Erik Peterman 👨🏼‍💻

Engineer, designer, soccer fan, musician, headphone addict, automation fan, tech enthusiast, iPad evangelist, kind of a pen guy. Retweets ≠ Endorsemets

[Moolarkey @truthank]

@NAllison89 Yes on the thinking 66+ people are wealthy. they don't realize -we've worked for what we have, we lived without AC, cable TV, fancy clothes, vacations, fancy cars. They don't realize we now have reduced income, high property taxes, insurance, still seldom eat out, don't travel

[Brad Marrs @BradMarrs298068]

@NAllison89 Young people greatly underestimate how much their parents and grandparents had to struggle to get where they are today. It leads them to cry about how hard their lives are, while their elders think, "Well, duh. Life is hard, a lot of the time."

[Toby the Fuzzy Bear🐬🌊🐕🐾 @MilesFuzzyBear]

@NAllison89 Because the media is always saying boomers hold the most wealth, what they don’t say is that’s collective wealth, so they add up all the net worth of the largest generation of people and that makes it seem like they’re all rich 🙄.

[NAlison @NAllison89]

@mightysoren I am not a boomer. I am a millennial and still paying a mortgage. My boomer parents owe me nothing I won't work for. Past 21 at the most parents dont owe their grown children anything. Certainly not a house they paid for.

[NAlison @NAllison89]

...btw most people I know under 40 lived at home for free well past 21 so they can miss me with the idea that it's simply harder for them to save money and buy their own home. The did not pay rent, often had help with school and their first car and still saved nothing.

[NAlison @NAllison89]

What I am getting from the boomer housing debate is that younger people increasingly think two things: One is that younger people shouldn't have to work for things like their parents did. Two: A lot of people overestimate just how rich most 65+ people really are.

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

No one asked for electricity. Capitalism just forced it on us. But we can still go live like the Amish.

[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

r/GasPrices banned all political discussion when gas prices spiked during Biden's admin.

Now the entire subreddit is "I hate Trump" and some of the posts don't even involve gas prices.

[Disaffected @DisaffectedPod]

@littleapostate There is no such thing as "it's required for you, the patient, to accept this medical procedure."

Ever. Tell that to the next nurse who tries to tell you that you, the patient, have to do what they say.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

If we got rid of the top 1% of the world’s best sprinters, that would make the rest of us faster, wouldn’t it, socialists?

[Sean Agnew @seanagnew]

Tough to remember a more manufactured moral panic than the one whipped up over data centers

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

If our ancestors saw all the luxuries we have and how little we work for it and yet how much we whine about it, they would never stop slapping us.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Evangelical Christian activists were mocked relentlessly for being right about everything

The mocking of the slippery slope was a war on basic pattern recognition

[Frogo @Dubflip]

The US uses ~950 gallons per capita per day

Residential use is less than 80 gallons per capita per day

Data centers are currently .15 gallons

To increase that to 1 gallon would take around a million more large data centers

[DAKKADAKKA @DAKKADAKKA1]

>tell business owners you will literally take their property from them
>they fucking leave

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

This

[Pericles @PerryALPHA]

what an odd thing to say

[ZILLA @zillaah707]

The thing I don’t understand about the $28 lunch debate is that the people complaining about it, don’t seem to correlate the facts that they fought for higher wages, therefore it costs more to pay someone else to make lunch for you.

[Mike OTDP @Hammerli280]

@rightwingnutrs Bush never really tried to sell it. If he had, he could have pointed out that it was an expansion of the Thrift Savings Plan the Federal workforce had been using for over 20 years.

[Brad Wood @BradWood37701]

Reading through the 2005 Finance committee report, it’s pretty impressive that they were willing to grapple with a very serious problem that ultimately was not addressed. Now we’re worse off with both Medicare AND Social Security entitlement benefits that continue to rise and $39T in debt that is becoming more expensive to service because of rising interest rates.

There are ways to transition off of the current model via HSA investment from birth, but it would need significant bipartisanship support to progress.

Just not sure how the current “Do Nothing” option will turn out…

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