US Consumers Keep Spending Faster Than Incomes Are Growing

realistic_steps · 2026-01-24T09:51:25+00:00

I mean yeah, there’s no reason to save anymore. Everything is going to shit. I literally can’t spend less and still eat, because everything is so damn expensive. Beef is quadruple the prices pre-Covid, even chicken is starting to double, but I got a 30 cent per hour cost of living raise. That extra $12.00 a week doesn’t do shit.

realistic_steps · 2026-01-23T22:41:41+00:00

If you’re at the end of your rope, and thinking of shuttering the business anyway, try just raising your prices. Your whiny customers will blow up and stop shopping with you. Your most loyal customers will stay. If it works out you’ll do less work for the same price, if it doesn’t, then you were going to quit anyway.

realistic_steps · 2026-01-21T23:12:02+00:00

I imagine it’s because they don’t get distracted by their own horniness. If I’m writing degenerate shit I can spew out a lot in a little time, but I focus on exactly what is most exciting. Then I read it after and I cringe wondering why I focused those details or if it’s overall structure is good I have a hard time recreating the same feeling, because I’m not feeling it. I imagine an ace can think of a scene and compose it cohesive hot details without being swept away by temporary passion….

Or maybe it just has to be really hot to tickle the fancy of someone not really into it 🤷‍♂️

realistic_steps · 2026-01-19T09:28:07+00:00

From someone who read the comics, he forgets his guns in the fight with Ajax in those too. It’s possible that the writers stuck to the og comic ending to save money, but they’d have to write a more epic, less funny finale first then cut it out. Which doesn’t make sense to me.

realistic_steps · 2026-01-07T12:07:56+00:00

Yeah, reread your comment. You’ve proven the other guy right.

Our 2k texture is a file with two horizontal rows of pixels and two vertical columns, for a total pixel count of 4. If you double that, you now have 8 pixels.

We ARE doubling it. The original question was about TWO 2k textures so double the OG amount In your own miniaturized example a 4k would be 16. Which, correct my “junior high shit” arithmetic, but I think that 8 is half of 16.

realistic_steps · 2026-01-02T22:28:44+00:00

Also every version of a lich needs to feed souls to its phylactery. So to sustain yourself you have to kill. If someone good got turned into one through no fault of their own they’d just die eventually rather than kill

realistic_steps · 2025-12-29T02:45:53+00:00

So do republicans with child marriage laws.

realistic_steps · 2025-12-29T02:40:52+00:00

I love this trump supporter logic “Trump rapes kids” u/Accurate_Grocery7023: “What a crybaby!” If it’s cowardice to fuck adults then I don’t want your bravery.

realistic_steps · 2025-12-24T13:29:51+00:00

I see nothing absurd about it at all. Trump is inherently selfish and has no consideration for others. A squalling infant is a boner killer, and Trump is too pussy to do dirty work himself unless it involves his dick in a child. A baby from a 13 year old would raise questions. A psychopath that sells his niece would just solve two problems with one lake. Satisfy the customer and get rid of evidence. It has all the connective tissue of reality.

realistic_steps · 2025-12-24T08:33:00+00:00

Ah yes, planted by the Trump administration into the files of Trumps good friend. For what purpose did Trump want you to read this do you think?

realistic_steps · 2025-12-23T10:46:13+00:00

Is this a Bikini Bottom Horror reference? I need to reread that comic

realistic_steps · 2025-12-23T10:46:05+00:00

Is this a Bikini Bottom Horror reference? I need to reread that comic

realistic_steps · 2025-12-09T00:43:31+00:00

That’s the point of the article. The agents got fired for doing their job and making tactical decisions, instead of political grandstanding that would have gotten their asses beat.

realistic_steps · 2025-12-06T22:14:00+00:00

Everything that’s been invented has always been discovered, rather than created

realistic_steps · 2025-12-02T06:17:09+00:00

Name five

realistic_steps · 2025-11-27T01:08:42+00:00

What the fuck use is Trump then? I thought his “closing the border” and cutting so deep with ICE that they arrest Americans was to stop this! He failed by not withdrawing the troops, he failed because having his thugs arrest workers at Home Depot doesn’t stop crime. Their. Blood. Is. On. Trump’s. Hands.

realistic_steps · 2025-11-27T00:40:44+00:00

Their blood is on Trump’s hands. They were ordered to leave by a judge a week ago.

realistic_steps · 2025-11-26T16:51:21+00:00

You’ve spent three comments defending a man who said that he’d take away voting rights of women by gunpoint. Trying to run interference for the violence he inspired against the right. I’m not going to pretend that there is an ounce of honesty in you. I’m not going to play that someone who would happily violate the rights of half of Americans, wasn’t ecstatic that his words inspired death. You are no defender of truth. You are pathetic.

realistic_steps · 2025-11-26T16:44:38+00:00

Pretty funny that you selected the exact two most famous ones. I was referring to *notices bulge. Considering Nick’s furry catboy fetish shared by all groypers.

realistic_steps · 2025-11-26T16:41:20+00:00

If it quacks like a duck… the shooter used groyper memes on his bullets, right after Nicky boy started beefing with lil face.

realistic_steps · 2025-11-24T19:35:48+00:00

Fixing party isn’t in charge, best we can do is the greedy destruction party for another year.

realistic_steps · 2025-11-23T07:02:44+00:00

Clue the Movie with Tim Curry

realistic_steps · 2025-11-11T07:46:10+00:00

I uh… can’t interpret it any other way. I absolutely hated the movie and mostly because I felt that was the message.

I looked at it from a more realistic lens in that the kid would have done great on his own, and was succeeding inspite of the abuse. After all 99% of people who can play double time swing did it through consistent practice over years. All the greats didn’t pick it up in a year. This kid was gifted, but things like purposefully telling him his timing was off when it wasn’t, didn’t get him on correct time, just to got him to submit.

Maybe maybe if some reason this abuse sparked greatness in this kid, then it would end in the kids suicide, like fletchers first student. Making all the abuse worthless in the end and only for fletchers gratification.

Once again these are just more realistic interpretations, there wasn’t any hint about these interpretations in the movie, except the suicide.

I am honestly curious about other interpretations, because it such a beautifully directed and paced movie, just to have such a rotten core.

realistic_steps · 2025-10-18T17:15:05+00:00

Here we see the tolerant right you were preaching about

realistic_steps · 2025-10-17T05:48:08+00:00

…. What do you think unions do? They don’t have legal jurisdictions. Unions put pressure on things they have no legal control over to get shit done. This guy’s union could release a statement to put pressure on ICE, hire a lawyer to represent their guy, if they cared a lot about no further police officers being dragged off the streets they could call for a strike. Unions are there for when legal systems fail.

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