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swong19104

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Sat Nov 9, 2024, 04:28 PM Nov 9

Start documenting!! [View all]

Now is the time to document things. You know, the "before" so that we can compare to the "after" as in after 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, and so on.

You know the Trump administration will play politics with data such as employment, hiring, and such. Those are hard for the average person to verify.

But there are plenty of things that are easily verifiable, but we don't bother to document them. Grocery prices for example. We can track the price of eggs, for example, by taking a photo of the listed prices today.

Date, location, what else? It would be ideal for each and everyone of us to document this, going to the same store or gas station or wherever. Track the same thing. If it's unleaded regular, paid in cash, then it's always unleaded regular in cash. One could just take a photo of the gas price signage so it includes regular, 89 octane and 91 octane and paid via cash or credit card.

Maybe DU can create a database directory for us to upload the photos and someone can go through them and enter the data into a spreadsheet for analysis.

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Start documenting!! [View all] swong19104 Nov 9 OP
Keep a few dated receipts radical noodle Nov 9 #1
For sure swong19104 Nov 9 #4
Good idea. live love laugh Nov 9 #2
Once we could depend on the media to 'comfort the afflicted and afflict the too comfortable... brush Nov 9 #3
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