zelon88an hour ago
This makes me think as a father of middle class kids... Kids with middle class parents get one shot in life. If they blow it by getting hooked on drugs or getting a DUI, they will likely struggle to recover for a loooong time. Kids with lower class parents don't even really get that. Kids with upper-middle class parents get to fuck around a little bit. They'll get to party a little but need to be careful not to let it ruin their lives.
Then there's the rich kids. They will get to go to party's, wreck their car, spit on cops, do drugs, buy their homework, and still go to college until they succeed. They will get bailed out of jail, won't have to work, and will go on to write books about how "nobody wants to work" and "jobs chase capital" and "pick yourself up by the bootstraps." And they will get a free ride to the top in daddy's limo.
Kinda like OP.
trick-or-treatan hour ago
> A banana feeds you once. A tree feeds you forever.
This guy has never met a banana tree. They also only feed you once.
asksomeoneelse2 hours ago
I hate that my first move when I see an em dash has become to check the old posts of the author to check whether it's a new "habit" of them.
sigh skip
ifh-hnan hour ago
I used to use em-dashes all the time, same with semicolons, in my academic writing. I love obscure punctuation rules (yes I'm a loser). I've stopped using most of them as AI advanced. Whilst I have a back catalogue of work using them it just wasn't worth the risk of having my work questioned. I'm sad about this AI ruins all the good stuff!
eterm2 hours ago
Remarkably, I found a blog where I thought "This sounds like AI" but I wasn't sure, so I went to their back catalogue from decades ago, and the writing was similar so I gave them a pass.
Then I checked the internet archive.
They had replaced all their back catalogue with AI slop.
joriswan hour ago
TL;DR: Canada has an entrepreneurial self esteem problem
cjs_acan hour ago
Compared to the US, everywhere has an entrepreneurial self esteem problem. A culture that promotes and encourages entrepreneurialism is the US’ special thing.
The Great American Dream is to start your own business and strike it rich. The Great Australian Dream is to own your house rather than rent it.