solomon42069

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[–] solomon42069 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm responding to the premise of the thread. I agree it doesn't make sense to characterise people based on age brackets, however I am noting a pattern I've observed in reality, not speculating a fictional scenario. It's also true my view is anecdotal, backed up by memes and other anecdotes and not by science or extensive research.

However I'd like to point out that we are in a group called "memes" and the thread is about "used to consume not produce", the OP's meme image is specifically talking about the pattern where younger people don't understand fundamentals of tech and just consume it. As an IT professional of nearly 20 years I have observed the same phenomenon and so I wrote a funny reply based on that.

You're right IT probably won't entirely evaporate that's crazy. As crazy as picking apart a funny comment to wag your finger at a well meaning stranger.

[–] solomon42069 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

It's gonna be really funny when all us millenials die and the tech infrastructure evaporates.

What age do we think they'll be set back to? Pre industrial? Bronze?

My prediction seems extreme but don't forget that while books continue to exist, the average adult born after 2000 would rather die than read one.

[–] solomon42069 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is that a recent photo of Trump? He's so fat and round, Trump looks like he needs to be rolled outta there sideways by singing Oompa Loompas!

[–] solomon42069 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why is LinkedIn not on there? Or does that count as an auto immune disease?

[–] solomon42069 85 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Oompa Loompa, what do we do?

With President Nazi and his orangutan crew

Oompa Loompa, how could it be?

A thunderous applause for the death of liberty

[–] solomon42069 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

They're doing a great job ensuring the armed forces take their side when the rioting starts... Giving zero reason for a soldier to think things like "Why should I shoot follow illegal orders to execute a civilian when the bad guy who caused this is right here?".

[–] solomon42069 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I heard the new 2025 model wallops you in the bollocks every time you pull the parking brake.

[–] solomon42069 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He can't, the seed is stored in what Mark lacks!

[–] solomon42069 5 points 1 week ago

As much as I hate much of the news about AI, I love the dilemma this puts the copyright lawyers and tech bros in. Either they admit that the majority of copyright law enforcement is a joke and stifles innovation - or they admit the creation of AI using stolen works is standard practise and requires government intervention to get back on track.

[–] solomon42069 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What you have here is a Moogle from the Final Fantasy franchise...

[–] solomon42069 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I remember multiple Christian authority figures growing up espousing the importance of kindness, natural wonders and thinking for yourself. Deeply ironic in hindsight! Perhaps no one was more hypocritical than my parents though.

I was kicked out of home for being gay. My parents have never grown a vegetable or had a house pet - which I think says a lot about their ability to love something other than themselves. Despite being immigrants, they both love Trump and extreme right wing beliefs. They are also very racist towards immigrants from other countries, dismissing them as "lesser".

[–] solomon42069 -4 points 1 week ago

What a nicely timed distraction from issues like housing, cost of living and health.

Albo was definitely always going to pass these laws even if Zionist gangs hadn't staged the attacks across Australia to create the headlines that triggered these laws.

Definitely wouldn't happen here in Oz!

 

Many of us are feeling a certain way right now—trying to make sense of the level of injustice, misinformation, and apathy in the world. In the absence of a satisfying explanation or solution, I've done my best to offer my own take on it. I hope that by opening up about some of my past and what I care about, you’ll see the human context of these issues. I hope this is the right place to post and not against the rules!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by solomon42069 to c/asklemmy
 

It feels like no matter where I turn some septuagenarian, or older, is making life miserable for myself and others. Usually these are older white Christian conservatives, obsessed with a delusional sense of reality that no longer has a basis in fact, or perhaps never did.

There is a disproportionate amount of wealth concentrated in the older generation and those who will inherit it will probably be even worse with that money than the last generation. Certainly we see evidence of that already, anyone in their 30's who has parents who help them out VS those who don't have that have radically different outcomes. For some reason those lucky enough to come from good families ascribe laziness and bad attitude to those who don't have the family support, as if they are somehow enjoying "self made success" while mummy does their laundry for them.

No generation previous needed this kind of assistance well into adulthood, but this infantilisation of working adults has happened because of the hoarding of wealth, refusing to pass on the torch in workplaces and just blocking change for the sake of stoking petty politics. Most of us will never own our own home but all the politicians want to talk about is whether it's OK to dehumanise trans people or not.

I'm 36 this year. For most of my teens I thought there'd be some kind of tipping point where the conservative boomers would fuck off or at least let the next generation step in, but that hasn't happened. Back in the 1990's you could be a girl and wear jeans and be empowered, now this is considered some kind of woke statement. As if we recently invented this idea of women and men being equal.

The faces of my two dogs, my cat and my husband are all that keep me going. Knowing they need me gives me just enough to get out of bed in the morning and start moving... but I'm struggling to do even that without having a breakdown. My husband and I have medical expenses we can't afford and are borrowing money to survive right now. I run my own business and just feel this immense pressure on my shoulders, that again is compounded by how unfair the world is right now.

Anyone got any advice for coping with this late stage capitalist hellscape?

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