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The life of a millennial: - Graduated into the Great Recession - Entry level jobs required 3 years experience - Pensions replaced by the 401k - Promoted at work meant a 2% raise & 200% more responsibility - Felt stability in life then a pandemic - Highest inflation in 50 years deleted pay raises - Home prices doubled overnight forcing permanent renters - Childcare costs 1 month of rent - Juggling aging parents, young kids, burnout from work & the cost to live - AI causing mass layoffs during peak earning years

Vance: ​“What I would say to both Russians and Ukrainians is we're talking about haggling over a few square kilometers of territory. Is that worth losing hundreds of thousands of additional russian and Ukrainian young men?" Vance is once again failing to distinguish between the aggressor and the victim, attempting to convince you that it is acceptable to pressure the victim into complying with the aggressor’s demands. He fails to recognize that he is not only urging Ukraine to surrender territories, but also the people who live there, our homes, and our most fortified defense lines dooming us for future attacks, because this war is not at all about territory, but about Ukraine existence as a state.

@SlyWolf5 @Brizer09 @Grown_Otaku @peterrhague @stalmico He is using presumably a phone or computer to type that in twitter. He turned on a light switch too I’m sure today. Its such a cognitive disconnect that people rely on centuries of science for some things but cherry pick one or two issues that just be verified by only themselves

@Brizer09 @Grown_Otaku @peterrhague @stalmico Do you take any prescription meds? Do you drive a car? Have you ever been at an intersection? Do you take flights? If yes to any of these, then congratulations, you've taken someone else "word" for it too. 😉

We need to accelerate space colonisation because I don’t want to share a planet with these people anymore. (It’s the aurora you tool)

@nightowl49er @the_elyphant @forallcurious There’s no need to immediately insult someone asking a legitimate question

@the_elyphant @forallcurious It’s always had a ring dumbass!!

🚨: NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.

Well you see: * We started bailing out big businesses, and ignoring anti-competition laws. * Businesses deemed "to big to fail" no longer needed to compete on customer satisfaction. * They optimized for the short-term quarterly KPIs of the stock market and shareholders. * Other businesses had to follow suit just to be competitive. And so America moved from real capitalism, where consumers vote with their wallets, to a post-capitalist oligarchy, where the wealthy buy votes. This was entrenched with Citizen's United allowing unlimited dark money into politics, preventing laws from rolling this back. So businesses went from competing for happy customers, to competing to make the most dollars for those who owned the government. And the enshittification of America was cemented. Real capitalism is what we had in the 1970s with strong unions, a growing middle class, reasonable taxes and businesses that provided quality goods and services. Oligarchs spent a fuck-ton of money telling you that what you have today is capitalism and that you must either defend it (or hate all capital) because it keeps you in-fighting between political parties instead of being angry at them. When we realize that good capitalism involves social programs, labor, and businesses that do right by consumers - we can get back to this world. We can have leg room again!

@tonypisculli @GamewithDave Yes Castle of the winds. So dissapointing when it ends on a cliff hanger since it was freeware

@GamewithDave Freecell and Castle of the Winds.

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why?

@prof_brunt @igorsushko @GamewithDave Baldurs gate. Never got past the first town but played this for hours

@igorsushko @GamewithDave What was this game?

@FalseParadigm_ @GamewithDave No city builder/optimizer has lived up to it since

@GamewithDave Caesar III I still play it occasionally with the Augustus mod.

@PsRichardWatt @Variamech @GamewithDave I definitely never finished it but I remember this so strongly

@Variamech @GamewithDave I have completely forgot about this game! I cant even remember how i got it or if i had even finished it.

@J0A0GARClA @GamewithDave Mm 6 was such a graphical upgrade and crazy open world for its time. Came with a bad ass cloth map

@GamewithDave Amazing game, great times! Might and magic III

@Grok_Jock @GamewithDave Omg yes

@GamewithDave Coz hit-and-run is what makes GTA fun.

🚨 Do you understand what SCOTUS is about to decide? in 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that Black Americans... even those born free on American soil.. could never be citizens.. it was called the Dred Scott decision.. one of the most shameful rulings in legal history.. it took a Civil War and 360,000 Union deaths to fix it.. in 1868, Congress passed the 14th Amendment.. "all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens".. no exceptions.. no asterisks.. they wrote it that way on purpose.. so no government could ever again decide who counts as American on this soil.. it has stood for 156 years.. Trump signed an executive order trying to end it.. not a constitutional amendment.. not an act of Congress.. an executive order.. and SCOTUS is about to decide if that's allowed.. here's what nobody's saying out loud.. this isn't about immigration.. if a president can override the 14th Amendment with an executive order.. there is no amendment a president cannot override with an executive order.. one executive order just did what the Confederacy couldn't.

@BatVibes I like your posts but they also read like ai wrote them

Did Professor Oak rig the system so his grandson would become Champion? ​• The Setup: Gary is already at the lab when you arrive, but Oak explicitly makes him wait and forces you to pick your starter first. This isn't politeness. It’s a calculated move so Gary can instantly counter-pick you • The Tracking: Gary is miraculously always waiting to fight you with a fully healed team at the worst possible times. How? Oak gave you the Pokédex. He is tracking your real-time location and feeding it to Gary so he can ambush you • The Intel: Gary is always one step ahead. He automatically gets a Town Map, where you have to go beg for one. He beats every Gym Leader before you do. Oak is clearly funneling him the optimal routes, boss strategies, and insider League information ​Professor Oak handed you a tracking device and used you as a constant sparring partner for his own grandson. And even when you beat Giovanni, who gets the spotlight? That's right! Gary gets handed the Gym! But maybe that's just a bunch of random coincidences... Or is it? 🤔

I don’t know what to say except don’t have a baby in any state that devalues your life.

I forgot about this stupid shit but imagine if they poured $80 billion into feeding the hungry instead of this failed cartoon universe that nobody wanted

@HarrisDamn @MengsMullet @bgwpod I was a newer fan, this was only my 2nd summer slam but it was my first ever dusty finish so for me the finis made it even better

@MengsMullet @bgwpod This was a solid match until the finish

Look at and listen to these punches from Stone Cold Steve Austin. This rules

@MengsMullet This is my fav match period. Even the ending made it better. I was livid in all the right ways

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.