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  • LuFins DadL Offline
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    #192

    We spent about $4 a pound for our bird. Organic, non-gmo, free range, and fed truffles every day while listening to Italian Arias…

    The Brad

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      By the way, do we feel better if birds are free range? I mean, they are living their best lives when somebody cuts their lives short with an axe…

      Birds living in those overcrowded pens? When death comes for them it’s a release… Freedom from their pain and suffering…

      The Brad

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      • JollyJ Offline
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        The ultimate would be to raise your own free-range turkey.

        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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        • JollyJ Jolly

          The ultimate would be to raise your own free-range turkey.

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          @Jolly said in Inflation:

          The ultimate would be to raise your own free-range turkey.

          Or just shoot one of the many dozens that roam our area.

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          • JollyJ Offline
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            Jolly
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            Wild turkey is good.

            The bird ain't bad, either.

            “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

            Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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            • AxtremusA Offline
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              https://www.pncchristmaspriceindex.com/#gifts

              The Christmas Price Index: 'For 39 years, PNC has calculated the prices of the 12 gifts from the classic song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas."'

              Long story short, PNC estimates that the index will go up by about 10% from 2021 to 2022.

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                https://www.pncchristmaspriceindex.com/#gifts

                The Christmas Price Index: 'For 39 years, PNC has calculated the prices of the 12 gifts from the classic song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas."'

                Long story short, PNC estimates that the index will go up by about 10% from 2021 to 2022.

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                #198

                @Axtremus said in Inflation:

                https://www.pncchristmaspriceindex.com/#gifts

                The Christmas Price Index: 'For 39 years, PNC has calculated the prices of the 12 gifts from the classic song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas."'

                Long story short, PNC estimates that the index will go up by about 10% from 2021 to 2022.

                Eight Maids-A-Milking
                $58.00

                (0.0%)

                Where were you on July 24, 2009? The Eight Maids-a-Milking were fresh off of their last pay raise. The Federal Minimum Wage hasn’t changed since that date and neither has the cost of this gift..

                Labor costs aren’t simply driven by Federal Minimum Wage… Farm Labor is up 8% year over year. https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/news/farm-workers-see-highest-pay-increase-in-10-years/article_12bb7ae6-dcfb-11ec-81da-0790fc782bb6.html

                The Brad

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                • LuFins DadL Offline
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                  Eleven Pipers Piping
                  $3,021.40

                  (+2.6%)

                  Live music is once again tuned up after its pandemic lull. The Eleven Pipers grew in cost by a modest 2.6 percent – reflecting rising compensation in 2022..

                  Musicians pay rates went up about 12% from 21-22. It really isn’t hard to google this shit…

                  The Brad

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                  • LuFins DadL Offline
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                    LuFins Dad
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                    #200

                    It’s a fun measure of inflation, but the article has several major flaws. First of which, it’s by PNC, which gets it two middle fingers from me right off the bat.

                    The Brad

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                    • LuFins DadL Offline
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                      Wonder what we will see today?

                      While CPI was 7.1% last month, most of the items important to most people on a daily basis were much higher.

                      https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-november-2022-in-one-chart.html

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                      The Brad

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                      • 89th8 Offline
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                        Yeah saw a dozen eggs for $8 the other day. Luckily I'm pro-life and don't eat unborn chickens.

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                          LuFins Dad
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                            LuFins Dad
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                            Don’t forget, that’s stacked on top of record setting inflation in December 2021. Compare those prices with December 2020….

                            The Brad

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                            • 89th8 89th

                              Yeah saw a dozen eggs for $8 the other day. Luckily I'm pro-life and don't eat unborn chickens.

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                              @89th said in Inflation:

                              Yeah saw a dozen eggs for $8 the other day. Luckily I'm pro-life and don't eat unborn chickens.

                              Uh, you can sit on them store-bought eggs until Hell freezes over and the Devil takes up figure skating, but you ain't gonna hatch no chickens.

                              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                              • 89th8 89th

                                Yeah saw a dozen eggs for $8 the other day. Luckily I'm pro-life and don't eat unborn chickens.

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                                @89th said in Inflation:

                                Yeah saw a dozen eggs for $8 the other day. Luckily I'm pro-life and don't eat unborn chickens.

                                I get that it’s a large percentage increase, but really, my morning egg now costs me 67c.

                                The bagel is 5x that.

                                Only non-witches get due process.

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                                  @89th said in Inflation:

                                  Yeah saw a dozen eggs for $8 the other day. Luckily I'm pro-life and don't eat unborn chickens.

                                  I get that it’s a large percentage increase, but really, my morning egg now costs me 67c.

                                  The bagel is 5x that.

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                                  LuFins Dad
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                                  @jon-nyc said in Inflation:

                                  @89th said in Inflation:

                                  Yeah saw a dozen eggs for $8 the other day. Luckily I'm pro-life and don't eat unborn chickens.

                                  I get that it’s a large percentage increase, but really, my morning egg now costs me 67c.

                                  The bagel is 5x that.

                                  Great. And the bagel now costs 40¢ more than last year and close to 75¢ more than it did in 2019. Partly because of the egg increase…

                                  The Brad

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                                    Jolly
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                                    Don't forget the price of bacon, should you suddenly have the wild urge to temporarily live like the rich and famous.

                                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                    • JollyJ Jolly

                                      Don't forget the price of bacon, should you suddenly have the wild urge to temporarily live like the rich and famous.

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                                      @Jolly said in Inflation:

                                      Don't forget the price of bacon, should you suddenly have the wild urge to temporarily live like the rich and famous.

                                      -3.7%. They're practically giving it away!

                                      I was only joking

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                                        @LuFins-Dad

                                        The top item, egg, the extraordinary price hike is attributed not to general inflation but to an avian flu outbreak:

                                        https://www.kktv.com/2023/01/05/whats-causing-dramatic-increase-egg-prices/

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                                        • JollyJ Offline
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                                          That's part of the story, but it ain't all of it.

                                          Buy a bag of feed lately? A gallon of diesel?

                                          It's not just the flu driving prices. But if you look at the parrots we have in the MSM, that seems to be the chant.

                                          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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