Generation labels are BS.

At some point, a clever media article increments the previous letter, or since everything was not planned well from the beginning and the letters have run out, stamps a poorly conceived label on a group of people.

These ‘generations’ are based on ambiguous date cutoffs, are engineered retroactively, and don’t really align with any actual zeitgeist of a period. Because discrete vs continuous and other reasons. But any good scapegoat requires a convenient label.

Begun, the generation wars have.

The older generation is blamed for the world’s problems since they were ‘in charge’. The younger generation is blamed for being impulsive or wild, just not working hard enough, and maybe having too little respect. Also toast wrecks the economy or something?

The older generation is perplexed by the fracas since the people who were actually in power were supposed to be taking care of the big problems, while they were working a job, raising kids, and hoping to retire some day. They had no direct power and could not make decisions of a magnitude that would change much of anything in society.

The younger generation is equally perplexed because they have little money, status, or power, and are also working a job or three, waiting to start a family perhaps, and have often given up on retiring someday.

Everyone has been fed a steady diet of fabricated hopelessness, dysfunction, and outrage from the media for decades.

Only a few will realize the whole ‘generation’ thing is fabricated to keep you distracted. Who benefits from the scapegoating, infighting, and status quo? Someone is driving it, and benefiting from it, but it is not you.

Vote dammit

Mmmm, yes; science is most excellent: Ballistic Beef™

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Another, there is.

It’s just recliner theater, I tell ya!

Please run for congress. Now.

The list is disappointingly missing many variants, such as:

1. The Spork (an invention commonly attributed to Samuel W. Francis, but which remains in doubt)
2. The Knork, from the popular show Knork and Knindy (knanu-knanu)
3. Neptune’s trident (four out of five dentists recommend it)
4. Cluster fork (as experienced by yours truly at least once per fortnight when production goes down)
5. The most ancient and purest form of all: the monofork, aka kebap skewer

If that was the one with the built-in sharpener, that kid was ballin’

Why would one ever need to sharpen crayons? Why you ask? Because reasons!

Put a glide in your stride, and a dip in yo hip, and come on to the mothership

If it’s on I-5 in the CA central valley, it’s doesn’t. It sits in the fast lane right next to its buddy blocking traffic for 50 miles. Then it can’t get it up when ol’ Tehachapi comes a callin.

800 amps is almost enough to run Roblox at 23 fps

Type B seen some shit, and it is probably Type-I’s fault. Regardless, I want whatever life strategy Type-K’s figured out.

"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

The manuscript clearly states this - I don’t understand such confusion in this thread.

Don’t forget the imperial timekeeper, Favious Flav. Yeeeaaah, boyyy!

I much prefer Dunning-Notice-Krueger. I get a credit collections notice delivered by a guy with a metal-clawed glove. Now with Fedora!

The figure is somewhere above 0%, but certainly not zero. For example, haven’t you seen the crap blaster 9000 infomercial at 2AM on a Tuesday? You connect that bad boy to a fire hydrant (vendor liability disclaimed), pull the turbo-diesel engine rip cord, and wear a full body bio-hazard suit with air supply (suggested). Not for use with some sets. Batteries not included.

Ahh, sweet memories; sometimes they overflow.

They are referring to the meme about old German toilets having an ‘inspection shelf’ (Flachspüler)

C++: C with blackjack and 40 year old hookers. Anyway, only the rich can inherit diamonds or something. Or perhaps not, my memory is corrupted. I’m open to any pointers though…

It may be pronounced goople.fart, but it’s spelled goople.farht.

I’ll see myself aus.