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

• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well zoomer comes from the z. Does it not?

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      • dubble_deee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It also comes from ‘boomer’, some names tend to stick.

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  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    brain full of lead and microplastic

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• Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The earlier half of GenZ typically grew up with mass adoption of computers and phones all over the place so we got to learn how to fix XP every 5 minutes and get cracked games working.

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    • iglou@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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      • LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You are correct. After WW2 ended there was a “boom” of babies being born.

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• bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Generation Omega sounds like some real dystopian plot

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  • And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Waiting for uprising of the Sigma.

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  • Aitolda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or a 1970s political thriller.

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