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  How is the 'Cost of Living Crisis' affecting you?

  by nicolaou in

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  here in the uk we've recently had the price cap on household energy bills raised by around £800 and there'll be another similar raise this autumn.. food prices are up, petrol is around £1.82 per litre - that's $10.37 per gallon for our american friends - and inflation is currently running at 9%.

  business are being hit as ordinary folk prioritise their spending.

  young folks are effectively priced out of the housing market and wage rises are not keeping pace.. mrs nic' and i are fortunate in that we're both in secure employment and with the kids moved out and mortgage paid off our outgoings are thankfully low.

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  MeanMrMustard

  To answer the OP more directly:

  I have 4 kids. I've noticed my grocery bill double this year. Also, I've noticed less product within the package.

  Buying bulk helps.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  Jojo it wasn't all directed specifically at you. However it is obscene when someone slaughters 20 children and your first comment is that you support gun rights.

  
  Be honest. You know why someone might go there. The bodies aren't even cold and the left will use it for a political agenda. By that, I mean laws will be proposed that are vague, unclear, and wouldn't have prevented the tragedy in the first place.
  
  

  Why do people need access to body armor and assault rifles?

  
  See what I mean? Good lord. We could go over all the stats again. We could talk about thr definition of "assault rifle" - or the lack thereof, all before the body count stops climbing. And then we'll wait a few days and find out he had a hand gun (as reported earlier today).
  
  

  Why do countries with strict gun control have way less murders?

  
  Spare me. I lived through the summer of love. Guns were the only thing that kept BLM out of my town.
  
  

  Simple fact: in your brain these kids were acceptance losses

  
  Forking hell. Like I said. The guy will turn out to be mentally unstable, family problems, most likely fatherless, and on the spectrum somewhere - as a vast majority of these shooters. But noooo, we either buy into "common sense" left-wing solutions or else we "accept" kids getting gunned down.
  
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  MeanMrMustard

  Let's wait and see how crazy this one turns out to be. The focus won't be on mental health.
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  How is the 'Cost of Living Crisis' affecting you?

  by nicolaou in

  1. social
  2. current

  here in the uk we've recently had the price cap on household energy bills raised by around £800 and there'll be another similar raise this autumn.. food prices are up, petrol is around £1.82 per litre - that's $10.37 per gallon for our american friends - and inflation is currently running at 9%.

  business are being hit as ordinary folk prioritise their spending.

  young folks are effectively priced out of the housing market and wage rises are not keeping pace.. mrs nic' and i are fortunate in that we're both in secure employment and with the kids moved out and mortgage paid off our outgoings are thankfully low.

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  MeanMrMustard

  As an example - let's say a natural disaster occurs. Horrible. Property damaged everywhere. Gas suddenly has a price spike. In some areas, the price is $50/ gal.

  Is this good or bad?

  Politicians will get on their high horse and crack down on 'gouging'. It's just unacceptable that anyone should pay above the normal price.

  But soon nobody in the hardest hit areas have any gas. There is nothing to buy, nothing to run generators. People have money, and a desire to buy gasoline. But there is none. So they go cold and suffer more.

  But if they just let the price rise, everyone and their uncle would load up their car and move gasoline into the affected area. Gas tankers, spurred on by incentive, would pull extra deliveries. Everyone would have more than enough gas. But as the supply rises, and demand is satisfied, competition will bring the price down again.
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  How is the 'Cost of Living Crisis' affecting you?

  by nicolaou in

  1. social
  2. current

  here in the uk we've recently had the price cap on household energy bills raised by around £800 and there'll be another similar raise this autumn.. food prices are up, petrol is around £1.82 per litre - that's $10.37 per gallon for our american friends - and inflation is currently running at 9%.

  business are being hit as ordinary folk prioritise their spending.

  young folks are effectively priced out of the housing market and wage rises are not keeping pace.. mrs nic' and i are fortunate in that we're both in secure employment and with the kids moved out and mortgage paid off our outgoings are thankfully low.

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  MeanMrMustard

  Why would you say price control is the worst response?

  
  Because it will lead to shortages.
  
  Prices contain valuable information about supply and demand. If something is already in short supply, a higher price is a signal that will 1) cause consumers to cut back and naturally ration their usage of the resource, and 2) cause producers to ramp up production to meet the demand (because the margins are high and the reward is greater)
  
  If the price is held low, usage never cuts back and production never ramps up. The result is a shortage. If the price is held low enough, it might force producers to operate at a loss, which basically means they will stop producing.
  
  Shortages are much worse than higher prices.
  
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  Unpopular opinion

  by Judgerussellford in

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  so i've asked this question to witnesses in the past (super no no question to ask by the way but hilarious responses) to bosses and coworkers, and random people of different faiths and i'm curious to know how mixed of a response this community will give.

  bible believers or not your oppinion is very welcome.

  technically according to scripture we are gods sons.

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  MeanMrMustard

  I saw your "interview" thread, so I know you are still Bible-believing. So, approaching your question from that context, I would ask:

  Define "death". Are you sure the JW view of death (annihilation) is correct?
  
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  How is the 'Cost of Living Crisis' affecting you?

  by nicolaou in

  1. social
  2. current

  here in the uk we've recently had the price cap on household energy bills raised by around £800 and there'll be another similar raise this autumn.. food prices are up, petrol is around £1.82 per litre - that's $10.37 per gallon for our american friends - and inflation is currently running at 9%.

  business are being hit as ordinary folk prioritise their spending.

  young folks are effectively priced out of the housing market and wage rises are not keeping pace.. mrs nic' and i are fortunate in that we're both in secure employment and with the kids moved out and mortgage paid off our outgoings are thankfully low.

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  What are the details of the price cap?

  I've heard some of the Democrats propose price controls - which is the worst of all responses to this (imagine that). But I was wondering if you basically had price controls there?
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  Norway Supreme Court Makes WTS Reinstate Disfellowshipped Member

  by Golden4Altar in

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  the supreme court corrects a mistake.

  massimo introvigne.

  article source.

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  MeanMrMustard

  "...it would be offensive to the general sense of justice if someone is excluded from a religious community on the basis of something that it is possibly a rape"

  What's to stop them from DFing her next week due to overwriting? Or perhaps her "brazen" attitude toward God's channel of righteous discipline?

  The rape allegations started after she was DFed.... come on, man.
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  Voter Fraud !

  by Sea Breeze in

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  dick morris sounds the alert:.

  https://www.dickmorris.com/fight-massive-democratice-fraud/ .

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  How can so many ex-jw's get so caught up in futile debates about human politics is hard to understand.

  Why? Do you think ex-JWs should be perminantly entrapped, mentally, in the WT world, even after escaping? Or perhaps it would be better to move on and actually consider things happening in the world around us.
  
  
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  Voter Fraud !

  by Sea Breeze in

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  dick morris sounds the alert:.

  https://www.dickmorris.com/fight-massive-democratice-fraud/ .

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  MeanMrMustard

  @TD:

  You have to present photo ID here to vote. If you vote in person, that ID is scanned and a ballot is printed on the spot with a control number tied to that ID. Mail-in ballots have to be requested in writing with a facsimile of your ID. and again, the ballot is specific to you and your photo ID.

  
  There may be control numbers on the ballot, that makes sense. But I doubt there is tie between the ballot and the ID. That would remove confidentiality.
  
  Correct me if I am wrong, but AZ had been doing mail-in balloting for over a decade before 2020. In fact, there was (at the time) a Perminant Early Voter List (PEVL) that you could join, beginning in 2007. It was controlled and maintained on the county level, and to join, you had submit a written request. It's unclear to me if an ID was needed to be placed on the list- just the name, address, DOB, and signature. A large amount of the population was on this list (I've seen 70%). The idea was that there should also be a meaningful signature match check when a ballot was submitted. But these were relaxed, even in AZ - and there was at least one court case that demonstrated that in AZ. Other states didn't even get that far.
  
  So even in AZ there was some slack in the system. It's not claimed these are fake ballots. These are real ballots sent to real people. But if a bunch went to, say, a nursing home, AZ still had the same problem - how do you prevent harvesting?
  
  True the Vote found at least 200 devices traveling between drop boxes and left-wing 501c3 orgs in Arizona. (10+ boxes and 5+ orgs)
  
  
  

  I'm not saying the system is fool-proof, but when someone starts making claims about unmonitored drop boxes, it tells me they're clueless.

  
  Well, the drop boxes were not monitored. They were REQUIRED to be monitored, but a lot were not. They got 4 million minutes of footage of dropboxes. But they found a lot simply were not monitored at all (no footage available). But when the footage lines up with the mule, and it was available and clear, it showed a person dropping in multiple ballots, taking a photograph (needed for payment), and then leaving.
  
  

  Hell, we had a hand recount of Maricopa County by a pro-Trump group that in the end, found slightly more votes for Biden than the official tally.

  
  A recount wouldn't catch anything. The only thing that might help is to do a full signature audit against the envelops. This was not done - anywhere. It was partially done in AZ. There was one lawsuit filed, and the judge agreed to allow both sides to audit a small sample. Even the Democrat side found 15% of the signatures wouldn't survive. But since that was the only remedy asked for in the suit (getting a sample for an actual signature audit), that's where it ended. You can recount the ballots all you want, but once separated from the envelope and accepted into the ballot population, the fact that it was harvested, filled out by someone else, and trafficked to a dropbox can never be determined.
  
  And this in a state that had some practice doing mass mail-ins. In PA, you can guarantee it was a cluster-fork.
  
  

  They (The Cyber Ninjas) did present some concerns to the Senate, but those have all been answered by Republican election officials here.

  
  Yeah, the Cyber Ninjas were really keen on checking the electronic side of the election. In fact, in order to gain access to the voting machines, they negotiated and agreed to not run a signature match. Once they agreed to not look at signatures, the county was more than happy to provide access. They gave up the one meaningful check they had because they were interested in the flashy theories about the election (rigged machines from Venuzuella).