the real story is this: “Families with higher education levels. Those with a respondent or spouse/partner with a graduate degree had family net wealth of about $947,400.”

but if you put that in the title of an article or a social media post it doesn’t piss off poor whites.

it should anyway, since those people often contribute less to society than the local garbageman.

what is this even trying to say? that people who kayak or canoe have illusions of grandeur? understood. even stating that childhood dreams are crushed by capitalism is trite.

i wanted to be a beautiful woman who was a covergirl on an issue of sassy magazine and look where that got me. i’m just another 40 year old man who wears pink dresses when they’re shitposting on lemmy because they got banned from reddit for telling someone on their local board that they were ‘a delusional gentrifying yuppie.’

join the fucking club on being disillusioned.

if you take away their wealth what have most of these celeb billionaires accomplished? zuck created a website that got popular that wasn’t even the first of its kind. it was just popular…

and if it disappeared tomorrow i wouldn’t give two fucks. humanity survived for thousands of years without facebook and instagram and it hasn’t been a benefit to society. it didn’t solve a problem that needed to be solved–we already had myspace and photobucket and the local classified ads.

why are we treating rich people like celebrities just for being rich, especially ones who don’t impact your life in any positive way? that’s the real issue.

i never knew who the CEO or creator of gillette was even though i shave my face every day. that guy deserves more recognition.

it’s often crazy to put on a foreign film and see vibrant colors. it’s almost like a religious experience. who knew green looked like green? american color graders are just like ‘lets turn the brightness down to barely being able to see anything on the screen.’

more like

systematic failures of capitalism ruining your life

then have everyone shout at you ‘what about personal responsibility?’ often, even your family.

this is one of the most insidious things about american culture and ends up inflicting the most damage to your well-being.

media was at least owned by dozens or hundreds of separate entities that all had different viewpoints and agendas and would employ more people with working class pedigrees.

oldschool issues of seventeen magazine have more wokeness in them than what people complain about nowadays. that was a national coffee table publication read by millions of teen girls.

in 2026, there’s no resistance whatsoever other than internet chatter that doesn’t amount to fuck all. i don’t even mean resistance that matters but at least someone who writes for a national publication who’ll rip into a tv show or film and call it whiny, out of touch yuppie bullshit.

our entire culture has been gentrified.

i buy my maple syrup directly from a proud american retailer in vermont. you’ve never had pancakes as good as what my wife makes on a autumn morning.

the only thing that canada exported to the USA that was worth a shit was episodes of riverdale. and that was only for madelaine petschs’s knockers.

the drama wasn’t really any better than a typical episode of as the world turns and that was cancelled.

i love duplicitous redheads though. it’s a weakness.

this article is stupid for another reason: go on youtube and look up camcorder footage of public high schools in the 90s.

absolutely NOBODY is anxious about getting filmed, and nobody has bad intentions, and nobody would write an article about it.

maybe things ARE worse but maybe the situation is more complex than meta glasses.

can journalism please stop digging deep into the cambridge to pull out words like ‘wheedles?’

i’ve been on this earth for almost 50 years, and i’ve read thousands of texts and never seen that word fucking ever.

you should NOT have to look in the dictionary to read pop culture drivel. these dipshits are just trying to justify their privileged educations, and the ironic thing is that none of them can write for shit despite needing a private school/ivy league pedigree to churn out vacuous thinkpieces for teen vogue and futurism (whatever the hell that is).

there’s currently a retired T420 in my home and a stalwart E15 assisting me with my everyday computing needs.

make sure you say ‘thank you for your service’ every morning.

need 500 rooms just to do nothing lol.

i just think it’s funny a castle costs 10% of a superyacht.

shows you how much these people matter on a historical scale. he’s flexing on us but pretty fucking lame compared to billionaires in 2346 who’d have megaships travelling through the cosmos.

take a moment to laugh at this loser. have fun in your castle while you check your smartphone on the toilet, asshole. i can do that in pissant suburbia.

the memory of china spans 3k years. think about that. we dwell hard and long about the history of america and that only goes back a few hundred. and that was a time full of witch hunts, slavery and other controversial topics that’d make a great movie but come off as embarrassing in reality.

we came up with the television and the atom bomb–i say big deal. the chinese were there through thousands of years of advancements and follies, enduring and enduring and keeping their national strength through the unbearable weight of millennia. this is when americans can’t go without their smartphone for 60 seconds and believe in nothing other than legal tender.

industrial capitalism is 200 years old, the chinese are as old as mars in comparison. put that in your pipe and smoke it.

modern einstein is trying to develop new ways to keep people hooked on a social media scroll. modern mozart is producing kpop or playing jazz/fusion in some club where they make $40 a night and then dying broke (like allan holdsworth).

but it’s true that most great brains probably never develop properly because the system tries its hardest to keep them stupid and in poverty.

the modern media landscape is all nepo babies and what does it get you? it gets you fuck all; everything is pathetic from top to bottom in every single artform but we’re acting like shit is normal.

why is this a controversy though?

this type of bullshit is common across the repair industry but we expect computer techs to be scrupulous? the entire business model likely depends on scamming people.

with cars there’s at least an excuse to put up with it in most cases. it can be labor intensive and require real tools to replace a component like an alternator on many models. even a bold and confident novice is going to feel anxiety when a bolt won’t come off and think to themselves ‘this isn’t worth dealing with.’

but if you can’t figure out how to ‘wipe windows’ or replace a ram stick with the power of the internet at your disposal you deserve to be scammed. do you have a philips head from dollar general, a usb stick and did you play with legos as a child? then you can do 100% of computer repair work.

on top of that, the entire IT methodology is to run a few basic windows commands in the console like ‘sfc /scannow’ and then reinstall windows if it doesn’t work.

i don’t remember ever questioning his size. WWF and arnold were so popular that it was normal to see huge, roided out dudes in pop culture.

andre the giant was just slightly bigger.

it’s in texas though.

now all of a sudden we care about texas? what goes on in texas is as important to me as the affairs of a random tiktok influencer.

we’re fucked no matter if this data center is built or not.

nintendo used to mean games like castlevania, metroid, earthbound, final fantasy, shadowrun, goldeneye. now it means ‘games for little kids featuring goofy characters with too-big heads.’

you shouldn’t have this system to begin with.

we’re all adults, right?

i have such a simmering nostalgia for the old days. on tuesdays there would be 39 cent hamburgers and on wed there’s be 49 cent cheeseburgers. this was at the local micky d’s. that’s what we called mcdonalds in those days. we were beyond a first name basis.

this was around the time i started my first job, which paid $7.50 an hour. and no, this wasn’t in 1970, it was 2001. i wasn’t in the middle of a space odyssey, but an odyssey of the everyman; it was days filled with the aroma and flavor of savory fast food and nights spent with fit y2k hotties in low-rise jeans sipping strawberry shakes. neither of these things cost much and that was a mutual expectation.

imagine doing web development for a living and calling yourself a ‘coder.’

you’re writing instructions for a web browser, not a computer, pal. you fear the computer and it’s language the same way you fear a black man from the islands when you venture through a bad neighborhood.

there isn’t even a proper analogy for vibe coding because it’s so lame. imagine showing up to a jazz club and wanting to sit with a band but all you brought was your laptop with suno but everyone else is playing a real instrument.

are you a musician?