People are obsessed with sex and relationships. If who you have sex with, and who others have sex with is important, then it’s one way to take advantage of that to hurt your feelings.
Anything you care about can be used to insult you with: nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, relationship, status, hobby, intellect, etc.
Basic what literacy?
The great mighty Apple does not have to follow sanctions. If it hiccups, the US economy does too. Can’t have that!
This separation into “generations” is such bullshit. It’s just another way to divide the haves from the have-nots. If you blindly believe that generations define you, you’re the problem. You’re making it easy to be controlled and find another person to concentrate on while your rights, your liberties, your opportunities, and your privacy get slowly taken away from you.
Always felt like stabbing footballs when practicing juggling. Knowing I felt that kind of anger towards inanimate objects was a big reason not to have kids. Destroying your own property is fine. It’s just property. A kid though…
Bill Burr had a bit on it.
A PhD can get a much higher paying (and likely less physically difficult) job than fast food.
That maybe be true, but they may be trying a different career, or unable to find a job in their field because of oversaturation, or whatever other reason.
The unspoken assumption when someone is “overqualified” is that they will take a better job if the opportunity presents itself.
Isn’t that everybody though? If a cashier in fastfood got an opportunity to become a highly-paid streamer, they’d quit their fastfood job immediately too. But I do get your point: better credentials mean better job chances, mean greater likelihood of moving a job that’s paid better.
That’s an assumption. Maybe they want to switch careers.
What does that have to do with qualifications? If a PhD applies for a job at a fastfood joint and asks for the same wage as everybody else, that has nothing to do with qualifications.
The screaming about low birth rate is because corporations want to keep a high labor pool so they can drive down the price of labor while keeping up demand for consumption.
It’s not only that. By the time you want to retire, there won’t be enough people to pay taxes for your retirement fund. With more young people than old, that is less of a problem.
“We cannot be outnumbered by immigrants!” *die out because their own population won’t make babies*
What are your work hours like? And have you invested in anything? (stock, crypto, physical assets like gold or silver, …)
What a state the world is in. We consider you lucky, yet this should be the absolute minimum.
I’d like to visit, but Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, and Japan look more enticing.
Birds chirping
The French word for “entertainment” is “divertissement” and you don’t need to know French to get what it is: a diversion from things that matter.
Do you shit with the door open in public toilets? You have nothing to hide after all and don’t require privacy there.
Saving accounts are just a great resource for banks. Their returns are always less than inflation so you’re basically always losing money with them.
Maybe when Musk is through with Twitter what will be left is Mastodon…