2022 MidTerms & State races- who ya got?

[Kepler]

GenDys

 

[Swansong]

I've been playing The Oregon Trail on Apple Arcade lately (free 90 days with my new Macbook)

 

[Swansong]

Also, I don't at all agree that it's likely that educated people will "rebound" and start pumping out more babies.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Like black and white or newer?

oh snap, do they have shuffle puck cafe?

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Also, I don't at all agree that it's likely that educated people will "rebound" and start pumping out more babies.

Didn’t you know, women just need to grow up and start popping kids out. It’s what they’re supposed to do

 

[Swansong]

Like black and white or newer?

oh snap, do they have shuffle puck cafe?

It's a new-ish version. My brother might call it woke, even. But really it's the same game.

 

[Handyman]

Just you wait for this Court.

Yeah that is the only caveat to my point...birth control access is the greatest equalizer.

 

[Handyman]

It's a new-ish version. My brother might call it woke, even. But really it's the same game.

There was a version on Facebook back in the day which was fun. You could raid other wagons and lots of other fun updates.

 

[burd]

The Millennials will be hated the way the Boomers are. And they will have the electoral power to be selfish the way the Boomers are.

But their choices about ethics and society may be different. Well, probably not, they haven't shown any sign of being any different and the leading edge is 40 now, so they'll most likely be Boomers Redux with some changes. Environmentalism, for instance, was started by the Boomers but they were utterly hypocritical about it. Maybe the Millennials won't be seeing as, you know, for their entire lives the planet has been on fire. The generations who come after will be less and less likely to resemble any generation alive now. They wont be the opposite either, they'll just be different.

I'm sorry if I'm being incoherent. I'm trying to get across two very different ideas. One is about generational power, the other is about the evolution of social values. The former is about numbers, the latter isn't predictable except for the likelihood that it will not map to what we think is so important now.

The unifying idea is that every generation in history has fancied itself something special. The specialness of a generation is like the specialness of a human being: for a brief period they get to be alive and their choices are humanity. But then they die and the next generation has the same specialness. There is no transcendent importance or value to any generation. They are all just the same ocean being jiggled about by tidal forces they aren't even aware of.

What is special, good or evil, idiotic or wise, new and exciting or traditional and foundational, is humanity. All the divisions within it are just marketing slogans to get saps to buy stuff.

Makes sense to me, but I'm just a boomer trying to avoid the hit.

 

[unofan]

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

For what it's worth, so far millenials are bucking the trend of getting more conservative as they age.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Oregon Trail generation is the term I prefer

Just thinking about this a bit more. We went from basically having no computers in the classroom to cell phones in every pocket by the time we graduated high school. By the time we graduated college, the iPhone was released.

We went from no internet to ubiquitous connectivity (and that was in like, six or seven years!). This had to have been what it was like to have no electricity to electricity in every home. But insanely compacted in terms of time.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

For what it's worth, so far millenials are bucking the trend of getting more conservative as they age.

I posted results of the study, which started this entire discussion

 

[state of hockey]

Just thinking about this a bit more. We went from basically having no computers in the classroom to cell phones in every pocket by the time we graduated high school. By the time we graduated college, the iPhone was released.

We went from no internet to ubiquitous connectivity (and that was in like, six or seven years!). This had to have been what it was like to have no electricity to electricity in every home. But insanely compacted in terms of time.

I think one of the big reasons* That 70’s Show was such a success was that it came out when that world still existed for the teens it was targeting. Driving around town aimlessly was a fun night, as was doing absolutely nothing in your friend’s basements. Being bored was fine as long you were bored together.

*Other reasons are Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp killing it.

 

[dxmnkd316]

I think one of the big reasons* That 70â??s Show was such a success was that it came out when that world still existed for the teens it was targeting. Driving around town aimlessly was a fun night, as was doing absolutely nothing in your friendâ??s basements. Being bored was fine as long you were bored together.

*Other reasons are Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp killing it.

I think you're dead on. And red foreman was one of the great characters in television.

I still remember in college that driving around was still a thing to some extent.

 

[Handyman]

Makes sense to me, but I'm just a boomer trying to avoid the hit.

No one was suggesting that Boomers will be more hated than anyone else...the point was that later generations are showing to procreate less around the world especially as education rises. Boomers are so sensitive ;^)

When you don't have to worry about tending the farms or half your kids dying early you just don't care to have a litter. When you don't fear the Old Man in the Sky you don't either.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Boomers have an amazing level of sensitivity.

not as good as their ability to pull the ladder up behind them, though!

(mostly kidding!)

 

[burd]

Boomers are very very great--probably the greatest in the history of this nation. Which is great for the less great too, since we all need heroes.

 

[dxmnkd316]

The most hated will always be the oldest and youngest. When the boomers are dead it's Gen X and whatever Z is called. The olds will be hated because they ruined everything for the youngest. And the yout will be hated because they're young and annoying.

when X is dead it will be the millennials and Gen Alpha.

On the plus side, the generation prior to the oldest is immediately forgotten. Remember the silent generation? Or the one before that? Or before that?

ad infinitum

 

[Handyman]

Boomers are very very great--probably the greatest in the history of this nation. Which is great for the less great too, since we all need heroes.

Only Boomers would think they are better than "The Greatest Generation". ;^)

And dx the yout are hated because they have no respect and don't have to work as hard as the Olds did.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

The most hated will always be the oldest and youngest. When the boomers are dead it's Gen X and whatever Z is called. The olds will be hated because they ruined everything for the youngest. And the yout will be hated because they're young and annoying.

when X is dead it will be the millennials and Gen Alpha.

On the plus side, the generation prior to the oldest is immediately forgotten. Remember the silent generation? Or the one before that? Or before that?

ad infinitum

There will always be grievances.

“hey, you got to go to college for $300/semester and buy a house for 35k”

“women can access birth control and open bank accounts, i could not when I was your age”

Wait, I guess we may get to re-do that last one here soon