• lurkerlady [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    A lot of the people I grew up with are dead now. It’s not insignificant either, it’s like half my friends. :yea:

    I’m in my 20s. Drugs, depression, car wrecks (social murder) killed them.

  • prole [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Before 2010, the estimated lifespan for American early adults increased every year. Deaths from HIV and cancer were plummeting. Homicides had fallen dramatically, and fatalities from circulatory disease, a major cause of death at every adult age, were also falling in this age group. But sometime after 2010, for almost every cause of death, this changed

    Thanks Obama!

    Edit: more seriously, wtf we live in hell

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Call me a liberal but I need to GTFO here. Porky’s victory in burgerland has been absolute and those pigs are squealing in smug laughter on what they did and how they got away with it.

    Even some parts in kkkanada haven’t been completely ruined yet because of the pigs feast. Quebec seems like the least bad part of both the US and Canada.

    I cannot in good conscience raise a family here, and I’m going to have to relive my 20s as a 30-something playing catchup there because here, porky stole my 20s from me.

    Least that pig can do is spit out a thank you sometimes for my “noble sacrifice”.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    People who are 25 to 44 have experienced major turning points in this country’s history: The oldest of them were Reagan babies who launched their careers in the shadow of the Great Recession, and the youngest entered adulthood during a worldwide pandemic

    This is the problem with the “ stonks-up will always go up in the long run” mentality. Even if Wall Street recovers from the crashes, for the people who come into the job market in the middle of the crash, it hurts not just their prospects then but down the line as well. Hits to long term savings, stuck in dead end jobs, employment histories that are less likely to land higher paying jobs. All of which can contribute to these premature deaths that plague burgerland.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      It’s so fucking bizarre that college degrees are things porky laughs at and says “not good enough!” Bro, the workforce literally trained itself and you think they need MORE training before they’re “good enough”? Fuck you, porko.

      I need more people to start thinking that what’s bad for “the economy” is most of the time good for them. Why are we celebrating the economy becoming so efficient that the reserve army of labor is piling up in numbers? Why the fuck should I want anything except for porky’s “real estate portfolio” to go down into the toilet?