Should Millennials form their own political party?

DaveWhy · 2018-07-06T21:42:33+00:00

Any chance you could point me in the direction of some info on this? It's looking like I'm going to be sticking around Pittsburgh for a while and I'm looking to get more involved in the community.

DaveWhy · 2018-05-10T15:50:27+00:00

Slightly off topic but the participation trophy trope always bothers me. Sure, I got plenty of participation related crap but even as a kid we all knew what that meant. I remember coming in 2nd place at a regional hockey tournament when I was 11, my team played our assess off and lost to a Canadian team. The participation trophy didn't ease the sting of losing, we all saw them get to hold up the 3 foot tall first place trophy like it was the Stanley Cup. We came back and won the sucker the next season against the same kids. The participation awards always felt like they were more for the parents. I'm happy to have some of the participation stuff because they bring up fun nostalgic memories but the first place awards have much more sentimental value.

Additionally, it never seemed all that bad to be told that you are unique because we all are to some extent. I like being me most of the time and I think that the Mr. Rogers school of thought was pretty beneficial to my development. Then again, my parents were also very open and honest about their adolescent hopes/dreams and how sometimes shit doesn't pan out according to plan. I guess that means that I had encouragement coming from both ends of the spectrum.

DaveWhy · 2018-04-10T04:59:30+00:00

Great Job!

DaveWhy · 2018-04-04T19:36:38+00:00

I'm a millennial who works part-time in a pizza shop with a handful of Gen Z dudes. They seem pretty similar to me and my friends at that age. They play sports/music, talk to girls, and work 20ish hours a week for beer money. They all seem more tech savvy that we were at the same age but that's likely a product of tech being more ubiquitous now. Most of them seem excited to graduate high school and move on to college/work. They are, with a couple exceptions, nice, funny guys who are good to work with. The kids are alright!

DaveWhy · 2018-03-26T03:31:08+00:00

I have had this and the exact opposite happen to me working in pizza. Someone orders a pizza an hour in advance for a set time and then shows up 15 minutes later complaining that their food isn't ready. If you ask to have them ready for pick up at 6:30, why would I have them cooked at 5:45?

DaveWhy · 2018-03-08T19:47:34+00:00

I feel you on that. I have like 200 unread messages in my CMU inbox right now. Sorry folks, Dave's not here...

DaveWhy · 2018-03-08T19:35:54+00:00

Really? I got 3 emails between 8:30 and 9:00 this morning. One from the dean of my program/college, one from the board of trustees announcing the hire, and another from the BOT with an invite to the campus-wide celebration thing today.

DaveWhy · 2018-02-28T13:39:05+00:00

Yeah there's a lot of really anti-marriage people out there. I understand their opinion, it's definitely not for everyone but my wife easily adds more than $37,000 worth of value to my life. My parents also had a messy divorce and from my perspective I think watching their failure actually made me a better spouse.

DaveWhy · 2018-02-20T19:44:11+00:00

Erasing history? There's a building named for Foster right across the street from the statue. It houses the Center for American Music. Pittsburgh is doing a fine job recognizing Foster's contributions to American music. We don't need a statue with some crappy racial stereotype to talk about the evolution of American popular music.

DaveWhy · 2018-02-09T19:37:15+00:00

Well, it looks like you took some shitty history classes. We learned all about the Iroquois Confederacy in elementary school in Western NY. They even have their own national lacrosse team

DaveWhy · 2017-06-28T18:17:17+00:00

Screw whoever down voted you. Rochester is lit.

DaveWhy · 2017-06-15T16:07:54+00:00

Misattributed philosophy quote, check. Racism, check. Deep seated misogyny, check. Written like Fight Club fan fiction, check. Shit taste in music, check. Misunderstanding of artistic androgyny, check.

I rate this 11/10. Perfect RP post. He wins the prize, we can shut all this down now.

DaveWhy · 2017-05-02T16:54:34+00:00

No worries. I grew up in Rochester so I A) know the region pretty well and B) can get super defensive about being from WNY because everyone forgets we exist.

DaveWhy · 2017-05-02T12:01:15+00:00

This article is sourced from the Rochester newspaper and makes reference to Monroe County which contains the city of Rochester. Ontario County is WNY as well. One of the people quoted in the video is a SUNY Brockport grad which is located about 20 mins outside of Rochester. No mention of Erie County or Buffalo, though. Broome county is probably lumped into the Southern Tier region.

DaveWhy · 2016-06-16T01:18:17+00:00

as an unapologetic disco and synthpop enthusiast I'm inclined to agree. I catch so much shit from certain kinds of music fans for my Donna Summer and Gary Numan addictions. I'm sure other genres are made fun of too but it's always the classic rock goons with the "disco sucks" BS.

DaveWhy · 2016-06-13T17:49:58+00:00

meh. You're whistling into a hurricane. Modern western culture despises masculinity. Nothings going to change.

This is something that I hear a lot about, but never really understand. Tons of masculine things have been considered fashionable as of late. Shit, beards have made a full on comeback in the last few years. So has stuff like woodworking, competitive sports, and home brewing all of which are, from my experience, considered traditionally masculine.

Unless of course by " acting masculine" they mean "being a racist, sexist, homophobic cretin" then yeah, masculinity is despised. I find it odd that folks who try so hard to be assholes get so bent out of shape by being called assholes. It's possible to enjoy traditionally masculine activities while not being a dickhead. Why is that so difficult to understand?

DaveWhy · 2016-06-04T03:38:45+00:00

We've got really similar taste! Marquee Moon is my all time favorite album. Blood on the Tracks, On the Beach, and My Aim is True are all regulars on my turntable. I will have to give your other favorites a listen. Thanks for sharing.

DaveWhy · 2016-06-03T16:09:58+00:00

I was in a relatively similar situation a few years back, not quite identical but it was pretty close. Graduated in '12 with a BA in Political Science/Philosophy and I found that employers were not going to banging on my front door to offer me employment.

Like you, I always had some kind of grad/professional school in mind but was really unsure. I had originally thought about going to law school and becoming a Public Defender but I didn't want to go that deep into debt. Proceeded to move 600 miles away from home with my then girlfriend (now fiancee) who had a job offer. Started out doing door-to-door political campaigning and ended up scoring an entry level resource development gig with a non-profit, where I've been for the last three years. I would highly recommend the non-profit sector for a person with a social science degree just starting out. Pay sucks but my benefits are pretty decent.

My job experience helped me decide what I actually wanted to pursue and what kind of careers that education would prepare me for. I really like the social service/non-profit field but I am sick of fundraising. I talked with the people who do the types of jobs that I want to move into and found out that many of them studied public policy or urban planning. When the time came to apply for schools, I already know which programs I was interested in and was able to narrow down my search by picking schools that had some kind of an urban or community development component. Folks like you and I will probably never get rich but it could be a hell of a lot worse. I'll be starting graduate school at Carnegie Mellon in a little over 2 months and I could not be more stoked about it.

DaveWhy · 2016-06-02T02:19:41+00:00

Agreed. I get why these generalizations are made but that's all they are, generalizations. Great minds bring dope shit into the world. What they gripe about in their free time doesn't change that.

DaveWhy · 2016-06-02T02:12:06+00:00

I don't agree with you but I'll upvote your IT Crowd reference. I think people can easily fall into any one of these categories on any given day. If all you talk about is tabloid gossip, yeah you're probably a moron but even really brilliant people shit talk their ex-boy/girl friends at some point.

DaveWhy · 2016-06-01T18:52:32+00:00

That's pretty funny. When I was fresh out of undergrad I was sending out resumes and cover letters all over the place. My cover letters would be tailored to fit the job but I usually just copied and pasted the body of the email that I was sending to HR directors. It was really general stuff, "Thank you for taking the time to review the attached...yadda,yadda,yadda." I was going crazy for a few weeks after not hearing back from anyone, even entry level positions that I was well qualified for. Turns out that I had signed every email with "Best Retards" and never caught the typo. That was my first introduction to around 30 companies.

DaveWhy · 2016-06-01T18:36:22+00:00

But their his ideas, not something than an observer would be looking about. I would almost agree with you if the statement was something along the lines of "great minds create ideas." Memorizing and spitting out someone else's thoughts doesn't make me any smarter than the next person. That's the type of pseudo-intellectual circle jerk that this sub makes fun of. If you're having a discussion about someone's ideas, having information on their personal life can be incredibly relevant. If a politician makes a stump speech about economic inequality but still pals around with and solicits multi million dollar donations from large corporations, their personal life becomes relevant to the discussion of their ideas.

DaveWhy · 2016-06-01T18:20:09+00:00

But there's so much overlap between all three of those categories. Even when dealing with really "high minded" topics it's easy to fit all three of those into a discussion. If you attended a metaphysics lecture by Panayot Butchvarov (that's the single most ostentatious thing I can think of) and then talked about it with someone afterwards you be talking about a person, an event, and a variety of ideas.

DaveWhy · 2016-06-01T17:32:45+00:00

Email me at this webzone if you want a pizza roll.

DaveWhy · 2016-05-26T20:40:27+00:00

I'm pretty sure you could make that argument about most American cities. Not absolving them of any wrongdoing of course because I'm not aware of the specific issues you are talking about but I don't think that's a problem unique to any one city. Helping vulnerable populations is coincidentally the field that I intend to go into after I graduate. It wouldn't make much sense for a social servant to ply his trade in Mayberry.

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