If you actually cared…
(via xkcd: Charity)

If you actually cared…

(via xkcd: Charity)

26
Jan
College debt shows up a lot in these stories, actually. It’s more insistently present than housing debt, or even unemployment. That might speak to the fact that the protests tilt towards the young. But it also speaks, I think, to the fact that college debt represents a special sort of betrayal. We told you that the way to get ahead in America was to get educated. You did it. And now you find yourself in the same place, but buried under debt. You were lied to.
Who are the 99 percent?,” Ezra Klein, The Washington Post (via cwnl)

(Source: hold-a-wolfs-ears)

Reblogged from ikenbot
13
Oct

carnivaloftherandom:

paintchipped:

slinkstercool:

jteliczan:

Secrets of the 99% 

I am the 99%

So are you.

Our generation is drowning.

We were told education would save us; we were lied to.

I was told education would make all the difference, no matter what the degree - I was lied to.

We are the 99%. Some of us are further away from the disaster than others, that’s all. 

Reblogged from carnivaloftherandom
5
Oct
Reblogged from ikenbot
25
Mar
paperangstangel:
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Reblogged from bettafish-resistance
21
Aug
A Canadian man has figured out it would cost roughly $15 septillion ($15,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s 24 zeros)) to build a “Star Wars”-style Death Star.

fuckyeahfacts:

Rysvard Gold, a self-described Web designer and “outlandish thinker,” came to this daunting figure by calculating the amount of raw material that it would take to build a moon-sized space station, and multiplying it by the cost of getting this material into space. Gold concedes he doesn’t even consider not-insignificant costs such as labor and trekking the steel around once it is blasted into the great beyond.

Unfortunately, $15 septillion is about a trillion times the current value of the entire Earth, so our lobbying effort to have a Death Star included in the U.S. stimulus package may be in vain.

(source)

Reblogged from ohyeahfacts
12
Aug