• Stolen_Stolen_Valor [any]@hexbear.net
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    It’s happening because young people are chronically online and feel like they’re constantly receiving “bad news,” she said. “It makes them feel like Armageddon.”

    It’s not rocket science, when a carton of eggs is inexplicably $12 it’s pretty fucking easy to figure out I’ll never own anything.

    This is backwards logic. The real world creates the panic and the internet is a reflection of it.

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    96% of Americans are concerned about the economy

    Could this be because the economy is bad? No, it’s the people experiencing this reality that are wrong!

    i-love-not-thinking

    For all the shit liberals give conservatives for being disconnected from reality (deservedly), they sure aren’t very tethered to it themselves.

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    MFW finishing a STEM degree and going away to college again is my “doom spending”.

    The economy is so fucked I’m considering using my savings on a modern day PERMISSION SLIP TO WORK THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT!

    All I want is to GTFO my parents’ basement, make some friends, and participate in society but the job market won’t let me because I’m not a PhD Harvard valedictorian with 20+ years of experience.

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    “Doom spending,” the new media term from the same people who harp on why it’s important that inflation be constant lest people not spend all their money all the time to keep the economy afloat curious-marx

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      The fuck is “doom spending” anyway? Like people spending their money as soon as they get it because it won’t be worth as much the next day? I know I find myself doing that. It’s how you deal with inflation when you’re not bourgeois.

      Or is it something else? America explain!

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        i think it’s more like “i technically have the money to buy (expensive thing i don’t need) and i know i probably can’t afford it in the long run but fuck it, i’m gonna be broke either way”

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          I was surprised to see that the guys behind the Landtone klone kits (those Amazon build-your-own-klone deals) were selling finished pedals – that was who I got mine from.

          There’s also this other brand, Ginean, who was apparently Harmon Group’s overseas builder for various DOD pedals, and they have dirt-cheap versions of the Gonkulator, Carcosa fuzz, and a couple of other DOD drive pedals from before the CorTek buyout. The circuit boards, control layouts, and pedal cases are identical, just with different paint jobs/branding and no DOD stamp on the back plate. Oh, and a weird bevel around the top of the pedal case. But yeah, $35 USD Gonkulator “clone.” Hard to go wrong with that, other than the fact that it’s a damn Gonkulator and its mere existence is an affront to, uh, something that doesn’t Gonk very well.

  • DengistDonnieDarko [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    turns out, watching the global climate get worse faster every year with nothing being done about it makes you feel like there’s no reason to save for the future :) I cashed out my meager 401k a few years ago for some padding/spending money because there’s 0 reason to save for a retirement I will never make it to. fucking bleak!

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    Climate change. Genocide. Inability to change anything. Divorce.

    Hell yeah, I’m doom spending.

    Credit cards, maxed.

    Watching the end of the world on a $5000 TV, priceless.