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[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The boomerfication of millennials is a sight to behold.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All young people find all old people quaint, this is nothing like a boomer humor, every generation does this. Boomer humor is more about hating your wife and blaming everything on every other generation.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry, you are heading into all of that as you age. It has ever been so.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah… No. If I hated my wife I would get a divorce.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps, perhaps not. Separating a marriage after 25+ years is no easy thing. The sheer inertia can be impossible to overcome.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hate doesn’t happen overnight, you only stay for 25 years with somebody you don’t like because you aren’t being honest with yourself or them.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or it was illegal to get a divorce.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s never been illegal to get a divorce in the US. You may be thinking specifically of At-Fault Divorce which was the norm in the US until the 60s… when most boomers were in their 20s or younger.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, that is what I was thinking! Indeed after reading that, "illegal" is definitely not the right word for "procedurally impossible without extremes"

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US is not the only country in the planet nor is its creation the epoch of the beginning of time. You do know that legal frameworks and other countries also existed before the US?

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boomers are a US cohort and that was who we were talking about.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Wow, way to be super narrow minded. Baby boomers are a worldwide category. The US is not the only country that experienced a population boom after the second world war, they didn't even experience the largest population boom by a long mile. The cultural markers are usually slightly different, but they also have a ton of overlap, over all continents and countries. Anyway, I agree with your points elsewhere on the thread, but you're kind of a cunt.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 15 points 1 week ago

"Dear fellas, I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry." - Brooks in The Shawshank Redemption.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So, you've seen Boomers put down Gen-X, and Gen-X get in millennials, and now you're seeing millennials talking about the kids...

But you, you'll be immune!

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gotta say, this warning helped me accept it. The kids will be fine and one day I'll be able to tell them a 19 hundreds story where I wore a Tamagotchi on my belt, as was the style at the time... (Continues)

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social -1 points 1 week ago

'Family Guy' did it first!

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is why I say that "The kids will be alright." For fucks sake every generation has said that the younger ones will never make it. The kids today are the smartest ever not the dumbest. They just don't value the same things that we did and honestly, great. Leave my crap alone, figure out your own crap.

[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

In January 2026, neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. His message was clear: “Our kids are less cognitively capable than we were at their age.”

What the data actually says is that measured skills like reading comprehension, math performance, sustained attention, and writing quality may be slipping or not improving. It also suggests that a heavy, poorly controlled digital environment can make it harder to learn and retain what the school is trying to teach.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/feature/gen-z-intelligence-study/

It's not like there's no cause for concern, but it seems like it's mostly just that we need to limit screen time a little.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eh, it's more like we're leaning into being old-heads now for the lols. Millennials don't do very many things without any ironic undertones.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk man.

I've never seen millennials have an allergic reaction to a number before.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

6

7

Yes, that's 42, and?

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Gen Alpha did not invent funny numbers. Every single generation has had some version of random meaningless silliness.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Our funny numbers have quite deep meaning, thank you very much.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And boomer millennials have an allergic reaction to 6………………7.

Because it's a reminder they're not cool anymore. And what's IT isn't up to them to decide anymore.

That has not been my observation. I've seen plenty of millennials join in, I've never seen one "have an allergic reaction". I think you're making that up.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here's another one I spotted recently. People comparing html to "years of experience in CIA" just felt funny.

MySpace literally had us randomly doing html codes at 14 like we had been in the CIA for years. Nobody remembers how we learned it, but all of us somehow just knew

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

HTML is not hard. Someone who says "HTML codes" won't know anything past the basics.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fucking kids these days, no work ethic like we had/have. They want everything now instead of working for it.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They want their TikTok

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