g’morn
i know this is an opportunity to pile on Apartheid techbro, but am not even exaggerating when i say that, as a historian and “culture critic”, #Boomers embrace of the OG #Nazi car ―the VW Beetle― is one of those research things that keeps me up at night.
hand-waving it away as a feat of marketing doesn’t explain how one of Adolf Hitler’s prized cars, for the tech developed with it, became a symbol of white American youth radicalism, aka #hippies
I’m one of those #Boomers who has been in tech for over 40 years. My kids always assumed that my generation wasn’t supposed to understand tech, and one of them complained that it wasn’t fair that their dad and I knew more than they did.
I said, “Honey, who do you think BUILT the Internet?”
This graph shows the percent of each generation that identified as LGBT in 2024.
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I have published the next article in my series on Gallup's latest report on LGBT identity in the US.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/03/lgbt-identity-by-generation-2012-24.html
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"Baby #Boomers allowed Trump to bring on a 'new level of chaos.' We sold out."
"new level of chaos, knowing that it is the fault of my own generation. Growing up with nightly news coverage of Vietnam, civil rights, war protests and former President Richard Nixon sending the National Guard to Kent State University where four students were killed, was so long ago even we don’t seem to remember it happened. Ronald Reagan came along, and we sold out to Republican politics"
https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2025/03/01/baby-boomer-handed-america-over-to-trump-i-am-sorry-letters/80459588007/
"Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie is a documentary by David Bushell about the long funny, and sometimes tumultuous history between the legendary pot smoking comedians."
#offbeat #news #weed #cannibus #70s #80s #documentary #biopic #movies #film #old #boomers #special #history #classic #comedy #humor #funny
https://laughingsquid.com/cheech-and-chongs-last-movie/
'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'
Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: https://www.yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-you-know-yourselves?open=false#%C2%A7grammar-the-conservative-undercurrent
A clear majority of the current despots in the world are #Boomers. Putin 1952. Xi 1953. Erdogan 1954. Trump 1946. Orban 1963.
Lukashenko 1954. Al Nahyan 1961. Al-Alimi 1954. Mbasogo 1942. Mikati 1955. Abbas 1935.
The list of despot Boomers seems to be unending.
This is not disparaging Boomers because I'm sure it's all coincidence.
Talking to my wife's friend about our #Boomers, I realised that one of mine isn't actually a batshit Newager any more. A healthy development.
"Stockpiling wealth"
In my day (and I'm not even a Boomer), we used to call that "saving for a pension", and it was generally encouraged.
@dannotdaniel This #GenX chants, "Go #BabyBoomer, Go #Boomer, Go #Boomers!"
@Linknation @kevinrns @pschanen
Don't be that #asshole.
You understand your #computer. This makes you a member of a #minority. Unless you are going to #volunteer to be someone's #techSupport, do not tell them to do things with their #computers that they do not understand.
My opinion is informed by the thirty or so years I've had #Linux on my personal boxen. I help #boomers run blogs. These are not stupid people, but they struggle with #password #managers. There no way they can operate a Linux system without a fucktonne of support.
Wow who would have thunk it would be NIMBY boomers stopping low cost housing
#Zuckerberg probably thought to himself: "Seeing as #facebook is mostly for #boomers, might as well placate to the most #paranoid ones." And the money was good, until it ain't.
I'm betting that the more #advertisers jump ship, the more predatory monetization will get and how deep the grifters will go.
As it stands, now is probably a good time to set your #grandma and her friends up with a #Friendica server they can use to get them tf away from #Meta.
Hey #Boomers...
You use the Senior Dating app?
765,517 of you do.
Ok upon further investigation, it was shut down because of the #breach I was going to tell you about
Also TIL 40 qualified as "Senior" (according to that site anyway)
I think my brain just broke...
#Millennial Seniors ??
Anyway, go open your #RSS reader and add @troyhunt 's Have I Been Pwned
Children of 1960s watch in #pain as story of our lifetime is #erased. The first week of #Trump47 was marked by all-out push to declare victory in #culture war that started in 1960s to reverse that decade’s victories — from #Selma to #Stonewall to #EarthDay. I talked with my fellow #boomers about the very real pain of watching the end of the world as we know it, and what comes next. #Maga #civilliberties #justice #freedom #constitution #politics #racism #WhiteNationalism https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-presidency-1960s-civil-rights-20250126.html?int_promo=newsletter
It's ok that #Boomers blame #cellphones for all their failures.
They did the same thing with video games in the 1990s and now the Boomers game heavily in retirement.
Such a #shabby generation. You can tell by the leaders they elect.
#oil
#Unitedstates Corporate is feeiing the squeeze of prolonged inflation across all markets.
Legacy media trying to moderate it's pro-#Trump propaganda campaign because citizens have tuned out.
Don't be fooled by the #MAGA hype machine.
The #boomers are still as intolerant as they 've always been. Laughing at all of us as their generation fades away in the most #shabby #fashion.
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