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[–] 41 points 3 months ago (37 children)

The boomerfication of millennials is a sight to behold.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (16 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.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (6 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Or it was illegal to get a divorce.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 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?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months 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.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    This is a literal "kid these days" post.

    It's boomer humour to hell.

    Maybe you need your peepers to help you see.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Leaning into your age for a joke is not a “kids these days“ post.

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  • [+] -14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's millennials complaining kids don't know cursive.

    The same shit actually boomers complained about.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (5 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!

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    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (8 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.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Idk man.

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

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

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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