#Increase Inflation

[pwrn51]

Lest We Forget Historical: Trump's Tariffs

  In today’s episode of Lest We Forget Historical, host Lillian Cauldwell delves into the question of who will really bear the cost of the tariffs that Trump plans to implement on his first day in office and the potential impacts on our economy. Ms. Cauldwell explores Trump’s proposed solution to America’s problems: new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States. Trump claims that these…

[nando161mando]

Everything is messed up..

[alwaysbewoke]

[stil-lindigo]

fucking HECS debt…

[yuzukimist]

Getting very tired of restaurant chain businesses closing down or filing for bankruptcy and then blaming it on the California wage increase when in reality the true problem is usually some flavor of mismanagement and/or executives having obscenely high salaries that gobble up a disproportionate amount of the revenue

[sophaeros]

hi!  I am desperately in need for help. I need my insulin to bring my blood sugar back down. It’s $300 That’s all I need. I’m not asking for a windfall, just a little help, please.

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bro scam message copy paste from all the way back from 2021 is crazyy😭

[andreeds]

i think its soo funny how when you’re an adult every time you think 'hey this month ill actually be able to save up some money' you will experience an Unexpected Expense

[drpeppertummy]

i know everybody on earth says it 400 times a day but PLEASEEE if youre interacting with nsfw blogs PLEASE put some kind of age indicator in your bio. say adult, give a range, 18+, not a minor, whatever if you dont wanna put your real age. if youre following from your main & dont want that info on there, make a separate blog & slap an age on it. you could even use that blog for reblogs to help broaden the community! its just such a shame to think of all the people who are getting blocked from seeing the things they wanna see because of the precautions 18+ blogs have to take to keep kids from interacting

[deus-ex-mona]

yeah it's them again, ✨izumo edition✨

Aizo: Cheerful and athletic. During their visit to Izumo Shrine, he said “I will definitely become an idol who’ll not lose to anyone else, so please cheer me on.” when he was making his prayers.

Q: What feature(s) of Izumo made the biggest impression on you?

Aizo: It goes without saying that the shrines and temples were impressive, but I also climbed to the top of a lighthouse known as the Hinomisaki Lighthouse. I heard that it’s the tallest lighthouse in Japan, and the view from the observation deck at the top was amazing. You can see the entire Sea of Japan from up there. I hope that everyone would be able to give climbing to the top of the lighthouse a try.

Yujiro: Mild-mannered and polite. During their visit to Izumo Shrine, he said “Thank you for watching over me every day. I’ll continue to devote myself to my work.” when he was making his prayers.

Q: What feature(s) of Izumo made the biggest impression on you?

Yujiro: I guess it’d be Izumo soba, their local delicacy. It’s known as Warigo Soba, and the soba is served in three stacked tiers of round bowls, along with condiments and dipping sauce on the side. It was the first time that I had ever eaten this style of soba, and I found it to be delicious. This style of soba seems to have been perfected back when people started to eat soba as a packed meal. The origin story of the meal was also really interesting to listen to.

The Tourism Ambassadors of Izumo: Up Close and Personal with LIPxLIP!

Congratulations on being appointed as the tourism ambassadors of Izumo! How do you feel about it?

Yujiro: Through this collaboration, I learned that Izumo City has a very deep connection to the history of Japan, with the famous Izumo Shrine and numerous historic shrines and temples being found within the city. As such, I feel that it’s a great honour to have been appointed as the tourism ambassadors of Izumo City.

Aizo: You know, Izumo City is where shito, our producer from HoneyWorks, spent his youth, so I wonder if that connection to him led us to our appointments as its tourism ambassadors thanks to the Matchmaking shrines in the area. I’d like for us to show off the charms of Izumo City to many people as LIPxLIP, its tourism ambassadors.

What are your plans for this collaboration event in Izumo? Also, how did your voice recording go?

Aizo: Starting on the 26th of January, “Izumo Day”, we will commence a digital stamp rally called “Touring Izumo City with LIPxLIP” via an app, which will play our voices as you visit famous spots in Izumo. The recording was a ton of fun too. We learned a lot as we voiced our introductions about each of the featured spots.

Yujiro: There are many stories about places and people that are straight out of Japanese History textbooks, so I think there are things to be enjoyed about the tour, aside from our dialogue. Of course, there are snippets of our personal conversations included in the recordings. Like when I went into a footbath with Aizo. Right, Aizo?

Aizo: You mean that time when you chased me all the way to the edge of the footbath, huh?!

Yujiro: Is that what happened? Ahahaha (laughs).

I heard that the two of you reunited with an unexpected person while you were sightseeing in Shimane, while you were there for a tour?

Aizo: Yup, we did. We bumped into him by chance. His name’s Nagisa. You know about him, don’t you?

Yujiro: Nagisa came to our concert too. I think he became a fan of LIPxLIP too, don’t you?

Aizo: Yeah. He definitely became our fan. No doubt about it.

Yujiro: We’ll confirm it with him when we see him again.

HoneyWorks’s 6th album, which is set to be released in March, will include a recording of the Special Sunny Party (SunnyPa) Live on a bonus disc. You guys performed Shin Jidai for the first time at SunnyPa. How was it?

Aizo: Shin Jidai was a song that our seniors, Full Throttle4, invited us to collaborate on. It felt like a brand new challenge to us, as it was a song that we would not usually get the chance to sing or dance to as LIPxLIP. As such, I got the sense that we were performing it with a rather fresh feeling.

Yujiro: Our seniors were singing and dancing fairly seriously, so we were desperately doing our best so as to not fall behind them. Just like Aizo had said, I, too, felt like we had performed with a fresh feeling. And, through this performance we got to experience a sense of something that we didn’t yet have, which we are hoping that we would be able to apply in our next performance.

Aizo: The Julieta who watched the concert loved it. They said that their hearts pounded when they saw Yujiro acting all aggressively confident, since he doesn’t do that often. Right, Yujiro?

Yujiro: Weren’t there comments about how scary my face looked? I haven’t watched the recording yet, but I wonder if I did alright.

Aizo: They sure were honest, huh (laughs). Please do check out the recording, okay?

During the emcee portion with Full Throttle4 (FT4), you guys imitated each other again, didn’t you? What are your thoughts on FT4’s imitations of you two, and how did you feel about trying to imitate them again?

Aizo: Let’s not talk about the imitations! We were just swept up in FT4’s bad vibes, really. We didn’t even agree to do that beforehand, and yet they suddenly sprung it on us… 

Yujiro: That's the one thing I wish they’d stop asking us to do. It’s embarrassing, regardless of whether we succeed or fail at imitating them, and it’ll destroy LIPxLIP’s image, you know? (laughs)

Aizo: Wait, don’t tell me that emcee portion was recorded too?

Yujiro: It seems to be so.

Aizo: Seriously…? I wonder if it’ll appeal to our Julieta, though…

Lastly, LIPxLIP, please give a message to your Julieta who support you!

Yujiro: We’re truly happy to have been granted the opportunity to bring happiness to all of you Julieta, right from the start of the year, in the form of our collaboration with Izumo City. I’d like us to continue to expand the scope of our activities as LIPxLIP and meet lots of you along the way, Julieta.

Aizo: This year has only just begun, and I hope to make it a fun year with all of you Julieta. Please look forward to seeing a different and more mature LIPxLIP as compared to how we were like last year. See y’all around, Julieta!

Yujiro: See ya!

Yujiro: I’d like us to expand the scope of our activities as LIPxLIP and meet lots of you along the way, Julieta.

Aizo: I'll be really happy if our feelings of gratitude to our Julieta have been conveyed properly.

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

It's wild how Kamala Harris's "crazy left-wing" down-payment support for first time buyers policy is literally existing government policy here in Ireland, brought in by our centre-right neoliberal political party. I've said it many times, but a lot of mainstream Democrats would be well at home in Fine Gael and that's not a compliment.

[crimeronan]

you guys. my biggest client who dropped me for AI just gave me over $1,000 of work.

[salan-d-er]

I do think that if a big corporation is selling something at a higher price, they should give a breakdown of their production cost. Okay so you are selling a tshirt for 75$, how much is the cost of the cloth, how are you aquiring it, how much of this is going to the people who provided labour, how much is the logistics costs, and how much is the big company keeping as a profit? If the process is ethical then okay take the 75$ but if you are providing low quality product and profiting off both the consumer and the labour then fuck this shit

[skialdi]

Just a heads up for anyone interested, but I'm probably going to be opening up commissions again come April.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

random q for people who have had some success setting up ko-fi accounts for their various projects: do you know how to configure your account so that your legal name isn’t displayed to people who want to drop a couple of bucks your way?

i’m contemplating setting one up because a bitch got bills to pay and a small menagerie to keep fed lol but i am also very cognizant of my privacy for obvious reasons. if you’ve got the time/energy to chat with me about what you did, my DMs are open 👀

[annieisyourfavourite]

i'm getting a 21 cent raise starting in january, right after we finish a show so it won't go into effect for a few months actually. i think i'm going to become the joker

[britishraptor]

I have what you want. I have the free time, the family support and the money to do pretty much anything I want. And I can’t bring myself to do anything.