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the amount of time that rural !kung tribe teenagers spend w their parents is about triple what american teenagers spend parents spend three times the time, they get better results. no relation w money spent
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Feb 6, 2021 03:58
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Who do you think is out in the streets getting poisoned by gas and burning police stations down? Naturally rebellious? No. Naturally moody? Eh, a little bit, but their brains are being dicked around with by a shitload of hormones and they're trying to cope with that. Mood swings are a goddamn roller coaster from the inside, especially when you have no idea why it's happening.
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Feb 6, 2021 06:04
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mind the walrus posted:Well, uh, yeah. There's always a reckoning. Gen-X was largely disaffected and unhappy with the world even when it was at a sort-of peak for anyone with a little money, until 9/11 scared all but the biggest diehards to get in line. Millennials were given grandiose and wildly unrealistic ambitions about "fixing" things until 2008-2010 or so hobbled us financially and spiritually. Zoomers have thus far coped with an irreverent, hopeful version of Gen X's nihilism, but like all nihilists are just smokescreening their own anxieties and no one but shitlickers are heartless enough to crush them, especially because their refocus on solidarity has actually gotten some Millennials to stop crying in the mirror for ten minutes. Now this is some delicious GBS throwback poo poo. I mean it feels like something from a decade ago, like from 2019. MILLENNIALS!!!!! 
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Feb 6, 2021 06:21
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I wonder if boomers and gen x could be said to have basically a generational golden child/scapegoat dynamic.
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Feb 6, 2021 06:28
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Batterypowered7 posted:
That's 20 years, I would think they were talking percentages but what about all the people who joined the workforce? Also boomer or not that's pretty depressing. Number go up because we make our elderly work for scraps
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Feb 6, 2021 06:59
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I wonder if boomers and gen x could be said to have basically a generational golden child/scapegoat dynamic. I’ll go with that. I can only speak from my own perception, but as an OG X-er, having boomers kinda run everything and inflict their bullshit on popular taste and social mores for the majority of my life helped make me pretty grumpy. I’m definitely on Team Millennial in the boomers vs. millennial struggle, even if I don’t care for avocado toast and aren’t a fan of eating rear end.
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Feb 6, 2021 17:11
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JnnyThndrs posted:I’ll go with that. I can only speak from my own perception, but as an OG X-er, having boomers kinda run everything and inflict their bullshit on popular taste and social mores for the majority of my life helped make me pretty grumpy. The only real problem I have with millennials is their (our?) pop culture.
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Feb 6, 2021 17:57
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Lib and let die posted:The only real problem I have with millennials is their (our?) pop culture. What exactly? Feels like there's a good chance most of the poo poo you're bitching about is made by/for boomers.
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Feb 6, 2021 18:00
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Lib and let die posted:The only real problem I have with millennials is their (our?) pop culture. Eh, pop culture’s always been geared toward the young and sneered at by the old. How *I * feel about it is irrelevant, it’s not geared to me, plus, it’s no worse than the crap that was around when I was young. That’s one of the things that most irked me about Boomerism when I was a young adult: the unshakable(and loudly expressed) belief that THEIR pop culture wasn’t just a snapshot of the past which only applies to themselves, but an all-encompassing truism which the entire society needed to embrace.
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Feb 6, 2021 18:29
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JnnyThndrs posted:Eh, pop culture’s always been geared toward the young and sneered at by the old. How *I * feel about it is irrelevant, it’s not geared to me, plus, it’s no worse than the crap that was around when I was young. This exactly. It always bothered me that the sixties in particular were always held up as the pinnacle of music and rebellion (see: Rolling Stone magazine's obsession with the Beatles/Stones/Dylan/Motown) and everything that came after was trash. Their poo poo never seemed to leave the stage completely.
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Feb 6, 2021 20:23
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I had to spend the entire first 25 years of my life pretending I liked Led Zeppelin.
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Feb 6, 2021 21:01
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Lib and let die posted:The only real problem I have with millennials is their (our?) pop culture. The only real problem I have is with pop culture. Outside of a brief and embarrassing moment in middle school when I was overly fond of Miami Vice, I have never liked pop culture. Since childhood, pop culture is something I was kind of aware of but mostly avoided, and that hasn't changed over the years. I feel just as out of touch with pop culture now as I did when I was 18.
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Feb 6, 2021 21:12
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an out of tpuch goon?
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Feb 6, 2021 21:14
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Robo Reagan posted:an out of tpuch goon? I'm not touching you.
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Feb 6, 2021 21:18
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mind the walrus posted:I had to spend the entire first 25 years of my life pretending I liked Led Zeppelin.
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Feb 6, 2021 22:13
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Basically all boomer music is poo poo especially that one exception you like.
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Feb 7, 2021 03:36
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Batterypowered7 posted:
No wonder they think everything is okay.
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Feb 7, 2021 04:20
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JnnyThndrs posted:I’ll go with that. I can only speak from my own perception, but as an OG X-er, having boomers kinda run everything and inflict their bullshit on popular taste and social mores for the majority of my life helped make me pretty grumpy. If you eat enough rear end you can't even taste the avocado anymore
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Feb 7, 2021 05:11
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Ardlen posted:Looks like 2008 didn't touch boomer employment at all, and the pandemic barely did anything. Christ, this explains so much.
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Feb 7, 2021 05:46
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I went through like four part time jobs in six months in 2008. I'd get hired somewhere and then they'd make their layoffs at about two months in and since I was usually the latest person to be hired I'd be the first to go.
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Feb 7, 2021 06:01
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Boomers love to fire employees who have exceeded performance goals and received raises, then complain that overall performance has declined.
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Feb 7, 2021 06:24
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Chief McHeath posted:Boomers love to fire employees who have exceeded performance goals and received raises, then complain that overall performance has declined.
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Feb 7, 2021 07:26
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That tracks with how Boomers have effectively hobbled their progeny. They're terrified of competition to the point where they will deliberately leave things worse than when they started as long as it means never having to eat crow.
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Feb 7, 2021 07:36
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Boomers love to laugh at every single Super Bowl commercial.
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Feb 8, 2021 02:09
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Pop culture killed my dog.
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Feb 8, 2021 02:17
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Beachcomber posted:Pop culture killed my dog.
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Feb 8, 2021 02:30
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Ardlen posted:Looks like 2008 didn't touch boomer employment at all, and the pandemic barely did anything. The people whose job it is to decide that everything is fine and you all should come into work and no, you don't need PPE, you pansy are all boomers. Also all the people whose retirements were unrecoverably destroyed in 2008 are boomers.
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Feb 8, 2021 02:33
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Batterypowered7 posted:
The more I see this the angrier I get as I graduated grad school in 2007 and then IMMEDIATELY was hosed
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Feb 8, 2021 02:56
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Sarah Problem posted:The more I see this the angrier I get as I graduated grad school in 2007 and then IMMEDIATELY was hosed Remember when we were growing up teachers use to tell us that anyone could be the President of the United States? lololololololololololol
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Feb 8, 2021 03:52
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Boomers argue that college tuition should not be wiped clean because "what about all the people who paid it off! It's not fair!" but are the first fuckers to ask for military/AARP/any kind of discount. Pointing out how they told us we absolutely 100% HAD TO GO TO COLLEGE and never once mentioned the trade schools they harp on so much now results in refusal of reality.
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Feb 8, 2021 04:01
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Chief McHeath posted:Boomers love to laugh at every single Super Bowl commercial. Boomers not only like the Bruce Springsteen Jeep Super Bowl ad, but think that meeting in the middle is actually a swell idea.
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Feb 8, 2021 04:04
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Cowslips Warren posted:Boomers argue that college tuition should not be wiped clean because "what about all the people who paid it off! It's not fair!" [...] I hate that one. That I got hit by a truck is no argument for anyone else to be. I hate that one a lot.
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Feb 8, 2021 04:07
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Batterypowered7 posted:
They could retire if Bernie/healthcare was a thing. Also free up some jobs for young folks. Most are checking the markets every day too and haven't transitioned to safer investments in their last 5 working years, no correction/bubble it can only go up!
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Feb 8, 2021 04:36
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Cowslips Warren posted:Pointing out how they told us we absolutely 100% HAD TO GO TO COLLEGE and never once mentioned the trade schools they harp on so much now results in refusal of reality. According to what I read in this thread...... umm probably at least a few weeks ago now or maybe longer, trade schools are no good either. Because a really skilled and highly employable tradesperson like an electrician (for example) can't afford a house in the Bay area, and the one boomer mechanic (again, for example) who works and owns a shop in Sodomy Nowhere Iowa (population 300) refuses to retire at 65. Therefore there are no viable trade jobs anywhere in the country that will actually provide a stable, meaningful and well paying job for someone willing and able to do the work. So trade school is out too. Sorry America, you're hosed.
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Feb 8, 2021 04:43
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VideoTapir posted:The people whose job it is to decide that everything is fine and you all should come into work and no, you don't need PPE, you pansy are all boomers. These are also the same people in power who decided that everyone over 65 is automatically part of phase 1 of the covid vaccine rollout.
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Feb 8, 2021 05:23
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:I like pointing out to the 60-65 year olds at work that really want to retire but can't because they need insurance for their wives no matter what... They should have moved their entire 401Ks to Gamestop stock for a week.
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Feb 8, 2021 06:42
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wesleywillis posted:Because a really skilled and highly employable tradesperson like an electrician (for example) can't afford a house in the Bay area, and the one boomer mechanic (again, for example) who works and owns a shop in Sodomy Nowhere Iowa (population 300) refuses to retire at 65. Sodomy Nowhere doesn't sound like a fun place to live.
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Feb 8, 2021 07:42
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wesleywillis posted:According to what I read in this thread...... umm probably at least a few weeks ago now or maybe longer, trade schools are no good either. The modern world doesn't have homes for people to live in anymore, it has investments.
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Feb 8, 2021 08:06
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The modern world doesn't have homes for people to live in anymore, it has investments. Quoting to try and remember and steal.
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if you buy a home in the sfba like 70% to 105% of the price is land value (like, the building can have negative value) land value is created by a government existing there and by everyone else existing there. it's a tiny little share of the government's monopoly on violence. the only thing that changes about the world when you sign a property deed is that it's now legal to just call the cops on people existing on the location corresponding to the deed and nobody can call the cops on you for doing certain things on the location so it's actually part and parcel of the general phenomena of cops and army contractors and other purveyors of violence getting paid more for doing their jobs shittier
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