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'Disenfranchised' millennials feel 'locked out' of the housing market and it taints every part of economic life, top economist Mark Zandi says

Are we supposed to think it’s normal that millennials are the first generation in modern American history who will die younger and poorer than their parents?

On average a quarter of millennial parents’ combined income goes to childcare. That is bizarre and unprecedented. Is it normal that they have 1/10th the wealth their parents did at the same age? That very few of them will retire?

People are unhappy because their lives suck. Millennials have iPhones and cars, sure. But these are toys. They aren’t important. What’s important is family, community, access to nature, good health, education, accomplishments, creative outlets, hope for the future. Instead we have YouTube and Samsung and other distracting material garbage that all the neoliberals think amounts to anything. Ridiculous.

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Noam Chomsky, 95, ‘no longer able to talk’ as intellectual’s ‘health deteriorates’

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This comment is global-warming-denialism levels of stupid. I’m honestly shocked.

LLM’s have no such implications for the field of linguistics. They’re barely relevant at all.

Do I really need to point out that human beings do not learn language the way LLMs “learn” language? That human beings do not use language the way LLM’s “use” language? Or that human beings are not mathematical models. Not even approximately. I fucking hate this timeline.

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Happy holidays

After decades in the US, I’m yet to meet a real Christian. Folks pretending to be Christian all conveniently forget that the rich can’t enter the kingdom of heaven, that they should sell their possessions, feed the poor, heal the sick, and meekly turn the other cheek.

America has no Christians. Just cultists and charlatans.