MyBrainHurts

This is just silliness. Jobs and futures still exist, just because your corner of social media is going nuts doesn't change that.

The generation prior grew up with the ever present threat of nuclear annihilation and still managed to go put on their shoes and work.

A good number of my friends are electricians, plumbers, pipe fitters or in HVAC but uhhh, sure there buddy.

Lol.

Yes, losing half your workforce, mostly the best and brightest, is no impediment at all...

What a silly Billy.

Basically all of what you said was equally applicable 20 years ago and folks atill managed to get degrees, handle a real courseload, pay attention for a whole lecture etc. And then we graduated into the worst financial/employment crisis of the last 100 years.

A lot of this feels like made up gripe reinforced by being online way too much. Maybe it's the result of rocking a smartphone and the resulting doomed echo chambers since childhood but it seems to have broken a whole generation.

You don't want one of the lucrative credentialed jobs like lawyer, engineer, doctor etc? Sure. But my God, we can't even get kids to join the trades which pay great, cost almost nothing to enroll and are all but guarantees of job security.

Did you mean to respond to someone else? What words were put in your mouth?

And you might note the thousands who have resigned from the DOJ, leaving mostly incompetent goofs behind who cannot secure convictions. (Because, yup, they respected the DoJ's independence. In other words, one of those guardrails working.)

Those same guardrails have repeatedly stopped trump this term.

Just because things didn't happen as you wish they did does not mean they failed, full fucking stop.

??? Flock seems shitty (I'm Canadian) but it seems like a lightpole or so. A train and the network requires a million times the property appropriation. And to be effective, a chunk of that should be the most sense/expensive land around!

I know every generation says it about the next but gen Z is just fucking weak. Some great people and an admittedly, dealt a shitty hand.

But.

I'm going back to school as an elder millennial and my God, some of the craziness I've heard. A buddy teaches a film theory course a lot of kids use to satisfy early arts requirements at universities and he quickly realized if he didn't show the movie in class, 2/3 of the class wouldn't watch it despite being available through the school website. So, essentially, these kids (or their parents) are paying hundreds of dollars to watch movies instead of engaging.

The degree for which I'm going back recommends only 4 courses a tern with no work.I knew engineers who rocked 6 or 7, worked and were party animals.

Every advisor with whom I've spoke has basically said "look, if you're going to treat it as an adult with adult work habits, you can handle 5 courses without trouble." But they have all these disclaimers because kids and their parents go nuts when Johnny, who was just streaming hockey highlights all class somehow didn't get a good grade.

Firing the AG for not prosecuting the cases you want prosecuted, IS nakedly political.

The DOJ's independence is one of the strongest guardrails protecting American democracy and why so many decent people have resigned rather than submit.

Look at trials in Russia (about which there are some amazing albeit depressing documentaries) to see where a coopted justice department ends up.

As much as I personally would have liked it, I cannot support making the justice department nakedly partisan/political. It's horrifying that trump has tried to do so and I'm relieved the guardrails are still (basically) holding.

It's hard to be the good side. Like how the movie villain gets to throw babies for the hero to rescue (God, Hard Boiled is so good) but we don't win by becoming the bad guys ourselves.

Lol, seriously?

Complaining about the most mild of inconveniences somehow doesn't belittle those who actual struggled? That's just nonsense.

Look, if Bezos complains that his superyacht only has room for 3 jet skis and he'd like room for four because otherwise people have to share, is that actually him celebrating the restless dissatisfaction of his forebearers? Or, is it one of the most privileged people who have ever walked the Earth complaining about the most trivial of things?

There are many things about which people should complain. Doing the dishes is not one of them.