So you know those news stories about how Millennials don’t buy enough breakfast cereal or paperback books or homes or whatever the hell that Boomers are complaining that “kids these days” don’t spend money on? And y’all are like “LOL, no cash my pal”?
I think there’s something more insidious going on. You see, they thought they had you. Forget the Saturday morning cartoons of my childhood, they had Disney Channel and Nickelodeon feeding you ads all day long. Your generation got advertising in your schools. Your parents took you to prosperity doctrine spewing MegaChurches (it’s Mega so it’s gotta impress the kids, right?).
They thought you were going to be their generation of super-consumers.
You are generations distant from the great depression, and the 1979 energy crisis. Boomers want to pretend that the 2008 housing bubble wouldn’t affect the little kids. And plus, we had grown past the era of Yankee thrift and hippie DIY frugality. Right? And there was no mopey Kurt Cobain glamorizing thrift-store flannel shirts. You guys were going to out-consume the Boomer generation. They were sure of it.
Those think pieces? They’re Boomer disappointment that you have found value in something other than your place as a mindless consumer.
And yeah, I’m not going to pretend that y’all have more cash than you do. It was fucking idiotic to think they were going to raise a consumer generation without having to pay them the money they would need to buy even life’s necessities. And I could write a book about how my generation was complicit in destroying the old values around work and loyalty that left your generation screwed. Really, I’m genuinely sorry for the mistakes we made.
But you guys have given a big middle finger to the generation who thought that they could manipulate you from birth into manipulable-money-spending-machines. And I’m way fucking proud of you for that.
ladies and gentlemen we have officially reached the “in case a nuclear attack happens” phase……. [x]
This shit is wild.
There should be an amber alert or something to warn us, hopefully. But if you’re so close to the blast that the entire outside flashes white your first priority is to get underneath the blastwave any way you can.
After that you have 2 options: drive away or protect yourself from the radiation.
Option one is tough because literally everybody else is going to want to do this, and you could get stuck right in the fallout. And lemme tell you, if you’re stuck out there when the ashes first fall for more than 15 minutes, you’re dead. Radiation poisoning.
Option two is harder, but has a better success rate. Get underground. Most houses have a crawlspace, but in this bad time just saw a fucking hole in your floor. Put table over hole. Pack some large containers (like tubs), with dirt, tight, and stack them on your table or wherever you’re going to be directly underneath. you need 36 inches if dirt to be protected from the radiation poisoning. You could preemptively buy lead and stick that in a container with a lot of serface area, i forget how many inches you need vertically.
How ever much serface area the dirt/metal/lead covers is how much you and your party will be able to move around. As long as there’s enough inches vertically you’ll be good so long as you stay under it.
You gotta stay under there for at least 2 weeks, 3 to be sure.
Also, if you can see the mushroom cloud, stick your arm out as far as you can. Do a thumbs-up and close one eye. If your thumb is bigger than the cloud, you are safe. If the cloud is bigger or the same size as your thumb, then that means you are in the radiation zone and should evacuate immediately.
It’s interesting that black people still “just” want to live and prosper in peace. That’s it. At some point in American history, it’s really going to be a case of white people actually creating their worst fears due to their unrelenting terrorism.
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It’s wild cause they coulda stomped this nigga out on some real shyt … their lives were at stake and still were being as humane as one could possibly be while trying to disarm someone. We’re sooo compassionate…
Black is love and it’s still met with so much hate
This all reminds me of a tweet I saw a while back but the shit’s true though “I’ve said it before and I’m saying it now. White people are lucky black folk only want equality and not revenge.”
How the fuck is he hollering for the police and he came to a black area with an AK-47 ready to shoot like whiteness is a goddamn disease
lol 🔪 @ people who are upset that Google guy got fired. “What he wrote was terrible and I won’t defend it, but getting fired for ~opinions~???”
People want to act like he was fired for thought crimes. That guy didn’t tell his shitty opinions to his shitty friends in confidence, or keep his shitty thoughts to himself, he wrote a shitty manifesto that he circulated at his office!!!!!
And all of these super logical, objective guys are missing the material consequences of what he was saying. He was saying “I should not be put into any leadership role because I will not evaluate my staff rationally.” Like outside the immorality of it, he was saying he was not a good employee.
People should read Yonatan Zunger’s Medium article, where he points out what the guy did is the definition of creating a hostile work environment.
Maybe most importantly to the company, he created days of bad PR for google. I’m betting that was what he ultimately was fired for.
Are you guys ever dumbfounded by the impossibility of life with animals? I just was. This exact thought ran through my head:
“I live in a house with four carnivores of varying sizes, and all of them are sitting here next to me because they want my pita chips.”
OH MY GOD THANK YOU?
I tried to express this weirdness to my husband and he thought it was odd I even THOUGHT about it like this but YEAH there’s an entirely different species IN MY HOUSE that I live with and we communicate through noises neither of us fully understands and I feed them and they like when I pet them and stuff like what the fuck this is so weird
There’s a lot of discourse going around right now about everyone’s ages but this is literally the only thing I’ve been thinking of since they were officially released
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