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A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months (www.engadget.com)
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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Boomers and Xgens need to prove, that they remember basic school math in FB lmao.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Please don't include X with the boomers. Since we stepped into the real world and realized it functions completely differently than what we were raised to believe, life's just been a neverending string of "wait, that was wrong too?" We just want to survive another day under the radar.

    Sorry fellow X'rs for publicly acknowledging our existence. Hopefully this post doesn't get any upvotes. *Pulls blanket back over my head.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As a millennial, I'm starting to relate more and more. The world changes very quickly, and all of the sudden things you knew as fact have different meanings, and there are new words and stuff. It's not all bad change, but it's change, and odds are, I'm finding out something changed the hard way.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Seriously, I was raised with so much propaganda.

    Up until my late twenties I had believed basically everything I was taught in school. I never had reason to question it, as I was basically living in a bubble. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that when the colonists arrived to this country, it wasn't just big empty open spaces that the native Americans gladly shared with us. Funny enough, that's roughly when I gained access to the internet.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The average home buyer in the US 17 years ago was born in 1968. Today? 1968. Yeah excuse me but as an elder millennial, Gen X can mostly fuck right off.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    You understand that gen x starts around 1965, right? Your stat says they're mostly getting fucked too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm on the cusp of X and millennial, so I've been around plenty of both.

    Some X's have done well for themselves, but those without a bit of luck and assistance have mostly had to give up on big dreams of housing security and family.

    Millennials have had it tougher, but many of them still got there, with a bit more luck and assistance.

    It's been a long decline, with the concentration of capital making it harder for most of us every year. The generational divide is just another distraction from class warfare.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    And you understand that 68 is after 65? They're not getting. Fucked, they're the last ones to be able to afford housing ownership. If the average is 68 that means one side of the bell curve extends well into the generation.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm more worried about the gratuitous comma and what it means for the state of education.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Who, the people who never had calculators in their pockets growing up? No worries, we can do math better than you.

    lmao

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