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What is it that you thought? Your comment is unclear. That you, deep down, knew your appeal to emotion would fail? Being from the West, my uneducated, tribalist-driven opinion says that Russia is not justified. But, again, not my area of expertise and not a subject I have much interest in. I do, however, enjoy the subject of language which is why I am participating in this conversation about the use of language. Let'…
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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…
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What is it that you thought? Your comment is unclear. That you, deep down, knew your appeal to emotion would fail? Being from the West, my uneducated, tribalist-driven opinion says that Russia is not justified. But, again, not my area of expertise and not a subject I have much interest in. I do, however, enjoy the subject of language which is why I am participating in this conversation about the use of language. Let'…
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What is it that you thought? Your comment is unclear. That you, deep down, knew your appeal to emotion would fail? Being from the West, my uneducated, tribalist-driven opinion says that Russia is not justified. But, again, not my area of expertise and not a subject I have much interest in. I do, however, enjoy the subject of language which is why I am participating in this conversation about the use of language. Let'…
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What is it that you thought? Your comment is unclear. That you, deep down, knew your appeal to emotion would fail? Being from the West, my uneducated, tribalist-driven opinion says that Russia is not justified. But, again, not my area of expertise and not a subject I have much interest in. I do, however, enjoy the subject of language which is why I am participating in this conversation about the use of language. Let'…
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What is it that you thought? Your comment is unclear. That you, deep down, knew your appeal to emotion would fail? Being from the West, my uneducated, tribalist-driven opinion says that Russia is not justified. But, again, not my area of expertise and not a subject I have much interest in. I do, however, enjoy the subject of language which is why I am participating in this conversation about the use of language. Let'…
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Which means nothing. Is 10 people collecting acorns and trading beads more economic activity than 9 people making and selling jet planes?
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.
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 debate
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What is it that you thought? Your comment is unclear. That you, deep down, knew your appeal to emotion would fail? Being from the West, my uneducated, tribalist-driven opinion says that Russia is not justified. But, again, not my area of expertise and not a subject I have much interest in. I do, however, enjoy the subject of language which is why I am participating in this conversation about the use of language. Let'…
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Anyone answering “no” to this is wrong. A mortgage payment includes insurance, various property taxes, principle, interest, and sometimes other items such as mortgage insurance. Principle and interest are fixed for most people. Mortgage insurance, as an example, is fixed. Everything else is variable. The vast majority of buyers will see huge changes (increases) to their property taxes and insurance over the lifetime…
I have a very detailed spreadsheet where I modeled everything, maintenance expenses, taxes, fees and the opportunity cost of all those maintenance expenses going up over time as opposed to invest them in the market. I couldn’t find any online calculator that was as thorough as mine, as they all suffered from some variation of what you are describing. In almost every single test I’ve done, buying becomes way cheaper t…
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> We won't even talk about gas. Well that went down in price in July, and is one of the reasons inflation was flat in todays CPI.
Still more than double what it was 2 years ago, and even throughout the last decade (2010-2020) gas prices never broke $4/gallon