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Devin Shepherd
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Increasingly convinced that the purpose of a system might in fact be what it does.
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Feed kids at school?? But then how will we convince their parents they should enlist in the wage slave army as children??
Two liked posts, one showing paragraphs from a Washington Post article about 15 Republican governors opposing federal funding to provide school lunches, the other showing a More Perfect Union post describing an Indiana Republican's proposed legislation to allow children as young as 14 to quit school to work on corporate-owned farms.
January 10, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Recognizing that we can reliably estimate prison capacity based on generational size but not centrally plan housing allocation makes articles like this helpful only to the extent that they tipify the amount of cognitive dissonance the status quo requires us to be saddled with to accept it.
An Insider article with the headline, "Millennials have become their own worst enemy in the housing market." Beneath the headline is a photo with the description, "A millennial couple moving into their new home," which shows a woman leading a man by the hand into a sparsely furnished open-concept hone with laminate faux-wood floors. A series of bullet points below the photo caption read, "Many young Americans want to buy their first home at a time when the supply is low," "The housing demand from millennials has made it harder for the generation to get into the game," To make matters worse, millennials have been hit hard financially and carry a lot of debt." A screenshot shows a portion of the article described in the other included image. A subheading reads: "Millennials are in danger of creating a housing bubble." The next two paragraphs read: "The research from Indiana University warns that the larger millennial population could lead to a housing bubble and a crash in the housing market." "Demand from this generation is expected to wane just as baby boomers start to leave the housing market. Meanwhile, post-millennial generations will be smaller due to lower birth rates. As these cohorts enter their prime house-buying years, this could lead to a surplus of homes on the market pushing prices down."
December 2, 2023 at 2:26 PM
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Nobody wants to quit anymore :'(
A screenshot of an article on the Wall Street Journal website with a headline that says: "The New Headache for Bosses: Employees Aren't Quitting." The subheading reads: "Just last year, companies were struggling to keep staff. Now, they say not enough people are leaving their jobs." Chip Cutter is the author, and the story was published on November 6, 2023 at 5:30 a.m. Article link: https://www.wsj.com/business/the-new-headache-for-bosses-employees-arent-quitting-edca96a3?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqDwgAKgcICjDW3MkBMOfLFTD4648C&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=g&gaa_n=AYRtylZ1ke0ZLH1ckCEFP2GGCIC4n_xN0FqEq8LFWqx3GY4TadN3GMEvH7Qbaq3kjjkPTTpCDNFS5YtXDq4K6_Th9HEmpLcP0cmNiiQ%3D&gaa_ts=654918a7&gaa_sig=lb1oCl60yaoNs8HcJfYk1M0f_fSrrjiayBihY--g_ak4skDFlxNbA_OHBdGvxaMzjEer32NGJtY1CSlpQm84Mw%3D%3D
November 6, 2023 at 4:04 PM
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To be fair, this image is fairly representative of the egalitarianism democracy supposedly confers upon society.
A screenshot of the Google News app showing an NPR article with the headline, "13 former presidents of the U.S. have issued a joint statement in support of democracy." However the image accompanying the article title shows a massive banner displaying branding for the Grindr app, which has recently been in the news due to a change in the company's work-from-home policy. Despite the clear mix up, the banner in the image appears to be hung on the facade of a Neoclassical building, which is also displaying U.S. flags and a Pride flag.
September 9, 2023 at 3:12 PM