Doomerism: And the definition of “poverty”
Doomers love the idea that if you earn less than about $140k/year, you live in poverty.
Media: Can you live on one income?
The proportion of households living on zero, one or two incomes has remained nearly constant for 25 years.
Misogyny alive and well at The Daily Beast
They denigrate women by referring to them as “Barbie”.
He calls himself an “honest pollster”
Famous pollster who calls himself an “honest pollster” is not honest.
Propaganda works by combining believable info into untrue conclusions
An online meme notes that the % of “married”, “homeowners” is low. It is a real decline but they’ve combined 2 independent variables to make it look worse.
Doomerism: Americans feeling better about retirement prospects but let’s spin negative!
This is bad – the article documents things are better, but the original title was “Retirement will ‘take a miracle’ for 21%.
Where Gen Z is traveling in 2025
The “struggling” generation for which everything is awful is apparently planning a lot of international travel for the fall of 2025, says AirBnb.
Media: Click-bait headlines of The Cool Down
The Cool Down’s headlines are funny for their attempt at emotional triggers based on a faux appeal to authority.
Why put “Musk” in front of these story titles?
Why does the media preface any story about Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, etc, with “Musk’s” …
Social media and stress
How the culture of perpetual outrage causes some to be in a constant state of fear and anger, leading to significant health problems. It is not a healthy way to live.