It's true. They're seriously talking about genetically enhancing the disease-spreading capability of ticks to make people allergic to meat to force them to stop eating it, and they call it "morally obligatory."
BREAKING: Scientists claimed it was "morally" justifiable to infect people with a virus that would make them allergic to meat in a controversial paper published in 2025.
2020: “You need to stop using plastic straws. Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity.”
2026: “Anyway, here’s a 62-square-mile AI data center"
@Godsgirl_1972@Devon_Eriksen_ "Here is what the middle-class experience is right now. Not for losers, but for your average hardworking, but unexceptional, dude born in 1992."
2 Masters degrees, PhD... Totally average Joe's
Dear small percentage of Boomers who can actually be told things:
Here are some facts, to help you understand what Millennials are trying to tell you.
Here is what the middle-class experience is right now. Not for losers, but for your average hardworking, but unexceptional, dude born in 1992.
- No company pensions. Ever. No job offers this.
- Laid off every 2 to 3 years.
- No vacations. Ever. If you are lucky, you have 10 to 15 days of annual "PTO" (paid time off). But this is not vacation. This is your sick days. You can take a break with whatever's left over.
- If you are not lucky, you have "unlimited" PTO. Which sounds nice, but in practice it means you get sick days and nothing else.
- They pay social security taxes, but they know they will never receive those benefits, because the system will crash first.
- Not promoted. Ever.
- No annual raises. Instead, these are effectively pay cuts, because they don't match inflation.
- Because of this, can only get a raise by changing jobs. Some judicious prevarication about salary history is recommended.
- Good chance you'll have to change careers at least once, possibly more, as industries get rugpulled by offshoring or work visas.
- Total mortgage cost on a median house in 2026 is 104,600 minimum-age-hours. This is 50+ years of full-time work.
- For comparison, a 1972 purchase would be 23,750 minimum-wage-hours, about 11 years of full time work.
What this all adds up to is that Millennials can't buy homes until they are past their child-bearing years.
And, no, scrimping and saving doesn't change that equation. This is with scrimping and saving.
I am not a Millennial. I am GenX, the child of Boomers. I do not need to be told how much Boomers forwent luxuries to save, and how hard they worked. I know exactly how much they did of each. I was there. I saw.
They worked hard at the beginning of their careers, and lived frugally for about 5 years to save up a down payment. After that, things gradually eased up, bit by bit. Until, by retirement, a lot of them had nice fat stock portfolios and multiple rental property investments, and Caribbean cruise holidays.
And this seems, to them, like a fair and natural progression.
But as America has been hollowed out and by a corrupt political machine, those doing the robbing have left the Boomers whole, and placed the burden of that corruption squarely on the backs of younger generations.
For Millennials, there's no light at the end of that tunnel.
Just another tunnel.
And another after that.
They have been standing between Boomers and the reality of the modern economy for 20 years.
At some point, they are going to break.
Arizona has a fuel problem:
We rely on California for roughly 1/3 of our gas.
We have no refinery capacity of our own.
California keeps making energy more expensive.
The answer is not to copy California.
The answer is to make Arizona more self-reliant.
#DontCAmyAZ
Please be more specific. These are very clearly “black teen takeovers” because stable households are essentially extinct in the urban black community and none of these kids have dads at home.
Look, if you are a Boomer struggling with property taxes let me help you
First, cheaper lunches
This cost me 4 bucks
Second, check those subscriptions they are expensive!
Third, maybe pick up some part time work and cover a bill or two, making a little more helps
If that doesn't do it, then you are simply living above your means🤷♂️
Sorry, I guess you don't need a 400k house then and should find something affordable in your budget
Well, millennials and zoomers aren't entitled to live in their hometown when it gets too expensive to stay, so neither are boomers. Boomers need to stop being spoiled brats.
It's kind of typical of Boomers to realize they have a market problem (high property taxes), and rather than try to solve the market problem, their immediate reaction is to instead give themselves a special legal carveout while making the problem worse for everyone else.
Going to be honest as someone who's 29 kinda hard for me to care about Boomers struggling with property taxes when I've been priced out of the housing market, will never see a cent of Social security or Medicaid and when i complain about it I get told I'm selfish and just "need to work harder"
Seniors are more liable to use emergency services which are funded via property taxes.
Making the economy even more geriacratic for a generation that had it economically easy is wrong.
(If we want to get rid of property taxes, it should be for everyone.)