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@Arkypatriot Boomers: "We bought a house 30 years go for $150K and no downpayment. We got a degree for $500 and didn't have to deal with crippling college debt. We have a pension and social security to fall back on ... but no our wealth is entirely cause we ate beans a few times in 1978."

Zoomers: “Boomers have all the money.” Boomers: “Baby, that’s because we’re still eating the same pot of beans we started cooking in 1974 while y’all DoorDash a smoothie with a service fee, delivery fee, convenience fee, and emotional damage fee.”

@KathleenWoodnys @NYCMayor Oooh, its my favorite new insane twitter trend: Blaming issues with decades-old infrastructure on a mayor whose been in his job for 5 months.

What is your problem, @NYCMayor? Are you even aware that a 56-year-old grandmother, Donike Gocaj, died after falling into an uncovered Midtown manhole near Fifth Avenue and East 52nd Street. Now a school bus carrying 39 children gets stuck in a Bronx sinkhole. This is no longer a “freak accident” problem. This is a basic governance humiliation, and guess what? You are responsible! Your city has become a municipal obstacle course where mothers fall into open manholes, children ride school buses into collapsing streets, and you still behaves like the main emergency is getting the right TikTok or photo-op camera angle. Why are you so incompetent that you cannot keep the ground intact? An earthquake or natural disaster would have been responsible, but this was a man made disaster, and it’s becoming a pattern. Today, a woman is dead, children were endangered and likely traumatized, and your streets are failing. Stop neglecting your job, @ZohranKMamdani!

@GSpellchecker TLDR of this post: "I hate it when women talk and have opinions. Just sit there and look pretty."

I've no real interest in a Supergirl movie. The trailer looks like fairly standard safe-action-comedy CGI superhero fare to me. But I like movies, so genuinely, good luck to them. What has been interesting, though, is watching its lead star, Milly Alcock, seemingly fail to understand the assignment. It's not even that what she said was necessarily wrong. The point is that her job right now isn't to be "right" about everything. It's to help sell a product that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to as many people as possible. Stars of massive studio films really need media coaching on how to avoid picking fights while promoting a movie. It should begin with understanding that saying anything which can be perceived as attacking your audience is a really, really bad move. When asked about "fan backlash", it shouldn't be difficult to give some version of: "I love this character, and we put everything into making this film. I'm excited for fans to see it. I understand people can be passionate and opinionated, but that passion is why we get to make these movies in the first place". Easy. Isn't it? Making movies is a team sport. They require the blood, sweat and tears of thousands of people, most of whom you'll never know by name. The lead actor should be going to bat for every single one of them every time they step in front of the press. This means doing your best to be as likeable to as many people as possible.

@MattWalshBlog I think what we've learned is that YOU travel from one secluded resort to the next. But sure judge everyone else based on your lame behavior.

This kind of “traveling” is overrated. Tourist destinations are all the same. A resort in Florida is like a resort anywhere else. These kinds of people think they’ve “seen the world” but they’ve seen less of the world than someone who reads books instead.

@benjamin_horne Overreact much. I got ice cream last weekend, it was fine — same as when I got ice cream in any other city. There are 8-10 places that are trendy at any given time, just don’t go to those and you’ll be fine.

NYC is no longer a city, it is an algorithm. If you live in, say, Cincinnati, when you go to get ice cream with your friends, you really are just going to get ice cream with your friends. In NYC, this is not possible. You cannot just go to get ice cream, because, against your will, you are very self-consciously “someone who lives in NYC, going to get ice cream with their friends, in NYC.” You are never able to achieve full presence of mind because you are constantly placing yourself inside a chapter in some made up, schizophrenic and highly disorienting book. Put another way, as a New Yorker, you do not live in a city, but a massive, procedurally generated simulation of one. You are nothing more than a vapid unit of flesh and bone trapped since a Baudrillardian infinity mirror, where the references have their own references. You become more of a vague concept than a real person—some strange, soulless mix of ambition and violent/sexual impulses—and in your constant confusion you fail to ever become a true subject. You pay $17 for the ice cream cone. Then, you pull out your list of saved Instagram Reels which tell you where to get reservations for pasta later. When you arrive, you find yourself stuck in yet another long line, with people who look just like you. The longer you wait in lines like these, the harder it becomes to ever recover the soul of the person you were before you moved into your East Village studio.

@SheaSerrano If the Spurs were to rest the entire team tonight, I wouldn’t totally hate it

what the fuck

@IMAO_ You eat rice AND beans. You're lazy and spoiled. Should be eating rice only.

You, know a pot of beans and rice still costs less than a dollar a serving, you whiny ingrates. And I can tell you from experience how it tastes: like savings.

@HellsNotHotxx @FirstOrderBase That's true. But their main characters were a guy in a mask who mostly doesn't have emotions and a 'baby' that doesn't speak English. Only so much you can do with those characters before it wears thin.

@_Do_The_Math @FirstOrderBase i think it was easier to overlook some of the flaws it had because it was at least trying something new, going for the spaghetti western (backported from samurai films) vibes which until that point hadn't really been thoroughly explored in SW.

The decline of Favreau and Filoni’s corner of Star Wars has been surreal to watch. It technically started with S2 of The Mandalorian, but no one noticed over the cameo fest. Every story since, from Book of Boba Fett onward, has been a creative clusterfuck.

@StockSavvyShay Nurses have to pay taxes because billionaires like Bezos have (a) gotten really good at dodging taxes themselves (b) don't need govt services so they think no one else does either. As a result, the only way to maintain a functional society is on the backs of the working class

Jeff Bezos said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax. He cited a nurse in Queens making ~$75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “we shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”

@nekoronogatari Let's just be clear: The $28 number wasn't the invention of some working class zoomer. It was a strawman created by a blowhard TV personality so that he could mock people poorer than him.

let's briefly discuss the $28 lunch vs pb&j at 30 years old discourse. do you people not have a simple diner where you can get a chicken club and perhaps a pickle and potato chips for ten bucks? what's going on there

@FreeNortherner This is such revisionist nonsense. Most of the big restaurant chains came into existence right as boomers were coming of age. There are about as many restaurants per capita today as there were 40 years ago. What, all those businesses back then survived of charity and prayer?

Zoomers are disconnected from how little luxury people used to have When I was a kid, we ate out once a week at a cheap buffet. Others commented on how they could afford it, but it was the one luxury we had they scrimped for My dad ate sandwiches and leftovers for lunch at work

@Qivshi1 Or ... they've been told for the last 3 years that AI will wipe out their jobs. I don't know, my reason sounds ways more convincing.

The reason the youth don't like AI is literally because of youtube "content creators" came out hard against it because they saw a clear threat to their slop monopoly

@KathrynPaisner @gov_fails I'll help you out. The median price today is $404K (according to Nat Association of Realtors) and interest rates are about 6.2%. That means your monthly payment (with 10% down) will be $2,200. So a 90% increase in 6 years. I assure you wages have not increased 90% in that time.

@_Do_The_Math @gov_fails Very recent data isn’t as reliable, which is why I left it out of the table. Lower interest rates were probably a major (if not THE major) factor in price increases, so I imagine the market will eventually adjust if rates stay high. x.com/KathrynPaisner…

It's shocking to me how many people believe this. By nearly every measure, the younger generations are far better off than the older ones were. It makes me happy that it is this way, and I intend to help it continue for my kids and (hopefully) future grandkids.

@ghostbums @the_jdb1 Your parents might be a little strange. It's hard for me to fathom any scenario in which my parents would watch Kraven the Hunter.

@_Do_The_Math @the_jdb1 i don’t think i’m gonna come around on Kraven the Hunter being actually pretty good

Is it normal for your parents to have absolutely horrible movie opinions

@Cernovich ... and spend hundreds of dollars each month on creatine, supplements and protein shakes. What's your point?

Every gym bro cooks his own food. 93/7 ground beef and rice. Chicken and rice. Tilapia and rice. Potatoes. Yams. This is all remedial life skills stuff here. My goodness.

@gov_fails Ok, I'll bite. Which measure?

@KathrynPaisner @gov_fails Now do 2026

@gov_fails I nerded out a bit, this morning, because someone claimed housing was cheaper in the '90s, relative to income, and I wasn't sure that was true. I learned that owning was less burdensome in 2020 than it had been in 1990, and also that interest rates made a big difference.

@BowtiedCappy You don't understand. The somewhat frivolous things that Zoomers spend money on are dumb and show what a failed generation they are. But the frivolous things that Boomers spent money on are totally justified and show how smart they are.

Seeing a lot of food frugality discourse here. Which, I agree with - I cook most of my food, barely eat out. And I do think its absurd that Zoomies and Millenials drop so much money and DoorDash and shit. That said..... I'm having trouble squaring something. How do we reconcile out 90's parent food frugality (baloney sandwiches, eat out like 5 times year, not even McDonald's), with the fact it was so common as to be a media trope that Boomer/Silent Gen dads would go to the bar every day after work? And if they were bored on the weekend? AND smoke a pack a day? Is this one of those things where the prices just aren't comparable due to various forms of inflation and deflation? Like takeout food has decreased in real terms, while alchohol and smokes have exponentially gotten more expensive? Like today ,you would have to be RICH to be able to drink 5-10 beers a day after work at a bar and smoke a pack a day