For comparison, the USWNT has played 14 games in Columbus, Ohio, and had an attendance of 18,545 at their latest match there:

This match marked just the third time that the USWNT has played at Lumen Field, but the first time since 2017. The crowd of 36,128 showed up loud and proud, breaking the all-time attendance record for a standalone women’s sporting event in the city, to no one’s surprise.

How can I live a life that is truly Good? A life that, at it’s end, I can look back on and say that I left the world, on net, a better place?

The more that we’re talking through this, the more seriously I’m considering the possibility that the reason BLS data is so divergent from what everyone is saying is because Trump’s DoL is cooking the books.

everything old is new again

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we did it, lemmy

I was really hoping to set up someone to respond with the original image? But I guess I wasn’t transparently pedantic enough :/

Beating CPI nominally means it’s keeping up with rent, insurance, vacations, so I think your first paragraph is a little misguided (though the analysis does seem strong on the whole, please don’t read this as me being dismissive). I find the Statista headline somewhat deceptive – barely keeping up with inflation is another way to say that real wages are rising, which should be reflected as an improvement to people’s lived experience, even though that really doesn’t seem to be the case. And similarly, the idea of the CPI is that when insurance, rent etc are increasing faster than the CPI, it’s because we’re seeing compensatory gains in affordability in other parts of the market basket – groceries, medical care, what have you. I do find your argument that the CPI is measuring the wrong thing to be very persuasive, since it’s about the only thing that makes any sense to me – how else would we see sentiment tanking while economic indicators are rising? I’m just not sure what is being left out, though the idea that interest on credit cards isn’t included in the CPI and has significantly increased does sound very plausible.

Edit: I actually left out the part where we agree the hardest, which is dumb. I’m with you 1000% on the wealth gap being K-shaped and affecting consumer sentiment. I think there’s a real possibility that at a certain level of inequality, it doesn’t matter to Joe and Jane Consumer if they are richer than last year or not because Elon Musk is rich enough to cause Kessler Syndrome and no-one can stop him.

I mod and post to a few communities where getting one upvote is huge, and it’s fine, actually? Super niche communities don’t hurt anyone? And if you run them long enough, people start to show up eventually.

Are you going to limit it only those who are as pedantic as possible, or just those people who are annoyingly pedantic in general? Because I don’t think there are many occasions available when folks can be as pedantic as possible, just a bunch of situations where they are an above average amount of pedantic.

I seriously think this is the most correct analysis – people have internalized “a bad economy is bad for the president” and so if they don’t like the president, they say the economy is bad, regardless of actual economic conditions.

Maybe, but median real earnings have beaten the cpi by ~2.5% since 2021, and the median should be resilient against any kind of K-shaped economy except one divided exactly at the 50th percentile. But the vibes don’t feel ~2.5% better than 2021, and people that I know who are far above the median are feeling the squeeze, so I’m hesitant to just write this off as “K-shape just does that.”

I definitely opened this thread with the expectation that there’d be an unhinged horny comment from you about all this, but it’s just… informative historical facts? With interesting and relevant commentary? It’s good reading but I just… I’m just not sure I’m ready for serious violet08.

I might be missing some subtlety because of the axios paywall, but it is strange to me how completely decoupled our economic indicators have become from what people say about the economy. If you just look at the numbers, “the economy” is the best it’s ever been; if you look at what folks are saying on the socials, it’s the worst it’s ever been. You look at indicators that say that wages are up, sentiment is up, gdp is up, ppp is up, etc, and then everyone on fedi is working six jobs, haven’t been on a vacation in 17 years, and have four separate go-fund-me’s to make ends meet. I’m somewhat inclined to believe the truth is somewhere in between, such that traditional economic indicators (like the value of a bundle of representative stocks or a consumer sentiment survey) are missing quite a lot of the real economic activity and that folks online are confusing “US foreign and domestic policy are awful” for “the US economy is awful,” but we’ve slashed the BLS so thoroughly that I’m open to all sorts of exotic explanations.

If you take this idea a little further, you’ll eventually get a credit union.

I hope we ran him out on a rail for hiring the worst coach in a generation headed into hosting the World Cup:

Crocker’s splashiest hire came in landing Berhalter’s replacement: Mauricio Pochettino joined the team at the end of 2024 with the aim of leading the US to their best-ever World Cup finish at the tournament the country is co-hosting later this year. In 16 games under Pochettino, the US have won 10, drawn once, and lost seven. The most recent of those came in March friendlies against Belgium and Portugal, both losses for the US.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, per the law of conservation of energy. But information certainly can.

They very much do suck, and they don’t fit well, and like 75 other people have worn them before you. It was so much nicer to play away games in street clothes. Definitely paid off in college, though – my university flew us all over the place to play sports events.

Nope, just a normal high school marching band. Now drop and give me 20 for talking back.

I’d love to see them play the kids:

As far as how that might look, it seems likely Hayes will rotate the squad on just two full days rest. She has a lot of options when it comes to her lineup selection. Jaedyn Shaw, Olivia Moultrie, and Lily Yohannes were among the younger players who did not see the pitch against Japan. Perhaps a youthful XI will take the field in the second match giving Hayes a chance to see how players breaking into the team can be built into the squad.

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