What’s wrong with you? Were you born in the 20th century? Turn the oxygen down! You think air comes from trees or something?
Is this Lorax reference?
Trying to reform society without critiquing capital?? Seriously Grandpa?
I’m one of the oldest millenials and critiquing capital is basically 60% of my personality
“I always thought I never wanted kids, but then I took an arrow to the knee!”
I would assume a sperm to the crotch, but what do I know about humans’ reproductive strategies
Worrying about online privacy. Kids will accept that online privacy simply does not exist. They’ll have the mindset that OF COURSE the government/corporations spy on us, and people who are concerned about it are quaint, clueless, and exasperating.
I’ve heard not being on social media is a growing trend with young kids because they want privacy. A lot of them have had their parents oversharing their entire lives and they don’t want to do it anymore. I’m old though so who knows how true this is.
It’s disturbing how common this mindset already is.
Back in my day we couldn’t walk or bike to the grocery store because the streets were so dangerously designed
Growing up r***** was a pretty common phrase, that’s definitely something some millenials have had problems removing from their vocabulary.
I also don’t think our social comprehension of gender has finished evolving yet. So everyone alive to read this comment will eventually have to revise their understanding and look back on their cringy previous views.
Just say retarded u friggin retard.
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I see where you lost the high ground in the discussion.
Just say fucking instead of friggin, you fucking spastic.
Retarded. He’s censoring the word retarded, for anyone also confused.
You can say retarded. Especially when literally referring to the word itself? No one is going to arrest you.
For the record the new offensive phrase is “sped”, because the euphemism treadmill doesn’t stop and focusing on words instead of subject matter is pointless.
You can say removed. Especially when literally referring to the word itself?
Not on lemmy.ml apparently…
Doesn’t show removed on my end, but wouldn’t surprise me.
I like the cut of your jib, Tex.
It’s a well cut jib, methinks
Ohhhhh I thought you meant the phrase was “growing up r*****”. Took me five minutes to figure out what you meant. It’s just the one word, not the whole phrase. 😆
For anyone else confused like me, it’s the pejorative word for a person with a mental disability.
If only I had scrolled, you woulda saved me the same time. 🤣
I thought they meant “growing up r” as well. First my brain supplied me with “growing up rich”.
Thanks for the explanation because I was confused too. Good example of why commas matter.
The censoring works so well that I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Some people just aren’t brave like I am. The word they’re referring to is rigatonni
Rigatoni
You’ve just doomed us all
Are we censoring the word racist now? We can’t call it what it is?
Ideas never finish evolving, and in a grand sense nothing finishes evolving, unless you consider extinction to be the conclusion of an evolution. Nature goes on, the universe continues, there is no end point where things have reached a perfect evolution.
Promoted from your desire to censor yourself, kids won’t understand and be exasperated by my refusal to censor myself online so some website/content creator can more easily make ad money.
And no, fuck that noise, I will not bow the fucking algorithm. I will curse and speak freely.
Growing up r what ? I don’t understand
I like how the punctuation failures totally change the assumed meaning of the sentence.
I think people in the future will look back on how we raise livestock today as barbaric.
I hope so
anti-natalism
It’s low-key ecofash.
Yeah, people in destructive developed nations voluntarily choosing to not have children in order to reduce future global suffering is totally fascist.
Real lebensborn stuff, right?
“To reduce global suffering” yes that’s the eco-fascism. Population control is the eugenics equivalent of austerity. You don’t get to tell anyone for any reason if they’re allowed to have children or not. That’s not your call, that’s not anyone else’s call but the parents’.
Not only is it deeply immoral, like all fascist pseudoscience, it also doesn’t work. Just ask China’s population control policy how that went.
The modern anti-natalist movement is about the personal choice to not have children, and occasionally being a counsel or advocate for others pondering their life choices. It has nothing to do with government, corporations, or national mythos.
The ecofascism that currently exists is manifest as jingoism against Chinese and Indian (out-group) climate change contributions, which does not take the form of anti-natalist language. It uses tribalist language, as fascism does. The reverse side of this ecofascism is domestic (in-group) anti-anti-natalism, such as Musk espouses. They demand the expendable laborers make more babies to weaken labor power, and decry childless individuals as degenerates.
My stance is unchanged. Anti-natalism is built on a foundation of population control, regardless of what it claims to be.
I’m not trying to deny that anti-natalism considers the material conditions of population numbers and resource constraints.
My only concern here is that you not reverse the meaning of fascism.
Fuck right off. Sorry your definition of fascism gets you and your friends off the hook. I deal in the real world where shit has consequences.
They just transplanted a genetically human kidney grown in a pig into a human being. Pretty sure we’re only a few decades from being able to do a lot more.
Remember that guy from ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’? The one with two heads? That’ll be common soon enough.
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Can we also get a 3rd arm to help with our ski-boxing?
You can’t have any more arms until you finish your soylent green!
Transphobia.
It’s just an echo of the homophobia decades earlier, and it’s going to bee seen as equally ridiculous at some point
I try to emphasize this point to people who are dispairing over the current political climate. Public opinion towards gay people also had a backlash when we demanded rights. Many countries have moved beyond that fairly quickly. I am still not dropping by Uganda anytime soon, but at least I feel fairly safe in my own country.
Transphobia is much less prevalent in the younger generations, just like homophobia. It will literally die out.
But…like…aren’t we still dealing with homophobia from the olds? It definitely died down and has morphed into mostly transphobia now, but it’s not like everyone is cool with it these days.
Sure, and it will be a factor for a long time. But it should be considered in comparison with similar historical processes. Think civil rights for Black people in the US. I’ll pluck a few dates:
- First slaver ship, 1619
- Abolitionist movement starting in 1688
- Dred Scott decision 1857
- American Civil War 1861-1865
- Jim Crow laws beginning in 1870’s
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
- Brown v. Board, 1954
- Montgomery bus boycott, 1955
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Crack epidemic and subsequent mass incarceration, 1980’s and 1990’s
- George Floyd murder, 2020
And after all that time, Black people are still disadvantaged as a whole relative to white people. Compare that to the modern LGBTQ movement. The modern movement really began in earnest with the Stonewall riots in 1969, but it has roots dating back to Berlin in 1897. Gallup has poll numbers going back to 1977 for various questions. Around 70% of Americans believe same sex marriage should be allowed. Attitudes towards equal job opportunities are nearly unanimous in favor, 95%. That said, it’s notable that most of these questions are about policy, so they may treat gay people poorly in their personal life. So whether you’re measuring by Stonewall or by Berlin in 1897, progress has been relatively rapid. Not that it’s ever rapid enough for people suffering under oppression, but progress runs on a generous dose of hope.
I look forward to getting to a point where people just casually try it out for a bit to see if they like it.
- literally
- Mid
- Tiktok
- American super-comma splices everything
There’s that Shen comic where Shen— a millennial— is trying to tell a zoomer that their house is on fire, but he keeps saying inane stuff like “there’s a smoky chonker”.
I think that sums up our legacy pretty well.
“The internet is and has been a net positive for the human race.”
Hopefully, everything “identity” that has made its way into just about everything.
I’d like to think that future kids might be amused/annoyed by parents still insisting on calling out race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., as the most meaningful aspects of Who Someone Is…or even things they, “should be proud of.”
In what way? Like they would be done with republicans hating on everything not cis / white / het, because we already are tired of their identity politics war and im in my 30’s.
“I don’t care about privacy because I have nothing to hide.”
That one question from the Elder Scrolls class/Personality quiz was uncomfortably prescient:
Question 4: There is a lot of heated discussion at the local tavern over a group of people called ‘Telepaths’. They have been hired by certain City-State kings. Rumor has it these Telepaths read a person’s mind and tell their lord whether a follower is telling the truth or not.
Combat Response: This is a terrible practice. A person’s thoughts are his own and no one, not even a king, has the right to make such an invasion into another human’s mind.
Magic Response: Loyal followers to the king have nothing to fear from a Telepath. It is important to have a method of finding assassins and spies before it is too late.
Stealth Response: In these times, it is a necessary evil. Although you do not necessarily like the idea, a Telepath could have certain advantages during a time of war or in finding someone innocent of a crime.It looks like the kids these days are all mana-slingers lol
The Patriot Act of Tamriel
Which game was that ?
The quiz shows up in multiple games, I thiiiink this question started showing up in Morrowind though, iirc.
