Best month to visit Washington, DC?

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Is America approaching peak tip?
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Tipflation is a form of super-inflation. If tips were a fixed percentage, they would rise at the rate of general restaurant inflation. Since the percentage actually increases over time, tipflation is bound to outstrip restaurant inflation.
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Trump's proposed elimination of taxes on tips would make it worse.

#Politics #Trump #Inflation #Gratuities /nosanitize

The Economist "gift" article
https://econ.st/4bjJKS9

So far this election, billionaire Timothy Mellon has given $75 million to Trump (including $50 million the day after Trump's criminal conviction) and $25 million to RFK Jr.

#Politics #Trump #RFKJr #TimothyMellon

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-timothy-mellon-robert-kennedy-donald-trump-billionaire-2024-6

MAGA is complicated.

#Politics #Trump

It's hot and muggy out, a perfect day for:

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This is a little too close for comfort.

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Corned beef hash

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Louisiana Obliterates Separation of Church and State With Wild New Law
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Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a law Wednesday mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom . . . .

The law describes the Ten Commandments not as the religious edict that they plainly are, but as “foundational documents of our state and national government.”

#Louisiana #TenCommandments #SeparationOfChurchAndState

https://newrepublic.com/post/182896/louisiana-church-state-law-schools-ten-commandments

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So, how's the snap French election going?

Oh.

France is on the brink of all-out civil conflict.
#France #Politics

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/15/france-is-on-the-brink-of-all-out-civil-conflict/

The cracks in America's ultra-strong labour market
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Basically, there's a discrepancy between the Non-Farm payroll survey and the Household survey, with the first showing 1.2 million net jobs added, since the start of the year, and the later showing 100,000 net jobs lost.

If the later is the correct figure, the economy is rapidly decelerating and the Federal Reserve's tight-money policy is a mistake.

#News #Economy #jobs /nosanitize

The Economist "gift" article.
https://econ.st/4b7i9U9

Bulletproof vehicle from Elon. Bulletproof vehicle from Elon's apartheid South Africa youth.

That's a bit extreme. Not all priests are pedophiles.

@Alfred Why was the International Herald Tribune discontinued?

Women are losing their X chromosomes — What’s causing it?
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Not all women, just women susceptible to mosaic loss of the X chromosome.

Not trivial, this is linked to increased risk of cancer.

#mLOX #Healthcare

https://studyfinds.org/women-losing-x-chromosomes/

@Alfred Write a story about an agnostic religious cult.