aTUfan said:

it's not price gouging when the price hike is caused by gov caused inflation

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Food and healthcare are to of the most fundamental commodities that human beings rely on to stay alive. A person using an inflationary environment to pass off price increases that don’t align with the actual inflationary pressures elsewhere in the economy (like transport costs, supply chain costs, etc…) and just giving the excuse that “this is the price that the market will pay” are who we are talking about and they exacerbate inflation. They are actually harming the economy and harming common people. Not all vendors fit into that description but some do. Coke was one of the worst abusers.

JesseTU said:

Tulsa: 48
Directions: 13

They have a ton of new players, a new coach, an incomplete season last year due to a tragedy, haven't won a game in more than 660 days, haven't had a winning season in 15 years, and play in the FCS... If this isn't a blow out I also predict my wife may tell me to calm down more than normal.

Please, I need some optimism for this program.

'Make an excuse to win:' Northwestern State football survives turbulence, gets fresh start Thursday

Under first-year Demons head coach Blaine McCorkle, less than half the roster remains from 2023 squad whose season was cut short after the fatal shooting defensive back Ronnie Caldwell Jr.

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Little dramatic aren't we?

There is plenty of optimism in the program right now.

Tulsa: 48
Directions: 13

They have a ton of new players, a new coach, an incomplete season last year due to a tragedy, haven't won a game in more than 660 days, haven't had a winning season in 15 years, and play in the FCS... If this isn't a blow out I also predict my wife may tell me to calm down more than normal.

Please, I need some optimism for this program.

nevadanatural said:

They don’t have a bracket posted yet and their ticket link doesn’t work for me. I’ll wait until we have confirmation but that would be a great weekend for me to travel.

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Seat Guru and others have seats but I don’t trust them.

I.I. said:

Sunrise Florida Tournament it appears. Seats for Nevada still available.

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They don’t have a bracket posted yet and their ticket link doesn’t work for me. I’ll wait until we have confirmation but that would be a great weekend for me to travel.

TU_BLA said:

TU scores just before half to make it 2-1 Louisville. Louisville's 2nd goal was a carbon copy of their first, maybe a touch closer. Alex needs to stay back on his line because TU thoroughly dominated the half and going against the wind. A lot of good looks and dangerous crosses off corners. Louisville has not been able to create anything or keep possession. I think they made 2 forward subs that half but their MFs and defenders had to work hard that half as they were chasing TU all over the place.

TUs goal was scored by Ian Belong, the kid from Bartlesville. I'd say TU was more dangerous with their 3 sub forwards than they were with the starters.

Honestly with the group of 16 players who have played for TU, they are a good and dangerous team, a lot like 2 years ago. They need better goalkeeping and can't give up cheap goals like they have. My understanding is the goal conceded to UNLV was a similar goal.

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It seems like Alex gets kind of arrogant at times. I did not see the game, so I can't comment, but I have seen him play enough that he tends to get out of position. It cost us an appearance in the NCAA tournament when he decided to take down the player in the box.

astonmartin708 said:

A) you telling me that does nothing to solve the lack of information within and alongside the post. Go figure that Musk’s platform can’t fact check for crap.

B) One thing you don’t account for is the possibility that the operating expenses were artificially inflated by inflated payrolls or investments in stores that wouldn’t have otherwise been made but that increased gross returns allowed. I know that stores near me nearly all received operational renovations recently, and some implemented unnecessary anti theft devices in their cart’s wheels. Those are probably wasted dollars in the long run.

Then again, aside from the ridiculous Kroger merger that shouldn’t happen, I think we really should look upstream of the grocers for profiteering. It’s not Kroger that are the problem, some of the problem is the Pepsi, Coke, or General Mills of the world.

For example Coca Cola’s net profit margin went from a 5 year average of 14.89% in the (approximately) 5 years prior to COVID to 23.84% average in the years during and since. General Mills went from around 10 to around 13 in the same time. JBS and Tyson’s margins skyrocketed in 21-23 before coming back to earth recently. Mondelez (think Oreos) went from around 9 to around 13 post Covid. McCormick saw record net profit during Covid but has since returned to earth. There are some companies that look as if they’re operating fairly in the market and others that are essentially gouging.

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It's a complex problem at the grocer level, as you are appreciating.

Having a bunch of Tallegio cheese on hand is likely one of those things that does not actually pull much/any profit for the store, but having a good selection of perishables attracts the type of people in the door that care about that. So if they lose a bit by regularly carrying dragonfruit or something, they need to make it up elsewhere. With tens of thousands of products in the store, it ends up being complicated and I am sure you can find some items that are marked up way more than others, and some items that they may even regularly lose money on. I'm certainly not a grocer, but it doesn't surprise me that it all evens out to some pretty thin margins. Is setting a price on some items to be higher than others in order to offset losses "price gouging"?

Or, as others have pointed out, does selling fresh baked bread for $4/loaf and yesterday's bread for $1/loaf count as "price gouging"? Dynamic pricing isn't always nefarious, even on non-perishables. If a new blender model is out, you might heavily discount whatever older model stock you have left just to cut losses and get rid of it to clear up the space for the new version/product. Did the purchaser who bought the blender the day before it went on sale for 50% off get "gouged"? I don't think so. The devil is in the details and how you define it.

I agree you are much more likely to find "price gouging" at the level of individual industries or companies. Collusion on setting prices and things like that are always a thing, and are constantly getting investigated. Not going to point out a particular industry because I have no idea, but that's why we have anti-collusion and anti-monopoly laws.


Harris is pandering here by selling a simple solution to a complex problem because she thinks it will be popular. She's a politician, it's unfortunately what they do. They've been trying to sell simple solutions to get elected for so long that half the public thinks all problems actually are very simple and that the politicians are just idiots or even nefarious for not having it all worked out. The real question is which politicians actually believe their own BS and will try to implement it, and which know they are selling snake oil on certain issues and might make a show of trying to prod Congress on something, but realize it will quietly die in committee and are content to leave it at that and say "I tried". I know exactly which type of politician Trump is. I think he actually believes he is a super-genius and all problems are simple and others are just too stupid to realize it. For Harris, it remains to be seen.

See also "No taxes on tips" which both candidates have endorsed. That sounds nice, but is going to be a bear to actually implement in the intended way because it is far more complex than either candidate is letting on.

goldenhurricane2 said:

I will be getting one if those shirts. Hopefully there won’t just be S or XXXXL by the time I get mine. Will still wear S or XXXXL regardless

TU - 45
NWS - 10

Bonus pick: I have to tell DougHeffKing to stfu at least 3 times during the game,

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I'll second that prediction. That is mine as well.

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quincy101 said:

I'm anxious to see the 2 frosh RBs...Avant & Ellison plus the new CB..Elijah Green. There are so many gooduns although a real test comes in the next 2 weeks. I'll predict a near shutout: 54-3, TU of course.

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I believe Elijah Green will be playing SS. You might want to check A Williams at SS as well. I think he might be more accelerated in his career as a freshman.

From the West Side Ghetto of TU

HURRICANE!!!

Working really fast to get done early to get to the game....

GOLDEN!!!!!

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I'm anxious to see the 2 frosh RBs...Avant & Ellison plus the new CB..Elijah Green. There are so many gooduns although a real test comes in the next 2 weeks. I'll predict a near shutout: 54-3, TU of course.

From John Glenn Airport Columbus
HURRICANE!!!

From the Navy Yard in Washington DC

GOLDEN!!!!!!

Hmmm....

Frac'ing good..
Walls good..
Middle class tax cuts good..
EV mandates bad...

Is Kommala a fish?

From my office in the ghetto at 71st and Riverside

HURRICANE!

Larry Lewis said:

Which newcomer will make the biggest impact? I'll predict a 59-10 win.

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I'm really interested to see the new skill position players like Steptoe

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ctt8410 said:

UCF on December 14th in the Orange Bowl Classic

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According to blogging the bracket Tulsa is the only team in the “Group of Five” that still is not in an MTE of some kind. This should fall into an MTE but it’s currently “not listed”.