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US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Re: US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Post by bit-anarchist »

ryandrake wrote: post #289
dirck-norman wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Well, he must have deleted it, then, because there is literally no mention of Hezbollah in this thread. Nobody with at least half a brain is saying that Iran is in any way a good guy.

They did post this:

> I’m a developer who has to deal with Zionism every day. We’re speed running IBM and the Holocaust. Commenting about it is the very least I can do.

> I have zero issue with Hezbollah.

The parent comment, from OP, which was flagged, was questioning GP about Iran's support for Hezbollah IIRC.

Re: US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Post by KabukiOrigin »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #279
swat535 wrote: post #246

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> Iran can absorb more pain than the US, but even that has a deadline. It doesn't. This is the western mentality, thinking you are dealing with sane people. I'm from Iran (now living in the West), there's a famous Shia motto: "Every day is Ashura, every land is Karbala". Around 30% of the population are die hard IRGC supporters, another 10% are neutral and the rest don't like the regime. The problem is that, the war…

> there's a famous Shia motto: "Every day is Ashura, every land is Karbala". The shared cultural context is so low that as an American, I have absolutely no idea what this means. If I had to guess, "zealotry" or "patriotism"?

Great cultural-disconnect observation. It's more specific than that. Fighting for your survival against an unjust and immoral oppressor who wants to force you to do things you do not want.

Re: US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Post by mint5 »

programjames wrote: post #295
mint5 wrote: post #227

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So a win will be returning to Obama’s Iran deal? And the reason no one brings up Ukraine is because we used more interceptors in three days than were sent to Ukraine in the entire 4+ years of war. It’s a complaint that doesn’t make sense unless one is jd Vance. The difference is obvious.

Why would you think returning to Obama's Iran deal would be a win? Actually, let me word this better: how could you possibly think that anyone in the White House for the past decade would think returning to Obama's Iran deal is better than this war? The reason it's so incredible you could think such a thing is the White House has been saying how horrible that deal was in every interview for months, and of course inte…

I don’t think it’s a win, I said that in the context of the comment above. Note the question mark

Re: US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Post by [deleted] »

phainopepla2 wrote: post #163
anonymars wrote: post #99

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Idealism is for the primaries. You knew with certainty that Chase Oliver wasn't going to win the presidency, which meant you were okay with either of the two candidates that definitely was going to win the presidency

Only about 20% of Americans live in swing states. So for 80% of Americans, idealism is for the general as well. Or at least it could be

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Re: US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Post by giantg2 »

WarmWash wrote: post #245
giantg2 wrote: post #156

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Most SWEs are not top 5%. The median is about $135/yr, and a significant portion of us make under that. The point was that a 1% increase in inflation due to food and fuel wasnt the end of the world. Does a 1% cost of living increase hurt? Sure, for many people on the margin of making ends meet it can be bad. For most people, $1 more out of $100 is survivable.

Usually from what I have seen, most SWE's partners are also in tech or "white collar adjacent" making similar money. Which makes a household income of $270k, putting them in somewhere around the top ~7.5%.

I have seen some of that, but there is still plenty of non-tech partners, especially if the tech half is at a non-tech company. In my experience, the managers are the ones most likely to have a high earning spouse. It seems like most of the managers I know have a spouse making $100k+. I don't make as much as others, but I can't even imagine how good my life could be if my wife made the same amount as me so we had a combined income close to $200k.

It's also kind of wild to think that 1 out of 6 households in the US is making $200k+. I get that many of them are in higher cost of living areas where wages are higher, but still WTF. On the other hand, it's something like 1 out of 4 households are making under $50k. Makes me wonder how many of those are retirees vs working age, and what the median household income would be for 25-55yo vs the entire population.

Re: US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Post by b40d-48b2-979e »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #232
b40d-48b2-979e wrote: post #171

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a lot of people like it. No? We have no other option in the US outside of a few major cities because the oil lobby has ruined any public transit we can hope for.

i don't own a car, i bike everywhere with young kids. i like public transport. we're not talking about that. people fucking LOVE cars. they LOVE single family homes. everywhere, in every community.

You're mistaking cause and effect. We're beholden to corporate interests that abuse the commons for maximum profitability. Single-family homes and cars are only 100 years old in our tens of thousands of years history as humans.

I would LOVE to not have to have a car. I would LOVE to live in a multi-generational home or local community with nearby third places.

Re: US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Post by deletedie »

programjames wrote: post #303
swat535 wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Iran can absorb more pain than the US, but even that has a deadline. It doesn't. This is the western mentality, thinking you are dealing with sane people. I'm from Iran (now living in the West), there's a famous Shia motto: "Every day is Ashura, every land is Karbala". Around 30% of the population are die hard IRGC supporters, another 10% are neutral and the rest don't like the regime. The problem is that, the war…

[flagged]

The opening salvo being a double-tap of a little girl's elementary school might have something to do with it; in an instant we created and became a greater and more insane evil than the IRGC.

Re: US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Post by KabukiOrigin »

dh2022 wrote: post #313
lossolo wrote: post #269

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No, they wouldn't, and they don't have it because they have chosen not to. There is something called an escalation ladder: you do not threaten to leave or kill your partner just because she spilled milk on your floor. That is the same reason Russia did not use nukes, and why other nuclear armed countries involved in conflicts have also avoided using them. The same logic applies here. Another example is that the US co…

US stopped bombing Iranian oil infrastructure when Iran responded by taking out a chunk of Qatar LNG infrastructure for a few years [0]. This example shows the escalation ladder and also proves that Iran does not need nukes for this conflict (so far at least....) [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/iran-attack-qatar-lng-capaci...

Because Iran's gas fields were bombed the day before, FYI. https://apnews.com/article/iran-iraq-us-israel-trump-march-1...

Re: US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Post by giantg2 »

mint5 wrote: post #319
giantg2 wrote: post #308

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Yes, and that volatility is why economists exclude fuel and food from core CPI.

Except oil prices are predicted to remain over $100 for at least the rest of this year. It’s not a short term thing.

Depends on your definition of short term. Did oil prices drop after '08-'09 timeframe? A few years could be seen as short term in economic trends.

Re: US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

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Post by pupppet »

The mental gymnastics Trump supporters must go through to justify blaming Biden for gas prices during his term but blaming everyone but Trump for gas prices now.

Not in the US but I'll go out on a limb and guess that gas stations aren't being littered with 'I Did That!" Trump stickers.

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