Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials

bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• b3an@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Right? Haha 😂 Oh did we suddenly clean up the entire Earth from free roaming microplastics?

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• kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  why the alpabet suddenly changes after Z? it should either be “omega & alpha” or “z & a”

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Same reason we started with X, millennials actually got a name, and then went back to Z. Somebody with a head full of lead came up with it.

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    • iglou@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Millenials are also called Gen Y. Millenials just happens to have sticked more. And Gen Z is also called Zoomers.

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      • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well zoomer comes from the z. Does it not?

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    • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      brain full of lead and microplastic

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  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re just place holders until the generation gets a shared culture to refer to. Millennials saw the millennium. Boomers were products of the baby boom but they also saw their economy boom. Gen X are missing, their letter was fitting.

    My prediction is one of them will become gen algorithm, as they never knew a time when their media wasn’t decided for them. Maybe, gen android, few of them know how to use a file system after Chromebooks became ubiquitous. Or they’ll be the second greatest generation due to ww3. This stuff is entirely unpredictable.

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      GenX are also known as the invisible or forgotten generation, for the same reason.

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What name does GenZ get? Born just in time to be power users, born too late to have any power to stop the enshitification. Same non-existent economic prospects as GenX.

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      • pleasestopasking@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They really aren’t power users though. Tech is a) generally more reliable and b) so locked-down that so many young people never learned how to troubleshoot

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      • iglou@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Gen Z is already named “Zoomers”, but it’s not aticking as much as “Gen Z”.

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      • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I dunno, the second silent generation? Born into hard times, don’t know any better. Defined by their fiscally conservative ways and “none of my business” outlook?

        They haven’t been to silent though, and more power to 'em. The un-silent generation?

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Boomers were products of the baby boom but they also saw their economy boom.

      I though boomers were the producers of the baby boom

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No, the products. World War 2 ended in 1946, and then EVERYBODY FUCKED and 80 years later we’re still cleaning up the mess.

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      • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Maybe. Their generation starts 1946 so I thought they were the product. One way or the other they are involved in a baby boom.

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  • bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Generation Omega sounds like some real dystopian plot

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    • And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Waiting for uprising of the Sigma.

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    • Aitolda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or a 1970s political thriller.

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