When police hit you with tear gas but you still need to smoke. Posted by Reddit user MaxeIi, if someone has the original photographer info please share!
Not particularly thrilled about “Afghanistan is Your Fault” takes written by people who were grown adults in 2001 and directed at people who were, in 2001, actual children
If you’re a white person who genuinely likes ultra-spicy food, you’re just gonna have to accept the restaurant will want to to get to know you before they’ll be willing to chilidom you.
your regular reminder that a major source of raw millennial existential terror is:
"we've noticed how horrific old age often is for people *today* who have pensions and homes they own, and are doing the math on what that would look like for us"
My partner and I are both high-achieving, high-earning white collar professionals over 30 and our wildest ambition is "living in a place with two toilets."
really sums up the narrowing of American ambition tbh
“I make more money than I ever have before and I live in a shittier, smaller place than I did when I was in my 20s” is a disturbingly common experience for our generation
I'm less of a mess than I was at 26, but my life has become unbearably diminished in so many ways because my material conditions have consistently declined in spite of increased income.
take comfort in knowing that someday this will all just be a particularly disturbing case study in some far-off student’s political science studies
“what absolute dumbshits,” they will contemplatively say as they finish the paragraph
I had just turned 13 on 9-11 so excuse me for not manipulating the levers of power - and I proceeded to follow Afghanistan and Afghan issues fairly closely as an adult (albeit I’m no specialist or expert), so even there….
i think sometimes older people assume that younger people haven't even contemplated getting old, but from my un-scientific sample of people in my age group:
YES, WE HAVE CONTEMPLATED IT VERY MUCH
What I find particularly galling about this is that I do know a lot of people who were children on 9-11 who have devoted their lives to cleaning up the mess they didn’t make.
I completely understand why our local spicy food restaurants do not trust me when I say I want it spicy because far too many people overestimate their tolerance and then complain
As a member of the generation that grew up being berated by Boomers about online safety, it's grimly hilarious that the USA may be brought down by the exact same Boomer's willingness to believe everything they read on Facebook
Utterly stunning that it’s 2022 and people are seriously writing articles implying that it’s *weird* that many people feel extremely depressed and anxious
Yes, privilege matters in abortion access, but unless you have *private jet on demand* money, you’re still probably not surviving an ectopic pregnancy in one of the abortion-ban states now.
Seems kinda bad that "having many millions of dollars in the bank" now seems like the only way to ensure you won't spend your old age sitting in a puddle of your own fluids in a grim facility
Drives me mad so many still haven’t figured out that in 2022 post-Trump America, living in red state or rural areas with cheap housing is *increasingly dangerous* for people who aren’t white, straight, and (preferably) male.
if you reply to this with a variant on “just buy a cheap big house in Outer Fartsucker, Texas, where the locals probably won’t report you to the Gender Cops if you never leave the house,” please understand that no one likes you
this tweet inspired by discussions about how we shouldn’t do XYZ thing to benefit younger people financially if it impacts retired people who are also financially vulnerable - which, fair! - but let’s acknowledge young people need money to avoid even worse fates when they’re old
another tactic: we have our own ultra-hot chili pepper garden, and I’ve started showing restaurant owners I want to win over pictures of my homegrown bhut jolokias like other people show off pictures of their pets.
remarkable to watch Americans realize lots of countries we usually look down on (or you know, dismiss as ‘shitholes’) are doing a much better job of responding to this crisis than we are
this is going to be an ongoing period of national humbling over something we can’t blow up
Rick Steves deserves serious credit for:
1. knowing his audience is mostly wealthy American boomers
and 2. mentioning how great socialist policies and weed are whenever possible in his guidebooks
It’s telling that some Americans have grown so accustomed to being able to run people over with cars consequence-free at home that they squeal like stuck hogs when they realize it’s actually illegal in other countries.
I love how every post like this gets "stop whining, you can move to Farthuffer, North Dakota where the MAGA locals want to turn queer folks into dog food, you'll get paid 1/20th of what you make now, and where you will have no life" replies
It appears this Tweet with horrifying CSAM imagery was posted by dom_lucre - an account with 571.7K followers - on July 22nd.
It took until JULY 26TH for the account to be suspended.
And a LOT of people saw the images in the days in between, whatever Elon may claim.
When I first started teaching 40 years ago, I focused on basic travel skills: finding the right hotel, avoiding long lines, catching the train, and so on...
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one more thing: i love hot food for the flavor profiles and the pleasant chili buzz, but that performative ultra hot wing thing some of my fellow white guys do just to show off? boring, yawn
It’s true SVB didn’t get a bailout and no taxpayer cash was used (good).
It’s also true our society desperately needs to allow irresponsible, arrogant VCs and techbros to experience genuinely painful consequences for their failures.
THAT’S what many people were hoping for.
I bet it’s really wearing on Zelensky that he doubtless has many extremely funny observations that he could be making right now and can’t (for good reasons)
It's truly remarkable how you can drop $300K on a boat and $70K on a pickup truck and $80K on a RV and still somehow get away with calling yourself "working class" in this country
@SebBoucher
@tattooed_bug
great: *you* go out and establish that Loving Rehabilation for Frothing Bigots Program. *you* deal with these people.
don’t subject anyone who isn’t a cisgendered white guy to this person’s hateful bile.
and yeah, restaurant wise: the trick is not to come off like an arrogant dork who’s trying to prove how macho you are (people will want to punish you for good reason), it’s to politely express your genuine appreciation for delicious chili flavors (and other pungent spices)
Another thing that white dude apologists seem to forget: if you can become pregnant, you have a very practical reason for avoiding having sex with people who would prefer you die rather than get an abortion.
incredible indictment that everyone is desperately looking for somewhere to meet and talk to people, and no one has even mentioned Zuckerberg's $70bn metaverse
Young people entering the job market during an economic crisis are at a lasting disadvantage, research shows. Their wages, opportunities and confidence may never fully recover.
When you call the cops on a North Carolina’s oldest BBQ restaurant because the pork is “pink.”
This person should be ashamed to show their face in public.
My favorite airport experience?
I'm 10, flying unaccompanied. They put me in a small shuttle for my flight transfer.
A box was in the next seat.
The box label read "HUMAN EYES: BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL."
The USDA is dropping fishmeal-coated oral rabies vaccines across the wilderness of the eastern US with hopes of lowering disease rates among raccoons, foxes, coyotes, and skunks (among others).
I hang out with a lot of other high-achieving, high-earning white collar professionals with fancy degrees under 40 and basically none of them HAVE TWO TOILETS
the Katie Hill saga is the first shot in what will become a longer war:
99% of people her age and younger have compromising images of themselves out there, floating around - and those images *will* be weaponized.
Every childless/childfree person I know has expressed some version of "thank Christ I don't have children" during the pandemic.
In case anyone is wondering why birth rates keep dropping.
For a whole lot of people, living in blue cities isn’t an aesthetic fucking preference based on Thai food and doggie daycare access, it’s about “I don’t want my neighbors to murder me, or my state to force me to die of an ectopic pregnancy.”