@icedquinn > Independents are trusting of neither — despite “the Biden administration” including an array of health professionals who might be expected to have insights into health issues.
@icedquinn one of my friends found an environmental study where 14,000 out of 16,000 data points were incorrect because of a spreadsheet bug so they emailed the person who thanked them and changed nothing and stopped communicating
@mrsaturday@icedquinn that's i feel where we currently are imo, our government is faking inflation numbers in various ways for example and i am pretty sure some of these outlets know it but run with it anyway
@pcachu@sun@icedquinn@mrsaturday Apparently it was cans of coffee removed from the CPI or whatever, because of course no one worth mentioning buys it in cans anymore....
"inflation? what inflation? all that printing money for war couldn't do anything. [casually just stops reporting all metrics that were proving otherwise]"
@sun@mrsaturday@icedquinn cofe was recently removed from the Consumer Price Index calculation because someone decided its price was increasing out of band, and besides who drinks that shit anyway amirite