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EartherClimate ChangeMillennial Republicans Aren’t Quite as Into Climate Denial as Boomers
Younger Republicans are finally kinda sorta starting to understand climate change, according to new survey results. But they’ve got a seriously long way to go. Results from a Pew Research Center poll released on Monday show that while younger members of the Republican party are starting to shift away from climate denial, they still have … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeHero Politician Shuts Down Heckler With ‘OK Boomer’ During Climate Speech in New Zealand
Chlöe Swarbrick, a 25-year-old member of New Zealand’s parliament, was interrupted by another politician while giving a speech about climate change on Tuesday. And rather than stop everything to address the heckles, she did what anyone of her generation has learned to do when confronted with climate deniers. She said “OK Boomer” and moved on. … Continued
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Tech NewsBillionaire Threatens to Sue YouTuber For Calling Him ‘Fatty McFuckhead’ and Photoshopping Him as Trump’s Baby
Clive Palmer, an Australian billionaire often called the Donald Trump from Down Under, is threatening to sue YouTuber Friendly Jordies for defamation. The popular YouTube personality and comedian, whose real name is Jordan Shanks, posted a video with the threatening letter he recently received from Palmer’s attorney which, among other things, claims that Palmer was … Continued
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Tech NewsTrump Campaign Uses Stock Video of ‘Supporters’ in Latest Facebook Ads
If you watch this YouTube video of a “lifelong Democrat” who now supports President Donald Trump, you might get the impression that “AJ from Texas” wants to secure the U.S.-Mexico border. But that guy’s not named AJ and he’s probably not even from Texas. He’s a stock video model being used by the Trump campaign. … Continued
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Tech NewsDid the Release of the iPhone Cause Millennials to Move Back in With Their Parents?
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams recently posted an interesting question to Twitter. Adams shared a graph showing that the percentage of people between the age of 18 and 34 who live with their parents skyrocketed after 2008. Adams tweeted, “The iPhone was launched in 2007. Is it a coincidence?” The implication, of course, is that people … Continued
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ScienceHealth
Pregnant Millennials May Get Depression More Than Their Mothers in the 1990s
Being a millennial is no picnic. But a new study published this Friday in JAMA Open suggests it’s especially hard for expectant moms. It found that pregnant women today are more likely to feel depressed than their mothers were during their pregnancies a generation ago. Researchers looked at data from an ongoing population study in … Continued
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EartherEarth Science
Millennials Can’t Buy Homes, But Can They Buy That the Earth Is Flat?
Hey, there’s another reason to shake our collective heads at everyone’s favorite generational punching bag. A recently-published YouGov poll that surveyed 8,215 adults online found that a only two-thirds of young millennials, aged 18-24, are totally sure the Earth is round. Look, I love shitting on millennials to compensate for my fear of growing old … Continued
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Tech News
It’s Not Just You, Americans Seem to Be Having Less Sex
Sex is great, so great that recently some researchers concluded it makes life at work better. Information on the greatness of sex is useless if we aren’t actually doing it, though. A large study including data from over 25,000 people seems to confirm what you were probably thinking but too embarrassed to talk about: Compared … Continued
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Tech News
Hey Bloomberg, Which Millennial Hurt You?
We all have obsessions that manifest in ways we’re not aware of. In the case of media conglomerate Bloomberg, it seems its editorial team is completely infatuated with the millennials, this new generation of 18- to 34-year-olds who refuse to play by the rules of the Olds. After reviewing dozens and dozens of articles by … Continued
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Millennials Simply Gotta Have Their Java, No Matter the Cost
According to a new report from Bloomberg, millennials simply gotta have their java. Great for business, you might think, except coffee supplies around the world are tightening. So if we enter into a global coffee shortage, blame the java-crazed millennials. https://jezebel.com/reasons-i-ve-gotta-have-my-java-ranked-1787238970 According to Datassential, Chicago-based researcher, 19-to-34-year-olds account for 44% of coffee consumption in the … Continued
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Tech News
Lazy Millennials Aren’t Even Banging That Much
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all millennials* are lazy fucks, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Likes, Listicles, and the pursuit of Intercourse. Well, not anymore, haters! Despite their reputation as vagrants who can’t stop fucking long enough to land themselves a job, … Continued
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Tech NewsMillennials Will Live in Cities Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen Before
It’s actually hard to know what to believe about millennials, the Americans born after 1980 who make up the largest generation in history. Every week there’s a new ground-shattering revelation about their lifestyles—but the most conflicting reports have to do with where they live. Over the last few years, across the country—around the world, too—people … Continued
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It’s Not Just Millennials: Fewer Americans of All Ages Are Getting Their Drivers’ Licenses
And here we thought only the young folks were passing on their chance to operate a motor vehicle. Turns out that getting your drivers’ license has been steadily falling out of favor for all Americans since the 1980s. Using data from the Federal Highway Administration, a team from the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute … Continued
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Tech NewsAmericans, Have You Ever Considered That You Are the Abnormal Ones?
A recent survey from Pew Research found that 18-34 year-olds are living with their parents for much longer than any generation since the 1960s. 43% of men and 37% of women in this age group are living at home. Commentators on last night’s PBS News Hour called it “the new normal.” But it’s actually the … Continued
