Newspapers in general have been having a tough time, but the NYT is fantastically profitable. They’re basically a games, review, and recipe company with a side of news.

A union may well get their compensation up in line with industry norms

They’re asking that people stay off NYT games and cooking-related pages:

NYT Games and Cooking are BEHIND THE PICKET LINE. Please don’t play or engage with Games or Cooking content while the strike lasts!

News coverage — including election coverage — is NOT behind the picket line. It’s okay to read and share that, though the site and app may very well have problems.

I’m aware of the LSD and Ketamine, weed wouldn’t surprise me too.

Security clearances are nominally the domain of the FBI, rather than the CIA. They tend to see themselves as a right-wing organization though.

Gift link giving the first few hundred people access

To the contrary: people have shifted to having to travel long distances or get pills through the mail without local medical support.

In some states (eg: Idaho) these are substantially inaccessible.

I don’t expect commercial extraction to be limited to one area.

It’s not subjective though.

It’s not just the top; since the pandemic, wages at the 20th percentile are rising again:

I agree that housing went up more than other parts of the market basket, and that we should build enough to force it down — indeed per your link rent is in fact slowly falling at this point.

The market basket approach they use looks at the mix of goods and services people buy. So yes, it captures the fact that housing is more of a typical person’s budget than milk.

It’s describing an average. There are definitely subgroups doing both better and worse

That’s literally a textbook definition of inflation.

Yes, but it’s included in the proportion to which you buy those things. So if you’re spending a lot less on other things, but more on housing, it’s a wash for your overall expenses. The point is that compared with overall expenses, wages went up more.

The point of the inflation index is that it includes the same basket of things that people buy — including housing. There are some specific ways in which the official numbers can lag peoples’ experience (eg: how owners-equivalent rent is handled) but what you’re doing is suggesting something terrible, but not actually providing any real evidence for it.

U-6 looks at those kinds of underemployment numbers, and is doing pretty well:

This doesn’t mean it’s perfect, or everybody is now a sudden billionaire. It does mean that it’s within the range of “pretty much ok for most people”

They didn’t — what they did was raise a bunch of red herring type issues.

There are a ton of measures of unemployment which try to capture the kinds of thing they’re talking about, and they show similar imporvements.

There’s always risk in life, and the world isn’t some perfect place. The point is that it’s actually improved recently, by any measure you might use.

That’s what adjusting for inflation is.

The existing large-scale batteries are largely lithium. There are a bunch of iron-chemistry ones and sodium-ion ones which have been deployed over the past year, with factories going up to scale them up. I’m not expecting to be limited by lithium availability for stationary batteries.