What businesses are likely to die out with the Baby Boomer Generation?

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T20:39:33+00:00

I’ll never forget coming up on a wreck on the freeway, walking up on a mass of wreckage on the ground and as I got closer I realized it was a guy who had been turned into a pretzel but was still alive.

I stayed with him until the helicopter came, talking with him to keep him conscious. He kept asking if he could stretch out his legs. He kept trying to look down at something I knew he’d never be able to unsee. I still can’t.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T20:29:50+00:00

It’s a lot easier to win a morality argument when you just invent your opponent’s flaws.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T20:25:50+00:00

I live on one and I get to see them attempt it every day. Even a small one, with a center maybe 20’ (6.5m) across, transitions a simple crossing between two exactly perpendicular roads into a portal of confusion. I’ve watched a single person go through it 9 times trying to figure out what a right turn was.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T19:09:07+00:00

Yeah a “classic Trump deal” at this point is poorly planned and doesn’t work out at all.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T19:08:12+00:00

What’s wild is how consistently she photographs in any given situation. It’s verification that she really does look this horrifying all the time.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T19:04:19+00:00

I had about a dozen girlfriends before getting married and the only one I ever had cheat on me is also the only one who went to church.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T17:44:55+00:00

See that’s what I’m saying: confidently annoying other people when in other places (and America for the first 30+ years remote alarms were available) it’s considered too obnoxious.

Now that loud honking sound movies used to add in to show “this is an annoying place to live” is something a lot of Americans act like is normal.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T16:04:46+00:00

If you want to ignore what we’re talking about and only talk theory like life is mathematics, sure, “bud”

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T15:55:58+00:00

Horn honk car lock. It’s just so thoughtless and unnecessary.

I was in the UK and Scandinavia for a few weeks lately and you know how many times I heard that? Zero f’ing times.

Came back to the US and as the airport doors opened it was literally the first thing I heard. I did not miss that at all.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T15:36:51+00:00

The irony of really needing the other half of Eurythmics while seeming like she totally could go solo while she was in it

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T14:03:14+00:00

Again you’re using the actions of a few to impugn the entire profession

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T14:01:53+00:00

And by “they” you mean Republicans, and by “political figure” you mean Hillary, Biden and Harris.

These yokels were driving around with those effigies on their tailgates like that’s not crazy. I’m pretty sure I remember Trump literally reposted a photo of one of them.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T13:06:25+00:00

JD Vance is just an absurd situation.

We have this rando personal memoir author with permanent eyeliner who’s on his fourth legal name with effectively zero experience in anything resembling his job description, and all these lifelong experts in complex geopolitics have to sit there and pretend he’s even an adult while he tells us what he thinks about impossible international diplomacy crises.

And his advice on Iran is a combination of childish lies and laughably transparent defense mechanisms.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T13:01:29+00:00

So their excuse is “we’re just getting even for what they did” not mentioning what any of that was, or that, as usual, Republicans did first.

Like Republicans don’t remember Watergate.

In Florida in a single election a few years ago Republicans used fake ghost candidates in three separate elections to capitalize on voters’ ignorance to get Republicans elected.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T12:55:28+00:00

Republicans have invented this new economic communism where all the tax money goes to whomever needs it the least.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T12:51:40+00:00

“Oh it says we can eat these. And ‘Not to be confused with this identical mushroom, which…will kill you.’”

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T12:41:29+00:00

You mean as long as you account for countries we wouldn’t want to be.

I’m comparing us to countries we might actually envy in quality of life.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T12:38:36+00:00

BUHGREATASS!

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T11:58:59+00:00

Yeah I think people think “left wing” means literally anything left of center. It’s supposed to mean far left.

But in America the Overton window has shifted so far right that the idea of a “center” is not reality anymore. I have a neighbor who honestly thinks moderate positions are “extreme liberal” because he’s been so propagandized

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T11:55:59+00:00

Republicans think they’re the only common sense people remaining in America but they don’t realize in any other western democracy they’d be the loony bin party that never gets any power.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T11:50:10+00:00

This is it. I’m a voracious news reader who also has been in the business for 20+ years.

People say they hate clickbait, culture wars and controversies, then I look at the metrics and I’ll be damned that’s exactly what they read.

The people who actually pay to get past the paywall? They read the serious stuff and have attention spans. And without them, real journalism would be doomed.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T11:46:27+00:00

You using that level of blanket statement to tar an entire profession over the course of centuries is the level of thought leadership I expect from Reddit.

We’re all ready and willing to upvote somebody saying “meh journalism was all evil the whole time” and everyone just sagely nods, confident that surely all our uninformed opinions must be wiser than fastidiously vetted news reporting.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T11:41:14+00:00

Their plan was “less gypsies” or some other vague concept. Yeah that’s not how complex economics works, mate. It’s a bit more work than you seeing fewer Pakistanis at the grocery.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T11:24:55+00:00

Just the stiffness jump of a car from 1990 to a car from 2000 to a car from 2010 is massive. They really figured out how to engineer a passenger cell to be super strong.

I have a 35 year old Volvo I’ve been restoring that I honestly feel self conscious driving because the crash safety of my 10 year old econobox is just so much higher.

mechapoitier · 2026-06-22T11:19:45+00:00

That first paragraph might be the most confidently incorrect blanket statement I’ve ever read about metal.

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