OhStopYellingAtMe

u/OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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Wordle 1,887 4/6*

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::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Ugh. I had typed “GRILL” as my 3rd guess but then changed my mind because I don’t like guessing words with double letters. Oh well. :::

It’s supposed to look like a checkered picnic blanket I guess but it doesn’t really work, since they’re rectangles & not squares. Doesn’t make sense either, since “national picnic day” is in April, but whatever. It’s just a one-day theme.

I never would have got purple.


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Yes. Boomers really fucked us all. “The ‘me’ generation“ indeed. It’s why I get so irked when the younger generations lump GenX in with Boomers. We’re not them. They fucked us over too.


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::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Annoying. The Flyers mascot is more orange than an orangutan. But I guess an orangutan isn’t very gritty. :::

on I'd like that · c/NiceMemes · 2 pts · 2d

My mom has this same tchotchke! I always rearrange the lil’ kitties when I go visit her.

Little of both probably. Boomers heavily outnumbered GenXers too, and held all the money, so GenX were sort of left in a bind. Hakeem and that HR rep aren’t doing those things out of spite for their own generation or later generations. Boomers still run the show upstream.

Sorry Gen X, we're doing what you should've done decades ago...

We literally did not have the chance. The greedy Boomers held onto the power & money until well past their own expiration date (see the average age of the past couple presidents, for example).

This is the case in politics and in business as well. Boomers refuse to retire, forcing Gen X to take lower paying jobs with little chance of promotion.

Look it up. “Baby Boomers held onto leadership roles longer than past generations, which delayed Gen X from taking power.”

I think eventually we sort of just gave up. Boomers were handed the country on a silver platter from their parents, and then they ran it into the ground (by doing shit like electing Reagan), and simply refused to pass it on when their time was supposed to be up.

Hence GenX’s slogan; “oh well, whatever, never mind.”