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We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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https://incendar.com/baby_boomer_deathclock.php

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I love how many people are going on about how one generation isn't the cause of all our problems. I agree. Neither the post nor the website say anything good nor bad about any generation, just that it's -mildly interesting- that boomers just hit 1/3 dead.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    mildly interesting- that boomers just hit 1/3 dead.

    I do wonder about the accuracy of that though. It's not like the website owner went through every death certificate ASAIK.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That's how statistics work. You take a sample and abstract it to the population. If you required every one to be checked, then no numbers of any sort would be made up because that's too much work.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    That’s how statistics work. You take a sample and abstract it to the population. If you required every one to be checked, then no numbers of any sort would be made up because that’s too much work.

    Yeah sure, I'm aware of how statistics work. I'm just not confident that they are interpreting the statistics correctly.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No other arbitrary age cohort has been so unjustly hated in American history

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    No other age cohort has been responsible for caring for the earth for the time they were adults and done such a horrific job. In the US, the cherry on top is also that this generation kicked everything their parents generation fought for into the dirt, including most of the social safety net, because of a bunch of dumb conservative rhetoric.

    I think it is pretty fair as far as generalizations go, though of course it is a generalization. Boomers get all defensive with the “but you shouldn’t just blame a whole generation!” even though blaming millennials seems to be a major policy point for a lot of boomers… but they just don’t get it. The boomer generation will be remembered for literally thousands of years for being the generation that was adults in power when climate change was pushed into an unstoppable momentum, biodiversity catastrophically crashed, and the priceless gift of earth that has been handed down to every generation was dealt a massive amount of damage that will reverberate for again, literally thousands of years at the minimum.

    Boomers think I am attacking them in an us vs. them mentality, it is unfortunately so much bigger than a petty fight between generations though. Boomers aren’t just another generation that will be largely forgotten a century or two from now, and it is a massive understatement to say the time they were stewards of the earth will not be remembered kindly by future generations.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    This is precisely the thing I've noticed recently. You make a statement like yours and suddenly people start crying about not generalizing or how there's really no such thing as generations and whatever other nonsense. Frankly, I don't think that too many people over the age of 50 are on Lemmy yet so I think that there are some people who just want to be contrary taking the chance to.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It must be weird judging a whole generation based only on what you know from learning about via social media.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Wait, why do you consider learning about things initially through social media a bad thing?

    Sure there is a ton of nonsense and outright lies out there, but social media is also unarguably a massive source of education for people on a dizzying array of topics. Look at how silly but genuine ADHD tiktok or instagram accounts have massively raised awareness about ADHD for the better as only one example. Look at /r/ADHD as a huge source of good information and discussion for people with ADHD as another. The existence of social media has irrevocably raised the voices of the oppressed in a way TV and newspapers aren't really interested in doing except for the odd anomaly that gets through the filter of the rich.

    sigh whatever....

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Wait, why do you consider learning about things initially through social media a bad thing?

    Sure there is a ton of nonsense and outright lies out there

    You answered your own question.

    For the record, I'm distinguishing between "Social Media" and "the Internet". The former is for entertainment, and the latter is for learning/knowledge.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ok, boomer.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    OK, person I just blocked.

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