Jack Mitcham, Ph.D.

Oh. You're hust a troll, I get it. Sorry, I should have blocked you quicker.

Did you watch the follow-up video? He addressed those concerns, and demonstrsted it experimentally.

Veritasium was not wrong, and he proved it experimentally.

You're not even pushing them around much. The electrons kinda slowly drift in the direction of the voltage difference (well, bouncing around quickly, but slowly drifting on average).

The energy is carried by the electric field, not by the electrons.

Veritasium has a good video about that.

Having my income reduced to zero by DOGE while prices of everything are up like 25% is pretty straightforward, I think

He's almost certainly talking about weekly initial claims.

He appears to be talking about the latest weekly initial claims numbers, which were indeed very low.

But this reading is very noisy, is subject to revision, and has been trending slightly upward.

If you're Catholic, you have request divorce under diplomacy.

CVS trying to charge me $110 for medication thst costs $0.18 to manufacture is infuriating.

@costplusdrugs.com is going to charge $5.21 plus shipping.

I'm not usually one to shill for a brand for free, but there's an order of magnitude difference in price.

I'm so glad I could reliably fill that last role in my TTRPG group.

He could be renditioned by a future administration.

This appears to be AI. A bunch of short chips that don't flow together is a telltale sign.

It's also that semiconductor technology moves so fast that even a 5 year old chip in perfect condition will be expensive to run compared to buying a new chip.

Moore's law has slowed down, but hasn't stopped.

From what I understand it's not that the chips will physically deteriorate in the relevant timeframe, but they just become inefficient (in time and energy) to use compared to the latest designs.

Some of those chips could get repurposed for lower-intensity uses later on.

Slice and Dice would be a great name for a TTRPG shop that serves pizza.

Picture of a toy pig with a giant dong visible.

Didn't expect anatomically correct pigs in pre-k.

Bluesky in a nutshell.

Someone posts how to boycott a service on Substack and is immediately criticized for not boycotting Substack.

Examining U.S. inflation across households grouped by equivalized income : Monthly Labor Review : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

And there's more. Poorer households face higher inflation on average than richer households. So claiming "Affordability isn't an issue, because the rich got richer by more than the poor got poorer" is not a defensible stance.

www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/202...

Another part not included is that the median wage calculations don't include the unemployed. The unemployment rate is up by a percentage point during this time.

The overall wages paid to American workers is not up by as the cost of goods.

The other part is that rising prices eats into savings. Wages aren't the only thing that matters. If prices go up 25% and your income goes up 25%, you're still worse off if your bank account also didn't increase. Personal savings are down during this time frame.

If we end up in a situation where 49% of the country gets materially worse and 51% get materially better, you can't tell the 49% that they're making stuff up because the median rose a little.

The trick is everybody buys a different basket of goods. CPI is based on some kind of generic basket of goods that literally nobody in the country buys. Each individual sees a different inflation rate in their own lives.

At the same time, people face different levels of wage growth.

You keep trying to die on this hill, no matter what the numbers keep telling you.

You can argue that average wages have gone up to compensate for that, and over time wages are starting to catch up, but there's a lag period. But to argue things aren't more expensive is nuts.

I will never understand you saying that everything isn't more expensive now, as if we didn't have a year and a half with ~15% inflation, plus an extra 3% the next two years after that.

CPI is up ~25% in the past 5 years. In the 10 years previous to that it was only up ~18%

My quadriplegic sister is on Medicaid, and if she ever has more than something like 2k in assets, they take away her aide hours. That means her 30 year old, run down wheelchair van has to be in someone else's name.

The whole system is wonky.

If you're arguing that keeping things the same as impactful to someone as losing their job, you're delusional.

Perceiving isn't inferring. I said it alters my perception. I made no inferences.

I was agreeing with you. My post supports your argument, I don't know why you said "but."

I'm not speaking in hypotheticals. I've put out over 250 applications with 1 interview and no offers. The white collar recession is real.

And at no point did I claim my personal experience was "reasoning." You just made that up.

And at the same time, they won't notice that the cost of an iPhone has gone down relative to its quality.

Nor do they necessarily make the substitutions to cheaper products that the CPI calculation assumes they'll make.