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General Discussion / Well, my daughter is an Alpha so we shall see
« on: March 26, 2024, 01:52:06 PM »
Millennials gave birth to ‘Generation Alpha.’ Are these kids already doomed?

Zoomers fear them. Boomers want more of them. Millennials will keep making them for the rest of the year.

Born between roughly 2010 and the end of 2024, "Generation Alpha" is the demographic successor to Gen Z. Its oldest members are not quite ready for a quinceañera, while its youngest will be conceived in the coming weeks.

When the last of them arrive this December, they'll close the largest cohort of children ever to exist on Earth. There are already concerns that the kids aren't "alright." The overwhelming majority have yet to graduate elementary school, and 1 in 5 are still in diapers, yet they are widely being called "feral," "illiterate" and "doomed" on YouTube and TikTok — where alphas themselves make up a large and growing share of users.

Blame bad parenting by millennials or tech companies or both — but many of those responsible for setting the discourse online agree we should be worried for them.

"Everyone on the internet is really scared of Gen Alpha," said Gen Z influencer Rivata Dutta, aka Riv, whose content is popular with alphas on TikTok. "They're like, oh my God, Gen Alpha is so weird."

Despite decades of declining birth rates and years of hand-wringing over a pandemic baby bust, there are now more than 2 billion alpha children worldwide — more than a quarter of the population of the planet — and some 6 million in California alone.

And some aspects of their culture are sparking backlash.

Baby decor in "sad beige"? That's Gen Alpha.

Screen-obsessed iPad kids? Alphas again.

Beauty-store barbarian Sephora tweens stampeding through skin-care aisles and slathering their baby faces in retinol? Alphas, allegedly.

Read more: As teen suicide surges, school policies may be making things worse

In recent months, the alphas have emerged as TikTok's newest supervillain, a designation that has followed them into mainstream media. If zoomers are delicate snowflakes, alphas are the opposite — a horde of marauders chasing Drunk Elephant beauty products.


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...wasting my time:

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I'm not voting for Trump or Biden. You want my vote? Choose better candidates.

Shortly after Nikki Haley dropped out of the GOP presidential primary on March 6, I wrote a column stating that though I'm a conservative, I won’t vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

Despite dozens of furious emails proclaiming that I am not a real conservative, that I am some secret Democrat, or encouraging me to vote Biden, I have not changed my mind.

However, I think that one argument is worth addressing. Many people read the column and told me that every vote is valuable and my choice to not vote is throwing away my right to have my voice heard.

We are unbelievably lucky in America to have a vote that actually matters. That is something I do not take for granted. As much as people like to incorrectly claim that our elections are somehow rigged, we do not live in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, where he recently received a staggering 87% of the vote in an election devoid of any meaningful opposition.

Why would I vote for somebody I do not believe should lead us?
I understand why my willingness to discard that voting right is off-putting to many. It's something I wrestled with for years as a hypothetical scenario that has become a dreadful reality.

My thought process is simple: I cannot in good conscience vote for Biden, who has entirely neglected his duty as president to secure the border and has weaponized the Department of Justice against pro-lifers, alongside countless other abuses of power and failed policies.

At the same time, Trump is an unacceptable candidate due to his actions in the fallout of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, his refusal to debate other GOP candidates in this primary cycle and his self-admitted history of abusing women.

Why would anybody vote for these candidates?

My generation is up for grabs. Don't believe the narrative that Gen Z will vote Biden.

Rather than choose to vote for someone I think is entirely unfit for office, I would prefer to use my vote to tell the major political parties that they have failed. I hope other conservatives join me. Our choice to vote in other 2024 races while ignoring the presidency would send a clear message that earning the White House requires a candidate worthy of it. We can still vote in state elections that matter.

We criticize Democrats for voting for the "Weekend-At-Bernie’s"-esque candidate: Biden. But we also need to have standards, even if that means potentially losing an election to prove that point.

Gen Z has a chance to voice our dissatisfactio n
One quarter of Generation Z is reluctant to vote for either Trump or Biden. People from my age crave normalcy when it comes to candidate selection and had a chance to capitalize on that desire.

While Gen Z does skew heavily toward the left, such a significant portion of us not being sold on Biden shows a missed opportunity by Republicans who only had to nominate a candidate capable of capturing moderate voters.

Pence won't endorse Trump. Here's why that doesn't actually matter.

Our best course of action as a generation is to not choose the lesser of two evils, but rather show the two major parties that our votes could have been won had they chosen different candidates. While I personally would be very unlikely to vote for anyone the Democrats could nominate for president, much of my generation is ready to jump on board, especially when the alternative is Trump.

Republican voters need to realize this is bigger than winning one election
As for Republicans, we should not fall victim to the lie that the fate of the country is at stake with this election. That rhetoric is helpful for rallying voters to your side but is dishonest. Our country will survive Biden’s first disastrous presidency, and it can survive another four years.

Our country survived Trump’s fruitless attempts to retain power after he lost the presidency in 2020, and it would survive a second term of his as well. Presidents do not determine the fate of our country, as much as doomsayers on both sides like to forecast.

The fate of America is not at stake in this specific election, but rather in all future elections. If America's two major political parties continue to offer disastrous candidates, then America will remain in political distress.

My choice to not vote for Trump or Biden is one that is rooted in concern for the future, not the tales of imminent doomsday the pundits forecast.

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...changed party. Regardless of party, bet he'll still be a compulsive serial LIAR:

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George Santos says he’s leaving the Republican Party and will run for Congress as an independent

“I in good conscience cannot affiliate myself with a party that stands for nothing and falls for everything,” he wrote on X. “I am officially suspending my petitioning in #NY01 to access the ballot as a Republican and will be filling to run as an independent.”

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Eric Trump says he was laughed at while attempting to secure his dad's $454 million bond

On Monday, Donald Trump will be called upon to make good on the $454 million judgment in his New York fraud case or post bond in order to appeal the ruling. And if this doesn't happen, AG Letitia James is prepared to seize his assets in an effort to ensure that gets paid one way or another.

In an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, Eric Trump re-circulated the story initiated by Trump's team that they've been turned down by every lender they've reached out to regarding the bond, saying that they basically laughed in his face.

"This is 'lawfare,'” the younger Trump said. "They want to hurt my father, who’s winning the presidential race right now. He’s beating Biden in every single poll in every single swing state. He came out and said he wants to put hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money into his campaign. And, how do they deprive him of that? They have (Judge Arthur Engoron) come up with an astronomical number, give you zero time to post a bond, a bond that’s not even commercially available in the United States. It’s not — no one’s ever seen a bond this size. Every single person when I came to them saying, 'Hey, can I get a half-billion-dollar bond?' Maria, they were laughing. They were laughing. Top executives of the largest surety companies had never seen anything of this size. What, they’re going to start seizing assets if he can’t put up something that’s not available in the United States?"

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Russia's recruited so many inmates to fight in Ukraine that it's shuttering some of its prisons

The military's reliance on inmates to plug its manpower gaps has caused Russia's prison population to plummet. Russia's Deputy Justice Minister Vsevolod Vukolov revealed in October that the country's prison population plunged from 420,000 before the war to a historic low of 266,000, per The Washington Post.

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‘It doesn’t work’: This Florida waitress says she tried doing what she loves but couldn’t afford to live

Waiting tables is a common way for students to make some extra pocket change while in college. But now, many keep serving way past college graduation.

Genevieve Sleboda, who goes by @genevieve.show on TikTok, revealed that she is one of these people in a viral video. After graduating with a master’s degree in education, she realized that none of the jobs in her field pay enough to cover her rent.

The Fort Lauderdale, Florida resident took a serving job at a bar instead — which she claims pays better than an education job.

“In this economy, as a post-grad Gen Z, I cannot afford to start a career on a first-year salary,” Sleboda says.

“I tried doing what I love — it doesn’t work out for me.”

Education vs serving

Jobs in Sleboda’s field of education pay a decent salary. Teachers make a median salary of $61,250, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This falls slightly above the median national yearly earnings of $59,540.

But Sleboda says that when she has worked in education, it was bad news for her wallet: “I’ve had to take money out of my savings to pay my rent.”

Rent.com reports the median Florida rent as $2,099 per month — which equals over $25,000 over a year. This would mean that Sleboda would spend nearly half (41%) of her $61,250 education salary on rent.

Though servers tend to make less money per year than teachers — the BLS reports a median of $29,120 per year — they can make a lot in tips. Staffing platform Adia approximates that servers bring in $100 in tips per night. And none of those earnings are taxed.

If you work five shifts per week, you could bring in an extra $500 a week. By the end of the year, you’ll have an additional $24,000, nearly doubling your salary to $53,000 — almost as much as a teacher.

Not only could you bring in a similar amount of income to a teacher through serving, you’ll also avoid all the unpaid parts of the education profession: marking, lesson planning and parent calls. On an hourly basis, you may even find yourself coming out ahead, as Sleboda does.

Read more: The US dollar has lost 87% of its purchasing power since 1971 — invest in this stable asset before you lose your retirement fund

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...has to be in a relationship:

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Law Student, 28, Sets a No-Men Rule for Herself After 'Miserable' Dating Experience: 'Never Been Happier'

"I genuinely think I look at life differently," Carly Galluzzo said of her decision to swear off relationships

One graduate student has officially said goodbye to the dating scene.

Carly Galluzzo, a law student from Long Island, New York, has cut out relationships from her life after 16 years of disastrous dating that left her mental health and self-worth affected.

"I think I was dating because all of my friends have been pairing up for so long, and that was driving me to find a partner. But I don't think that was a good motivation," she told SWNS. "I felt that I had to keep dating."

"It didn't matter whether the men were good or not. At the end of the day, my outlook on it was also not good," continued Galluzzo, 28. "It was just something that I feared that if I didn't pursue something straight away, I'd miss out on something."

According to Galluzzo, she began to realize that everything in her life revolved around her quest to find a relationship.

"The only conversations I'd have with college girlfriends were about boyfriends and finding a partner," she told SWNS.

The student also told the outlet that she discovered her "journey with materialism" went hand in hand with her dating life, explaining, "The quickest way to money is dating a wealthy guy, which, of course, can be amazing, but I know what's important now — real happiness and not just these monetary things."

"My ex-boyfriend was very wealthy and took me to a lot of great places and that validation from my peers felt good. But I can say now I've lived that life crying my eyes out on a yacht in the South of France," she continued. "I was so miserable and I was willing to give up my happiness for that."

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...migrants/illegals and bring up border crisis but also have no problem hired their cheap labor to do the work on their farms  :idiot2::

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The town that can’t live without migrants, but isn't sure it wants to live with them
Fremont, Nebraska, has three massive meat-processing plants that need workers. It also requires anyone renting a home to sign a declaration that they’re in the U.S. legally.


FREMONT, Neb. — Big-city mayors may be complaining about the economic impact of an influx of migrants, but the residents of a small city near Omaha can’t decide how they feel.

Fremont, Nebraska, population 27,000, has three massive meat-processing plants. As young locals leave in search of better jobs, Central American migrants have been taking their places in the slaughterhouse s, especially after Costco opened a huge rotisserie chicken facility in 2019.

“We need these people,” said Mark Jensen, president of the city council. “We need this work done. This is what feeds the nation and the world.”

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General Discussion / $32k/month is pretty good for being a FAKE
« on: March 25, 2024, 12:42:18 AM »
I’m a Megan Fox lookalike — it’s hectic, but I make nearly $32K a month as her doppelganger

The demand for Megan Fox lookalikes must be high, especially after “Love is Blind’s” Chelsea Blackwell claimed she resembles the Hollywood scarlet. However, one British woman says she too looks like the “Jennifer’s Body” actress and her clients can second that.

Taylor Ryan, 26, revealed she makes nearly $32,000 a month as a Megan Fox lookalike.

“There’s a lot of hard work that goes into it. It’s extremely time-consuming,” the brunette told SWNS.


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Beverly Hills mansion where Menendez brothers murdered their parents sells for $17 million

The California home where brothers Joseph Lyle Menéndez and Erik Galen Menéndez murdered their parents has found a buyer. The 9,063-square-foot seven-bedroom Mediterranean-style estate closed on Wednesday at a price of $17 million, according to its listing held by Amy Vertun of Rodeo Realty.



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General Discussion / Asian woman and her BC, WOW!!
« on: March 22, 2024, 02:13:33 PM »
Wen who had 61,000 bitcoin worth $1.8 billion seized by police found guilty of money laundering

Jian Wen was convicted of money laundering offense in a court in London on Wednesday. In 2021, police seized 61,000 bitcoin from digital wallets linked to the Chinese takeaway worker. Wen converted the crypto into cash and other assets on behalf of an international fraudster.





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... ;D:

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American Airlines passenger put in headlock, forced off plane after hurling antisemitic slur at flight attendant


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General Discussion / What is it with Asians and seafood?
« on: March 21, 2024, 11:50:35 PM »
 ;D:






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...receive any "oxtail pho" from the LIAR either  ;D:

Let’s put a bowl of large oxtail pho on that bro.


ProudLao has a much better chance just heading to Costco to get some  ;D O0:




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...next season:














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