Teppec

Middle-aged Navy vet, PA native, NYC denizen, and most importantly, I belong to House Stark, House Gryffindor, and House Spurs.

Sometimes, I rant.

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Welp, I just figured out what I want to do for my birthday.

https://t.co/QvSpp1nPBe

#grownupslikedinosaurstoo

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@ins0mn_iac @RuffBuffet @SenSanders He's got a referral link to starlink in his bio, he's financially motivated to carry their water.

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@StivC @grok @SenSanders Better suckling government teat than licking government boot.

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@StivC @grok @SenSanders So sure, just killing it.

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@StivC @grok @SenSanders For much of his career, Sanders was among the poorest senators, with net worth often estimated below $500,000. His wealth crossed the million-dollar threshold following his 2016 campaign and subsequent book deals, which earned him over $2 million in royalties between 2011-2023

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@SenSanders The goose doesn't belong to America when only one person is collecting all the eggs. America's billionaires treating money like pokemon, gotta catch'em all.

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Gen-Xer here. Most of my adult life post military service has been this same flow, and my genx friends and family don't get it. Millennial and Genz friends are mostly in the same boat. This is the best way I've ever heard it explained, particularly the removing friction part.

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⚡️The “DoorDash lifestyle” is an artifact of three massive structural shifts older generations don’t see because they didn’t grow up inside them.

Let’s break the illusion.

1. The marginal cost of money changed for Gen Z

For older adults, spending thirty dollars feels like spending thirty dollars.

For kids today, the psychological cost is closer to:

“three microtransactions worth of friction”

Because their financial environment is built on:
•instant digital payments
•low-commitment gig incomes
•parents transferring money fluidly
•side hustles paid in irregular small bursts
•stimulus-era normalization of cash flow volatility

Teenagers today often have:
•$30 now
•$0 tomorrow
•$50 on Friday
•$15 in crypto
•$70 in Cash App from someone they did homework for
•a $20 Venmo from grandma
•$60 from a weekend shift

There is no “budget.”
There is flow.

And in a flow economy, a $30 DoorDash order is not a “luxury”.
It is just another digital outflow in a stream of constant micro inflows.

2. Consumption is now social currency

Older generations spent money to solve problems.

Gen Z spends money to signal identity, reduce friction, and avoid emotional drag.

DoorDash is not about food.

It is about:
•eliminating effort
•eliminating planning
•eliminating discomfort
•eliminating logistics
•eliminating decision fatigue

This generation pays premiums to remove negative psychic load.

Food delivery is an anxiety-management subscription.

And they learned this from:
•Amazon Prime
•Uber
•TikTok dopamine tuning
•frictionless apps
•the collapse of effort-based value signals

Convenience is the default baseline now.

3. The middle class collapsed, but lifestyle costs decoupled from income

This is the part most boomers and Gen X don’t understand.

Kids aren’t behaving like they’re poor.
They’re behaving like people living in a post-middle-class economy where:
•ownership is dead
•savings are pointless
•buying a home is impossible
•college is a debt sentence
•inflation destroys the dollar
•wages do not map to adult milestones
•upward mobility is gone

So what happens?

They shift to a present-maximization mindset.

If the future is unaffordable anyway,
why not buy the burrito now?

Younger people are not reckless.
They are rational inside a broken incentive system.

The real truth

DoorDash is a symptom.

A society where:
•future stability is gone
•wages stagnate
•housing is unattainable
•attention is fragmented
•convenience is normalized
•friction feels archaic
•everything is mediated digitally

…will produce kids who treat $30 like a tap on a screen, not a financial decision.

They’re not “funding a lifestyle.”

They’re surviving inside the economy they were handed.

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@realjoshuareid @DavidShuster Flagged planes are handed off to state side air traffic control and are boarded when they land. Over the last 40 years, billions of dollars in drugs have been confiscated this way.

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@realjoshuareid @DavidShuster Just realized not everyone would know what conops stands for. It's Counter Narcotics Operations. We run naval vessels on both sides of central america tracking planes/ships heading north. Intelligences flags ships that coast guard members travelling with us then board.

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@RogerJStoneJr @KlasfeldReports

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@seacaptainpolls I mentioned this under the deleted poll, but voted for other here as well. That story at the end of 126 felt so quintessential to the grand epic that is Corrections and it has found a permanent spot in my brain.

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@seacaptainpolls Those were both great, but the one that has been sticking with me is 126. That story at the end has just settled in my brain and it's where my vote would go.

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@MARVELSNAP Dino twins.

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@JeffHoogland @MARVELSNAP This is the only split

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@RMFifthCircuit From the weather a few of my friends down there have been telling me about, I would guess they get in like 9 holes between thunderstorms.

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@HPbasketball I am surprised people are complaining about this. Like you said, it's not uncommon. On top of which, they needed to sync up the western conference semis. It's not like only one team got the extra day and the nuggets are old or something.

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@VerizonSupport @LOSOLINA I've had an outage of FiOS for about a half hour now in NYC and the Verizon website bricks when I try to check for outages or contact support through the website

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@atrupar Love this kind of 'give no fucks' biden. Was not expecting these kind of callouts in his speech.

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@FamousDiarrhea_ @StevenWisdom13 @RealWayneCody1 @mmpadellan I have the distinct impression you haven't watched any of his shows from the previous 10 seasons, otherwise you would have a fuller understanding of how serious he is when he does things like this.