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@AMaskedCanucker @AlecMacGillis the programmers are all applying to 200 jobs these days in order to land an interview

@AlecMacGillis I wonder if she tried learning to code. It's a shame, though. I'm sure the market is bloated with overpaid and under qualified middle management people with similar stories.

"Sheryl Cowan, 57, was making $272,000 a year as a senior VP at a U.S.A.I.D.-funded nonprofit when she was let go at the end of March 2025. Last month she had an online interview for a $19-an-hour job managing a Penzeys Spices store in Falls Church, Va." nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/…

@financedystop no - house prices more than doubled from 2017 to 2026. There has been a construction boom since then too. It is more consistent with the fact that they lowered interest rates to 3% for a while and this caused prices to rapidly bid higher

Interviewer asks, "What do you think is driving home prices so high?" "My youngest son's theory is that the boomer generation is holding onto their homes." The median first-time home buyer is now 40 years old.

@choeshow You expect the workers to have no family values, and to uproot themselves in order to follow their office job 1500 miles away?

This is glorious. 🌞 Well done Starbucks. ☕️ Game over Seattle. 🙃

@alphaman_111 It's not true. Most cultures have something like a dowry that takes a while to earn before marriage. They would send young women to work in houses of rich people and send young men into the army or out on ships

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

@UltraRunnerPod What is the major? She definitely should be able to get into a UC or CSU with those grades. There are some ridiculously restrictive majors such as computer science. Most apply to a major after freshman year

I'd heard how crazy the college admissions process is, but now seeing it in reality has blown my mind. My kid has great grades (4.2 weighted) with a ton of APs, leadership ec's, a very solid athletic resume, parents paying cash, etc., all at a private college-preparatory HS, and she has basically no chance of getting into a UC or CSU for her major. Not sure what needs to be done, but this is crazy. 🙄😩

@TheRealFarley I don't understand why people jump out from the sides when you approach with a camera and start doing all this insane stuff.

@AntStan101 @LASHYBILLS chow chows can be even worse. they are guard dogs. People get them because they are fuzzy. I think samoyeds are pretty docile

@LASHYBILLS Are those dogs known to be agressive?

This Alaskan Malamute has escaped from its home four times in less than a year and has been terrorizing the whole neighborhood.

@chriswithans what if both of them had died. They also wouldn't have a second mortgage contributor

Just a heard a Dave Ramsey call from a woman in Tennessee who said she and her husband bought a home to live in with her husband's parents. Put in $100,000 in equity each. New home build, finished in September 2024. $3600/mo mortgage, split $1500 for them and $2100 from her husband's parents. Anyway, her father-in-law passes away in June of 2025. Her mother proceeds to meet a new man and says she's not going to pay her share of the mortgage anymore, and that she wants half of the proceeds when the home is sold. They are being forced to sell the home immediately because her mother-in-law said she won't pay any part of the mortgage.

@jonbrooks they won't all have a house

48M boomers+ will pass in the next 20 years Who will buy all their overpriced houses?

@loonlake55 I suspect russian troll factories are driving the 'war of the generations' trend

Last week, my post about Boomer life drew some ire from young people who feel we "destroyed the world and their future." (But lots of fellow Boomers liked it!) So for the young people. Here's a peek at life before the late 70s. The life you DON'T have because of us. 🔹Women were often stuck in secondary roles (you could be a nurse but not a doctor). 🔹Employers could deny a woman a job because “she might get pregnant,” and many had to quit when they did get pregnant. 🔹Birth control was restricted or illegal in many places under the Comstock Law. 🔹A husband couldn’t be arrested for beating his wife; it was a “civil matter.” Marital rape wasn’t even a crime. 🔹Women often needed a male relative to co-sign for a bank account or credit card. 🔹Black Americans in the South lived under Jim Crow. Even after it was outlawed, change was slow. 🔹Gay people could not be openly gay or get married. 🔹Information was scarce. You had to access a big library or buy expensive books. No pulling info up on your phone. 🔹Acquiring skills meant finding someone willing to teach you in person. No YouTube or no AI. 🔹Drive by a river and you’d see pipes dumping bright orange or green factory waste straight into the water. Some toxic landfills were so bad, nothing has ever grown there again. 🔹Heart attack? Often a death sentence. No stents. No pacemakers. 🔹Young men could be drafted and sent to war against their will, then come home to a country that called them baby killers and spit on them. Here's the thing. Every generation gets handed problems. We addressed these. Now it’s your turn to fix the ones you’re facing. Sincerely, Your Retired and Tired Boomer Grandma

@techtoby__ so you don't like them keeping up the yard but they should be decorating the interior

Majority of all the 4, 5 and 6 bedroom homes in my area are all occupied by boomers. They spend all day from Spring to Autumn gardening. Some of them can barely bend down. I’ve no idea why they wouldn’t just sell up. Instead they complain about being unable to heat the property. Any time a home comes up for sale, it’s because someone has died. Then a lot of people don’t even want to buy them because they’ve not been decorated since 1985 and have no bath.

@MrAndyNgo @StephenM because it's a free country? By the way, have you heard of offshore bank accounts and transnational corporations?

@StephenM Why aren’t the remittances heavily taxed to disincentivize foreigners taking U.S. funds out of the U.S. economy?

Everyone involved in the asylum system knows and understands the claims are all fake: the aliens who make them, the free NGO lawyers who file them, the judges who hear them, the federal officers who process them. Everyone. Everyone knows the real reason these migrants come. Even a small amount of US welfare is 10x what they would earn in their home countries. If they have a “birthright” child it’s enough welfare to support their entire family back home for a lifetime. Entire foreign economies are sustained by US welfare remittances. It’s industrial-scale remittance farming.

@spencertbarber here's my observation... those golfers were very likely like that when they were in their early 20s. They didn't become like that as they aged.

I hate to play into generational stereotypes, but they can feel very real sometimes. I was traveling with my family last night, and we were in the hotel hot tub with two baby boomer couples. They were going off about how much golf they’re playing. The conversation shifted to the war, and first they complained about Trump’s speech interrupting their shows, then about how the war is hurting their retirement accounts. It was amazing to me that two couples who probably don’t have more than 15 years left didn’t say one thing about their posterity for a whole hour, but talked about golf, TV, and stock prices. I’m a millennial, but I have daily conversations with multiple people from Gen Z, and the attitude feels completely different. Gen Z seems optimistic but realistic. They know the fate of the future is in their hands, and they’re focused on making sure things are better for their future kids. I honestly don’t know what happened to the baby boomers. I know many are great, but many can also be intolerable.

@MNewhouse54622 @Honeybadgermom x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@Honeybadgermom Ending needs an edit, has a repeated last paragraph, but overall an excellent article. The lighter fluid on the officers is really troubling.

restoration-news.com/exclusive-port… Federal Agents were doused with lighter fluid while protecting the ICE building in Portland. Read my latest on the ground reporting for Restoration News!

@Honeybadgermom the guy with the lighter fluid appears at the start of this. He violates the safety videos we watched in junior high by passing the container around to other naive people, encouraging them to squirt it. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Saturday night at the ICE building was violent. It devolved into several acts of violence including dousing federal agents with lighter fluid. I will link my article below.

@julesvairo @Liamjsm @AmplifyCKLA I wouldn't teach the phrase 'modal auxiliary verb', but teaching 'would, should, must, can...' actually does sound like a good third grade grammar activity.

Something I’ve noticed about the way my kid is being taught reading and writing. The curriculum is full of sophisticated concepts (thesis statements, transitions, citation) and completely ignores things 8 yr olds should be mastering like parts of speech, types of sentences, etc

@TechLayoffLover How would this best student be identified by filters in job/internship applications? Every position gets flooded with applications by people claiming top credentials

A CS professor at a decent state school just told me what faculty meetings sound like now Last month: placement rate dropped to 11%. Down from 78% in 2022. Department head keeps saying "market correction" and "temporary headwinds" Meanwhile three professors just got pulled into closed-door budget meetings about "program rightsizing" The career fair last week? 8 companies showed up. Used to be 67. Six of those were insurance firms looking for "AI-adjacent talent" at $42k starting salaries Students keep asking when the market will recover What they don't know: the placement office quietly removed CS from their "high-demand majors" website last month Professor told me he's been teaching algorithms for 23 years Never seen kids this broken. Never seen resumes this polished getting rejected this fast. His best student - 4.0 GPA, published research, three internships - applied to 900+ positions since January Two phone screens. Zero offers. Kid's parents refinanced their house to pay for his final semester The professor updates his LinkedIn every week about "exciting opportunities in tech" What he tells the dean in private: "We're graduating kids into a dead industry and charging them $60k a year to do it" Department just approved 340 new CS admits for fall semester Same professor who's watching his current seniors drive Uber to pay rent

@robertlufkinmd antibiotics in our feed?

What happened in the 1980's so that everyone, everywhere, of all ages started getting fat?

@HansFiene a lot of them have danish ancestry

Mormon physiognomy is a real thing. Having grown up in Utah, I can spot a Mormon at 50 yards. I did this on my honeymoon. My wife and I were holding the cruise ship elevator for a couple coming down the hallway and I told my wife "they're Mormons" and she said "how do you know," and I said "by looking at them" and she said "you can't tell if someone is Mormon just by looking at them" and I said "yes I can" and then they got in the elevator and I asked where they were from and they were from Utah and he had just finished his mission.

@texasrunnerDFW There is a bias towards hiring people in their 20s for tech jobs

Why can’t both these things be true: 1. Boomers got jobs and worked hard in an America that hadn’t yet globalized and also reaped the benefits of later globalization 2. Gen Z has a harder time getting jobs because of that same globalization, not because they don’t work hard