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  • Every generation thinks this. Yet adults continue to setup children for failure expecting them to clean up their mess.

    No fuck that. Let’s start now and fix issues — climate change, racial disparity, gender wage gap, re-secure abortion rights, housing shortage.

    These can be solved long before our children are born. We just refuse to do anything. Governments sit on their ass while O&G pollutes the planet. People refuse to change their lifestyles and accept change is needed (ie, change from inefficient car centric transportation and suburban sprawl in USA, widening highways). With AI making strides towards making a large portion of population jobless, universal basic income needs to be discussed. Investing in the people through more support programs and lifting people out of poverty. Healthcare for all.

    We can’t even get this basic shit right. What makes you think children in the future will? Generations of today were setup for failure. Generations of tomorrow are set up for failure.








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    It’s crazy how the people and govt have let this go on for so long. This has been a known issue with consumer grade printers for a long time now. I remember my parents bitching about ink costs when I was in grade school. Now these companies have raced to the bottom and are locking them down.

    Personally, I have found myself to print less than a dozen pages per year. Usually it’s some government office that wants hard copy. For every instance, I just used my local Office Depot to handle all of my printing needs. So glad I don’t have to deal with printer bs












  • I do believe financial literacy plays a huge part in it. But at the same time the credit card industry is sort of known to hand out credit cards like candy.

    Some of yall probably are not aware but before the CARD act, the CCC companies would send reps to American campuses. “Sign on bonuses” were given to students who applied for their card. Usually cheap trinkets like a bong or even just straight cash.

    Students without any stable job would get credit limits that would not make sense. This temptation lead to poor spending habits and accumulation of debt. Possibly even filing for bankruptcy later in life or just having bad marks on credit reports due to non-payment and sent to collections (this impacts ability to get other loans).

    It’s stacked against the normal person.