Driving home it occurred the gdamm world was looking a whole lot like a William Gibson novel these days. Thing is that the internet and stuff like that has been around for a while and at least to me, it turned out different than I thought it would by a HUGE margin. Future is here. These kids are growing up in The Incal or at least a step towards it in a way.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
My daughter scripts her own discord chatbots, she’s 8
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
she doesn’t have a concrete bird for a companion yet though
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
The boomers were the generation that made a best seller out of I'm OK, You're OK. Now it is coming back to bite them in the ass.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
the children will save us
until they have to cover rent
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
every generation needs to shut the fuck up, this shit makes me want to shoot myself, stop talking forever
Shout out to Gen X, the only generation who can keep our asses at home without being told, the motherfucking latchkey kids, the generation used to being neglected by fucking everyone. We’ll be the only ones left.— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) March 15, 2020
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
otm
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
The responses are even worse somehow.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
if i believed generations were real it might be enough to convince me gen xers are all narcissistic delusional toddlers. good thing i don't believe that
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
thinking about jumping ship and joining gen z. they seem to have fun on tik tok.
― treeship., Wednesday, 22 April 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
They Are Something Else.
Caught sight of one my 10-year-old son's text conversations with his best friend.
BF: H, If you ever died, I wouldn't be at your funeral. Know why?
H: why
BF: I'd be in jail.
BF: for shooting the guys who killed you.
H: ok
H: but what if i died of cancer?
BF: then I'd still be in jail.
BF: for shooting all your doctors.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
I mean this sincerely, they are hilarious.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
A fun read to start the day.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
Millennials overtake Baby Boomers as America’s largest generationhttps://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/28/millennials-overtake-baby-boomers-as-americas-largest-generation/
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 3 May 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
Fun fact: if you were born on Dec, 31, 1964, you are a Boomer. If you were born the next day, Jan 1, 1965 you are a Gen-Xer. This means, that you could have been in the same classroom every year in school, graduated the same year, participated in all the same fads, watched the same shows at the same age, entered the workforce the same year, and still be of two different generations! It's magical.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 4 May 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
Lemme know when millennial voters overtake boomer voters.
― pplains, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:49 (three years ago) link
Aimless, demographic slices are abstracts projected on to groups by age, but it's really about shared cultural references and life experiences
I was born on around a similar generational cusp but I was mostly unaffected by the 2008 recession and the job market crash, although my peers who went to grad school and were entering the workforce a few years later really felt it. On the other hand, I was an internet early adopter and can relate to a lot of late-period Gen X'ers as far as that goes, but I didn't capitalize on it.
There's a lot of variation among groups but it's, again, a general abstraction that has some relevance when it comes to trend analysis. It's less useful than analyzing, say, people born in a particular suburb across a small number of years, but a hell of a lot more useful than astrology
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link
lol
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
^^ short version and what I should have said
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
but yeah, main point is being "wow, what a difference a day makes" about what's meant to be a statistical abstraction is fun
fwiw the main way I really noticed generational marketing in the past was a free weekly publication that used to be dropped off in front of stores and restaurants (rip free weeklies) that was sold to advertisers as targeted at "people in their mid 20s" but what they really meant was "people who will look at ads for cheap townhomes in nearby suburbs"
so there's really a very late gen x/early millennial demo that is definitely easily identifiable as "people who owned cheap townhomes" and I can think of maybe a dozen people that were peers that fit that
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:36 (three years ago) link
but it's really about shared cultural references and life experiences
yeah. I know. but by this standard generations blend imperceptibly more often than not, and the standard labels promoted by marketers and feature writers confuse matters more than they illuminate.
the boomers started at a great dividing point, where WWII had kept young men and women physically apart and children very few, then suddenly the men came back and mating exploded almost instantly. but that sharply defined beginning point gives a false sense of unity to the boomers, because no one can say when that generation really ended or the next began.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
ok boomer
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
(Aimless clutches chest and falls, twirling, to earth)
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
oops. I mistook that for *finger guns*. how about a "GET OFF MY LAWN!" instead?
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
lol i am not actually that much younger than you (i am 48 ffs!) and yet somehow it is you, in every thread, endlessly restating the obvious
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
i mean, you're a good guy! but lo the portentous emanations
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
man i wish "obvious" was the worst thing continuously stated around here tbh
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
if yr posting at 3:30am u might as well say it
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
Wait until it hits you that on Jan 1 1960 ppl didn't immediately start all smoking dope and playing around in the mud naked in a field
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
a one year or longer ban on any writing having to do with the concerning the concept of generations in any way would be a good start
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
love generations and how there are different ones
― i am a horse girl (map), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
^^^gets it
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
(and then some)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
you'll love it even more when generations can name and define themselves, instead of Advertising Age magazine
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
I was part of the late boomer ‘me generation’, we were considered spoiled and overly self confident by previous generations. hearing that at the time didn’t bother me
the zoomers today are also spolied and overly self confident, but in a different way. they are more socially conscious and seem altogether more advanced to me
― Dan S, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
more to the point, perhaps, is how each generation is compelled to surrender to capital in its own way
30 years ago my college tuition was almost feasible, particularly if i spent the first year of it as an rotc midshipman (hoo rah)
a diploma -- which signals class far more clearly than potential -- is much pricier today
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 03:23 (three years ago) link
mating exploded almost instantly
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
mb I just don't know enough boomers but all the most retrograde individuals in my life are self-satisfied gen xers
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
Look me in the eye and tell me, that I'm self-satisfied. Hey, are you self-satisfied?
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
i feel like millennials are old and exhausted before their time, all too willing to hand the zeitgeist to zoomers
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
they seem more qualified tbqh
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzGnX-MbYE4
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
treeship getting all introspective, shocker
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
getting?
― j., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link
(front) the un-introspected life is not worth living
(reverse) lottery: 2 - 12 -14- 19 - 28 - 31 - 40
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
The time has come to say fair's fairTo pay the rent, to pay our shareThe time has come, a fact's a factIt belongs to them, let's give it back
― mh, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
how can we dance when the babies are boominghow can we sleep while the zoomers are looming
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 2:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i'm a millenial right on the cusp of gen x and i feel ancient tbqh
― i am a horse girl (map), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
please feel free to strangle anyone who chirps brightly, "age is just a number". put it on my tab.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
that's where generations come into play, because a 40 year old might understand a lot of a 28 year old's experiences, but a 60 year old to a 28 year old, nah
― mh, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link