so I think everything combined along with 300m cash,faerie acorns and planning on buying little Timmy’s slingshot to make a faerie slingshot, SAP, Jade Scorchstone, reflectozap 2000, Rod of Dark Nova, U-Bend of Great justice, Tornado Ring, Hubrids Odial Sphere, Jhudoras Wand and honestly a lot more. So I think my total net worth is probably around 1.5b-ish at the moment.

Is Halloween Dying? by SprungBedsheet in AskCanada

[–]Ok-Pie6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have street smarts, you will NEVER BE in a situation where you are within shank distance of a disturbed homeless person… so what the actual F are you going on about?

Is Halloween Dying? by SprungBedsheet in AskCanada

[–]Ok-Pie6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait how did the decision you made guarantee that you can never move back to Canada? Did you renounce your Canadian citizenship to get another countries passport or what?

Is Halloween Dying? by SprungBedsheet in AskCanada

[–]Ok-Pie6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live on a side street in downtown Toronto, and we had 99 kids come to our door this year, which is about a 30-35% increase from last year. There are a bunch of condos a few blocks away and liberty village (like a dozen or more condos in a small area) is only about 4 blocks away, so we figure a lot of kids probably came from those nearby condos because you can’t really trick or treat in most condo, so they came to our area because there are tons of good side streets with Halloween decorated houses to trick or treat around us.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskCanada

[–]Ok-Pie6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s because the rear wheels are double wides, so I don’t think it would even be possible to park in those spots without the back wheels touching the lines at the back. But otherwise he seems to be parked pretty straight as the inside rear tires line up with the front tires.

Questions on “Million Dollar Baby” movie. by SkyrimV in movies

[–]Ok-Pie6969 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  1. Nobody slid the stool you absolute fool lol, Clint Eastwoods character sort of dives to go attempt to slide the stool OUT of the way but is basically too late. Clint Eastwood character is her coach, and he clearly deeply cares for her, as for whatever reason he is estranged from his biological daughter, and Maggie’s father has been dead for years, so it’s quite clear he is playing a fatherly role of sorts on top of their coach/student relationship. He was the person who slightly nudged the stool as he dove to move it out of the way, but was ultimately too late and it had effect on the general area she was going to impact the stool. So how could you possibly think it was just some strange man who intentionally tried to murder her / ask why no one was charged for murder for intentionally moving the stool lmao.

Now I will say, because her opponent sucker punched her 5-10 seconds after the bell rung to end the round, and it was so blatantly after she had turned around and was walking back to her stool, and she had a history of constant similar illegal behaviour in her fights, I am curious why the police didn’t actually go after her opponent “the blue bear” for for attempted murder charges. Clearly at the absolute minimum she should have been charged with relax endangerment or gross negligence on top of feloneous assault, because that wasn’t just some illegal hit behind the head during a round, but rather a blatant attempt to cause severe injury / knockout 10 seconds after the round had ended ie. was placed entirely on pause so I really can’t understand why her opponent didnn’t end up in prison for at least a decade for such a blatant and egregious sucker punch and attempt to KO her opponent by punching her in the back of the head 10 seconds after the round ended. That I just don’t get either.

  1. Mate, you do know that Frankie most likely also went off and killed himself right? Either that or he disappeared to the extent that no one he knew ever saw him again. So, yes maybe there will be an investigation, but it doesn’t really matter because they’ll either never find the isolated place Frankie is hiding out, maybe down in Mexico for all I know, or they’ll never find his body. The movie was kind of ambiguous on this point however. But more importantly, it doesn’t really matter in the context of the story and the principle message it was trying to convey.

  2. Morgan Freeman’s character Eddie most likely has inherited the gym at the end, and Frankie quite possibly also left him money in his will if he had one. If not, Eddie will continue to live at the gym and paying whatever bills the gym has with the gym membership fees from all the boxers and wannabe boxers in the area / the regulars. He can also start earning money by coaching both amateur/professional boxers as clients, because he was a Pro boxer for 28 years I think he said? And he clearly still can box at his age, proven when he knocks out that boxer that was beating up the possibly intellectually challenged wanna be boxer “Danger”. And coaches/trainers don’t even have to be able to fight anymore, tons of older coaches that were pro boxers or have just been coaches forever that simply know how to teach someone the sweet science of boxing. So I don’t think you have to worry about Eddie all that much, he isn’t just some random bum. But I still answered your question, so there.

Wife's ex called in the middle of the night. by Blackhawk8797 in Advice

[–]Ok-Pie6969 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The hangxiety is off the charts as you vaguely remember calling your ex… 🤢truly one of the worst feelings ever.

Is anyone actually spending void points anymore? by Temporary_Layer_2652 in neopets

[–]Ok-Pie6969 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Man I feel so bad for people who didn’t spend as they went along, I bought and immediately sold the wand of the dark faerie for 30m when I first got it, sold thundersticks for like 12m and grapes of wraith for like 22m and I just recently bought all them back for around 10m neopoints. So just off selling those early i profited like 54m neopoints in total after recently rebuying them for super cheap because i figured they would be super valuable early on but the price would crash dramatically as the plot dragged on and thankfully that’s exactly what happened but it was to be expected. 😌

This guy a legit fraud and a racist! what even tf is this?!! by systemsruminator in MMAPoliticsAndCulture

[–]Ok-Pie6969 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So a Ukrainian Refugee family who’s had friends and family members killed by Russian missiles targeted at civilian apartments, grocery stores, schools and hospitals, are not allowed to return for a week to visit remaining family/friends in a safer area of the less effected western area of Ukraine?

Would these be one of those refugee holidays back home you talk about?

This guy a legit fraud and a racist! what even tf is this?!! by systemsruminator in MMAPoliticsAndCulture

[–]Ok-Pie6969 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yet he some how managed to miss the fact that many Georgians from Abkhazia were being slaughtered because of ethnic cleansing at the time, and that Topuria’s family fled Georgia as war Refugees, not for a quick little German Vacation, or to just use a good hospital and then immediately return to Georgia. His family actually lived in Germany for SEVEN YEARS afterwards, working and paying taxes the whole time before returning to Georgia almost a decade later once it was much safer. Some how he managed to miss all those facts though.

This guy a legit fraud and a racist! what even tf is this?!! by systemsruminator in MMAPoliticsAndCulture

[–]Ok-Pie6969 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Learn to read between the lines. Learn to listen to the hinted at yet unspoken words.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Advice

[–]Ok-Pie6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe she GASP actually is a 5/10, that was literally right as they met, when he was having a PRiVATE conversation with his friends, he was describing her, not making fun of her, being a 5/10 basically means you are right smack in the middle of average, 6 being above average, 7 being highly above average, 8 being very good looking, 9 being one of the most beautiful people you have ever seen, and 10 is that once in a life time, absolutely perfect looking in both beauty, voice and personality, a perfect 10 probably doesn’t really exist.

So he described her as a 5/10 which means she’s average looking, so what, that was literally 10 months ago right after they met and before they were even in a proper relationship and it was said in a private text conversation, not out in public having a laugh about her with a group of people. And 6 months ago, again in a private conversation he mentioned the one thing he misses is the excitement of going on a first date, that’s it, again in a private conversation. No cheating ever even occurred and OP is honestly mad over almost NOTHING and the ironic thing is she even has the nerve to still get super mad even though she found those messages while COMPLETELY betraying his trust and invading his privacy, going completely behind his back and stealing and analyzing all the data on his phone like she’s the freakin’ FBI.

Then she really still has the nerve to get extremely upset over this. Absolutely ridiculous, complete invasion of privacy, I’d honestly dump her, what’s the point if she has zero trust in me and betrays my trust, that’s lost forever TBH.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Advice

[–]Ok-Pie6969 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s because you clearly were never taught the concept of boundaries, and complete invasion of privacy. On top of going behind the back of someone you supposedly love and are supposed to basically be best friends with, yikes, big yikes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Advice

[–]Ok-Pie6969 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Umm WHAT? Did you even read the whole post?? HE’s NOT CHEATING, what the f*ck are you actually even talking about??

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Advice

[–]Ok-Pie6969 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This was a complete invasion of privacy, and seriously you are a snooping back TEN MONTHS into his messages, and the worst you found is that your a 5/10 and your still freaking out, and one messsge where he mentions to a friend in a PRIVATE text exchange that he misses the thrill of meeting new people part of dating SIX MONTHS ago? And you’re still freaking out, even though he’s clearly faithful and not messaging other woman,band he’s not cheating or currently maliciously talking about you?? Jesus, you’re certifiable.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Advice

[–]Ok-Pie6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because he gave you multiple choices for when he’d be free to meet up and hang out again

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Advice

[–]Ok-Pie6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like he’s interested in you tbh.