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  • The repost bots often use oddly-phrased headlines -- often commenters will even talk about how weird the headline is. I can’t tell if the posters are actually bots, or if they are content farmers from certain countries. (The odd phrasing may sound natural in their language.)

    Another tactic is to post an obviously incorrect headline to draw engagement, like mis-identifying a picture of the Empire State Building as Chicago.

    Both of these happen frequently with image posts.

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  • The CPI is a key economic indicator. It’s unlikely that banks and markets would tolerate that kind of meddling.

    But, if the CPI was changed for political reasons, there are other similar stats.

    In plain language: Wall Street can make or lose billions of dollars based on correctly/incorrectly forecasting this stat, so you can bet your ass they have accurate data. Some of it is private; some is available to paying customers. Even if the data is not public, it is often publicly characterized, for example, in economic forecasts and in publications like The Economist.

    Some examples of alternative CPI sources are: PriceStats and The Economist’s Intelligence Unit. Both require paid access.

    Be aware that freely-available stats may be published with political agendas, by Fox News conspiracy theorists, etc.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    If you are an American, how are you preparing for the upcoming tariffs and possible trade war?

  • Or they changed the headline and due to caches CDNs or other reasons you didn’t get the newer one.

    archive.today has your original headline cached.

    Thanks for posting. While it’s a needlessly provocative headline, if that’s what the article headline was, then that is what the Lemmy one should be.

  • That is odd. It’s not what I see:

  • A very poor Lemmy article headline. The linked article says “alleged” and clearly there were multiple factors involved.

  • Inflation has been falling for a couple years and is fairly low right now, though not as low as it was back when interest rates were zero.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/273418/unadjusted-monthly-inflation-rate-in-the-us/

    The dollar has been fairly strong in recent years.

    https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy/charts

    Inflation in 2022 was likely due to price gouging with companies like Exxon Mobil reporting record or near-record profits at that time.

    https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XOM/exxon/gross-profit

    By late 2022, companies had jacked up prices high enough that the demand curve had likely reached the “crossover” point. Since then prices and inflation have been falling back to normal.

  • Plenty of adblocker extensions on iOS Safari.

    For YouTube, I’d recommend Vinegar, although the more general adblockers will also work.

  • It’s about guys who deliver money to banks.

  • But chiles are hot!

  • Successful malls have an removed Store, Tesla, and Louis Vuitton, which tells us something about who can still afford to shop there.

  • Sometimes it’s the only option or the preferred option.

  • I haven’t. Maybe someday I’ll be willing to, but not today. It’s a hassle and extremely intrusive to provide my bank statement and photo ID to a company whose security I don’t trust.

  • That’s usually how I pay if someone requests money. Venmo is owned by PayPal but my account there works just fine.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    How reliable are EV chargers?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world

    In space…