Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis this encapsulates what I consider the defining feature of us xennials.
It's not as simple as technology - I spent large amounts of my single digit childhood on a 48k Spectrum, while many of my peers barely touched a computer until late teens.
It's more about us living on the edge of a cliff. We are the tipping point between GenX who could reliably do the career-house-kids-stability thing, and Millennials who had that future ripped from them. Whether any individual of us managed to cling onto the cliff is largely due to chance.@jetlagjen @hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
me and my hand-me-down TI/99/4a computer agree with you!
Chance has a lot to do with it.
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@david_megginson @thordis It's strange, I remember being told the Beatles broke up by my father. I can even remember the expression he used!
@nickb333 wrote
It's strange, I remember being told the Beatles broke up by my father. I can even remember the expression he used!
I heard it at from other kids at kindergarten recess. I didn't know what "Beatles" or "broke up" meant, but I could tell it was supposed to be important (I'd already memorised the answer "Bobby Orr" if anyone asked me my favourite hockey player).
Those kids must have heard it from older siblings.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@thordis Jones
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I believe the Boomer generation is also referred to as the 'Me' generation, and in the West it was certainly a good time to be born.
Full employment, good pensions, health and social care, affordable housing, free education, historically low levels of wealth inequality and historically high levels of social mobility were common before the eighties.
Funny thing is that all those good things were the product of the Boomers' parents generation. The Boomers just took them for granted like they naturally just happened, got greedy and frittered them away in the name of living their best life right now.
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Funny thing is that all those good things were the product of the Boomers' parents generation. The Boomers just took them for granted like they naturally just happened, got greedy and frittered them away in the name of living their best life right now.
Yes, many (not all) were certainly happy to kick the ladders away in the 80s, and that generation's luck has continued with triple-locked, final salary pensions.
I read something recently about European counties where Boomers had higher incomes in retirement than the average salary of working people, but this seems to be changing for more recent retirees thanks to retirement age increases and taxes.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@thordis@theforkiverse.com bruh i know multiple gen alpha why they haved to get lumped in
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis *extreme nerdy voice* aktschually I'm a cusp year that's Xennial, but I identify more with millennials than gen X so that's what I chose.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@thordis
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@leffe Interesting!
I'm still figuring out the federated aspect of it all, so I actually thought I was directing the question only at the fork-people (the forks? the forksters?)
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Yeah, I decided you must think you're addressing only forkiverse people. I actually had to look up forkiverse, and ended up looking at the transcript of the first episode of the NYT's Hard Fork podcast. There are millions of currently active fediverse users so the spread of responses you get will depend on how well federated the forkiverse is. -
Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@thordis just a bunch of old farts fartin around
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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Generation Jones
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@thordis genuinely disappointed to see there aren't as many zoomers (like me) on the fediverse.
I mean, I know the reasons why, but it's not as bad as some of them make it look like
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@thordis
Yeah I'm a Millennial (Generation Y) born Dec 18th 1983.
LOLz Boomers are only 13%, that's because for Boomers to be able vote on here they would need someone to help them vote becasue it's Tech/the Internet
@ETARD_The_LifeCaster mmm nope. Booxers invented this shit, chief. @thordis
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis It's a misconception. To make people believe that they are all born with common traits, a bit like a way of putting them in little boxes, is an illusion.
I could understand it for major changes (the war in particular and what shortly followed). But today... Do we have to have a name worthy of the Apple brand on our backs?
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@thordis Don't know, don't care.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@thordis labels are just labels.
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@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
how are you doing fellow Xennial? Take care yourself. I'm where you are right now and I sometimes have to pull away from it all and dive into something completely unrelated to the world around me. I've watched most of my friends and family struggle. It is bleak right now and I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It is very scary.
But you're not alone. Stay strong. Once history turns over again, we'll be needed to help with our unique insights and wisdom as children somewhere between two arbitrarily defined albeit unique generations.
Apes, together, strong.
@FuturisticRobert @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
First I have to survive. I have lost my job *again*, at the worst possible time *again*. I have no savings, because I used them all up last time I was laid off, and didn't get the chance to build them back up. I don't even know how I'm going to feed my kids tonight. And the job market is *destroyed* for people in my field. (Non-LLM machine learning) Add the tariffs and the oncoming economic downturn they're projecting, and we are screwed.
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@FuturisticRobert @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
First I have to survive. I have lost my job *again*, at the worst possible time *again*. I have no savings, because I used them all up last time I was laid off, and didn't get the chance to build them back up. I don't even know how I'm going to feed my kids tonight. And the job market is *destroyed* for people in my field. (Non-LLM machine learning) Add the tariffs and the oncoming economic downturn they're projecting, and we are screwed.
@hosford42 @FuturisticRobert @szczurtorebkowy @thordis there's always money in the banana stand chk-CHK
Edit - I should explain. I wasn't trying to be trite about your situation at all even though it looks like I clearly am in retrospect. That was more pointing out how generational wealth breeds the inability to notice others struggles. If you always have a banana stand in your family, you don't have to worry about the day-to-day of people without a banana stand
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis not all millennials but definitely all old >_>
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis This here is a 1976 model, GenX, living tissue over a metal endoskeleton. Or something like that
