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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do

Correlation does not imply causation.

  • People who spend more time online will be exposed to more scams, and therefore are more likely to fall for one. If you don't see any scams because you don't know how to open "the internet", you won't see scams you can fall for.
  • Gen Z could just be more likely to self report. Self-reporting fault or failure is less socially acceptable among the culture of the boomer generation. Entirely possible Boomers are just lying or not self-reporting.

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The golden years

Dumb take.

I'm in my 30s and working an office job is way less stressful overall than school was. When I'm done with work, I can go home and stop thinking about it.

With school, you can never study "enough", so its always creeping in the back of your subconscious. And good grades alone don't cut it - you've also got to participate in extracurriculars and turn yourself into a trained monkey to write an "interesting enough" college essay. Oh and if you screw any of this up, your entire adult life could be ruined.

Diligent students have it way harder than office workers. Kids need our support and sympathy.

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Twitch reportedly set to lay off around 500 employees later this week

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Twitch builds and maintains the following infrastructure:

  • Website + web video player
  • iOS App
  • Android App
  • Fire TV app
  • Playstation 4 app
  • Xbox One app
  • Chromecast app
  • Apple TV app
  • Real-time chat backend
  • Search services
  • Distributed video storage backend services (VODs)
  • Content recommendation services
  • Account services (streamer accounts and viewer accounts)
  • Monetization services (subscriptions, bits)
  • Twitch Studio + Soundtrack apps for creators

All of this has to run at Twitch scale (140 million MAUs)

And these are just the technical teams. Then add on UX designers, marketing, product and business development, not to mention Business Intelligence data scientists.

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Abercrombie and Fitch ex-CEO accused of exploiting men for sex

I worked at an Abercrombie in college and it was just as exploitative as it sounds. We had to wear Abercrombie-only clothing to work and... you guessed it - they didn't provide it. We had to buy it. As if that weren't bad enough, it had to be "in season", which meant they forced us to buy a new outfit every quarter for the priviledge to work minimum wage retail. They claimed we could choose instead to wear "equivalent" clothing if we didn't want to pay. I once wore reef leather flip flops and they made me cut the 1cm rubber tags off before letting me on the floor.

They ended up getting sued for this practice and about 10 years later I got a settlement check for $7.

I have plenty of other crazy blood boiling stories from that job.