Does Gen x even exist is it even real? thread

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mlnhd: Jun 4, 2002

It was taught in my high school world history class in Indiana. Class of 2002.

Socialism is when the workers own the means of production.

Just that one sentence. No one ever told us what �means of production� means.

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mlnhd: Jun 4, 2002

PipHelix posted:

nor why it feels the need to chime in like ten times in each hour to explain to you how to go straight

This doesn�t happen

# ¿ Dec 18, 2020 02:32

mlnhd: Jun 4, 2002

Weka posted:

Doesn't this make you a half white invader, at least from the Aboriginal perspective?

And isn't a Portuguese guy Hispanic?

Hispanic people speak Spanish

# ¿ Apr 20, 2021 11:20

mlnhd: Jun 4, 2002

as a millennial, I would rather mail a letter than pick up a phone and call some auntie or cousin to thank them for a Taco Bell gift card

# ¿ Aug 4, 2021 19:27

mlnhd: Jun 4, 2002

The impersonality is the point. If you text or call, you are probably going to be roped in to an ad-hoc conversation with a person you don't really care to talk to.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2021 14:46

mlnhd: Jun 4, 2002

Soylent Pudding posted:

Thank you cards don't feel personal to me. I understand why others perceive so but to choose a letter when you have the option to use a two way telecommunications medium feels standoffish.

The entire concept of handwritten letters and thank you cards still feels rote, superficial, and forced.

e: originally said letters when I meant thank you cards.

I think it all stems from the rote, superficial, and forced gift giving practices of boomers.

They don't give gifts out of kindness, but out of obligation and as a way to exert power. As such, boomers think you have to send a gift to every cousin, niece, and nephew for every major milestone, even if you barely know them or haven't spoken to them in 10 years or more. If any of those distant relatives are old enough to have kids, you have to give the kids gifts too. All of this is a way to keep score and act offended when you neglect to reciprocate one of their gifts.

Because the elderly benefactor is in a position of power over the recipient, they expect gratitude, even though no one ever asked for, expected, or enjoyed those gifts. They also expect your gratitude to be genuine, and they expect you to use or own whatever garbage they gave you, forever. Nowadays, they also expect a photo on Facebook of you enjoying the gift.

What should a Millennial victim of aggressive gifting do, then?

Ignore the gift. Maybe they will stop sending them. That doesn't work--they just spread rumors about how ungrateful you are.
Tell them you don't want any more gifts. Same as above.
Post a public thank you on social media and tag them. This is exactly what they want, so you can't do that.
Thank them privately on text or social media. This is fine, except they might try to have a conversation. If you ghost the conversation, they spread rumors about how ungrateful you are.
Thank them on a phone call. The boomer will use this call to keep you on the phone for 45 minutes while they tell some story about some idiot cousin you don't care about. This is extremely rewarding to the boomer, but terribly uncomfortable for the caller.
Mail a hand-written card. This scratches all the boomer itches: manual labor, spending money, archaic technology, forcing someone to do humiliating acts for approval. Plus, you don't have to talk to them. Win-win.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2021 17:22

mlnhd: Jun 4, 2002

I don't think computers should be easy to use. Look what happened when we gave everyone the internet in their pocket.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2021 17:09

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 00:51

mlnhd: Jun 4, 2002

I'm millennial, and my perception was that only people who didn't know how to use computers used Windows Media Player.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2022 22:16

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