I was just shitposting really. It might be UK-specific since the boomer old folks here are all aligned on big policies like “the triple lock” (state pension rising with avg earnings, inflation or 2.5% each year).

I was thinking of doing it how the boomers have done. Old people make up a majority of the voters, especially if their generation makes up a plurality of the society’s demographics. So basically boomers were able to demand all the assistance in terms of acquiring assets (including low taxes) and now they’ve got them they are demanding all the social security goes their way despite it being less than they paid in initially.

Millenials need to make up for lost time though. Maybe we can tell the politicians we’ll only vote for parties that exempt over 60s from any form of taxation and demand that the state retirement payments triple. Just for a start… then we can live another 20-40 years and gradually claw more each year.

Edit: Another idea, we could start building affordable housing again but earmark them as only being for millenials. This is going to be sweet!

Us millenials are going to become the next boomers. The other generations around us like genX, zoomers and genA are comparatively smaller than the millenial generation, substantially so in the UK where I live.

Can’t wait until my peers and I capture the legislators and start redirecting all of society’s resources into our interests.

Edit: Already drafting comments to leave on the comments section of major newspaper articles about how genA need to pull themselves up by their bootraps, stop enjoying avocados, and cultivate some “stick-tuitiveness” (sub in other made-up phrase here).

Trump wasn’t giving him the policies/legislation he was asking for that would put his businesses at an advantage. Additionally Elon was unhappy with the tarrifs. Lastly, they both have large and delicate egos.

That is probably the case - have only heard about this product 2nd hand.

That seems to be what people in this thread are reporting if you read the comments.

So are you going to get the anti-pick nail polish? You seem very interested.

Not sure, I’ve never used it. I assume it’s supposed to tackle step 1 of the nose pick by making step 2 taste bad.

You can get a nail polish like thing that tastes gross (but is non-toxic) to stop the habit of absent mindedly picking

Yeah it was just the last thing in the mod log. Maybe the straw that broke the camel’s back? “I’ll take my fresh/spicy takes somewhere else then!”

Looks like they got banned from the politics sublemmy then rage quit https://lemmy.world/modlog?userId=477305

“Sophistry” is a negative word btw. Didn’t think I’d need to clarify that but here we are.

A lot of the New Atheists (and adjacent intellectuals) are doing this type of sophistry where they’ve doubled back on their old positions and claimed to be “culturally christian”. It’s partially an admission that they are uncomfortable with the direction secular, progressive society has taken in the past 20 years or so.

Big Fish in particular got me because my dad is similar to the protagonist’s.

I think it might be dependent on context, unfortunately/confusingly.

That’s the one! Funny store about the name - it’s a recursive condiment.

Edit: sorry for inbox spam btw, lemmy.world having outages

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Let me interject for a moment. What you’ve referred to as “butter” is actually “I can’t believe it’s not/butter”. Have a pleasant day!

To be honest even matrix has too many features for me as a discord alternative. I’ve got my IRC channels that I’m keen on and I hang out on those every day.

Realise I’m probably unusual for being happy with 90s tech though!

Exorcist 3 is an overlooked masterpiece but was received quite well by critics so not really suitable for this thread. Just wanted to plug it in case someone hadn’t seen it.

Yeah this is the best possible outcome for a stoner lol

He’ll be a regular posting on lemmy in a few months