“by retirement”
Another thing millennials will broadly never approach. Between systematic under-pay with 2-3% increases in wages, high inflation, exploded housing costs, predatory financial system (credit cards, BNPL), etc. I’d guess 5% of people will actually “retire” in the normal sense of stopping work in their 60s.
Physical and mental health are so affected by the vice in which Americans are crushed, many will not live to see retirement anyway.
“Honey, we need a “crossing the Rubicon” moment to add significance to every entry/exit of our castle. Any ideas?”
I think H. would have appreciated the spirit. Lots of his songs were edgy–given the time and genre he was writing for. Officer krupke in West side story, for example.
Game would have respected game. H. Probably would have had more trouble understanding how mon-u-fucking-mentally stupid a world driven by greed could have become. He would have been much less concerned with animated movie song lyrics.
I just had to explain to my kid that there was a band that existed before “that Shrek song all-star” was made
Just post the video instead of explaining it; we’re apparently out of the “cultural reference that will generally land” after 25 years. Plus then these poor folk who haven’t seen it can appreciate the wonder. It was nominated for an academy award for cripes sake!
The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 72nd Academy Awards (1999). This created controversy because all nominated songs are traditionally performed during the Oscar broadcast, but the song contained the word fuck, which the FCC prohibits using in prime time broadcasts. At the awards ceremony, comedian Robin Williams performed the song with a chorus that gasped when the word was to be sung (Williams turned around at the crucial moment and did not actually sing it…
Helpful, thanks. I don’t understand why other instance content wouldn’t come through on “all” just the same if it’s a one-instance issue, but I know little of how any of this works!
I don’t have any communities muted, just blocked.
Civics, personal finance, debate and English went ungraded as he did not show for a single class of any.
It’s also not 2009: Netflix streaming isn’t new. The consumer cost, time, administration and inevitable enshittification of a platform walled garden is not lost on gamers. No one wants 4 streaming services or have to open up a separate launcher depending on what game company created it.
Fascist authoritarianism, so hot right now.
I think “natural” was determined in court to hold jo required quality, or be free from artificial, man-made or modified elements. So wholly opposite the standard meaning of the word.
They always come for language first.
“Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth.”
Unless it means they can use it as rationale for lowering interest rates to juice business returns while employee wages stagnate then it’s super important data
All we need is a Superman 3-style plot to collect all the extra inches of fabric at the midsection and we’ll be rich, rich I tell you!
The weight has changed much more in sizing than height is likely to since it’s easy to gain/lose weight compared to gaining or losing height; it’s why I mentioned my percentiles. The links seemed like decently recent data so you wouldn’t expect someone in my percentiles to be so strangely missized unless sizing was just flat wrong or targeted to certain body shapes in the last 10-ish years.
My basic experience and data seems to point to height determining size much less than weight now does, which for those of us not rapidly changing weights puts us in a strange spot. There are also many more different global clothes manufacturers than there used to be I’d guess and maybe the newer ones still have no idea how to size for new geographies/cultures? Just guessing.
What you say sounds good, and this isn’t rhetorical, but who gets to decide what constitutes “harmful” then? Isn’t that still the same problem that could be weaponized against free speech?
Your co-workers are triangulating. It may be for a combination of various reasons:
Triangulation is used to avoid conflict. Many people come to others in life, looking to have that person take on yhrir problems through triangulation. It’s generally not effective: it disempowers the requestor/initiator by giving responsibility for resolution of the issue to someone else, who may not before likely to solve it, and can but actually make things much worse.
Encourage them to see how they can play a role in solving the problem. Do it together if you want to help but don’t be their “superman”.
Interestingly, producing unbelievable amounts of bombs does help ammunition companies.
Slammed!