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Xaris posted:legitimately always the most annoying psychotic type of goon who does that there's a particular type of person who doesn't want to face up to the fact that maybe television/video games/internet/smartphones/social media/iap etc. are deleterious to developing minds, if not adult minds too. some of them of the average goon generation who grew up with a dial-up modem, a bulky desktop, and webforums also probably don't comprehend how different the internet is when you have a smartphone thrust in your hands from age 2 and everything is about money or selling yourself. to join in on the chorus of horror school tales: I worked at a school where it was discovered that an under-age student was posting fetish porn of themselves via tumblr and patreon. some of it had been made at the school, but not within school hours. we found out because someone doxxed the student. it was a clusterfuck. edit: well this sure is a snype
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Dec 1, 2023 03:34
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i am harry posted:is kids playing roblox better or worse than kids watching sitcoms why do we always get these posts acting like it's no different than what kids used to do
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Dec 1, 2023 04:01
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spiritual bypass posted:get a miele, scrub I got a shark that was recommended by vacuum wars and it's super good. the vertex with duoclean powerfins or w/e. not cheap but definitely cheaper than the dyson
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Dec 1, 2023 04:04
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have we considered that maybe previous generations' electronic escapades (ours included) were also unhealthy and may have contributed to their/our current awful behaviors not sole cause, but yet another reason poo poo's interpersonally hosed
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Dec 1, 2023 04:04
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its not my fault op, the internet made me stupid
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Dec 1, 2023 04:06
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Complications posted:have we considered that maybe previous generations' electronic escapades (ours included) were also unhealthy and may have contributed to their/our current awful behaviors that's what i believe, but I also severed myself from my online life during college and early twenties and I think that did a lot to make me more well-adjusted but I think there's a real issue with how the internet has gone from a place you visit via the box in your bedroom or living room and this thing that is always on you and always with you and always active
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Dec 1, 2023 04:18
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https://twitter.com/deusexmoniker/status/1730328615688999150quote:Here's a thread full of mathematical breakdowns of real numbers on why the economy is actually bad for the majority of participants. Time for Doomsday Economics, now including Feudalism with Modern Warfare characteristics, snuffing the life out of boomers for one last rally, food bank use rocketing to the moon, and bonds collapse.
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Dec 1, 2023 05:27
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We're in a public health crisis related to loving public health too
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Dec 1, 2023 05:52
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Try Thunderbird.
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Dec 1, 2023 06:48
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Gunshow Poophole posted:We're in a public health crisis related to loving public health too 
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Dec 1, 2023 10:42
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https://twitter.com/theUBIguy/status/1729696702846672908?t=T8Ic44lNYOw34R6Z92FMew&s=19Elman posted:Is it, really? If all their friends' and classmates' parents are on the same page there won't be peer pressure or negative social effects from it. They can still have a dumb phone, but they don't need to become addicted to doomscrolling and microtransactions at 13. getting a bit sick of this word ngl BornAPoorBlkChild has issued a correction as of 11:41 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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Dec 1, 2023 11:27
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:getting a bit sick of this word ngl tbh english isn't my first language and I thought it just meant getting stuck in an infinite scrolling loop, I only just realized it means looking at news specifically
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Dec 1, 2023 12:05
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:https://twitter.com/theUBIguy/status/1729696702846672908?t=T8Ic44lNYOw34R6Z92FMew&s=19 lol no, thats not how it works
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Dec 1, 2023 12:48
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bonds being worth nothing isn’t exactly ideal as are you not supposed to start moving retirement investments into bonds rather than the risky stock market as you get older?
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Dec 1, 2023 13:17
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sonatinas posted:my nephew talks about these IPs he sees on Roblox without knowing the context. Roblox bad but I don't see why this in particular is a problem. From Looney Tunes through Animaniacs, The Simpsons, etc, cartoons have always been full of references to things children couldn't be expected to know about. I mean I guess in retrospect I'm annoyed that the Far Side spoiled The Godfather for me
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Dec 1, 2023 13:43
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Yeah that's just cultural osmosis Where it gets insidious is stuff like porn leaking into the Roblox world
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Dec 1, 2023 13:46
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Gunshow Poophole posted:We're in a public health crisis related to loving public health too https://twitter.com/dex3703/status/1730359425008087113?t=n3pvZrttD0AX8SfdILEM0Q&s=19
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Dec 1, 2023 13:53
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Yeah that's just cultural osmosis  this doesn't make sense? it's not like the annual birth rate generated a 2.3 million surplus above the trend. the covid deaths were "excess" but the births weren't, plus migration was lower than historical levels
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Dec 1, 2023 13:59
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webcams for christ posted:Roblox bad but I don't see why this in particular is a problem. From Looney Tunes through Animaniacs, The Simpsons, etc, cartoons have always been full of references to things children couldn't be expected to know about. I mean I guess in retrospect I'm annoyed that the Far Side spoiled The Godfather for me in this particular instance my nephew watches Roblox content of a dude who just plays “find the pop culture” thing that is hidden in these worlds so while yea old cartoons made references to other media it’s not as amplified as someone watching an hour of videos of a dude trying to find avatars of horror movie icons like pennywise to Simpsons characters daily. I’m sure all these Roblox YouTube niche markets are just as stupid. spending time watching a kid actually consume Roblox games and the media promoting it and how it manifests can be eye opening to a cspam reader. however to most parents that are already consumed by Facebook it’s nbd. I have a kid similar age and i have to counter it after she hangs out with Roblox kids.
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Dec 1, 2023 14:46
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https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1730583899535704307?t=b-DUw96xIAP1pO8jbJfH6Q&s=19 That ev transition ain't happening
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Dec 1, 2023 14:54
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actionjackson posted:why do we always get these posts acting like it's no different than what kids used to do I just wrote a bunch of poo poo about why that’s not actually what I’m saying unless you read it as me saying sitcoms were very bad also
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Dec 1, 2023 15:30
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net work error posted:https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1730583899535704307?t=b-DUw96xIAP1pO8jbJfH6Q&s=19 thank god
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Dec 1, 2023 15:32
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Jel Shaker posted:bonds being worth nothing isn’t exactly ideal as are you not supposed to start moving retirement investments into bonds rather than the risky stock market as you get older? Bonds being worth nothing is really hyperbolic but yes, generally speaking it's not ideal that instruments that were previously classified as "safe" are, well, not. But that is just part of a wider trend of retirement either going away or drastically changing in its function. Something that stunned me earlier this year was when France increased the pension/retirement age from 62 to 64. Pensions are an extremely hot button issue in France and it's one of the last places where direct actions works/has results. You could say they were less than pleased when the pension change was announced:   It didn't matter, the changes went through. And I think it helps illuminate where the western viewpoint is on retirement in general. The impediments to maintaining the current structure of western retirement are, generally speaking: 1) We've pillaged the world of its natural resources to provide an almost comically cushy lifestyle for the rich, and the chunk of boomers etc who really ended up benefiting, through no intent of their own in most cases, from an obscene combination of post-war excess and, frankly, an increasing will and ability to strip-mine the earth at massive scales. The future of humanity was traded for a handful of truly impressive decades and everyone convinced themselves it was going to last forever. If the post-war looting of the earth was a giant party, it's now about 1am. Still some people vibing but the venue is pretty trashed, and the coke stash is starting to run a little dry; people are glancing at their watches and trying to determine if they should schedule their Uber home. 2) Climate change has, if anything, been pretty wildly underestimated. Given how paper-thin any attempted mandate for changing that has been, we can safely assume that this is never happening. Or, at least, not soon enough to matter. At the same time, the quickly narrowing flow of overall resources ensures that capture of remaining assets (natural and otherwise) happens at full throttle. We're gonna be licking the bag in a minute here and its not gonna be pretty. 3) Life expectancy continues to rise despite some, ahem, local reversal in some areas. Will it continue to rise? That's an increasingly complicated question; the world will simply have far fewer resources to work with going forward, and it seems reasonable that would stifle overall expectancy advances, but we need to extrapolate the best we can based on data we have now, and that data is telling us that we need to prepare for longer living people at the same time that the resources for those people is in free fall over the coming decades. Where does this leave us? It's obvious that the current regime of ~60-65ish retirement is simply going away for the vast majority of humans whose parents were able to accomplish that. It won't all happen right away; we'll slow-roll it and advance the retirement age and/or pull back social programs in a way that accomplishes the same thing. While it sounds hyperbolic, I even wonder if retirement will go away, or more accurately, change in its basic concept. Instead of a hard stop where you no longer work, I think it's very possible that we'll see the elderly work until they are physically/mentally unable to do so. Probably at reduced work hours over time, but they will likely have some kind of job for most of their lives. Even now the overall retirement picture for boomers remains uncertain, and we are seeing many return to the workforce. And we're barely into the full-on resource cliff that awaits the coming decades. Gen X might do ok, relatively. Millennials who leverage(d) the computer toucher boom to get into and pay off houses will do ok, but the prognosis feels pretty dire for the majority. Gen Z and earlier? lol. Lmao. It's not all bad news; it's only during tough times that the world can change. But the meantime is going to be hard, and particularly hard for the younger generations who are going to be in the absolute thick of it. A climate-change ravaged world in which the vast majority of the resources were extracted long ago. A world that mortgaged the futures of those who came after.  It's probably worth internalizing sooner rather than later that these changes are coming and adjusting expectations accordingly. Taima has issued a correction as of 16:07 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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Dec 1, 2023 15:59
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Treasury Bonds that you own and planned on holding to maturity for retirement are safe and you won't incur a loss on them (except via inflation). the problem is for people and institutions who bought bonds without intending to hold to maturity: older bonds from the ZIRP era are trading well below their nominal value
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Dec 1, 2023 16:11
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Commercial landlords buying up all the houses means if you don't own a house when you retire, have fun spending the majority of your retirement money on rent rather than (ideally) having already paid off your 30 yr mortgage
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Dec 1, 2023 16:16
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super sweet best pal posted:What happened in 1940? The suicide rate spiked to its highest ever during the Great Depression and was still declining from that peak in 1940. 
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Dec 1, 2023 16:17
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OhFunny posted:The suicide rate spiked to its highest ever during the Great Depression and was still declining from that peak in 1940. huh, that's a worrying trend line
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Dec 1, 2023 16:20
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OhFunny posted:The suicide rate spiked to its highest ever during the Great Depression and was still declining from that peak in 1940. Is that dip near this year where covid relief was??
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Dec 1, 2023 16:23
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Happy Underpants posted:Is that dip near this year where covid relief was?? I will never be able to find the reference for this from ages ago, but covid killed an awful lot of sick people, and sick people make up a significant fraction of suicides
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Dec 1, 2023 16:34
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loving grim
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Dec 1, 2023 16:35
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Potato Salad posted:loving grim
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Dec 1, 2023 16:53
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While grocery shopping this morning, I noticed that there is now a new, Winco store brand generic soda ( ), priced just under the formerly cheap Shasta.I don't know why, but it's setting off alarm bells.
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Dec 1, 2023 17:05
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store brands have been the low key superstars of the past few years
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Dec 1, 2023 17:06
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go to costco where the store brand is better
Shear Modulus has issued a correction as of 17:24 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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Dec 1, 2023 17:20
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OhFunny posted:The suicide rate spiked to its highest ever during the Great Depression and was still declining from that peak in 1940. Thought terminating brainworm! It would be authoritarian to do something about this
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Dec 1, 2023 17:24
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Complications posted:have we considered that maybe previous generations' electronic escapades (ours included) were also unhealthy and may have contributed to their/our current awful behaviors “I played video games and posted on a dead forum when I was younger, I’m totally fine” Lmao
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Dec 1, 2023 17:24
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my favorite is when I scan a store-brand item into my nutrition app and it shows up as a major name brand that retails for 3x as much
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Dec 1, 2023 17:25
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Glumwheels posted:“I played video games and posted on a dead forum when I was younger, I’m totally fine” We are NOT, in fact, totally fine. We're a hosed up demographic that argue about stairs and call ourselves goons and worship a brokeback hand grenade.
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Dec 1, 2023 17:41
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https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1730618945374146788 https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1730626945992253912
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Horizon Burning posted:there's a particular type of person who doesn't want to face up to the fact that maybe television/video games/internet/smartphones/social media/iap etc. are deleterious to developing minds, if not adult minds too. some of them of the average goon generation who grew up with a dial-up modem, a bulky desktop, and webforums also probably don't comprehend how different the internet is when you have a smartphone thrust in your hands from age 2 and everything is about money or selling yourself. Hell is empty and all the devils are here
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