How does getting rid of the kids at a playground help the kid make friends?

It's not cheating if they both use the same lip guy.

Actual one I believe: Putin was behind Bader Meinhoff, he put people in DB and other banks. Basically has access to all Russian offshore secret accounts which are much bigger than we think and without that base we would barely have offshore industry.

My favourite small ones from my mum: sweet(candy) manufacturers intentionally ration her favourite flavours.
Fast food fries aren't made of real potatoes.

Yea, isn't that just being bad as a party, If you fail to get out the vote for people who agree with you 90%?
And/or you failed to recognize how much they cared about that 10%. Does he think everyone who voted for trump agreed with 100% of his positions?

This is very true of my wife, but this was no surprise at all. She is not social and her work forced her into that and she haaated it and was planning to quit anyway. For me, it's true in a limited way, it highlighted what a bad deal I was getting from a lot of my social and work-related spending.

It's not like the US government has ever created a virus to hack a specific target that got widely distributed and then repurposed by it's enemies and used as part of hybrid attacks on countries it was sworn to protect.

There are probably multiple sources. It's been growing for like 5 years, is only slightly stronger in the US that Europe, and there aren't many things that fit the pattern.

So the real question, is who isn't keen on the economy now who was in the past, and it's probably middle class people who were saving to buy their first colour TVs, rather than say, a PS 5 and an iPhone 17.

Yea Will certainly seems to be confusing 'more people have a negative view' with 'people hate it more'.

I like the way that, on paper, taking the hat is a dick move. But there's a level of 'that guy' where we as a society have decided it turns into a hero move. It's a lot like punching a nazi.

Does this mean a section of the US right will performatively adopt British teeth?
Because I'm willing to let you call them British teeth if that happens.

A big market is the net of lots of scenarios, at different scales. What's 'wrong' in the absolute can be rationale in the relative.

I don't see what the problem is. Surely it'd be weirder if he studied it then and there.

The horses also complained about it: whinnied to get to the bottom of it.

Is he saying that all land is man-made? Who does he think we are, the fucking Dutch?

The other cheeky bit, is that the question is really, why do lots of republicans think the economy is bad? Because it historically tracks politics. And that's too obvious to discuss. We don't want the answer to be democrats need to get better at lying and disappointing folk.

So whenever anyone points one of the many ways people might now think the economy is bad actually, they say it doesn't explain it all, and why they think it's worse than ever. Which they don't need to. It started in COVID and lots changed.

They're also a bit of bad data reading imho. I mean the methodology changed, and the question is framed as 'whats the one thing that explains why everyone thinks the economy sucks and is wrong' when actually, the data just shows more people think it's bad overall in undefined ways.

Wait until he hears how old the wheel is.

(I'd add, that's particularly true if office workers going back to the office, city prices are expensive and you had one to two years off them)

Here's two obvious ones. Price rises are more obvious than wage rises, 'wow that's expensive, I'm lucky I got that pay rise' is basically something everyone is saying.
Secondly we moved lots of surveys to web-first then only over that period, which we knew had a small impact.

I mean...this also does coincide with a fundamental methodology change (moving from primarily phone to web collection).

But probably what's actually happened is that the survey moved to being predominantly online. But you're not allowed to question the integrity of the data.

I'd agree, certainly here in the UK (where the economy is also not as good), but in the US it is stark, although it's perhaps fair to say the decoupling is only really the move from 21.

Is Zuckerberg doing that, or are people at meta doing it?
Like, the people who attend meetings with him maybe?

This is almost certainly a major factor, for lots of people. But, this happened almost overnight during COVID whereas social media was already trending that way, and it seems wider than direct social media users. So if that's all the story, there's another story in how that really happens.

And I kind of conflated it with the PE thing. But look at any pitch and it's about how uncorrelated their returns are. So why would any employee think their pay rise isn't down to excellent management, if that's what drives corporate success?

Why would an employee think their pay rise is due to a fairly good economy, judging by historical relative numbers if you really look at the numbers, while their CEO says theirs is because of the uniquely complicated work that only they are capable of?

Their pay package is very much their personal finances