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Buca di Bepis posted:$9k/semester max if he's out of state. $66k in living expenses for 9 months is pretty lol i assume he thought he'd be there for 2 years so that's $36k and my grad school grad girlfriend says you basically double that to cover living expenses so maybe it was only $72k plus interest?
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Obscuritatem posted:sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn't work out the way I wanted too Just one Pepsi and she wouldn't give it to me.
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RaySmuckles posted:i assume he thought he'd be there for 2 years so that's $36k and my grad school grad girlfriend says you basically double that to cover living expenses so maybe it was only $72k plus interest? what does it matter if he thought he'd be paying for 2 years of tuition if he only paid for 1 if i take out a loan for $20k and don't actually use it that's not debt lol
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# ? May 5, 2016 03:09 |
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Buca di Bepis posted:what does it matter if he thought he'd be paying for 2 years of tuition if he only paid for 1 i literally don't know. i don't have debt and he just told us this at a party this weekend. i have no reason to assume he's lying. like, sure lol and stuff; that's insane levels of debt, but in the words of our future president "what difference does it make?" these are the circumstances people in my generation are dealing with and these are people with graduate degrees in STEM which is supposed to be the silver bullet to millennial woes
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i can easily imagine a 20-something inflating their debt to compete in a hosed up 2016 dick waving contest
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Buca di Bepis posted:i can easily imagine a 20-something inflating their debt to compete in a hosed up 2016 dick waving contest yeah except it wasn't at all. we were talking about rent and how he and his girlfriend are saving a ton of money by living in a house with 2 other roommates to which he said he wouldn't be able to live in denver if it wasn't for his particular living circumstances. then he came forth with a description of his debt, completely unsolicited. so i wouldn't call it a "dick waving competition" so much as a candid description of his finical situation
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# ? May 5, 2016 03:19 |
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uh im pretty sure i struggle for success because im hella mentally ill not any of this grit bullshit
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# ? May 5, 2016 03:21 |
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the generation where everyone got participation ribbons has trouble handling failure you say
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:the generation where everyone got participation ribbons has trouble handling failure you say The only participation ribbons I got were for showing up to school everyday and not missing a single day. Never saw that award for anything else.
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# ? May 5, 2016 04:21 |
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Every generation is basically the loving same. Even the greatest generation got "participation ribbons" Purple Heart: You got shot you loving dumbass. Way to go! Good Conduct Medal: You showed up for your job on time most of the time, only landed in jail once in a 6 month time period, and didn't piss anyone off too much! Jump Wings/Airborne tab: Way to go on getting pushed out of an airplane. Broke both of your legs on landing? gently caress it, you still tried and didn't die. I'll let a mil goon weigh in more on this but back in the day many boomers got literal gold stars for doing nothing other than being good friends with someone high up on the food chain, or coming from a lucrative upbringing with connections.
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Avalanche posted:Every generation is basically the loving same. I'm so loving glad someone finally took those bastards who got shot for their country's sake down a notch. Thanks.
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satanic splash-back posted:I'm so loving glad someone finally took those bastards who got shot for their country's sake down a notch. Thanks. pretty sure this is GBS right?
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Dreddout posted:Have you tried weed today? poo poo, stoners have been breeding it to be exponentially more powerful. That's the sort of weed you smoke when you're coming down off acid or ecstasy. It's great they've got some for that purpose. They clearly need something stronger.
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RaySmuckles posted:yeah except it wasn't at all. we were talking about rent and how he and his girlfriend are saving a ton of money by living in a house with 2 other roommates to which he said he wouldn't be able to live in denver if it wasn't for his particular living circumstances. then he came forth with a description of his debt, completely unsolicited. not very candid if he lied about how much school cost him tbh
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satanic splash-back posted:I'm so loving glad someone finally took those bastards who got shot for their country's sake down a notch. Thanks. lol if you think everyone in the military is a "hero" even the ones who got shot
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I didn't get any grit until I was like 28
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RaySmuckles posted:lol if you think everyone in the military is a "hero" You're right, your sacrifice of 5 dollars for a sanders avatar was a much bigger sacrifice.
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satanic splash-back posted:You're right, your sacrifice of 5 dollars for a sanders avatar was a much bigger sacrifice. is this one of those "you're a goon, you aren't good like our soldiers?" cuz i was a soldier but fortunately not anymore
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Devian666 posted:That's the sort of weed you smoke when you're coming down off acid or ecstasy. It's great they've got some for that purpose. They clearly need something stronger. In my hometown if you didn't want weed the only other option was meth. There was a 40% chance your dealer would try to kill you via rottweiler. The struggle is real.
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Dreddout posted:In my hometown if you didn't want weed the only other option was meth. This is how Millennials are hosed it's the baby boomers selling them poo poo drugs like meth. It isn't just debt slavery through mortgages, student loans and $100k of credit card debt it's the drugs man. Baby boomers have to hook you on meth to pay for their retirement, those heartless animals.
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Devian666 posted:This is how Millennials are hosed it's the baby boomers selling them poo poo drugs like meth. It isn't just debt slavery through mortgages, student loans and $100k of credit card debt it's the drugs man. Baby boomers have to hook you on meth to pay for their retirement, those heartless animals. The Rott got better drugs than me.
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RaySmuckles posted:is this one of those "you're a goon, you aren't good like our soldiers?" samb
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Buca di Bepis posted:i can easily imagine a 20-something inflating their debt to compete in a hosed up 2016 dick waving contest You surely aren't suggesting that millenials are bullshitting about how difficult their lives are to cover up the fact that they are just simply poo poo at life? I'm 33 so i am technically "in the bracket" but everyone i know under 30 is just poo poo when it comes to work stuff and money management. A good few are unemployed by choice because the "right" job hasn't come along for them so they stay at home with their parents and play Destiny/WoW all day, i know a couple of qualified teachers who turn down subbing work regularly (that pays more than tenure here) because they just don't feel like working that day/week and the few i know that have good, steady, well paying jobs are living pay check to pay check because they don't seem to realise that life isn't a competition to spend every penny you earn on dumb poo poo with no lasting value.
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# ? May 5, 2016 08:29 |
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as both CEO and former army man I agree, don't know what the shoes mean though
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bongwizzard posted:And I think "feeling Gen X as gently caress" really just means I'm super self-centered, very lazy, yet have an extreme drive to make money as I can and be as comfortable as humanly possible. Agreed except on the self-centered. And I'm lazy as gently caress but I realise how I need to be professional at work and have a good work-reputation, and achieve a... an adequate amount. Because money + career.
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I just hope that we get suicide booths when I'm 50 or 60.
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naem posted:Question # 2: I wanted to come back to this because it's definitely B
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This lady hasn't had to worry about money or having to work for a living a day in her life.
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This seems to be the same CNN crowd that is really excited about The World is Flat. High speed internet proliferation means that even individual jobs can be outsourced! Anyone in India can do nearly any job, for pennies on the dollar! Isn't this exciting and great!? http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-668400 quote:The reasons why the flattening of the world "will be seen in time as one of those fundamental shifts or inflection points, like Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, the rise of the nation-state, or the Industrial Revolution" Competing with everyone else with an internet connection, who ultimately are willing to work for a lot less sounds so great. I can't wait to find out if I have the character type to survive as middle-class. http://video.mit.edu/watch/the-world-is-flat-9145/ Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 13:25 on May 5, 2016 |
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So basically she could just quote the whole "run the race" spiel from the New Testament but change a few words to make it about grit and have half her TED Talk done right there. Open with her dubious definition of "grit" and her laughable research and close with some old people are awesome at "grit" platitudes and she could have a 15 minute spot easy. How much cash do you get for one of them things?
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it's because baby boomers aren't retiring, that coupled with a lot of jobs being done by computers/robots or shipped overseas
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Magic-Doogies posted:The only participation ribbons I got were for showing up to school everyday and not missing a single day. trap sprung; you obviously never participated in sport. Fatso spotted
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I don't give a grit.
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Frosted Flake posted:This seems to be the same CNN crowd that is really excited about The World is Flat. High speed internet proliferation means that even individual jobs can be outsourced! Anyone in India can do nearly any job, for pennies on the dollar! Isn't this exciting and great!? A lot of people on my campus are obsessed with this, I don't think they have actually read it, of course It's basically trickle down economics for liberals who don't understand how capitalism has to work in order to function. Oh sure, the oligarchs of America are going to let African Nestle slaves start their own tech companies, this is a rational belief!
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One of the examples in the talk is an impoverished ceramics dealer in Peru who opened an e-store and is now trying to get his people's locally made ceramics made in China for cheaper. This was an example of helping the local economy, for reasons I can't fathom. Sounds like this one guy will do okay, while selling out his entire village: selling their cultural heritage while also outsourcing their jobs. e: Now imagine Canada, the UK and the US as Peruvian villages and Mulroney, Thatcher and Reagan as the enterprising young man. Instead of pottery, they sold public institutions and whole industries. Progress! Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 16:53 on May 5, 2016 |
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gently caress the ROW posted:trap sprung; you obviously never participated in sport. Fatso spotted I'm a fatso that participated in youth sports and I'm at the old end of millennial, since I was born in 1983. There was not a single kid on any of the teams that I played on that didn't treat participation ribbons and certificates as the worthless pieces of garbage they were. Pretty harsh criticism coming from first graders. Maybe it had to do with being in schools on military bases or in towns around them? Lol if you were proud of your "you lost" trophy. E: not you in particular, just in general.
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This women got a MacArthur grant? Holy poo poo.
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Fried Watermelon posted:The point of this article is to generate clicks and ad views. They might as well squeeze those dollars because all of the Millenials are running Ad Blockers and cord cutting like motherfuckers. Of course the financial squeeze probably won't hit CNN until it's boomer executives have retired.
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