Reality-Inversion

The U.S. House will vote this week on whether or not to make daylight saving time permanent. Essentially, we would not change the clocks again (no "falling back"). As I've mentioned over the years, below are 3 options and how they would look in Indianapolis, IN: current system, year-round daylight saving time & year-round standard time. Year-round daylight saving time would result in a 9:02 AM sunrise and 6:23 PM sunset on the winter solstice.

what boomers don’t understand is that in zoomers’ lifetimes every aspect of life has become demonstrably worse in the US

Increasingly convinced this is just learned helplessness. It’s a 4 hour drive and costs 45 dollars with a 30mpg car. 90% of Americans would rather drive themselves, in the comfort of their own car, with the freedom to stop anywhere for any reason.

Yet another friend with a child turning 16 next week. Hasn’t gotten a learner’s permit. Zero interest in a driver’s license. I keep hearing this same story. What’s WRONG with these kids?!?! On my 16th birthday, my mom took me out of school to take my driving test. Same for everyone I knew. Even if you couldn’t afford your own car, you could beg the use of the family station wagon occasionally. Freedom. Independence. Heck, privacy on a date! Are these kids giving all that up for scrolling TikTok and an occasional Uber?

We’re 5 years into our mortgage. We’ve paid $118,000+ in total payments. But only $38,000 has gone toward the actual house. The other $80,000? Interest, taxes, and insurance. Homeownership is expensive – way more expensive than most people realize when they buy. You can safely multiply the sticker price by 2 to determine the true long-term cost of a house.

84% of small business owners seeking to hire said they found few or no qualified applicants for their jobs, per Forbes.

Helping your children and sharing your success with them is Good, Actually. Boomers are the only generation in history who have a problem with this.

Here’s where I got radicalized on immigration: So we’re living in the camper, I’m doing anything I can to pay off the failed business’s debt. I’m running the shrink wrap business but it’s very seasonal (fall mostly) Until I get a call from a major electrical transformer company about an hour away, they want us to wrap transformers for shipment. If we perform well, it’s essentially a permanent contract. Very lucrative. For a month we go down there. At the same time there is another crew competing against us for the contract. 100% honest, 75% of the laborers in the factory are non-english speaking, mostly hispanics. Most if not all low and middle management I encountered were the same. After a few weeks, I was told by the shipping floor manager, our work was BETTER, we were CHEAPER, and we were always ON TIME. The crew we were competing against were hispanics, and according to the few white workers kept f-ing up one way or another. I’m told the job is ours, submit the final proposal and it’ll be approved. weeks, no response. I send emails following up. “We’re giving the contract to the other crew”. What? You guys said we were better in every way? I lowered my bid by 25%, still no. Now I can’t say anything for certain, but until someone can give me another explanation, me and my partner were discriminated against for being white. In our own country.