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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • oh, you think that was sensitivity? It was slightly confused amusement at the way you started off with a faux flattery and ended saying my comment somehow confirmed your thesis.

    Your follow-up is a second attempt to rage bait me, and is equaly bemusing… and ineffective.

    well i suppose it was effective in the fact i chose to respond at all.

    Your assertions make no sense and lack any objective data to reinforce them. it’s not worth my rage, just my pity.









  • i think you probably still have the meaning wrong, as i concluded it is the equivalent of “down low”,which to me is saying “don’t want this to go public”. you know, don’t want people to notice. sensitive topic. yadda yadda.

    either way, over used. i remind my 10 yo when i notice him doing it. i point out such phrases lose meaning when overused. they become fillers, not information.










  • The oldest Gen X cohort is 60 years old now. we’re not holding on to anything past retirement age… yet.

    Note that there are many boomers who are poor and are working because they have no choice. Contrary to popular belief, most jobs were not that cushy over the last 50 to 60 years. pensions were steadily whacked, jobs were sent offshore. Maybe consider listening to the Billy Joel song called “Allentown”.

    Gen X is cynical and never believed they were going to get retirement anyway precisely because they watched what happened to the generation before them.


  • Someone else already got to it before me to show that ageism is really a thing. However, I still want to comment.

    The dirty little secret about unemployment statistics in the United States of America is that it only counts people who are considered searching for work.

    Searching for work means they’re receiving unemployment benefits. My benefits ran out six to eight months ago. I am not considered unemployed.

    Consistently, month after month, the percentage of the population that is in the workforce is decreasing. I believe that statistic is called the workforce participation rate. This is why the unemployment rate is so low. Everybody who can’t find a job and finally gives up drops off the list.

    I saw a figure that I can’t get the source for at the moment that states we have about a 14% rate of people who are unemployed who want to work.