The obsession with lifestyle creep
We hope this X post is a troll meant as satire. Otherwise, we are toast.
Media: The Oregonian goes full on brain dead
“All US Postal Services locations to close, mail won’t be delivered” – because it’s a Federal Holiday, duh.
Social: The Leading Report is fake news, conspiracy tales
Saw people sharing this on social media from a well known fake news/conspiracy theory/misinformation website.
Media: The media’s war on Baby Boomers (or Gen Z…)
Generation bashing stories are created as emotional click-bait nonsense – to get page hits to sell eyeballs to advertisers.
Media: Bloomberg publishes fake story sourced to anonymous troll
I assume that 100% of the news stories are false, as the starting point. I assume all reporters are unethical liars and work from there.
Media:USA Today admits to having hallucinated a story they published
Why report news when you can just publish stuff you made up?
Media: People can only buy homes in 3 US states (hah hah)
Yet homes are selling and home ownership is near an all time high.
“Attention Economics” – how media’s use of “alarming” words inflates reality
“Attention economics” and media headline escalation drives click bait stories. Everything now has a dramatic, scary headline.
Social media: Reminder – the purpose of social media is to make a fool of yourself
TheTransitGuy argues the US is bad because it costs almost $500 to fly between 2 cities, ignoring that taking a bus is about $45, or renting a car is less than $100.
Media: “Single income households are a bygone era”
But that is not what the data says. The media doomers made that up.