Your username being Finnish I assume it’s more Yule and less CHRISTmas for you as well?

Our ancestors celebrated winter solstice long before Christianity was even a thing, and everyone knows the best gifts are handmade, not storebought. Emotions over stuff.

At ours this year, the kids got toys, but the adults got framed family photos and such.

The US isn’t the whole world. Other countries exist. We’re not even talking about the US here.

I specifically didn’t mention SS and somehow you still bring the US into it in a thread about Japan.

I meant most of the world in general which is why I didn’t name any such programs by name.

There were a lot of news articles and social media posts from angry boomers being circulated at the height of the minimum wage worker shortage after covid hit, but I’m having a hard time finding any right now so I must’ve dreamt it instead.

What? In the current system we pay retired people money based on past employment as well as just for living long enough, in most countries. Japan can no longer do that soon because without taxing their young to poverty, they just don’t have enough income to fund it.

We also consume bullshit at 100 times the rate. People will be unhappy to see that go away. But yes, we produce more than enough for everyone as is.

It’s not obvious. Low birth rates are completely sustainable, you just kill anyone who can’t afford to retire and can’t work anymore, and society functions perfectly well.

It’s a class war, but many boomers are scabs.

Remember when there was a worker shortage and retired boomers went and volunteered at chain restaurants so they wouldn’t have to raise wages to attract workers? Remember all the “millennials are so entitled, they want to be PAID FOR WORK” style posts by boomers, back when some non-boomers still used Facebook so we had access to their posts?

It’s not their fault they’ve been brainwashed by right-wing propaganda, but they for sure are fighting against anything resembling economic justice.

And obviously much like any generation, you can’t make sweeping statements about them. There are right-wing nutters in their 20s and even their teens out there right now and there are obviously boomers who aren’t selfish assholes.

Lmao I actively work with shortdates in a database because I have no control over how things are stored. They need to solve before 100 years have passed from the epoch, but at some point before then it’ll be fun to figure out if “58” in a date of birth is 1958 or 2058.

By googling it, it seems these will filter out some forever chemicals that are a problem pretty much everywhere. It will also cool the water, which might be beneficial if your tap water is a bit on the warmer side (which mine is and it’s infuriating, I want to drink near-freezing water)

Note: I’m not American and don’t have one of these, just googling.

At least 14, maybe 15 - because it was 1 just a bit over 13 years ago (I’m sure if the baby was nearly 2, it would’ve been labeled as such)

It’s easy enough to shoot someone, but that was well planned out beforehand, executed in a way to cause maximum media stir while getting away clean…

And then several days later dude keeps a manifesto AND a ghost gun on him while outside…

There’s no tipping culture in my country but the waiters still smile usually. At the nicer places at least

That sounds completely plausible. Three letter agencies have ridiculous amounts of intel. They for sure know which building and apartment I’m commenting from and I’m a foreigner on a pseudonymous website. Plus there’s the however-many eyes agreement for when you need to get intel but can’t spy on your own citizens.

Honestly I’m reminded of that time when Russians found that guy with 3 copies of The Sims when the security services were obviously told to find him with 3 sim cards so he’d look extra guilty

You mean he’ll hang himself in his cell?

I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but so many things seem off. Dude’s got an engineering degree, pulled off a cold-blooded assassination in broad daylight and evaded capture for almost a week… And then it turns out he’s an absolute idiot who keeps around a “ghost gun” in public, keeps around the same fake ID he’d used to book into the NYC hostel, and keeps a manifesto on his person?

Part of me thinks this is some rando that’s gonna have to take the fall so that the rest of America believes that the police is all-powerful and can find any criminal. Hell, part of me thinks this perfect suspect is all made up.

Or early copy protection

Those don’t affect people as personally as healthcare so it’s unlikely.

Voltaire - when you’re evil

I just use it in the browser without having a sub.

Normalize listening to Eminem tbh

A friend I made back in high school told me recently that when he was in middle school (diff school), people would mock him for listening to Eminem and said he should be listening to Tupac and Biggie. I told him that these people can fuck right off, there’s nothing wrong with listening to Eminem or any other artist YOU like. Music snobs suck ass. I like Pac and Biggie, but I don’t idolize them, they’re not special heroes to me because I’m pasty white and from another continent entirely. I don’t know their struggle even. I don’t know Em’s struggle either (shocker, I know, but my mom isn’t a drug addict and hasn’t sued me, nor are my friends getting gunned down), but I like his flow and the anger in his earlier songs. Best part is, we both would’ve been around 1 when Pac died. Some 10-13 years later, the kids saying “oh you should listen to Pac and Biggie not Eminem” are probably saying it because they’ve HEARD they need to like Pac and Biggie if they’re into hip hop. I could barely tell what was going on in their songs when I was 13 or 14, took me until much later to even know anything about the culture.

Eminem’s had banger tracks in every single album he’s done IMO. Tbh I might’ve missed one or two of the newer albums, but I doubt it’s changed. The man can murder with words.

If I was a snob, I’d say you need to be listening to Aesop Rock for style and vocabulary or Immortal Technique for commentary, but fuck that, you can like multiple artists and they don’t all have to be struggling, or have a deep, message, or anything really. Plus eminem is a GOAT in his own right at this point.

Yes I’m a huge Eminem fan, but much of this applies to any other artist too. If your favorite metal band is Metallica… So what? Yeah they’re mainstream and they’re assholes, but the music isn’t bad, you’re allowed to like it.