May 2013
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The Cheapest Generation →
fuckyeahfeminists:
Why Millennials arent buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy
BECAUSE WE HAVE NO MONEY!
How about about calling us cheap, you out-of-touch “old” people do this:
- Hire us and PAY LIVING WAGES. Hard to afford a house or a new car if your entry-level job is now an unpaid internship, eh?
- Stop making college cost 3x more than it did a generation ago. If...
Black men in this country are three times more likely to be incarcerated than...
– NAACP President Ben Jealous: Putting people in jail ‘is how we solve almost every problem’ in America (via current)
New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto... →
stfuconservatives:
A new app allows you to scan a product in the supermarket aisle and learn who exactly is behind that box of cereal. More impressively, you can join user-created campaigns to boycott groups of companies who may have lobbied against a cause you believe in.
I couldn’t scream SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY fast enough at this. And it’s free! Due to all the traffic, the app is down...
Charges dropped against Florida teen over amateur... →
stfuconservatives:
stfusexists:
The 16-year-old high school student who was arrested after causing a small explosion on school grounds will not be charged with a crime.
GOOD. Good job making the right decision, Florida Powers That Be. That’s 1.
YESSSSS oh my god some actual good news this week
Fibromyalgia has a reputation as a mysterious illness: The symptoms are diverse,...
– Universität Würzburg: Fibromyalgia: First Proof Found
(via heatherpattern)
Yes!!!!
(via fibrolicious)
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
– A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (via dulcetdecember)
Fuck yeah, feminists!: whoistorule: i hate unpaid... →
whoistorule:
i hate unpaid internships so fucking much
unpaid internships exploit college graduates, most of whom have exorbitant student loans, into working 30-40 hours weeks for no pay
at which time they start owing massive amounts of interest on their student loans
they often don’t…
I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m that chewed up piece of gum, nobody re-chews a piece...
– Elizabeth Smart on being raped, Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence-only education can make rape survivors feel ‘dirty,’ ‘filthy’ (via msnbc)
Abstinence-only education, what an oxymoron. -FA (via friendlyatheist)