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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Their bedtime story to play on repeat while they sleep:

"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."

(Brave New World for those who don't immediately get the reference.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I did not know that Brave New World was Omegaverse. Now I actually want to read it!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

When Generation Stable comes around in 2040 and ironically has the most incomprehensible memes yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The one after beta is release candidate, after that you get stable

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

please make the next one be "release" and not just the third letter of a random alphabet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I can't wait for generation Stable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And the one after that will be Gen RTM (release to manufacturing) since they will be born in an artificial womb in a factory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

huh, i thought it was going to be DLC

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Looking a the inescapable progression of climate change they will probably be Generation "Aw, crap, I hate every generation before me"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's not fair. Why not a generation Beti? /s

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Children born between next Wednesday and Friday will be designated "generation cd-dvd" closely followed by those born the following week who will be called "generation noombers".

The media will focus tightly on how these two groups, born mere hours apart can be entirely characterised in general terms that don't consider geographic, social, economic, or race discrepancies and will set them against each other in a bitter feud that includes housing availability and which slang is the best slang.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago

Just means they'll be further developed. I hope.

These devs kinda suck.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Allow me a suggestion: how about stopping labelling people based on the year of their birth?

Better yet: how about we leave labelling for packaged products?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You got it wrong we need to start packaging people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Too much wrong on that sentence for me to want to engage it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fun fact, putting people in boxes is a horrible way to treat people, is dehumanizing, and doesn't get an accurate look at individuals and their motives.

Fun fact, putting people in boxes is what companies and governments do in order to organize their marketing efforts to try and sell to specific demographics or to get elected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Putting people in rough boxes can help you discover things about them. You merely have to remember that it is an approximation and does not describe real humans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Real.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (10 children)

What happens when we get to the end of the Greek alphabet? Do we adopt a spreadsheet type notation AA-AZ? Generation Alpha Alpha?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

They can switch to Cyrillic: az, buki, vedi, glagol', dobro... Then Futhark, and so on, there's no lack of alphabet systems out there. The preference for Greek is kind of lazy.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What happens when we get to the end of the Greek alphabet?

That's something for Gen Φ or Χ to worry about, sometime in the year 2420. If humanity makes it that far, it feels like a very minor concern.

More likely we just won't be using this archaic technology for generational cohorts by then, because we'll be using Esperanto or Universal Standard Hindi or Mandarin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Reminder that esperanto is a bad IAL due to being based almost entirely on European languages, having a phoneme Inventory based off one of the languages Zamenhof happened to speak and having an agglutinative grammar that would be unfamiliar and difficult to many people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

esperanto is a bad IAL due to being based almost entirely on European languages

It's great as a European communal language for this reason.

As a bridge to an IAL it's significantly easier to train and maintain than the current standard of English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That is true, but it should be branded as such, not as an international language, localized auxillary languages can be great, see Interslavic as an example

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You clearly know much more than I do about it but yeah I always heard Esperanto was a poor attempt.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

we started at X, so we could go back and do A-W

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then they get named after corporate sponsors.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Generation Mountain Dew® Baja Blast™

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

must be true, the account is verified

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

no community note

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

A news outlet said it, and they would never make ridiculous claims based on no evidence

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

Maybe just call them Omega. By 2039, the reasons should be apparent.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How did we get so lazy about labeling generations? It's not like we've been crunched for time. How about gen skibidi?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think we should circle back to generation x, in light of recent events

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

is this some sort of joke im too not from the us to understand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not from the US either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

oh ok, thanks for explaining

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Now these points of data make a beautiful line

And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time

So i'm glad, I got burned

Think of all the things we learned

For the people who are still alive

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Aren't generations separated by 30ish years?

This is a farce.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I’ve heard 20. Wikipedia says 20-30.

14 seems short.

It’s all kind of silly since human reproduction is continuous.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Will we go Generation Cuck next?

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