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It's a wee bit more than 10% With a $38,635 starting price, the entry-level Odyssey now costs $4300 more than last year
There were manufactures and dealer rebates before. My coworker bought Odyssey years ago for $6k off MSRP. I am not in the market for a minivan, so I don't know what rebates were year ago.
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"Economic activity" is a basic concept in Economics. An online dictionary defines it as "the activity of producing, buying, or selling products or services" .
Which means nothing. Is 10 people collecting acorns and trading beads more economic activity than 9 people making and selling jet planes?
There are detailed answers to all these questions if you care to study it.
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There were manufactures and dealer rebates before. My coworker bought Odyssey years ago for $6k off MSRP. I am not in the market for a minivan, so I don't know what rebates were year ago.
This is a poor way to argue.
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India has had many many vegetarians for a long long time. We don't need to eat bugs. We can just eat less meat, like our ancestors did.
Agreed, and a great alternative is chicken. Delicious, very versatile to cook with and an ecological foot print that is 4 times smaller compared to beef.
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This entire line of argument over whether we are in a technical recession is pointless and dumb. We are in a uniquely weird economic situation that is clearly bad but less bad than a typical recession, and it would be improved if inflation fell.
Well I think aligning on that is kind of the point. For most people growth means that the economy is getting better and recession means that the economy is getting worse. Maybe you are right and the word recession has become too politicized to use to describe the different scenarios. That said, if you were in a plane losing altitude and other people thought it was in fact gaining altitude, this would be a cause for d…
That's a fine shorthand, but the reason the standard data and interpretation of it matters is that otherwise all you have is what people feel about the economy, which is not very useful information.
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I'm in a pretty small apartment in Manhattan (albeit with an abnormally large kitchen). I can always get the value of my Costco membership in my first trip there, even without a car. Basic goods like Advil, laundry detergent and dishwasher detergent are miles cheaper than other options in Manhattan.
Do you take an uber/taxi/etc? I always assumed that you'd need to buy in bulk quantities to make costco worth it here, which would require a car
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I think their definition of "Apeasement" they linked above can specifically only be used when talking about an "aggressive power" (cf. wikipedia) Thus, to solve the problem of what would be "apeasement", you need to resolve the question or which of the parties involved (Russia, Ukraine, "the West", the US, etc.) should be considered "aggressive". And that's why this question, which i think is an attempt to understand…
> which i think is an attempt to understand who the aggressive party/parties are in your opinion Appeasement is defined as policy that avoids conflict. The conflict in Ukraine hasn't been avoided and remains ongoing, so Russia does not fit no matter how you slice it. Nor does the West, to be fair. Conflict hasn't been avoided full stop. If, for argument's sake, conflict has been avoided, it is important to understand…
You're simply using a different definition from them
> Furthermore, use of language needs to be introspective of broad interpretation, so even if personal opinion would serve to skew in some fashion, it does not hold relevant to understanding language use in a community.
As a matter of fact, languages I know (including English) are not built like that.
The closest "language" i know from this property is mathematics.
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I feel like there is an opportunity for an app here that lets you input what you buy and see how the price has increased compared to the competition. There seems to be a lack of automated price comparisons here. I guess people can compare prices when shopping in store but if all companies raise their prices, I'd imagine some people would just stop buying if they knew about the price collusion more easily. I thought a…
I was thinking about something similar for a personal meal plan app. I want the ability to keep a list of recipes, and when I chose meals for a day/week, have the app take the ingredients list and scrape price sources (supermarket websites, etc.) and then give guidance on exactly where I should purchase each ingredient I need. Then simply track the scraped prices over time for the nominal inflation that you've mentio…
I read somewhere that this summer strawberries have inflated a lot less in price compared to other fruits. It then led me to having this conspiracy theory that this is why I saw nonstop promotions for strawberry related products/promotions this summer.