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aestheticdirt t1_jaegbdw wrote

as someone who has had to call CPS a lot i encourage you and anyone else in a situation like this to bother the living hell out of CPS and ask for their supervisors. some of the screeners are just not good and if it’s close enough to when they’re about to go home some will basically refuse to deal with it because they don’t want to stay late. they’re still short staffed in the city so it doesn’t help but call them as much as is needed in order for them to do something

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gaytee t1_jaeflpk wrote

Bruh I can hear you mouth breathing from here, maybe call your cousin for a date night or go clean one of your guns. Gang doesn’t mean violent criminal, it does however mean association of people.

I didn’t say a thing about skin color, however like all gangs or groups or squads, the culture of dirt bikes in baltimore is a family that these people lean on the exact same way hells angels, the crips, knights of Columbus, the local intramural sports teams,or kappa alpha sorority, because they want to belong to something. I find the structure of all of the organizations very beneficial to mental psychology, even if the actions of the orgs are not necessarily lawful.

Fact is, dirt bikes in the city, whether ridden by perfect citizens or not, are a nuisance. This is very similar to evenings on ritchie highway is a shithole filled with tuners, a lot of city is a shithole with 12 o clock boys, and that’s why anyone with a brain can accept that it is what it is, but you’d rather tell me I’m racist than look at something from outside your tiny ignorant lenses. Good luck out there my friend, life isn’t gonna get any easier for your grumpy ass if you don’t step off from your high horse a bit.

If you actually ever got off your high horse, you’d realize you’ve been riding a donkey your whole life claiming you’re on a Clydesdale.

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macgyversstuntdouble t1_jaeezpn wrote

> When the cost of labor increases, the costs of the other inputs don’t necessarily change. So the overall cost of producing a good or service doesn’t increase as much as the cost of labor alone.

So everyone can get an 8% raise this year, and the people who own those companies will also get their 8% increase in profits too (aka their wages). And that won't increase inflation! Brilliant! /s

You see - this is what broad increases in wages do. They increase the cost of doing business. The Fed is trying to curb that by cooling the economy, but we've got a shit-ton of economic momentum going forward and it's hard to stop a train that Congress shoves a trillion dollars in new spending every year.

If you think that wages are not correlated to prices, you are dumb. I think you understand that there is a wage price correlation (as all your papers state), but you instead contend that there is instead something bigger driving inflation. That may be true - but wages are sticky.

Your boss doesn't tell you "Prices have come down on goods, so you get a 6% decrease in wages". However, we expect "prices are up 8%, here's your 8% increase in wages". One of these is sticky, and it's why many are pushing for wages to lag more. It sucks, but it's real.

In no way is the wage price spiral "debunked" by your articles. It exists. They agree the correlation exists. The only question is: is the wage increase broad or narrow. It is clearly broad right now, and that makes inflation itself stickier, which is inevitably bad.

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z3mcs OP t1_jaeezna wrote

>BALTIMORE - Mayor Brandon Scott announced the release of Baltimore's first-ever Public Safety Accountability Dashboard.

>The Dashboard is a "data tool designed to provide greater levels of transparency and allow the public to hold agencies accountable for executing agreed upon strategies and identifying best practices for measuring effectiveness of the administration's public safety efforts," according to city leaders.

>"Evaluation and accountability are central pillars of Baltimore's Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan, because when it comes to public safety, progress can and should be measured," Mayor Scott said. "The Public Safety Accountability Dashboard provides a real-time look at the numbers that inform our data-driven efforts in ways that directly address Baltimore's latest public safety trends.

>"This innovative tool is core to upholding my commitment to transparency and accessibility in ways that also bring City government into the 21st century. I look forward to the further partnership cultivated by the dashboard with Baltimoreans across the city to increase public safety for all."

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frodes85 t1_jaeemgg wrote

And don't go with the home inspector your real estate agent recommends. Sometimes that inspector is basically in cahoots with the realtor to close the sale, so they won't tell you about problems that, a month after you move in, end up costing thousands of dollars to repair or replace.

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_The_Bear t1_jaedyzd wrote

Not sure if it's still the case but you used to be able to do carryout for 1/2 the price of their sit down restaurant. You just had to go into the carryout entrance next door. It was the same food, same portions, just half the price if you weren't dining in. Made it super reasonable. Lamb shank at $30? Pass. Lamb shank at $15? Hell yeah.

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chrismontmusic t1_jaed1sf wrote

This is incredibly sad. Not only do I enjoy performing there regularly, but it’s also one of my favorite local breweries overall. Great craft beer, delicious food, retro arcade games, friendly people, etc. I will miss this place. P.S. - My last acoustic show there will be this Friday, 3/3, at 6 p.m.

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Matt3989 t1_jaecbq5 wrote

Yeah, it's a good way to demo your brand/product before dropping a couple of million on your own brewery.

Friends who have opened breweries have said that having the product information from contract brewing as part of your business plan makes it much easier to get the business loan (if you're going with traditional funding, which has other downfalls)

https://www.peabodyheightsbrewery.com/co-op-brewers/

You brew on their equipment, with the help of their brewer, and under their license. But I believe you have to get your labels approved by the FDA yourself.

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MotoSlashSix t1_jae9ow7 wrote

>yet your first link literally describes it as a valid condition.

Being a "valid condition" and claiming those wage increases are the primary driver of a price increase "spiral" is not the same thing. So claiming that increasing wages will cause price increase spirals is nonsense.

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>Given the paths of prices and pay in the past year, I believe these concerns are probably overblown. And one reason is simple math. Labor isn’t the only input into most goods and services. When the cost of labor increases, the costs of the other inputs don’t necessarily change. So the overall cost of producing a good or service doesn’t increase as much as the cost of labor alone.

Or to put it another way, this is part of what your analysis left out:

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>Worrying about wage‐​to‐​price passthrough after a period of excessively expansionary policy is therefore akin to lamenting gravity as the cause of hurtling to the ground after someone has thrown you from a plane. Encouraged by politicians such as Johnson, the wage‐​spiral concept encourages businesses and workers to blame each other, mistaking the consequences of inflation for its origins.

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ScootyHoofdorp t1_jae8k89 wrote

Is it the SoBo Peninsula Post scavenger hunt? Are the answers specific to the peninsula? I'm guessing you need to find a park with a dedication plaque that has the name of someone with those initials on it.

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zinniasinorange t1_jae8h9s wrote

Happened to me (after I actually got picked for a jury and served two days!). The only annoying thing was unlike all of the other parts, you can't work it out online. I did send in the physical form and that was it, though.

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