Snack Snarpe

[Ryan Cummings @Pol_Sec_Analyst]

How to sneak a chocolate bar into a FIFA World Cup match in the USA

[Hoosier Captain @hoosier_captain]

One thing Europeans will never have is tailgating. “Ooh I’ll go have a pint with my mates”

K man I’m having 14 beers with 10k random strangers at 8 am, and being offered free hot dogs and burgers omw to the game

[New York Post @nypost]

Timothee Chalamet says Knicks NBA Finals run has taken 'wear and tear' on his body https://t.co/R1BwQiU6pP

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Run the math on the lunch and it falls apart in about ten seconds.

A $28 lunch every working day is roughly $7,000 a year. That is the entire prize for never eating out again.

Now look at what actually moved. The median US home went from $321,500 in 2019 to about $420,300 in 2024. That is nearly $99,000 in five years, close to $20,000 a year. A Gen Z worker who banks every single lunch saves $7,000 while the house they are chasing gets $20,000 more expensive in the same twelve months.

You can do everything Kevin says and still lose ground.

Zoom out and it gets worse. Since 1980 home prices are up 551% and incomes are up 373%. The price-to-income ratio went from 3.65 to over 5. The distance between what a salary buys and what a house costs is the whole story, and no amount of skipped sandwiches closes a gap that compounds faster than anyone can save.

The lunch was never the variable.

The math gets funnier when you check who is giving the lecture. Kevin took just under $15 million to be the face of FTX, put around $9.7 million of it into crypto that went to zero, and held a $1 million stake that also went to zero. The man telling 23-year-olds that lunch is why they stay poor lit more money on fire in one bad bet than most of them will earn in a lifetime.

A $28 plate of ham and cheese was not the problem.

[kaceytron @kaceytron]

... Isn't this how they said we would be eating under socialism though?

[playful peter @w0rldmap]

This is the visual equivalent of Xanax to me. I look at it and feel so warm and calm

[moe @diinodiin_]

Lebron hitting that dunk

[Callum @AkkadSecretary]

Adjusting for inflation we can see what life should be:

Average income ~$40,500
New House ~$91,300
New car ~$20,100
Average rent ~$630 per month
Harvard ~$9,800 per year
Movie ticket: ~$5.85
Gas ~$2.34
Postage stamp ~$0.70

Doesn't even account increased productivity from tech

[Neet @neet_sol]

> College tuition has increased 914%
> Underemployment for college graduates at 43%

[Chris Oldman @AlsikkanTV]

I like how in the 25 years since we lost the ability to make Pokemon shaped sprinkles and we just accept a generic cupcake presentation with Pikachu on the box only as good enough

[Felon Degeneres @_alyssssssac]

EIGHTY FIVE????????

[Super Yu-Gi-Oh! Blog @SuperYGO]

Juro que essa é a última. Ranger Guardian

[Silly Little Guy @Czar_Of_Silly]

大暴れしてデールを称えろ！！ あのホモのジェフ・ゴードンに勝ち目なんてねえぞ！！

[Heart @heart_]

>what's wrong, Potter? Having a cortisol spike?

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessMBB]

PUT IT ON LOOP

[1️⃣ @HoodiWaymo]

This mf deadass stupid as fuck why is he a reporter

[garrett @jalenreagors]

It’s not even halftime im crying

[𝕯𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖔 𝕭𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 @EmmaTolkin]

seems fine