dabaryah:

I tested Walmart’s brand of bottled water and I was shocked to see they sell the most toxic water ever. I tested for Total Dissolved Solids using a TDS meter and the number I got was 271. THAT IS THE MOST TOXIC WATER I HAVE EVER SEEN. Even NYC tap water TDS score is 39. Poland Spring is 42. The water is not even drinkable. I think it’s Criminal to even make profits from selling this water filled with sodium fluoride and who knows what else is in that. 500 ppm (parts per million) is the EPA Maximum but even though the FDA is corrupt their recommended is 000, which is pure.

THE ONLY BOTTLED WATER THAT READS 000 IS DUANEreade/Walgreens ‘NICE’ branded water.


PLEASE SHARE THIS INFO ALONG.

- anonymous

I knew it tasted weird which is why I don’t buy it. I buy the local water from HEB though… that makes me weary.

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fawnkitten:

masksarehot:

gaobibaituo:

awesome-everyday:

shorterexcerpts:

thecallus:

theatlantic:

The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?

What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.

Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]

It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?

IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!

Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.

My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.

So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.

Prices of prices went up.

We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.

We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.

Most of us can’t afford to:

1. Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding
2. Buy a house
3. Buy a new car
4. PLAN to have children
5. Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.

Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.

So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.

anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.

 fuck all these articles written by assholes who actually know nothing about our generation

FUCK THEM

FUCK
THEM

I’m either Gen X or Millennial, depending which dates you use, and so I’m old enough to have been living on my own as a lot of this started spinning out of control. It was like watching a trainwreck. The current state of all of this is ridiculous. I was going to go on a long rant about Boomers refusing to age gracefully, the impact of 9/11, the double-edged sword that is globalization, and our current loan culture and confusion of “needs vs. wants” that has been bred into us by clever marketing, but I’m too angry, and it was getting too long.

So I’ll just say this: the system is seriously out of whack, and we’re in this strange place where we’re both trapped in bubbles and depressions at the same.

I keep waiting for market corrections that just don’t seem to be happening.

And also, I’ll just throw up Crack Shack or Vancouver Mansion for reference. And if you visit it, bear in mind that this is in a city where the AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOME is $46K. FORTY-SIX THOUSAND A YEAR. Oh, yeah, the system isn’t broken at all…damn those cheap fucking Millennials & Gen-X-ers!

…our rent is about 2300+ a month right now. This was while we were in college. We found a small house, but rent is still 900 a month not including utilities. Rack up our debt, we are sitting on roughly 50K or more with mine and my fiances combined.. I make roughly 8.50-10.50 an hour (weekday and weekend pay) until I find a job that is meant for my major.. which is all commission based anyways, so fuck it.

all in favor for going back to a trading system… 

There is no choice in the matter. I’m sure if we HAD the money… we’d be buying cars and houses but we have to make due with what we have and are given which is little to nothing. Unless you were born into money… then you have no clue what it’s like to struggle.

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in-ovo:

bone-lust:

UPCOMING BONELUST PROJECTS: Just got these natural death mummified frogs/toads. You can expect to see them in upcoming art pieces. That middle one is quite large. Stay tuned at my BoneLust Etsy shop for updates. Thanks Ally!! (at http://bonelust.etsy.com)

omg i didnt know bonelust was on tumblr too this is my favourite bone lady out of all the bone ladies out there. 

I have a couple of mummified frogs too! I get them from neglectful pet shops for free… sadly. I also get other mummified specimens like lizards and newts.

When people (mainly Americans since I guess it’s standard phrasing over there) say ‘what’s up?’ it confuses me. How do i respond?

We say it as a greeting or a general question about how you are doing.

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lilacid:

niggaqueef:

when you sat in a weird position for a long time and you move and then your foot feels like this

most accurate description of anything accurate ever in the history of accuracy

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I just realized that is McGee from NCIS… o_O

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This/he reminds me of Sandman… Dream… you know the one.

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My childhood.

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delilahdevil:

hypotric:

entermyshit:

inmurielsmind:

shnllgnzlz:

I will

I see

I think

I balance

I lust

I know

I am

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The drummer was never a he. Still sexist.

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theamericankid:

Tumblr needs more of this….whatever this is.

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LOL

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