<story><title>France&apos;s 18-year-olds given €300 culture pass</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57198737</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>&amp;quot;19 year olds on twitter unhappy&amp;quot; is a ridiculous and unnecessary angle to add to this story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lancebeet</author><text>Why&amp;#x27;s that? 18 year olds are graduating secondary education this summer and now they have more money to spend in a society that&amp;#x27;s rapidly opening up. 19 year olds graduated last year, possibly the worst time to do so (especially given the strict lockdown in France), and they get nothing. Life obviously isn&amp;#x27;t fair but I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel for the 19 year olds.</text></comment>
<story><title>France&apos;s 18-year-olds given €300 culture pass</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57198737</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>&amp;quot;19 year olds on twitter unhappy&amp;quot; is a ridiculous and unnecessary angle to add to this story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I really wish the go to for everything hoi polloi wasn&amp;#x27;t Twitter.   Twitter encourages trite, mean, and outrageous content, it&amp;#x27;s not going to have much of a variety of views that get any attention.&lt;p&gt;It infects anything.&lt;p&gt;I was listening to a podcast about my local sports team and they couldn&amp;#x27;t help but reference what they&amp;#x27;re &amp;#x27;not saying&amp;#x27; relative to Twitter outrage ... repeatedly.  And even address &amp;#x27;fan sentiment&amp;#x27; purely through the looking glass of Twitter.&lt;p&gt;They talk about players who &amp;#x27;fans don&amp;#x27;t like&amp;#x27; and yet you go to the game and you&amp;#x27;d think that was the most popular player based on fan reaction...&lt;p&gt;Then I switch to my coding related podcast ... same thing, they address Twitter drama like it represents most coders.</text></comment>