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[-] dancroissant@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

My parents are in that range, but I'd say they're even worse off; facebook is my mom's primary news source and my dad [rightly] thinks they're all propaganda and only watches historical documentaries. Perhaps that's the intent, but our society doesn't have any actual agreed upon source of actual news anymore. News in 2026 is just your favorite talking head talking to your preexisting notions and making you feel validated.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

In my opinion the actual agreed upon source of news is all of them. You read all the different viewpoints you understand where each place is coming from cuz each one is propaganda and always has been.

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah but every bar, restaurant, whatever that has TVs has at least one tuned to this shit.

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

Reads as: old people are waiting for Jesse Waters to come out of his gay soup closet.

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 day ago

Fits. My boomer parents around 70 are boobtube addicts.

PS, 70th comment.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 days ago

I'll say it again: We need to disenfranchise older people from voting. They have no stakes in long-term decisions and they're hurting us. Yes, my mom is a racist piece of shit who voted for Trump three times. Yes, she's hurting us. Yes, I cut her off for doing so.

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To what? keep elaborating. Remember when we were told that gay rights to marriage was a slippery slope? to what? their answer was people marrying animals, because that's what they think about gay people. What would this be a slippery slope to? we already limit the voting rights of adolescents and children, convicts serving crimes, active service military personnel. People under 30 cannot serve political offices in most of the world, in the US you cannot be president if you are too young, or a senator at 29. What would make this one instance different is we were to say, for example, people over 80 years old shouldn't vote. There are parts of the world where judges, and other public offices have forced retirement ages. Why is the US the only country wheeling people on the brink of death to the senate floor on literal medical beds?

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

You’re saying the same thing Trump is saying when he says the government should nationalize voting for 15 states.

Voting rights isn’t a war we should fight unless we are fighting for every citizen.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There's no such thing as nationalizing the vote. That's fascist talk, we can agree with that.

But you do realize that the US is in this mess because people have been frozen into inaction by the perception that fighting back is just as bad as first hostility? This has frozen critical thinking and effective political activism (I have seen it work in other countries as well). There are healthy democracies in the world that work perfectly fine and are healthier because they have sensible limitations on voting rights and decision making procedures. You cannot have everyone vote, it is stupid. It is letting the Nazis into the bar. In the end you have a Nazi bar. You let irrational idealism run amok (unlimited freedom!) you end up right where the US is right now.

The US hasn't been a democracy for several decades now, stop trying to pretend it is and actually start to fix it. Unlimited freedom is not a good value, a moral and well functioning society needs limits on people's freedoms and rights, so they don't curb stomp on other people's freedoms and rights. The problem is how do you draw the lines. The US just gave the chalk to the KKK and the democrats think it would be impolite to wrestle its control back. The US is doomed to become a dictatorship or a country in civil war because of this attitude you express. "Uuuh, you are saying the same thing as Trump" Idiot! Trump will spout any shit that keeps him in power, his words should never be taken seriously. Just accept he is a bully authoritarian and stop taking up his bullshit. Stop being reactionary to everything he says and start actively building the democracy that is needed to have a truly functioning country. Trump is a symptom, the disease has been running its course since two or three decades before Reagan. I have seen other countries run this road, and it is always accelerated by reactionaries who have no other thought to offer than freeze in place out of fear.

Same, but they do have interest in the social entitlements that they think only they deserve. Unfortunately, people are too inclined to "other" people and we can't trust them to take care of our elderly and vote for their wellbeing.

I cut my folks off too. It sucks.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 0 points 23 hours ago

Umm... So assuming their youngest viewer is 0, who the fuck is the 140 year old still watching the news? I'm going to go out on a limb and reread that in my head as the "mean" age (average) instead of "median" (being the mid-point in a range).

I hate to be that guy, but words used to have meanings.

[-] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

That' s not how medians work, unless there's the same number of people of every single age watching.

If the population watching is:

10,000 10 year olds

10,000 20 year olds

10,000 30 year olds

10,000 40 year olds

10,000 50 year olds

10,000 60 year olds

300,000 70 year olds

10,000 80 year olds

10,000 90 year olds

Then the middle point of that range, when you list them from youngest to oldest, would be 70 years old.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

My sincerest apologies friend, I have a few less years of formal education than most of the people on here. I believe my confusion was due to my utter lack of understanding, I was equating median with the physical barrier placed in between sides of a divided highway.

Once again though, my apologies and thank you for providing me with a bit of knowledge! Always happy to be part of the 10k.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I shudder to think of how much worse things are going to get once the boomers have died off and nearly everyone is getting their news from TikTok. The radicalization is going to get so, so much worse.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The radicalization is going to get so, so much worse.

The older generations are also taking a good deal of subtle long term lead poising out of the voting registers, when they pass on.

Maybe I shouldn't mention this, I'll give the corporate fascists the idea to repeal lead protection laws.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 18 points 2 days ago

The news is basically just what was popular on twitter the day before. Every journalist is addicted to it.

[-] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Well, DikDok is now owned by the religious nut bag MAGA/Q-people so I guess we have that going on for us.

[-] Thorry@feddit.org 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Remember this is the generation that told their kids not to watch too much TV or it would turn their brains to mush. Well I guess they were right all along

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

its call projection. Fox viewers are different "breed: they have to have it on 24/7.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 55 points 3 days ago

I wonder what's the average age of cable TV subscribers overall.

[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

Probably 50's?

Dunno.

I cut the cable TV cord in 1999 when we got cable internet.

The cost for both services was too great and I decided if I was going to have a monthly bill for something of this nature, I'd at least opt for the service that contained a two-way communications ability.

Best decision ever.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm in my 50's. I haven't paid for cable TV since 2008. Of course I worked for a cable company for over a decade and had full cable. When the job went away so did the cable. I only ever watched it when there was a problem with a channel. So losing it meant no more having to sit through mind numbing shows that sucked.

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[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago
[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

"The mean is the number you get by dividing the sum of a set of values by the number of values in the set.
In contrast, the median is the middle number in a set of values when those values are arranged from smallest to largest.
The mode of a set of values is the most frequently repeated value in the set."

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We should (almost) always use "mode", but we don't because it has a dumb name.

We need to rename "mode" to "expert analyst judgement point" and see if news people start preferring it.

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[-] negativenull@piefed.world 16 points 2 days ago

What sucks is that there are so many fantastic substacks (e.g. the.ink (Anand Giridharadas), Lucid (Ruth Ben-Ghiat), Robert Reich, Letters from an American (Heather Cox Richardson), etc

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[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well considering that age group is running the fucking GOVERNMENT...

No offense to decent folk that age. I'm sure you're vibrant and lovely (comment directed to decent folk only. MAGAts can piss up a rope, and bitch and moan because their kids don't want to visit) however if someone is not safe to drive a car, they shouldn't be allowed to run anything in the gov. Full stop.

[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

Close to that age group - am at the tail end of the boomers (we're called "Generation Jones" now) and represent that weird period between 1958 and 1965.. (more culturally GenX than anything else, if we're being honest about it..) and all I have to say is PREACH it my young son!

FFS, I want to kill myself when I run into older members of my generation that shouldn't be on the road or in politics anymore.. Stop.. just stop.

Surrender your driver's license and retire and start having people drive for you.

Also, instead of trying to politically lead, step back and become an advisor capable of offering context to situations and historical viewpoints.

Let. Fucking. Go.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago

and thats why the gop controls the MSMs. the younger crowd are watching people like roegan or another grifter.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

Logan's Run is making more sense every day.

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