Shrinking packaging of food products...

[Humble Narcissist]

LOL. You think shrinking the amount is going to make people lose weight? 

Only if they can't afford more, I guess.

[_bruce_]

Customers have always been ripped off, the only difference is that we have come so far as to it getting quite obvious.
It's pretty hilarious what high quality animal products are going for. On top of that... even garbage food is pricey.

[Mayday]

something that is happening all over the world. you get less for your money in general.

I think it must be a resource problem. not enough to go around. Growing populations(in all but the high IQ nations). It's my take...

No, we have more than enough. Wheat futures are the same price as 1974. Oil same price as 20yrs ago.

Plebs have it all totally wrong. You aren't seeing shortages causing price rises. You are seeing volumes decline and the flow on effect is rising prices.

Why doesn't inflation rip like a bastard? Because I. The CPI calculation you can adjust for duration. As volumes drop, prices increase but you increase duration which offsets the price impact in the CPI.

Don't believe the spastics in the media or so called gurus. They are all wrecked plebs. Trump will be correct in prices, Inflation, rates being lower under his term. He did the tariffs to drop volume 😉

[obsidian]

Why doesn't inflation rip like a bastard?

Some things have ripped like a bastard - price wise. Our household energy bills are now nearly double what they were just a few years ago. Back in 2018–2019, I was mining Ethereum with over 40 GPUs running continuously at 5–6 kW. Even with that big power draw — plus our normal electricity and gas usage — our monthly bill stayed around $600–700.

Today, with no mining at all and the AC set to a comfortable 72°F, our summer bills are pushing $500. If we were still using the same amount of power as back then, our bill would probably exceed $1,300 a month now.

[AbrahamG]

Some things have ripped like a bastard - price wise. Our household energy bills are now nearly double what they were just a few years ago. Back in 2018–2019, I was mining dilithium crystals with a pack of Asians over 40 GPUs running continuously at 5–6 kW. Even with that big power draw — plus our normal electricity and gas usage — our monthly bill stayed around $600–700.

Today, with no mining at all and the AC set to a comfortable 72°F, our summer bills are pushing $500. If we were still using the same amount of power as back then, our bill would probably exceed $1,300 a month now.

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[IroNat]

Some things have ripped like a bastard - price wise. Our household energy bills are now nearly double what they were just a few years ago. Back in 2018–2019, I was mining Ethereum with over 40 GPUs running continuously at 5–6 kW. Even with that big power draw — plus our normal electricity and gas usage — our monthly bill stayed around $600–700.

Today, with no mining at all and the AC set to a comfortable 72°F, our summer bills are pushing $500. If we were still using the same amount of power as back then, our bill would probably exceed $1,300 a month now.

72 for A/C will really jack up your bill.

I set mine at 78 which is the recommended temp.

[Donny]

Unless a high carb diet is combined with calorie restriction, it results in fat gain.
Carbs and sugars increase insulin production which encourages fat storage.
It's the body's method of self-preservation for those times when food is scarce.

The Chinese and Japanese historically ate a high carb diet but been thin.
Why?
They did not have much to eat calorie wise.
Now that they are (have been in the case of Japan) becoming wealthier and can afford to eat more they are getting fat.

So, can you eat lots of carbs and sugars and remain lean?
Yes.
You just can't eat more calories than your body needs to maintain.

This goes for people who eat hardly any carbs too.
Eating low carbs just makes it hard to get enough calories to gain fat because a high protein and fat diet is very satiating.

There are other metabolic considerations to eating too many carb calories and getting fat such as Type 2 Diabetes and inflammation.

But you yourself can't take a proper dump.