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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Politics not supporting younger voters is not the same as young voters not being political.

    Your statistics are not a valid criticism of gen Z. But of our generation and our failure to support the end of FPTP over other issues.

    A 2-second look at the fucking fiscal mess we as a generation have left by voting for property prices and removing support for the higher education costs we had. Makes it pretty clear why those opinions exist. They are not a rejection of politics. But a rejection of the politics pushed by our generation of voters.





  • Honestly as an older git.

    The whole idea that the younger generation is not interested. Is hardly a new one unique to gen Z.

    Pretty much every generation since the 1900 has been accused of this.

    The only difference is how much change in culture each generation has had to face.

    Honeatly pre 1900s. One generation did not face much change from that of their grandparents world. Since then each generation has seen more change then the last. As technical groth has sped up notable even in my 50 plus yeae lifetime. The changes have been notable.

    But each generation. As they age a % develop interest in things to a higher level. Little indicates gen z are any different in this.



  • Ill add. My now passed grandfather raised me.

    He was a pacifist durimg the second world war. He and many were forced to mine resorces. As they refused to fight. As he was an engineer he was eventually reasigned to other work. Aircraft instrament manufacture at smiths.

    But at no point did he think the UK should just allow germany to take over.

    He just knew he was not able to fight himself. This was a commonf feeling among those conscripted during the second world war. And will always be a risk whe. A mation needs to defend itself from agressors.

    Not all of a nations people are best suited to fight.











  • 6even when recycled the whole process increases the amount of plastics in the air.

    And plastic in general is always going to eventually end up in the enviroment. There is only so many times you can heat and melt plastic before its bonds start to collasps.

    Right from day one recycling was a plastics industries attempt to green wash and delay shut down/ replacement.

    Many better options exist. The only issue is production cost. And that will not improve while corperations continue to use plastic as the cheap solution.

    The industry knew what they were doing when they claimed plastic could be recycled. And need to suffer for the lie that it was a solution to the harm their product dose.




  • PS they dont all look the same. Many in shop walls while they have the same colour and basic design but flat.

    There were loads outside larger post offises that were black boxes with 3 slots. (From when 3 classes of mail existed.

    The first is and was common in villages where pavements were to narrow. But you are correct they were of a design that was reminisant of the piller.

    The bigger ones really were a huge acception. Other then shape i have no idea why they abolised the look.

    Not sure when they were built. May have been something to do with the 60s design ethos. As I can only remember the late 70s on.