Flocklesscrow

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on Not a good sign · c/science_memes · 15 pts · 104d

Boomers lived through the easiest, most rewarding period of American history and immediately and repeatedly ensured that no cohort following them would ever have the same again.

As a group, they are the weakest, most selfish, and least adaptable generation in modern history.

on what did you land on? · c/mop · 3 pts · 170d

"Did you know GM had electric car technology in the 60s? And instead all the Boomers got lead poisoning from cars, which society has been suffering under ever since, while the gas and oil companies actively worked to undermine a better way of life across the entire country.

Imagine if you could just jump on a train and get from Boston to DC in 2.5 hours instead of almost 10 hours.

Or San Francisco to LA in 2.5 hours. Or Chicago to Nashville.

That's the time it takes to train from London to Paris."

on lightbulbs · c/lemmyshitpost · 10 pts · 183d

2700K is the closest to firelight. I refuse to abandon thousands of years of archetypal affection for cheap LED false suns.

1857 was immediately following the onset of the California Gold Rush in which hundreds of thousands of indigenous people were slaughtered before being lied to by the Federal govt, moved onto reservations, and losing yet again when Congress failed to ratify the treaties signed to protect the native people and their shred of agency.

To dress up as a costume with that reality in the immediate world events seems in very poor taste; the equivalent of blackface.

The irony that he was a cop is not lost.

on eraser's life · c/comicstrips · 100 pts · 200d

The sensation of sharp graphite piercing the soft, yet resilient eraser flesh is soothing for children forced to be still for hours on end while being Industrial Factory inculcated into the systematic destruction of creative thought and whimsy.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/comicstrips · 44 pts · 200d

Boomers love playing the work martyr. They've wrapped their entire sense of identity in working, their role at work, and some strange dogged determination that such a way of life has greater value than time spent with their family, children, friends, or pursuing any non-work interests.

And now huge swathes of them have nothing but their grinding mentality, as their family has splintered, their children have gone no-contact, and they have nothing of their Self to fall back on. It's why they still perch on the upper rungs of our political and corporate ladders, punching down at anything they don't understand.