Doesn't seem to be a thing in Finland

Found $57 from my bank. Thanks

Processing time in PA is 3-4 months lmao. Government moves slooooow

I thought this was a US thing. It turns you're right, it's very common, my country is one of the few where the government just give you your money automatically. As for as I can tell, it's been like that since the seventies.

Crazy world...

My spouse found a few thousand $ earlier this year. They went on an absolute bender looking up everyone they'd ever met to see if others had unclaimed property.

I recently got a letter in the mail from a company offering to help me collect my unclaimed funds. They kindly told me what state it was in and the company reporting it, which was plenty of information for me to go to the state comptroller's web site and find it for myself. It took me less than 10 minutes to collect $5k that seems to have somehow come from stock options that I never exercised and assumed they disappeared after the company got acquired.

The people offering to help me collect it are still sending me letters and text messages, long after the check has cleared my account.

Yeah this is one of those weird scam sounding things that is actually true

Every state has a website where you can check to see if they owe you any money.

Check any state youve ever worked or lived in.

California owed me like $250 from working there.

That reminds me, I have some in a couple states... I guess it is time to claim them.

They also tracked PPP loan bailouts

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/

Link to the show about Generic Drugs

Is this only for a specific country?

You probably shouldn't, though, especially since you can't do anything regarding the quality or report; and if you find out that your critical drug has repeatedly been found to contain, for example, rat shit... suddenly it is much harder to take that pill.

E: I'll just leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM1EbMKhT4Y

John Oliver did a show that included this info.

I love ProPublica

In France you can drive at 15 with a parent in the car, after 20 hours of driving lessons with an instructor and after passing the theory exam. The actual, final driving test is at 18.

As a label for the actual contents of the article, the title is perfect. Here's the start, a base topic from which the article itself never diverges (emphases mine):

Gen Z intelligence decline is emerging as a serious concern among neuroscientists and education researchers. For over a century, each generation showed rising IQ scores, a pattern known as the Flynn effect. New data from the U.S., Europe, and global assessments now suggest this trend may be reversing raising urgent questions about how modern environments are shaping the developing brain.

In January 2026, a U.S. Senate hearing delivered a startling claim. Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath testified that Generation Z those born roughly between 1997 and 2012 may be the first generation in modern history to show lower cognitive performance than their parents at the same age. According to Horvath, this decline is not anecdotal or cultural pessimism; it is measurable across IQ, memory, literacy, numeracy, attention, and problem-solving abilities.

For more than a century, human intelligence appeared to move in only one direction: upward. Now, multiple datasets from across the globe suggest that this long-standing trend has stalled—or even reversed. Researchers call this phenomenon the reverse Flynn effect, and its implications could shape education, innovation, and society for decades to come.

The article continues on in this fashion. Education is not directly discussed except in terms of test scores; it is entirely secondary to various factors, like "IQ points," that the author would have us believe add up to intelligence.

You didn't actually read it, did you.

The article says the data is from the US AND Europe. Most of your comment is US centric. Where I live in Europe third level education is essentially free, and about 75% of Gen Z students go to college.

Also most of Gen Z have Gen X parents, not millenial parents. Most of the millenials who have kids are raising Gen A.

So that disproves most of your reasoning for the decline. Also millenials have nothing to do with your problems.

The title is misleading, it should not say "intelligent" it should say "educated". The science does not indicate that somehow Gen Z is uniquely bad at being educated, but that our education system is losing the war for students' attention. The science does show that when you make adjustments like removing tech from classrooms, younger generations are just as educable as any other generation.

This should be the takeaway we all recognize and agree needs to be addressed.

Anecdote incoming: I’m in my mid thirties and teach college students (so Gen Y teaching mostly Gen Z).

Every single student I’ve had over the last two years has been far better at telling AI photos and videos than I am. Like, they can just tell, and I need to notice a glitch.

I’d consider that a form of digital navigation (but you’re right, that’s a completely bullshit term), and it’s a continuation of the trend that’s existed since some of the first moviegoers tried to bail out of the “path” of a train filmed head-on in black and white

They said "our intelligence", which implies they're the same as the article, which is Gen Z.

Also, which of their words are you disagreeing with? I find myself agreeing with everything they wrote.

I’m assuming there are other country’s but you get those Fiat 500s in Germany with the weird wheel set up that allow 16 year old to drive, in the U.K. you can drive a Robin Reliant at 16 as there’s no reverse gear.

It’s not common though.

Well you’re so …silent.

Where in Europe can you drive a car at 16?

People in glass houses should not throw stones.

The oldest millennial is currently 41 years old. Most millennials have children that are under 10 years old if we have children. The children of millennials are mostly gen alpha.

I'm going to guess your Gen. X. The generation that are mostly the parents of gen Z

That’s probably because millennials were able to access higher education, then worked a fuck Just to survive and give their kids iPads or other distractions instead of raising them, then the kid’s (aka gen z) school curriculum suffered from budget cuts, poor education curriculums, out dated materials and not to mention the school shootings, rise of domestic abuse, and corona virus. To make it worse, good luck going to college or any uni without a life time debt - most people are unable to access education due to the decisions of boomers and millennials together. To say our intelligence is lower is a huge fucking insult, our higher education, ability to thrive and access to support systems are destroyed. Usa demands nothing but progress, uncontrollable growth and riches, but its people aka gen x, are begging for peace, liberty and prosperity.

Hope is a distraction, action and pursuit of happiness is needed.

I can read this, as a millennial, and i agree. Someone should figure out a way to communicate this to Gen Z tho