How/where we spend is not factored into AI contributions to stats necessarily, as much as just that we spent $. At some point humans will distill the details, maybe. But since GDP & unemployment aren't available to compare, the # 's will be f'ed up.
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Yes, b/c AI is doing the tracking and human input (w/ all it's factoring into variables) is no longer needed. Apparently

I spent at @weratedogs.com , and @fatbearweek.bsky.social and @altnps.bsky.social
And ordered produce/goods/gifts from Maui Hub
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What this article doesn't emphasize is that record spending is due to *checks notes* Everything Costs More.

Choose wisely, do good, be mindful.

This is the stuff of my childhood. This and The Odd Couple were some of my favorites. Followed closely by Three's Company.
Ah, nostalgia.

It shouldn't have to happen to you for it to matter to you
Sadly, tho...

Yes, reminds me of Japanese concentration camps WWII & how the govt rounded up Japanese-Americans, then stole the lands/businesses/assets & gave them to white people.
Almost anniversary of Pearl Harbor, this is particularly poignant because *we* are the aggressors.
There is no bottom to this regime.

Maui
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We are failing more than ever before to embrace our allies, care for our own, and are antagonizing pretty much everyone and. somehow, somehow...the MAGA folk *still* aren't seeing this as true.
How do we fix this? How?!

Yes

They'll never take out enough! Feed the people and protect the 'aina! It can be done. There's a harmony in there somewhere

Hell of an epiphany, huh.
It seems weirder now to know that something wasn't adding up & discovering the Trail of Tears WAY too late to have been acceptable
Like, 'How am I just now...?! Why not before? This Thanksgiving thing has been a lie & now I am really outraged.'
We can do better. & Should

We were there on false pretenses, true.
Nothing is ever simple.
The facts remain and majority of arguments that don't lead back to DJT being an absolute asswipe as pertains to that particular travesty of a 'withdrawal' can kindly 🖕

killjoys that should never be allowed to eat a triple-decker BLT or club Sandie in peace ever again

This could go on forever.
Wherever you are, whatever situation; however the cards have been dealt or unexpected tragedy or hardship or maybe unexpected joy
You are never, ever alone.
Stay with us, don't check out. Please.
We want to know you

-The roof over our heads: i don't own it, & it leaks sometimes. but we have hot water and a place to be. It's enough
-My little family. They bring me immense amounts of joy, and the fact they have 4 legs is a bonus
-This amazing planet & where we are on it. Maui is*no words*...SO grateful to be here