Inflation is a single percentage based on the total cost of living so applying it to the old poverty line calculation results in a poverty line that is still based on 3x the cost of food.

Pretty sure Daria was a millennial …

You’ve missed the point and doubled down on missing it. The 3x metric was right in 1963, but 3x food is still the same metric used to calculate the poverty line. Food has increased by inflation sure, but as the author says, food doesn’t account for 3x the household budget, instead of 33% it’s more like 7 percent. So the poverty line is way off.

The author then goes on to highlight issues with getting from the current poverty line which is mitigated by government subsidies, to that actual poverty line where you need to put in significant extra effort while seeing no actual gains until you reach it.

Err, that’s no better, it’s possible worse …

One of my friends was doing a lot of Kung Fu and he used to have bands he could strap to his ankles and wrists with lots of little pockets for rectangular steel bars so he could adjust the weight as required.

Err from memory isn’t there a pretty clear definition of classes in a capitalist society. Initial definitions were lower class being people who derive wealth from selling their labour and upper class being people who derive their wealth from owning the means of production. Middle class came about when workers started buying/setting up companies so suddenly there were people who both sold their labour and owned means of production.

So regardless of what ever you think of your job, unless you own a company you are lower class. There’s probably a portion of middle class who would be on the edge but you’d think most should be resilient enough to weather most storms.

That said, if some dipshit in government makes some idiodic decisions then yeah, a lot of middle class people are going to find their stable businesses are a house of cards.

If Lockheed Martin has kill codes for their F35s then China can reverse engineer those kill codes

Do I have to me good at it or is someone just going to pay me to do it regardless? I guess motorsport

A doctor once told a friend (at a party) that the effects of antihistamines rapidly resolve the causes of hangover headaches. Have confirmed through multiple experiments …

Hitler’s been in the ground for 8 decades and there’s whole policial movements still trying to make him seem like he had some ideas that weren’t total dog shit.

So I was using money manager ex for a long time. I’m not sure if it fits the FOSS label.

While it took quite a lot of effort to setup and maintain, it was the only application I could find at the time that could let me model my costs into the future and allow me to identify whether any given large bill might impact my available cash flow negatively. I stopped using it because the it needed an atrocious amount of my time to actively track spending. When I gave up I was in the process of setting up some workflows that might facilitate importing the data from my bank more easily but it needed a complete revision to how I had set up the database and the work to standardise tagging of my bank data made me lose interest.

The three you listed seem like they offer pretty similar functionality to MMEX, maybe with more features? I might give them a look in.

You could at least read the post text before posting it …

If you mean regularly cleaning their skin and adhering to the 5Ss when spending time in direct sun then sure, if you mean applying moisturising facial masks and getting dermal peels then no that’s dumb, kids don’t need that

I’m so confused how the man responsible for the monumental self own that was Brexit is even a contender?!

I’ve had a few Sunday roasts (in the UK) in my time, and been to good pubs and bad across a variety of English locales to have them, they are always shit. Have even tried homemade ones by someone who everyone says makes great Yorkshire puddings. Disappoint always ensued. It’s always the same, a mostly tasteless piece of batter that takes more from a meal than it adds.

If he’s going to use it as an impetus for deploying troops domestically then he should at least be able to name it correctly. If he can’t even do that then it’s pretty easy to argue his cognitive decline is progressing.

English foods … or more commonly known as “Beige”

I’ve never had a good Yorkshire pudding. They are always disappointing. It’s irrelevant how much of the rest of your sunday roast you eat with it, it always makes the rest of the roast taste worse than it would had you not wasted your time with the Yorkshire pudding.

It was actually a pretty great extraction of wealth by UK and international architectural and civil engineering firms.

My four yr old eats hotdogs like this except he starts on a bread side in the middle