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  1. Wordle 1,645 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  2. Really good post- all I would say is that millennials have gotten the worst deal in American history. GenX had to wait. GenX didn’t have our financial futures intentionally destroyed in order to save the people who destroyed the economy and blew up the contract with labor.
  3. I think that is the intention. That’s one of the reasons it disturbs me. The other reason, which is far more troubling, is the truth it contains, because real grievance is much more powerful in politics than the confected variety. Look at this thread. Multiple people are copping to the fact that yeah, millennial men probably were discriminated against en masse in certain fields for about a decade exclusively based on their race and gender, but most are kind of brushing them off as “mediocre white men.” But since the vast majority of all people in the workforce and population are pretty mediocre, what y’all are really saying is that it’s fine for an individual to have their opportunities limited because of their race and gender if it squares up the ledgers of representation grievances. That’s a real political problem for progressives, among other things. Maybe he is, but I’ve seen a lot of what he’s describing. It was pretty pervasive at big companies and in tech for about a decade. Again, it’s going viral because people are recognizing their own experiences in the essay.
  4. The threat of what, long rebound? It would be great if he develops a decent 3, but even if he doesn’t he won’t be a bust. Giannis makes/shoots 3s at the same rate Flagg does, and I wouldn’t call him a bust.
  5. Agree on all counts.
  6. When I heard this news today I was getting a propane fill at U-Haul and it was so satisfying I almost asked the attendee for a cigarette.
  7. I can only speak to what I’ve seen. Among millennials I’ve never seen anyone exceptional passed over ever. Exceptional people are exceptional. But in the 2010’s I saw lots of well qualified millennial males disqualified from consideration for promotional or mid career opportunities strictly on the basis of maleness.
  8. I’m not sure who you are responding to here.
  9. Dude, whatever the number is- normalize for the zip code where they lived in high school and see what you’re left with.
  10. For somebody under 45? Nah. If you take away the ~5% with money and family connections and they are just as fucked as everyone else. It’s nice not to get shot, tho. That’s not nothing.
  11. Honestly, I think it’s about the same. To achieve the basics of “The American Dream” in this world requires three or more of the following: - brains - looks - family connections and money - good health - hard work White men, out of the box, have one really big advantage: if they interact with police they almost certainly won’t die. That’s a very big deal and I don’t want to minimize it. But otherwise, the vast majority of white men under 45 are just as fucked as everyone else and the vast majority of them will struggle all their lives and not amount to shit.
  12. I only saw what happened in global tech companies, and a TV writers room has no relationship to college degrees, but I agree with you there. .
  13. Ok, but taken at face value what do you think? Look there is a lot about this essay I find very silly. But the reason why it resonated with me was because it aligns with my first hand experience and direct visibility to what was happening, which is what 956 saw as well and describes above. If I was a millennial male who was denied opportunities exclusively on the basis of my race and/or gender I would be pretty bitter and pretty cynical also, and I have to think it drove a few people straight into the arms of the American right wing or whoever wanted to pursue that grievance.
  14. Yeah, that seems like a pretty significant and really bad impact.
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