Yeah I heard they always have burnt tongues because they eat all their food before it becomes cool.

Lol that's incredible. Never seen it before, thanks.

Yes, parents obviously still pay an important role. But we regulate many things for people under the age of 18 to generally good effect.

Sounds accurate. He thinks things work like 80s action movies. He probably literally got mad when they told him Rambo was a fictional character, so they had to force some guy to legally change his name to Rambo so Trump would be happy.

The idea that you can just "send" "special forces" "assassins" to kill cartel leaders in a foreign country is fairly challenging just as an accomplishsble mission, let alone factoring in the potential and very serious blowback from the cartels AND the Mexican government.

$20 says he recently watched Sicario or something.

I was talking about Vancouver, TX. What are you on about?

And also they're from lemmy.ca 😆

I meant in real countries.

Sorry, I'm originally from the upper Midwest, so I'm required to poke fun at Canada any time the opportunity presents itself.

A focus on appearance and current trends? My brother in Feist, you just described everyone under the age of like 40.

Edit: I guess Wikipedia says "modern hipsters" basically declined/disappeared around 2016-2017, which feels right.

Trump’s support among women increased in 2024 compared to 2020, despite the common narrative about this. 7% more women voted for him, and this increase wasn’t just among white women as is commonly assumed. In fact, for the first time since 2016, Trump actually lost support from white women.

The biggest shifts came from Latinas: 20% more voted for Trump than in 2020, continuing a steady rise in Latina support since 2016. He also gained 5% more support from Asian women. Beyond women, Trump made gains with voters under 30 and most men, but his biggest wins were with Latine voters and the youth vote overall.

It's clear that an anti-woman political platform seems to increase -- or at least not substantively undermine -- support from women. Sure, there are probably other big issues at play, but the data suggests that negatively targeting women in a political platform mainly turns off people with higher education levels, but not women themselves overall.

Just because things have been started and the money had already been allocated doesn't mean if it somehow gets on Trump's radar that the democrats initiated something that might actually be good for America that's still going when he's president that he won't viciously ruin it.

More realistically like 15 years, but, yeah, same difference in the end.

Honest question, do hipsters still exist? I thought that went out like 5-10 years ago. I don't really see them anymore.

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I understand what you're saying. I'm just saying it's relevant because the article and underlying research article are ultimately about increased volcanic activity at the site of a supervolcano. The purpose of their research was to establish what was underlying volcanic activity that might indicate an eruption from other cause of emissions.

Also, noting how destructive supervolcanoes would hypothetically be is relevant just because it's crazy.

It's talking about how those small-scale emissions indicate higher risk of super-volcanic eruption, which is the part of the topic of the third section of the article and is the implicit concern throughout the article.

In fact, the entire point of the article is to discuss how analyzing these emissions can be used to determine if it's simply the "dissolution of calcite in the surrounding rocks" or if it is "traced back to underground magma," allowing geologists to determine if volcanic activity and eruption risk is increasing. This data was used to raise the "warning level" of the area from green to yellow.

Yeah, it would mostly be the sulfur and volcanic winter. And the famine.

The article is talking about supervolcanoes, and you're talking about regular volcanic eruptions. I'm clarifying the difference in magnitude.

Just a single dollar bill, and everyone gets it for one day and can only spend it on another influencer. Reminds me of those dudes in college that are convinced it is ok that they are failing, because eventually people are going to pay millions to watch a stream of them playing video games in their filthy rooms. 🤣

Or maybe Z knows something about inflation that everyone else doesn't lol

That might be minimum wage in two decades who knows

Gen Z’s financial ambitions, and the dissonance between their dreams and reality, honestly highlight a troubling cultural shift that I'm sure, if we're honest, we all recognize. This poll, while maybe not bulletproof in methodology, lines up with other findings from Credit Karma, other Morning Consult surveys, and academic sources like PLOS and Collabra: Psychology. The term "money dysphoria," used by financial therapists, gets to the heart of the issue, which is a mismatch between the paychecks, fame, and wealth many envision and the actual economic terrain we're navigating. The fact that more than half of Gen Z reportedly wants to be influencers points to a broader trend where social media distorts not only career goals but also broader ideas about value and success.

Researchers see Gen Z as unique—sometimes in ways worth celebrating, but more often in ways that are troubling. Every generation wrestles with the pressures of its time, but Gen Z is the only generation that spent critical childhood-development years under a spotlight powered by social algorithms, constantly fed by curated images and endless comparisons. It seems obvious this environment is going to shape approaches to work, wealth, and purpose, often in ways that are kind of adrift from reality. What stands out here isn’t just misplaced optimism; it’s the fallout of growing up in an ecosystem designed to blur the lines between aspiration and delusion.

This isn’t to pin dysfunction entirely on Z; after all, no one chooses the world they inherit. But the extent to which our formative years were shaped by this digital distortion makes the challenges uniquely sharp. Gen Z was effectively raised in a hall of mirrors. That's going to have an effect. And honestly, when I'm talking with from Gen Z about it, we tend to either completely agree and are pretty worried about it, or some people absolutely deny it and get pretty angry about it.

I think if you're honest with yourself and are in college, you can kind of look around your classrooms and see who is going to feel which way.

I don't think you're accounting for the massive difference in scale when considering a super-volcanic eruption. It would cause global famine and a massive die-off of most species including humans. If Yellowstone went off, for instance, we would be living under volcanic winter for at least a decade. It would release something like 1,000 gigatons of CO2, which would be roughly equivalent to all human caused CO2 since the industrial revolution, and it would do it all at once.

By way of example, the Toba supervolcano was so devastating and caused so much death it literally created a pronounced genetic bottleneck in the history of human genome.