When boomers said they wanted to "protect children" from the media, they created MPAA ratings and the Parental Advisory stickers. When Gen X wanted to "protect children" from the media...

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• nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  When Gen X wanted to “protect children” from the media they created a mass surveillance state…

  I thought that was boomers too.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Waaaaay to many people think shit is brand new because they still won’t admit they spent decades with their heads in the sand.

    At least they finally realized it was a problem, just depressing to see them imitate trump by acting like no one knew what they just learned.

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  • PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Boomers are retiring, and all Big Tech CEOS from the last 10 years are Gen X (a few Millennials too)

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    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Big tech CEOs aren’t creating the surveillance state, they’re just profiting off the demand for it.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Shower longer, this thought is half baked.

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  • cv_octavio@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And use some soap; agesim is suggestive of a dirty mind full of divisiveness, in need of a good cleansing.

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Generational Cohort Analysis has its purposes, but viewing everything through that lens is brainrot.

  It’s the Zodiac of our times.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Generational Cohort Analysis has its purposes

    It was valuable when generations were defined around cultural or technological change.

    What fucked it up was boomers deciding they needed to simplify it to every 15 years no matter what because that made marketing easier.

    Now it’s practically worthless and people have to invent “new” generations like Oregon Trail generation or TikTok generation. And if you want to do actual research you need to waste time explaining why you’re disregarding the established but useless standards.

    It’s like RFK jrs upside down food pyramid, it doesn’t mean nutritional science is worthless, it just means the official guidelines are.

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