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Business, Economics, and Taxes 2: That's Why We Fight to Take the Means Back

Spartanforlife4 said:
I like how the last page of conversation was jump-started by negatively labeling a generation for having hobbies, from the person who has continually argued generational labels are not real.
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Generations aren't real. Olds who spend all their time playing anime dress-up are weird too.

If you want to argue there is not a higher percentage of Perma-Children among Millennials, that's cool. The other obvious rejoinder is that Millennials don't spend all their time watching other people play sports, which on the face of it is even lamer than trying to stay 9.

I am not saying Millennials are worse. I am saying patterns of loserdom are always shifting. In all ages, virtually all murder monkeys are losers. I post obsessively here -- can't get much more loser than that.
 
Jimjamesak said:
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JFC, srsly?

Millennials are 1981-1996. I am giving you your first 6 years as not cognitive. Legal smoking age is 18, so you get 1987-2014. Note you all don't. You can bracket your own list based on your 6-17 age, by your own definition.

Boomers (1946-1964, so they get to whine about 1952-1981)

Gen X (1965-1980, so they get to whine about 1971-1997)

Millennials (1981-1996, so they get to whine about 1987-2014).

I will stop at 87 because that's when your right to mewl stops, though of course others have overlap with you too even in that period. You're not special.

1919 - 98 Ireland, but only since you mentioned it. It is amazing you claimed that one as if you were special.
46 - 89 Living every fucking day thinking you and your kids would be incinerated by nuclear war. I'm so sorry you had to deal with this from age 6-9. FFS.
54 - 68 Civil Rights beating and brutality on nightly TV
58 Sputnik and the Big Freak Out
59 - 61 Great Leap Forward Famine (15-55M dead)
60 - 73 US in Vietnam, worse nightly news than anything anyone born since then has ever seen, even Dump (who you don't get, BTW).
61 Russian H bomb
63 Cuban Missile Crisis
63 Kennedy Assassination
65 - 75 Rioting through US cities
67 Apollo 1 explosion
67 - 70 Biafra / Nigerian Civil War Famine (2M)
68 MLK Assassination
68 Kennedy Assassination #2
70 - 98 Baader–Meinhof / German neofascist terrorism
71 Bangladesh Famine (1M)
72 Munich Olympics attacks
72 - 75 Watergate
73 - 74 Oil Shock
74 Bangladesh Famine, another one (1M)
74 - 80 Stagflation and "malaise"
75 - 84 Italian neofascist terrorism
75 - 79 Cambodian killing fields (3M)
79 - 80 Iranian hostages
80 - 89 Every fucking day of Reagan
83 Beirut Islamic Jihad attack
86 Challenger (you don't get that one, you were at most 5, it's Gen X trauma)
87 Black Monday

Seems to me you got off light.

No white straight male in America has endured more hardship in their entire life as one black for one day. Grow a spine.
 
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Proud2baLaker said:
He just really hates it when other people are happy and minding their own business enjoying their hobbies and not hurting anyone. I am a responsible adult who pays all bills on time, owns his home, has no debts other than a mortgage, contributes to a healthy retirement plan, has a job they like, has good friendships etc. So what if I want to spend some of my discretional income on a "toy"?

What LEGO set? I am somewhere around 500-600 sets (depending on if some minifigure only sets are classified as sets; closer to 600 if they are). I also have a ton of loose parts for trying to rebuild sets that have retired and I missed or create my own stuff.

I also have other hobbies (fly fishing and fly tying, ice fishing, fishing rod building, birding/photography, drawing/painting, etc).
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Have you been looking into the Lumibricks or the other brick-and-stud toy makers that have sprouted up since Lego’s patent expired?

I only have a handful of sets, all Star Wars and nothing newer than 2014 or so. My daughter has been interested after my wife picked up a big haul of random, used bricks from a lady selling her kids’ old toys.
 
Kepler said:
JJFC, srsly?

Millennials are 1981-1996. I am giving you your first 6 years as not cognitive. Legal smoking age is 18, so you get 1987-2014. Note you all don't. You can bracket your own list based on your 6-17 age, by your own definition.

Boomers (1946-1964, so they get to whine about 1952-1981)

Gen X (1965-1980, so they get to whine about 1971-1997)

Millennials (1981-1996, so they get to whine about 1987-2014).

I will stop at 87 because that's when your right to mewl stops, though of course others have overlap with you too even in that period. You're not special.

1919 - 98 Ireland, but only since you mentioned it. It is amazing you claimed that one as if you were special.
46 - 89 Living every fucking day thinking you and your kids would be incinerated by nuclear war. I'm so sorry you had to deal with this from age 6-9. FFS.)
54 - 68 Civil Rights beating and brutality on nightly TV
58 Sputnik and the Big Freak Out
59 - 61 Great Leap Forward Famine (15-55M dead)
60 - 73 US in Vietnam, worse nightly news than anything anyone born since then has ever seen, even Dump (who you don't get, BTW).
61 Russian H bomb
63 Cuban Missile Crisis
63 Kennedy Assassination
65 - 75 Rioting through US cities
67 Apollo 1 explosion
67 - 70 Biafra / Nigerian Civil War Famine (2M)
68 MLK Assassination
68 Kennedy Assassination #2
70 - 98 Baader–Meinhof / German neofascist terrorism
71 Bangladesh Famine (1M)
72 Munich Olympics attacks
72 - 75 Watergate
73 - 74 Oil Shock
74 Bangladesh Famine, another one (1M)
74 - 80 Stagflation and "malaise"
75 - 84 Italian neofascist terrorism
75 - 79 Cambodian killing fields (3M)
79 - 80 Iranian hostages
80 - 89 Every fucking day of Reagan
83 Beirut Islamic Jihad attack
86 Challenger (you don't get that one, you were at most 5, it's Gen X trauma)
87 Black Monday

Seems to me you got off light.

No white straight male in America has endured more hardship in their entire life as one black for one day. Grow a spine.
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Not saying that stuff wasn't traumatic, but that news was rarely consumed live. Much of it was after the fact. So there was some filtering of things.

Yea, you had Kronkite's iconic announcement of JFK, but you didn't have the video of his unaliving slammed into your newsfeed and be seen every 30 seconds you use social media. The consumption of live events is truly different. Just look at how this board deconstructed 9/11 live, as it happened. Boomers and Gen X didn't have that.
 
St. Clown said:
Have you been looking into the Lumibricks or the other brick-and-stud toy makers that have sprouted up since Lego’s patent expired?

I only have a handful of sets, all Star Wars and nothing newer than 2014 or so. My daughter has been interested after my wife picked up a big haul of random, used bricks from a lady selling her kids’ old toys.
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I've been loyal to LEGO for better or worse. I have some off-brand stuff that I've either been gifted or found in bulk buys I get online. But I've never been impressed with the quality. Some of those other makers are shady too in that they will steal designs from creators and sell them with no compensation or permission. I've seen some posts from well known builders/designers calling out some of those other builders on it.
 
Proud2baLaker said:
I've been loyal to LEGO for better or worse. I have some off-brand stuff that I've either been gifted or found in bulk buys I get online. But I've never been impressed with the quality. Some of those other makers are shady too in that they will steal designs from creators and sell them with no compensation or permission. I've seen some posts from well known builders/designers calling out some of those other builders on it.
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Yeah, I’ve heard about those. Some people who do set reviews for legos and the others seem to like the Lumibricks because their quality is at or near Lego, and they do completely original works.
 
Beautiful.

More details have emerged about how anonymous hackers in Silicon Valley were able to reprogram crosswalk signals in various locations to say prank messages in the voices of tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

An investigation by the Palo Alto Daily Post, revealed that the Caltrans system was hacked because the company did not change the passwords on the crosswalk system, despite being advised to by the manufacturers.

Video circulated online in April showed the tongue-in-cheek, and apparently AI-generated prank messages being played after pedestrians pushed the buttons to cross the road in Redwood City, Menlo Park and Palo Alto, in the Bay Area.

“Hi, this is Mark Zuckerberg, but real ones call me the Zuck,” one crosswalk message said.

The voice then added: “You know, it's normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated, as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience, and I just want to assure you, you don't need to worry, because there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. Anyway, see ya.”
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
grok admits that it generated explicit material of underage girls due to user prompts.

unrelated, flaggy and chuck still confused by the vaxxed not all dropping dead by 12/31/25.
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Was that when the Bill Gates timebomb was supposed to go off? I can't keep my MAGA Fuckwit Conspiracy Theories straight anymore.

Somebody please tell these people #trafficisntreal and they can just walk on the interstates? Wear all black non-reflective so Jebus can recognize you. Please.
 
RaceBoarder said:
Not saying that stuff wasn't traumatic, but that news was rarely consumed live. Much of it was after the fact. So there was some filtering of things.

Yea, you had Kronkite's iconic announcement of JFK, but you didn't have the video of his unaliving slammed into your newsfeed and be seen every 30 seconds you use social media. The consumption of live events is truly different. Just look at how this board deconstructed 9/11 live, as it happened. Boomers and Gen X didn't have that.
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Are you shitting me?!

You had the fucking Vietnam war brought to our living rooms every FUCKING day. Hell, I could come up with a list longer than Kep's just on the Vietnam war. And that was just as a pre-teenager, watching people killed in war for the 6:00 news.

And how does seeing the infamous photos of the naked little girl running, screaming being burned by napalm or the South Vietnamese soldier shooting an enemy already in custody in the head point blank splashed across every front page newspaper any different than "seeing it live?" And how the living hell were those photos "filtered?"
 
Russell Jaslow said:
Are you shitting me?!

You had the fucking Vietnam war brought to our living rooms every FUCKING day. Hell, I could come up with a list longer than Kep's just on the Vietnam war. And that was just as a pre-teenager, watching people killed in war for the 6:00 news.

And how does seeing the infamous photos of the naked little girl running, screaming being burned by napalm or the South Vietnamese soldier shooting an enemy already in custody in the head point blank splashed across every front page newspaper any different than "seeing it live?" And how the living hell were those photos "filtered?"
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I remember as a kid hearing the newsreader on TV telling about how many people that were killed by Vietnamese guerrillas. I asked my father how did the Viet Cong train those gorillas to fight. He never let me forget that one
 
ticapnews said:
Corporate Democrats are outraged at this latest military exercise in Venezuela. Bubbasucker did it without advance notice and after Market hours so they weren't able to buy oil stocks before they skyrocket.
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I hear Amy's so furious, her staff have hidden all the binders in her office.

Meanwhile, Slotkin is ready to demand a Senate inquiry...into why she wasn't given any insider information.
 
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