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I didn’t survive a pandemic, The Great Recession, 9/11, smoking in restaurants, O.J. Simpson, the Challenger explosion, two wars, boomer parents, Hurricane Katrina, Columbine, Y2K, AND a Corey Feldman album to be taken out by goddamn Donald Trump.

@ThrillaRilla369 1947.

When was the exact moment in America when everything started going downhill?

@AX5336348154060 @mom_of_littles Excuse you? Men are just as capable of cooking, and in many households he IS the cook. Sit down.

@mom_of_littles That’s not a sufficient dinner to serve to your husband no matter what you add. Learn to cook.

What are we adding to grilled cheese so my husband doesn’t feel like he’s eating girl dinner

@mom_of_littles Bacon. Obviously.

HR: We lost the new hire today. CEO: What happened? HR: He resigned after his first week. CEO: That makes no sense. We doubled his previous salary. HR: Yes, but salary was not the issue. CEO: Then what was? HR: You asked him why he left at exactly 5:00 p.m. And why he left the office before you did. CEO: I was just trying to understand his mindset. HR: He understood it clearly. He felt the company was not paying for his work, but for control over his time. CEO: But commitment matters. HR: So do boundaries. He finished his work, met expectations, and left on time. But instead of that being seen as professionalism, it was treated like a lack of loyalty. CEO: People should not rush out of the office. HR: He was not rushing out. He was simply leaving when the workday ended. CEO: Still, it did not look right. HR: That is exactly why he left. He realized very quickly that even with better pay, the culture expected presenteeism over performance. CEO: That is unfortunate. HR: Yes. We offered him double the salary, but also gave him a preview of a workplace where leaving on time becomes a character issue. CEO: So what are you saying? HR: If employees are judged for having boundaries, then no amount of money will make them stay. A higher salary can attract people. But if respect for time is missing, it will not keep them.

@caustic_o @lady_valor_07 I scrolled WAY too far to find someone else with Juno.....

@lady_valor_07 I can remember waiting for dial-up to connect to check my juno.com email back in mid 90s.

If your first email ended in @ yahoo, @ hotmail, or @ msn… you have seniority on the internet.

@lady_valor_07 @juno.com

Homeownership priority among Gen Z dropped 17 points in two years, from 72% to 55%. Mortgage applications fell 15% year over year in Q3 2023. Traditional lenders are losing an entire generation's early-life customers. Calling that "giving up" attributes economic constraint to generational character. The 8% savings rate on entry-level wages after housing costs is not lifestyle preference. It is only arithmetic that works when rent consumes 40 to 50% of gross income in major metros. Fifty-two percent in crypto and meme stocks makes complete sense when traditional wealth-building paths require a down payment that takes a decade to save on wages that have not kept pace with asset prices. Gen Z did not abandon the goal of financial security. The traditional path to it became economically inaccessible and they are improvising with what is available.

@SaucyFlyer @unusual_whales Younger X actually did. ;)

@unusual_whales Before any Boomer or Gen X says anything, yall didn’t compete with the global world for jobs, nor did yall have Ai breathing down your necks either. It’s not the same, and it’s much harder. The evidence is clearly there

Generation Z is increasingly giving up on once-standard financial goals, especially home ownership, traditional saving patterns, and linear career models, and instead embracing immediate spending, riskier financial behavior, and lifestyle-first decisions, per FORTUNE

@RyanWil26045301 @marketgeniusx @unusual_whales Funny, because that's EXACTLY how it happened post-WWII.

@marketgeniusx @unusual_whales Noone trying to make a career makes $15/hr. Thats walmart pay. And if you do make the bottom of the pat scale money, you buy a bottom of the price scale house, not the median house. Noone just starting out can afford median in any generation.

@realarmaansidhu @unusual_whales *laughs in Gen X* You forgot one.

51% of Gen Z says their college degree was a waste of money. Only 20% of Boomers say the same. That's not a generational attitude problem. That's a pricing model collapsing in real time. Every generation inherited a different system. Boomers got post-war stability — cheap college, affordable housing, pensions, linear careers. A degree was a ticket. You punched it and the system delivered. Millennials got the internet — globalization, the gig economy, and student debt that tripled. The ticket still worked, but the price kept climbing and the destination kept shrinking. Gen Z got AI, wars, and a receipt that doesn't add up. A degree costs $200K. The median starting salary for graduates: $45K. Housing is 10x the average income. 45% of Gen Z say AI has already made their degree feel irrelevant — because employers are watching entry-level coding, analysis, and support roles get automated faster than universities can update a syllabus. Entry-level hiring in AI-exposed fields has dropped 6-16% for 22-25 year olds. The jobs the degree was supposed to unlock are disappearing while the debt stays. Gen Z homeownership sits at 27%. Boomers at the same age? 80%. That's not avocado toast. That's arithmetic. So they stopped pretending. More spending now because saving for a house that costs half a million on a $45K salary is a 30-year joke. Riskier investments because a savings account yielding 4% against 7% real inflation is a guaranteed loss. Side hustles over career ladders because the ladder leads to a middle-management role that AI will automate before you reach it. Every generation was told to follow the rules. Gen Z is the first one to check whether the rules still produce the promised outcome. They don't. And the data proves it. They didn't give up. They just stopped buying a lottery ticket disguised as a life plan.

@iluminatibot JFK, when I was 17.

We were all naive at one time What conspiracy woke you up?

@KeruboSk Yes, most of my life. Started because I have sensitive skin so makeup isn't good anyhow, and then because men don't have to wear makeup, so why should I? And it's hilarious when people mistake me for a man and then get mad.

Are there women who leave the house completely barefaced? With no makeup at all. Just embracing their natural look. Curious...What’s that like for you?

@cryptowhal81744 @Sargon_of_Akkad @AriFleischer @philthatremains You do not speak for all Americans, you sackless turd. Real Patriots wholeheartedly disagree with you and your ilk.

War revealed Europes colors and character, most of you are chicken shit yellow, and snakes happy to freeload reluctant to pay. So now America will treat you accordingly, even the US liberals that you hope will cuck themselves for you when they get back in power eventually. America can forgive dumb, we can't forgive weak.

When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.

@VyrisMT @Eva_eva_P @AriFleischer Europe was there WITH us in Afghanistan. They haven't taken advantage of us in the slightest; you have no idea what the charter says, the reality of this particular war, or any knowledge of military history. Sit TF down and research, heaux.

@Eva_eva_P @AriFleischer You mean Trump called.out decades of European cowardice and taking advantage of American power.

Explain why our electric bills never decrease, even though we have swapped to all LED lights, energy star appliances, built massive solar and wind farms.

@Mish_Customs @cbuddecke @IranArmyStan Honey...Imma hold your hand while I say this...TAKE YO MEDS, HEAUX. For Christ's sake.

Lord have mercy 🙄 all you idiots still dont get it... THIS HAS NOTHING TO FO WITH TRUMPS EGO, MORON! IRAN WANTED TO DESTROY THE WESTERN WORLD, ESPECIALLY AMERICA!! THEY HAVE LITERALLY BEEN TELLING US TO OUR DAMN FACE FOR DECADES! THEY WERE VERY CLOSE TO DOING IT YOU FUCKING DUMB ASS! I KNOW ITS HARD TO THINK PAST YOUR SEVER TDS AND RIDICULOUS ISRAEL HATING BS BUT YOU DAMN WILLFULLY IGNORANT SHEEPLE JUST NEED TO STFU AND SIT DOWN UNTIL THE LEFT YANKS YOUR CHAIN AND NEEDS YOU TO REGURGITATE WHAT THEY SPOON FEED YOU! THE ADULTS ARE IN THE ROOM NOW, SO YOU IDIOTS CAN GO BACK TO YOUR DELUSIONALS OF MEN BEING ABLE TO HAVE BABIES AND BLAMING ISRAEL FOR LITERALLY EVERYTHING 🙄 I MEAN MAKES PERFECT SENSE TO BLAME A MINORITY THAT LITERALLY MAKES UP 0.02% OF THE ENTIRE WORLDS POPULATION....WHAT A BUNCH IF FUCKING COMPLETE MORONS 🙄🙄🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

🚨 Breaking: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iran has announced that even if the war ends, American and Israeli ships will not be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

@physicsgeek It's seared into my brain to this day. I was almost 6 at the time.

I know it's been 40 years and some of you were still sperm in your father, but all y'all screeching NO KIDS WATCHED THE CHALLENGER EXPLOSION are not only stupid, you're pig ignorant. 1) A teacher was on board as an astronaut 2) Lot of teachers wheeled TVs into their classrooms so that kids could watch a teacher fly into space. 3) Those kids saw the Challenger explode One of the worst videos I saw was of Christa McAuliffe's (the teacher in question) classroom -with a sub teacher- watching the video as the Challenger exploded.

@gothburz @LenaRomaMora And Brave?

@LenaRomaMora Incognito hides your history from your spouse. Not from us. You logged in. That's consent. That's networking.

I am the Director of Professional Signal Intelligence at LinkedIn. Every time you log in, we search your computer. Not metaphorically. We run code that scans your installed software. Every browser extension. Every application. We catalog it. We transmit it to our servers. We share it with a third-party cybersecurity firm you've never heard of. The tracking pixel is zero pixels wide. We hid it off-screen. You never consented. We never asked. Our privacy policy doesn't mention it. That's networking. We call the program Project Handshake internally. The Slack channel is handshake-telem. In 2024 we scanned for 461 products. By February this year we scan for over 6,000. I don't know what all of them are. Nobody does. Someone on my team added categories for browser extensions that identify practicing Muslims. Someone added extensions for neurodivergent users. Someone added 509 job search tools. That last one is my favorite. We can tell which of our one billion users are secretly looking for new jobs. On the platform where their current boss checks their profile. That's networking. We scan for 200 products that compete with LinkedIn's sales tools. Apollo. Lusha. ZoomInfo. We know each user's real name, employer, and job title. We mapped exactly which companies use which competitor products. We extracted their customer lists from their users' browsers. Without anyone knowing. Then we sent legal threats to the users we caught. The EU told us to open our platform to third-party tools. We published two restricted APIs. They handle 0.07 calls per second. Our internal API, Voyager, handles 163,000 calls per second. In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report, the word "Voyager" appears zero times. That's networking. I presented our Software Disclosure Rate metrics at a leadership summit last quarter. The conference room is called The Fishbowl. Glass walls. Appropriate. There's a plaque on the wall. Q3 Competitive Landscape Award. I won it for the extension scanning initiative. Someone asked if users had a way to opt out. I said they can close their browser. The room laughed. I wasn't sure why. I browse LinkedIn on a Chromebook with no extensions. Most of the team does. The platform that helps you get hired searches your computer every time you visit. We know your name. We know your employer. We know your religion. Your disabilities. Your politics. Whether you're looking to leave. That's networking. The system works exactly as designed. I designed it.