Highest inflation since...

[SoCal Deek]

3 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:

This is pretty misleading for our illiterate right on this board.

 

”The cost of transporting fruit from California and Arizona to Canada climbed 25% last week”

 

This is an increase in food prices from US to Canada. The lack of vaccine wouldn’t impact US to US sales.

 

So your article has zero affect on US inflation and is highly misleading here.

 

Id argue it probably has a positive effect on US inflation since a logistics company would just route the 50 percent of drivers who normally would go to Canada to further US destinations. Thus helping US supply and decreasing prices.

So if you're right we'll see the cost of food and other products start to drop any moment now. Can you tell me when that will be? I'm hungry and it's almost dinner time here in Southern California.

[Irv]

5 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:

This is pretty misleading for our illiterate right on this board.

 

”The cost of transporting fruit from California and Arizona to Canada climbed 25% last week”

 

This is an increase in food prices from US to Canada. The lack of vaccine wouldn’t impact US to US sales.

 

So your article has zero affect on US inflation and is highly misleading here.

 

Id argue it probably has a positive effect on US inflation since a logistics company would just route the 50 percent of drivers who normally would go to Canada to further US destinations. Thus helping US supply and decreasing prices.

 

You're honestly not that ***** dumb are you?  Look around.  

 

[Backintheday544]

12 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:

So if you're right we'll see the cost of food and other products start to drop any moment now. Can you tell me when that will be? I'm hungry and it's almost dinner time here in Southern California.

What do you mean if I’m right. My point was the article posted is misleading because it’s about Canada. Where there are policies that aren’t in place in the US.

So ofcourse I’m right. That’s what the article is about!

 

So unless you move to Canada the article has 0 effect on you being poor and not being able to afford food.

 

For that, I’d suggest you just pull yourself up by the bootstraps. You’re only poor because you choose to be poor.

10 hours ago, Irv said:

 

You're honestly not that ***** dumb are you?  Look around.  

 

Irv, I know you’re part of the illiterate right here. I know from your posts you just what a mess and have no educational background to make good factual analysis.

 

But even for a low IQ voter like yourself, please tell me how vaccine requirements that do not allow US food truckers into Canada impact US supply. 
 

Literally the policy in the article has no impact on goods being delivered to the US.

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

16 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:

What do you mean if I’m right. My point was the article posted is misleading because it’s about Canada. Where there are policies that aren’t in place in the US.

So ofcourse I’m right. That’s what the article is about!

 

So unless you move to Canada the article has 0 effect on you being poor and not being able to afford food.

 

For that, I’d suggest you just pull yourself up by the bootstraps. You’re only poor because you choose to be poor.

Irv, I know you’re part of the illiterate right here. I know from your posts you just what a mess and have no educational background to make good factual analysis.

 

But even for a low IQ voter like yourself, please tell me how vaccine requirements that do not allow US food truckers into Canada impact US supply. 
 

Literally the policy in the article has no impact on goods being delivered to the US.

 

Hello pot…. Meet kettle 

 

this excerpt apparently evaded your elite education and reading comprehension skills…

 

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The US plans to impose a similar mandateon January 22, and trucking companies have already begun to boost their rates to compete for vaccinated truck drivers.

oops… 

 

[All_Pro_Bills]

13 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:

What do you mean if I’m right. My point was the article posted is misleading because it’s about Canada. Where there are policies that aren’t in place in the US.

So ofcourse I’m right. That’s what the article is about!

 

So unless you move to Canada the article has 0 effect on you being poor and not being able to afford food.

 

For that, I’d suggest you just pull yourself up by the bootstraps. You’re only poor because you choose to be poor.

Irv, I know you’re part of the illiterate right here. I know from your posts you just what a mess and have no educational background to make good factual analysis.

 

But even for a low IQ voter like yourself, please tell me how vaccine requirements that do not allow US food truckers into Canada impact US supply. 
 

Literally the policy in the article has no impact on goods being delivered to the US.

I think the answer is the cross-border vaccine mandates for truckers will disrupt transportation capacity to bring goods across the border both ways.  The US plans to institute similar rules on 1/22.  Three days from today.  The mandates will result in fewer truck drivers meeting the international driver requirements which means less products being traded and moved between the US and Canada.  Fewer drivers means fewer trucks on the road with idle capacity and fewer deliveries.  Ultimately, the result is less product on the shelves, disruptions to supply chains, higher wages for drivers, higher freight charges, and ultimately higher prices at the stores as consumers knowing supply is disrupted and quite possibly limited will "hoard" products with the expectation future supplies will be tight.  Stores will in response institute purchase quantity limits to the affected items which will confirm consumer fears of supply issues.  The expectation is higher prices until and if the capacity constraints get sorted out and resolved or for some reason demand is lower.  Generally, the easiest way to cut demand is to raise prices. 

For US consumers I'm thinking paper and wood products will be one area to watch.  And its not just final goods that will be impacted but also inputs to factories and manufacturing facilities and processes.  

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/canada-s-vaccine-mandate-for-cross-border-truckers-is-now-in-effect-1.5741561

 

 

[SoCal Deek]

35 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:

What do you mean if I’m right. My point was the article posted is misleading because it’s about Canada. Where there are policies that aren’t in place in the US.

So ofcourse I’m right. That’s what the article is about!

 

So unless you move to Canada the article has 0 effect on you being poor and not being able to afford food.

 

For that, I’d suggest you just pull yourself up by the bootstraps. You’re only poor because you choose to be poor.

Irv, I know you’re part of the illiterate right here. I know from your posts you just what a mess and have no educational background to make good factual analysis.

 

But even for a low IQ voter like yourself, please tell me how vaccine requirements that do not allow US food truckers into Canada impact US supply. 
 

Literally the policy in the article has no impact on goods being delivered to the US.

Here’s a hint; I’m about as far from poor as anyone you’ll ever meet….and the bootstraps you’re so quick to mock have made it so. 

[Backintheday544]

4 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

Here’s a hint; I’m about as far from poor as anyone you’ll ever meet….and the bootstraps you’re so quick to mock have made it so. 

 

Sorry, your
“I'm hungry and it's almost dinner time here in Southern California” 

 

made me think you can’t afford food in the context of the discussion.

[SoCal Deek]

Just now, Backintheday544 said:

 

Sorry, your
“I'm hungry and it's almost dinner time here in Southern California” 

 

made me think you can’t afford food in the context of the discussion.

No worries…even people above Biden’s ever rising poverty line wanna save a buck on their chicken wings leading up to Sunday’s big game. Go Bills! 

[Backintheday544]

16 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

I think the answer is the cross-border vaccine mandates for truckers will disrupt transportation capacity to bring goods across the border both ways.  The US plans to institute similar rules on 1/22.  Three days from today.  The mandates will result in fewer truck drivers meeting the international driver requirements which means less products being traded and moved between the US and Canada.  Fewer drivers means fewer trucks on the road with idle capacity and fewer deliveries.  Ultimately, the result is less product on the shelves, disruptions to supply chains, higher wages for drivers, higher freight charges, and ultimately higher prices at the stores as consumers knowing supply is disrupted and quite possibly limited will "hoard" products with the expectation future supplies will be tight.  Stores will in response institute purchase quantity limits to the affected items which will confirm consumer fears of supply issues.  The expectation is higher prices until and if the capacity constraints get sorted out and resolved or for some reason demand is lower.  Generally, the easiest way to cut demand is to raise prices. 

For US consumers I'm thinking paper and wood products will be one area to watch.  And its not just final goods that will be impacted but also inputs to factories and manufacturing facilities and processes.  

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/canada-s-vaccine-mandate-for-cross-border-truckers-is-now-in-effect-1.5741561

 

 

So if the US doesn’t institute the policy, would the get more truckers from Canada? It seems the Canadian policies in place already would have them vaccinated.

 

Plus this entire issue is solved with 1 easy thing…. GET VACCINATED

1 minute ago, SoCal Deek said:

No worries…even people above Biden’s ever rising poverty line wanna save a buck on their chicken wings leading up to Sunday’s big game. Go Bills! 

dude, chicken wing prices are insane.

 

Maybe if we had a a border as easy to cross as Josh Allen crosses the LOS vs the Pats.

Edited January 19, 2022 by Backintheday544

[Backintheday544]

23 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

I think the answer is the cross-border vaccine mandates for truckers will disrupt transportation capacity to bring goods across the border both ways.  The US plans to institute similar rules on 1/22.  Three days from today.  The mandates will result in fewer truck drivers meeting the international driver requirements which means less products being traded and moved between the US and Canada.  Fewer drivers means fewer trucks on the road with idle capacity and fewer deliveries.  Ultimately, the result is less product on the shelves, disruptions to supply chains, higher wages for drivers, higher freight charges, and ultimately higher prices at the stores as consumers knowing supply is disrupted and quite possibly limited will "hoard" products with the expectation future supplies will be tight.  Stores will in response institute purchase quantity limits to the affected items which will confirm consumer fears of supply issues.  The expectation is higher prices until and if the capacity constraints get sorted out and resolved or for some reason demand is lower.  Generally, the easiest way to cut demand is to raise prices. 

For US consumers I'm thinking paper and wood products will be one area to watch.  And its not just final goods that will be impacted but also inputs to factories and manufacturing facilities and processes.  

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/canada-s-vaccine-mandate-for-cross-border-truckers-is-now-in-effect-1.5741561

 

 

If Canada already has a policy to have truckers vaccinated…. Then there truckers are vaccinated and any US policy would be moot.

 

And this again just rejects the idea that it’s easily solvable by truckers getting vaccinated.

[SoCal Deek]

I’ll repeat it again here for some context grounded in REALITY. With the exception of one (a pregnant young lady), every single person of the dozens and dozens that got Covid over the holidays was either fully vaccinated or vaccinated AND boosted. 

[Backintheday544]

39 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

I’ll repeat it again here for some context grounded in REALITY. With the exception of one (a pregnant young lady), every single person of the dozens and dozens that got Covid over the holidays was either fully vaccinated or vaccinated AND boosted. 

Thank God those vaccinated ones can drive a truck to deliver fruit to Canada

[B-Man]

 

 

 

Back to the inflation thread.....................

 

 

GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING:

 

Gas prices are in the danger zone. Biden can’t do much about it.

 

President Joe Biden’s 2022 is off to a dreadful start. Prices at the pump could make it even worse.

 

Crude oil has already zoomed back to two-month highs. Gasoline prices, which move with a lag, have stopped their muted decline. And they’re starting to creep higher again.

 

The energy resurgence is only going to add to the economic anxiety gripping the United States and sinking Biden’s poll numbers.

 

“This is a terrible situation. Gas prices are in this political danger zone,” Helima Croft, head of global commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, told CNN.

 

The White House knows how deeply unpopular high gas prices are. That’s why Biden took sweeping action in November to intervene. The administration announced the largest-ever release of emergency crude reserves from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in US history.

 

The return of $85 oil will pile pressure on Biden to act once again — and the administration is signaling further action is on the table.

 

“Tools continue to remain on the table for us to address prices. This is something the administration is continuing to watch and monitor very closely,” a White House official told CNN.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/energy/gas-prices-inflation-biden/index.html?utm_content=2022-01-18T21%3A03%3A05&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNNp

 

 

[Irv]

2 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:

What do you mean if I’m right. My point was the article posted is misleading because it’s about Canada. Where there are policies that aren’t in place in the US.

So ofcourse I’m right. That’s what the article is about!

 

So unless you move to Canada the article has 0 effect on you being poor and not being able to afford food.

 

For that, I’d suggest you just pull yourself up by the bootstraps. You’re only poor because you choose to be poor.

Irv, I know you’re part of the illiterate right here. I know from your posts you just what a mess and have no educational background to make good factual analysis.

 

But even for a low IQ voter like yourself, please tell me how vaccine requirements that do not allow US food truckers into Canada impact US supply. 
 

Literally the policy in the article has no impact on goods being delivered to the US.

 

Go to your local grocery store moron.  

 

Irv

B.S. Finance State University of NY at Buffalo '87

M.B.A. Finance University of Rochester Simon School of Business '02

 

 

[Doc]

2 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:

So if the US doesn’t institute the policy, would the get more truckers from Canada? It seems the Canadian policies in place already would have them vaccinated.

 

Plus this entire issue is solved with 1 easy thing…. GET VACCINATED

dude, chicken wing prices are insane.

 

Maybe if we had a a border as easy to cross as Josh Allen crosses the LOS vs the Pats.

 

We do.  It's on the wrong end of the country though...

 

Edit: Wait, that's it!  Tie supplies to the backs of illegals flooding over the border.  Supply chain issue solved!

[Backintheday544]

4 hours ago, Irv said:

 

Go to your local grocery store moron.  

 

Irv

B.S. Finance State University of NY at Buffalo '87

M.B.A. Finance University of Rochester Simon School of Business '02

 

 

As explained in another thread. I do not go to a grocery store. With a personal chef and Instacart that isn’t really a thing worth doing.

 

Having a degree doesn’t make someone intelligent.

 

As I said, “But even for a low IQ voter like yourself, please tell me how vaccine requirements that do not allow US food truckers into Canada impact US supply. ”

[B-Man]

 

 

 

BECAUSE THE “EXPERTS” ARE DRIVEN MORE BY AGENDAS THAN INTELLECT? 

 

Why Did Almost Nobody See Inflation Coming? “

 

Forecasting inflation is a staple of macroeconomic modeling, yet virtually all economists’ predictions for the United States in 2021 were way off the mark. This dismal performance reflected a collective failure to take economic models seriously enough, as well as other analytical shortcomings.”

 

Talking about inflation was bad for the Democrats’ big-spending plan, so there was no talk about inflation.

 

Except from Republicans, whose views were dismissed as “far right conspiracy theory,” a phrase that we’ve learned translates pretty well as “things everyone will know in six months.”

 

 

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/2021-us-inflation-forecasting-errors-economic-models-by-jason-furman-2022-01

 

 

 

 

[SoCal Deek]

1 hour ago, Backintheday544 said:

As explained in another thread. I do not go to a grocery store. With a personal chef and Instacart that isn’t really a thing worth doing.

 

Having a degree doesn’t make someone intelligent.

 

As I said, “But even for a low IQ voter like yourself, please tell me how vaccine requirements that do not allow US food truckers into Canada impact US supply. ”

Is Chef Jim your personal chef?  Wouldn't that be an odd coincidence? 

[Backintheday544]

15 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

Is Chef Jim your personal chef?  Wouldn't that be an odd coincidence? 

Our chef is a female. It’s actually pretty awesome. She sends us a meal plan once a week, then grocery shops for the foods and cooks a weeks worth of dinner every Tuesday.

 

Chef fee is just $200 a week plus we give her the cash for the groceries.

 

For that cost, the time savings alone is so worth it. Plus it reduces eating out which can get expensive.

Edited January 19, 2022 by Backintheday544

[SoCal Deek]

1 minute ago, Backintheday544 said:

Our chef is a female. It’s actually pretty awesome. She sends us a meal plan once a week, then grocery shops for the foods and cooks a weeks worth of dinner every Tuesday.

 

Chef fee is just $200 a week plus we give her the cash for the groceries.

 

For that cost, the time savings alone is so worth it. Plus it reduces eating out which can get expensive.

That's pretty cool! But, I'm not sure my blue collar roots would allow it. Growing up in WNY my Mom would tell us "We have drinks at home!", every time we stopped at McDonald's....which was very rarely. And for that trade-off and many others Dad got season tickets to the Bills, where once again we'd eat home-made sandwiches and thermos of hot chocolate from our lower level seats at half-time. I considered all of it a trade well worth it.

 

Go Bills

[Doc]

We could easily afford a personal chef like that ($200/week plus groceries is well worth the price!).  My wife buys groceries and cooks.  She sees the empty shelves.  And the prices increasing.  We just filled our heating oil tank today.  $3.04/gallon!  I paid $1.65/gallon a month ago!

[SoCal Deek]

34 minutes ago, Doc said:

We could easily afford a personal chef like that ($200/week plus groceries is well worth the price!).  My wife buys groceries and cooks.  She sees the empty shelves.  And the prices increasing.  We just filled our heating oil tank today.  $3.04/gallon!  I paid $1.65/gallon a month ago!

It's interesting that you bring up heating oil. Out here in California we don't heat much but when we do it's all through natural gas piped to our homes. This past few months Southern California Gas Company started adding a HUGE "commodity charge" to all of our gas bills. My bill was literally double the same month last year and the gas consumption was virtually identical. I'm sure someone somewhere along the line someone passed legislation allowing SoCal Gas to add a 'commodity charge' to our monthly bill, but I have no idea what it is, what it pays for, or why they need it.

[Doc]

My mistake above.  I paid $2.65 last month.  Still a sizeable increase.

[Chef Jim]

3 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:

Our chef is a female. It’s actually pretty awesome. She sends us a meal plan once a week, then grocery shops for the foods and cooks a weeks worth of dinner every Tuesday.

 

Chef fee is just $200 a week plus we give her the cash for the groceries.

 

For that cost, the time savings alone is so worth it. Plus it reduces eating out which can get expensive.

So you’re a lazy *****???  

[B-Man]

 

 

WELCOME BACK, CARTER! 

 

Is Stagflation Returning in 2022?

 

During the late 1970s, American families experienced stagflation—a combination of economic stagnation and significantly higher inflation. By the summer of 1980, unemployment hit 7.8% and the economy was actually shrinking. On the year, inflation spiked 12.3%.

 

Some fear that today’s slowing economic growth (2.3% annualized last quarter) and the steepest price hikes in 40 years portend a return to stagflation.

Real weekly earnings have plummeted more than 6% since the middle of last year, and the cost of living eclipsed wage increases. Dramatic price hikes in housing, rent, vehicles, gasoline, and some food staples have fueled the feeling that something in our economy is amiss.

 

Government mandates, regulations, spending, and borrowing are largely to blame for this painful increase in the cost of living. These governmental actions suppressed the supply of goods and services while spurring demand.

 

 

Read the whole thing.

 

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/01/11/is-stagflation-returning-in-2022

 

 

[Backintheday544]

On 1/19/2022 at 6:59 PM, Chef Jim said:

So you’re a lazy *****???  

No. My time is worth more than the time to do something’s. So tasks I can delegate where I’ll earn more money during that time vs the cost of delegation, it’s 100 percent worth it.

[Chef Jim]

7 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:

No. My time is worth more than the time to do something’s. So tasks I can delegate where I’ll earn more money during that time vs the cost of delegation, it’s 100 percent worth it.

 

Fair enough but hiring someone to cook your meals just screams "lazy *****" to me.   

[plenzmd1]

35 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

 

Fair enough but hiring someone to cook your meals just screams "lazy *****" to me.   

Not to mention by Monday you are eating week old food. No Thanks

[Chef Jim]

19 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

Not to mention by Monday you are eating week old food. No Thanks

 

Unless dude is working 24/7 and billing for that work he's full of *****.  So he's either a lazy ***** or burns water when boils it.  I'm going with the latter.  

[Doc]

30 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

Not to mention by Monday you are eating week old food. No Thanks

 

Yeah, was thinking of that as well.  I'm assuming it gets frozen, which is better than a TV dinner.

[Backintheday544]

16 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

Yeah, was thinking of that as well.  I'm assuming it gets frozen, which is better than a TV dinner.

We have her do 4 full meals. We used to do 5 but it was so much food. We will eat a new meal each of the 4 days, Sunday we get pizza for football and left overs the other 2 days.

 

Even with that cycle it’s hard to eat everything and I’ll use leftovers for lunches, which also decreases the cost per meal.

 

This week, we had:

- Steak with double baked potatoes

- chicken enchiladas

- Stuffed shells with garlic bread 

- Beef and Broccoli (Tonight’s food).

 

All the food comes to where we usually just need to toss the oven on 350 for 25 mins to warm it up.

 

[All_Pro_Bills]

1 hour ago, Backintheday544 said:

No. My time is worth more than the time to do something’s. So tasks I can delegate where I’ll earn more money during that time vs the cost of delegation, it’s 100 percent worth it.

Living by the economic principle of comparative advantage.  Sounds good. 

[Chef Jim]

22 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:

We have her do 4 full meals. We used to do 5 but it was so much food. We will eat a new meal each of the 4 days, Sunday we get pizza for football and left overs the other 2 days.

 

Even with that cycle it’s hard to eat everything and I’ll use leftovers for lunches, which also decreases the cost per meal.

 

This week, we had:

- Steak with double baked potatoes

- chicken enchiladas

- Stuffed shells with garlic bread 

- Beef and Broccoli (Tonight’s food).

 

All the food comes to where we usually just need to toss the oven on 350 for 25 mins to warm it up.

 

You pay someone to cook you a steak and baked potato?  Hand over your man card.   
 

Cooking is fun man. It’s a great thing to do with your wife.  You work too much.  At your age you should be enjoying life. 

[Chef Jim]

3 hours ago, Chef Jim said:

You pay someone to cook you a steak and baked potato?  Hand over your man card.   
 

Cooking is fun man. It’s a great thing to do with your wife.  You work too much.  At your age you should be enjoying life. 

Wait.  You’re reheating a steak @Backintheday544 ??

[Backintheday544]

8 hours ago, Chef Jim said:

Wait.  You’re reheating a steak @Backintheday544 ??

No, that’s why it’s listed first. It was the Tuesday meal (the day she cooks).

 

We actually found her from some friends at our gym. She does meal prep and stuff for people for some of our friends.

Edited January 23, 2022 by Backintheday544

[Chef Jim]

11 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:

No, that’s why it’s listed first. It was the Tuesday meal (the day she cooks).

 

We actually found her from some friends at our gym. She does meal prep and stuff for people for some of our friends.

 

So she cooks your steak for you?  Does she cut it up into nice little bite sized pieces for you?  Man up man!!  Fire up the grill!  Throw that ***** slab of meat on the fire.  Make your wife proud.  I bet she cried herself to sleep Tuesday.  😁

[Backintheday544]

6 hours ago, Chef Jim said:

 

So she cooks your steak for you?  Does she cut it up into nice little bite sized pieces for you?  Man up man!!  Fire up the grill!  Throw that ***** slab of meat on the fire.  Make your wife proud.  I bet she cried herself to sleep Tuesday.  😁

If she was crying Tuesday it was because she was finally able to find a Dyson Airwrap.

 

Shes we’ll taken care of and hasn’t had to work, cool or clean in about 9 years and can buy whatever she wants. (Well the cooking thing has been for about 6 months)

Edited January 23, 2022 by Backintheday544

[Chef Jim]

1 hour ago, Backintheday544 said:

If she was crying Tuesday it was because she was finally able to find a Dyson Airwrap.

 

Shes we’ll taken care of and hasn’t had to work, cool or clean in about 9 years and can buy whatever she wants. (Well the cooking thing has been for about 6 months)

 

Dyson Airwrap?  Is that the Bengals WR??    

[Backintheday544]

48 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

 

Dyson Airwrap?  Is that the Bengals WR??    

 

It’s like the female PS5 apparently. I don’t know what it does:

 

https://www.ulta.com/p/airwrap-complete-styler-pimprod2000154?sku=2537002&cmpid=PS_Non!google!Product_Listing_Ads&cagpspn=pla&CATCI=pla-54177766609&CAAGID=28397269470&CAWELAID=330000200001548568&CATARGETID=330000200002825269&CADevice=m&gbraid=0AAAAAD9rLH7-S-NTy3hXRRpMSTHZ0YXoD&gclid=CjwKCAiAlrSPBhBaEiwAuLSDUF6REgt55RvLbufL0bCN3CV-nHnHCBxGWk7X9-VuYznZgvC0ojT5ThoCTuQQAvD_BwE

 

But it’s apparently sold out everywhere and people are scalping them.

[Chef Jim]

39 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:

 

It’s like the female PS5 apparently. I don’t know what it does:

 

https://www.ulta.com/p/airwrap-complete-styler-pimprod2000154?sku=2537002&cmpid=PS_Non!google!Product_Listing_Ads&cagpspn=pla&CATCI=pla-54177766609&CAAGID=28397269470&CAWELAID=330000200001548568&CATARGETID=330000200002825269&CADevice=m&gbraid=0AAAAAD9rLH7-S-NTy3hXRRpMSTHZ0YXoD&gclid=CjwKCAiAlrSPBhBaEiwAuLSDUF6REgt55RvLbufL0bCN3CV-nHnHCBxGWk7X9-VuYznZgvC0ojT5ThoCTuQQAvD_BwE

 

But it’s apparently sold out everywhere and people are scalping them.

Personal Chef and $550 comb?  Well La de da.