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teajaygrey

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Incarnated as a human in the area of "Yay".
What others call the Bay.
Encountered networked computers before TCP.
Email? UUCP before SMTP.
I knew the late great Doug Engelbart, personally.
Helped patch an embargoed bug in BIND 2013-4854 by CVE.
Helped restore UNIX before C.
1 of 4 skratch deejays in ThudRumble's 33.3 Club as well.
Struggles amidst these Saṃsāric rings of hell.
My 2nd language is Japanese.
Default to English, if you please.
I'm a polyglot & read & write in multiple orthographies.

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rbreich , to Random
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The latest numbers show inflation cooling.

But many still struggle with rent & gas prices — which contributed to 70% of April inflation.

Just so happens that recent investigations have found evidence of price-fixing in both industries.

High interest rates won't fix that.

teajaygrey ,
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@rbreich I'm no financial wizard, but apparently there are recent reports that more (Americans at least, but presumably other national citizens may also be in similar circumstances) people who have maxed out credit lines at the moment, purportedly in response to struggling to make ends meet with rising prices and using credit cards and such to do so.

rbreich , to Random
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A new CBO report estimates that extending the Trump tax cuts for the next 10 years would add $4.6 trillion to the deficit.

Remember this the next time Republicans propose cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

The "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.

teajaygrey ,
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@rbreich I never understood how the USA is the "richest country in the world" and simultaneously has more debt than every other country?

(currently has a debt of approximately $34.7 trillion according to: https://www.usdebtclock.org)

(List of countries by external debts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt )

rbreich , to Random
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You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee gets a bonus of $176,500. Hello?

teajaygrey ,
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@rbreich Has anything, ever gone right?

Near as I can discern from the written record, greedy people abusing their power while the poor and disenfranchised are abused or outright enslaved has been going on as long as humans have been documenting their actions.

Happy endings seem to be reserved exclusively for fairy tales and fiction. Reality is a never ending up hill battle for the downtrodden.

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