Yes and no. It’s basically just super complicated and we don’t know how much is each factor. But I would highly doubt that part of the rising costs is not also just because people are still willing to pay.

At the end of the day it’s supply and demand. And that fluctuates based on so many different things.

Interest rates being low and money being easy to borrow creates higher demand and will in part cause prices to increase.

Supply chain shortages create massive demand spikes that can have massive effects on pricing of certain products as the supply chain tries to stabilize.

The FED can employ quantitative easing to increase money supply and liquidity, which adds to inflation, but increases economic growth (Theoretically).

Or they can use quantitative tightening to reduce money supply and lower demand, slow growth etc.

Lastly companies understand how normalized inflation has become and can increase what they charge even if their cost of goods isn’t moving significantly. So there is certainly some degree of this happening.

Hopefully the market will re-adjust as profit margins change and consumers spending habits fully adjust to the market.

Basically if everyone re-evaluates what and how they are purchasing, the market has to adjust. If you buy the products you prefer at the inflated cost, companies are not going to lower prices. If you buy budget or off brand items where you can, they will be forced to change their strategy to compete.

I have tinitus and never though to use them this way, thanks for the post! Im going to try it out right now.

Contrary to popular belief people like headphones. Even so this person is suggesting using the Airpods while you are moving around and interacting with people and to just have the slight background noise to help. I love my AirPods Pro’s. They have exceptional sound quality and the noise canceling mode is pretty amazing. Can we let people enjoy/be excited about things?

Exactly what I’m thinking, it solves nothing but does create a problem.

Makes sense, figured it was filter dodging. The fact it’s has made its way outside of those places is slightly annoying

I agree, and you kind of made my point in your comment. What the F at least will censor for children or anyone who doesn’t know what that would be. Kids can decipher r*ape if they know what rape is. I just don’t see a point in text

Yea great point, people who don’t want to see it now have to because… bullshit?

I wish they would stop lol

That’s what I would think but how do you tiptoe in context of really intense issues like suicide, rape, abuse? If you reference it I feel like it would trigger any bad emotions just on the topic not the specific word

Pretty sure there are many reasons this is the case. High influx and abnormally high active users is even hard for large websites to manage properly. I know a lot of the instance owners are working tirelessly to update and manage the extra traffic.

That being said I know virtually nothing about how this all works but from what I understand even if you were to join a low latency instance that has less users you would need to still “speak” with the higher traffic instances for any content posted there. So you would still have the same issues on most content.

Someone more knowledgeable should correct me where I am wrong because I certainly might be.