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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • The chuckle fucks in the White House don’t even pretend to give a shit about people anymore.

    President Trump’s Director of the National Economic Council of the United States Kevin Hassett is being criticized for saying if the war against Iran were to be extended that “it wouldn’t really disrupt the US economy very much at all.”

    Hassett added that a longer war “would hurt consumers, and we’d have to think about, you know, if that continued, what we’d have to do about that, but that’s really the last of our concerns right now because we’re very confident that this thing is going ahead of schedule.”

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  • I wonder if just a larger percentage of Gen Z thinks standardized testing is bullshit and don’t even try. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I strongly believe the internet has been a greater evil than benefit to the world, and also believe cell phones have done serious damage to attention spans and focus. That is to say, I’m firmly at the “get off my lawn you damn kids” stage of life. But at the same time I admire so much of the younger generations that don’t buy into the “work hard and it pays off” bullshit that I was raised with.


  • I’m not sure what the fix is, aside from a foundational change in society, UBI, etc… When I was growing up, the paper was a couple bucks a month. Really cheap and there weren’t all the online alternatives. Reporting was pretty solid. Then the internet came along embracing the capitalist race to the bottom. My mom (80+ years old) still gets a Sunday paper, instead of daily, but I know that she is one of the only people on her block who even get that. And to be honest, the newspaper coverage is pretty shitty.

    There has to be a way to pay reporters to do in depth reporting, taking weeks or months to do all the digging and research, but that takes a financial backing that billionaires could do, but aren’t interested in doing. And it seems more and more people don’t put their shrinking disposable income in support.

    I’m in no way saying you’re wrong, I just don’t see a solution. We now just jump from outrage to outrage, informed by idiot tiktokers and uneducated ideologues. But it’s free and flashy…squirrel!