Happy Labor Day 🙂
Happy Labor Day 🙂
No one thinks that's a bad thing. Younger people today can't do it because they don't have as much money left over after paying their bills, because everything is comparatively more expensive than it was in the past. This has been said repeatedly here. I don't know how else to say it.
I have certainly had positive relationships with many baby boomers. My original comment on this thread was questioning making generalizations about members of the generation. Individuals vs systems, again. I don't think anyone here is saying "we must hate all boomers!" If so they're a twit.
You're talking about individuals and he's talking about generational cohorts and the systems they built
I think when it happens we should call it “congestive heart success”
The issues people are talking about in this thread go back decades
And 50-somethings are Gen X, not boomers. I'm 52 and have a chunk of change but not $1 mil. I thought I was super fortunate. I had no idea I'm actually below the mean? So bizarre. Now I see I'm a massive failure, thanks a lot 😂 jk
But due to systemic issues, millennials, some Gen X, and Gen Z do not have the disposable income to save the way boomers did. Wages have been stagnant and living costs have increased.
Wow!
I understand. That's not what my comment was about. I was wondering how this wealth is distributed among boomers. What percentage of them have a net worth of "millions?" Not demanding that you provide the answer, just saying many did not in fact retire with millions.
I wonder what percentage of boomers have millions in nest eggs. I'm sure it's higher than for younger generations. But still, that's quite a generalization.
Ok, that's a reasonable narrative.
I find adjudicating people's degree of American-ness pretty distasteful. Only one of my parents and one of my grandparents were born in the US. I'm still American. Trump is an abomination for many reasons. Where his parents were from or their citizenship status at different times is not one of them.
His father was born in the Bronx. I hate Trump as much as everyone else, but "US ancestry" is a weird concept unless someone is Native American.
What does 0 U.S. ancestry mean? How do you define that? 🤔
Due to unpopular demand I have decided to reshare this classic album cover featuring the Brown family from Fort Smith, Arkansas praying around the waterbed in their 1970s steakhouse- looking master bedroom.
Still, they're not going to any cities in red states.
Once again affirmed in my decision to cancel my subscription.
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
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Wow!!
BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT KID ROCK IS NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR GREAT STATE, I AM GIVING SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO TAKING AWAY HIS RESIDENCY. HE IS A THREAT TO CALIFORNIA'S EARDRUMS, AND SHOULD REMAIN IN THE WONDERFUL STATE OF MICHIGAN, IF THEY WANT HIM. GOD BLESS AMERICA! — GCN
Interesting!
Wtf
Does dream cooler mean orange creamsicle?
Both an impression of him and the sound I am making
Hhhhhhh
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Never heard of it but if true, sounds great
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
ANECDOTE that totally disproves all other anecdotes, trends, etc: My good friend is doing an amazing job homeschooling her kids
she said that “black” with a hard r
When the executive ignores laws they find inconvenient, it is called a dictatorship.
A lot of women are overworked big city advertising executives who were just trying to get that big promotion from their evil bosses/fiancés, until a family crisis forced them to go back to their hometowns, and maybe consider what’s really important in life: making jam.
No I don’t want to play Wordleglop. I want to play what I was playing: Wordlegirdle.
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
This is extremely funny
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Chief O'Hara: 2 kids killed, ages 8 and 10. 17 others injured including 14 kids. 2 kids in critical condition. Sole shooter, male in early 20s, took his own life in rear of church.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
children in minneapolis shot while praying, children in DC passing armed military when they take the metro to school, this country is so sick
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
Sorry to hear this.
You are completely out of touch with what teenagers' lives are like today or what it's like to parent them.
@sunsetjunkey.bsky.social Penn State? I grew up in State College.
The "planned" info is pretty helpful 😭.
It's good that we're teaching computers to have feelings. Why should Man alone have to suffer? I'm gonna give ennui to a toaster.
Terry I'm just logging in. Did they ban the vaccine? Please say no.
How does anyone still support this?
TIMES OF ISRAEL confirms Israel bombed a retrieval team at Nasser Hospital live on air after an initial strike killed multiple journalists. FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION: “We demand an immediate explanation. This must be a watershed moment.” The video: www.instagram.com/reel/DNx2g8J...
Completely 100% anecdotal and in no way contradicts the results of the study, but my depression has improved since starting a GLP-1, and I've lost 93 lbs. But my provider at a specialist weight management clinic knew I have depression and said absolutely nothing about any risk - nice.
The sea was angry that day
A report of a shooter on Villanova University’s campus that sparked panic among students and drew a heavy police presence was a “cruel hoax,” the school’s president said Thursday. https://to.pbs.org/45Jbn6d
Nothing like a relaxing beach vacation
This is the energy we need from Democrats right now. If red state Republicans redraw their congressional maps to rig the midterms, blue state Democrats must even the playing field by responding in kind. Tell your governor and legislators in your state to fight back: indivisible.org/resource/red...
Straight to hell
I would never say that to you, Terry!
Ohhhhhhh ffs
wtf
The great state of Delaware
Unsurprisingly alone but in a nice place
"Smooth" by Carlos Santana featuring Rob Thomas is running through my head
My daughter texted me this
It's still getting worse every day
Beating, "paddling" children doesn't reduce crime. It increases it. Between pardoning sexual abusers, reducing the age of consent, pushing the children into the mines and actively calling for beating children, it's not inaccurate to say the GOP platform is pro child abuse
This is kidnapping.
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Hugs
Immigration agent fires shots at vehicle with people inside in San Bernardino operation—at 9am on a Saturday. www.latimes.com/california/s... sure it’s the reddest line—but how common is this about to become?!
We have not forgotten. Victims deserve justice. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp 🗣️ resist45ideology (IG)
NEW: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.
I'm glad my little joke was comprehensible. 😂
You don't mah-ee-ah-ee-ah. Yah-ha-ha-ha-ind.
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
When you kept your multiple-sizes-smaller clothes because you will lose weight some day and you are fucking VINDICATED and digging through dresser drawers and finding stuff you can wear now.
Did I mention the other day I lost my KEYS AND MY GLASSES??? I found my glasses.
It says "vacuum downstairs" on my to-do list, and without my reading glasses I'm staring at it like "Valium drawstrings? What's that?"
I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah. - Grandpa Simpson
People saw ICE in my town like a mile from my house yesterday
No. No we are not.
Sung to the tune of "I Shot the Sheriff."
We’ve said it repeatedly — the Trump assault on the Department of Education is an assault on kids with disabilities. This Ohio district is violating the clear letter of the IDEA but with the Dept of Ed eviscerated and the courts turning a blind eye, parents are on their own.
THIS IS ILLEGAL
Oh my god. Glad my parents (alums) aren't alive to see this.
Oh no! Are you ok?
What is that about the floor and wibble?
Huh?
Oh right 🤢
Oh my god they're going to do this aren't they
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It's because the river is named after Arkansas and Arkansas has a lot of murders.