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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by kelipso on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @03:31PM (#41049844)
I'm not linking to numbers lol. I already know how much more I'm paying for groceries. I talked about perceived inflation from the beginning and you are just now talking about it? You haven't responded to anything I wrote. I am pretty you just read the word inflation and started some pre-written rant. Either that or you are severely lacking in reading comprehension.

Just linking a bunch of numbers does not make an argument. You have to actually talk and respond to the actual topic being discussed.

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by ajross on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @04:53PM (#41050700)
So... when you say "perceived inflation", you're really just saying that you, personally, perceive inflation. And therefore I can't disprove that with numbers, because numbers don't change your perception. Well, touche. I can't beat that logic.

But in the real world, you do admit that current inflation as traditionally understood by centuries of economics is a little under 3% right now, right?

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by kelipso on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @06:17PM (#41051559)
Perceived by me and by pretty much everyone except delusional people like you who believe the official numbers. Keep your head in the sand, why would I care.

And absolutely not lol, the numbers are cooked up, as I said before. You are really really bad at reading comprehension.

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by ajross on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @11:27AM (#41058052)
Since you cite "pretty much everyone" with the same rigor you do your inflation numbers, I think I'm comfortable with my characterization of "perceptual inflation" as your own personal perception.

To wit: you're just simply wrong here, and instead of arguing from a rational basis you're hiding behind your philosophical right to be wrong about whatever you want. And that's very distressing to see on a site like HN.

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by kelipso on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @05:58PM (#41062639)
You can be comfortable in your delusion, that’s fine with me. I’m not writing a thesis when it’s so obvious that inflation is much higher than what is officially reported.
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