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Joyful weekend everyone

• 6stringmerc 4y ago
  On the bright side now the Boomers can shut up about how tenuous their early years were with the threat of nuclear war. Same Boomers in charge now same stupid ego problems.
  • luckylion 4y ago
    "This is nothing. When I was in school, we had to swim 40 miles through a radioactive swamp, wrestling mutated alligators."
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    • grecy 4y ago
      uphill both ways
    • kcplate 4y ago
      You jest, but I owned a house less than a half mile from a river where there was an acid spill in 1997 from a phosphate plant. River was caustic enough to impact the gators in it. Didn’t spend much time walking through it or wrestling the gators. Although I was chased by an angry turtle once.
      • luckylion 4y ago
        How were they impacted? Anything unexpected or did you just find a lot more dead gators?
        • kcplate 4y ago
          As I recall there was some with scarring from the initial spill, but don’t recall reports of dead gators—they tend to be pretty resilient. Fish were killed off, though. Basically the gators left the affected area for a few years. Probably because the food chain impact.
  • residualmind 4y ago
    from a gen-xer: yawn it's so incredibly naive, shortsighted, hypocritical and foremost childish to blame everything that's gone wrong on everybody before (except?) you. because you'll do better, sure, lol. people are people, people are alike all over, and in all times. that's what needs to be realized in order to begin trying to do better; realize that you're the same. i think nobody but the generations who actually experienced one or two world wars could have done better to maintain peace during the last 70 years. now it's time to see if the ones who came after them still have it in them, only knowing hardship from their parents' experiences. but i see very little hope for the ones after those.
    • Aeolun 4y ago
      I don’t think I’d do better, but that goes two ways. The generation before me blames the generation before them. Thinking that I’d be any different is a bit arrogant (if a nice dream).
      • blueatlas 4y ago
        I'm a late boomer (1961). I don't blame the generation before me. I've known lots of them. My values, who I am, and what I do, stands entirely on their shoulders.
        • Aeolun 4y ago
          I think you are kind of past the age where you would blame the past generation. It’s something you mainly do at ages <30. When you get older your thinking becomes a bit more nuanced.
      • pixl97 4y ago
        Its easy to blame the programmer before you for your applications shortfallings, it's much more difficult to program yourself out of the hole.
  • BirAdam 4y ago
    Lumping all of the boomer gen into one group isn’t bright. If I look at Xers and millennials, they have distinct subgroupings that vary from hyper responsible to nihilistic. The boomers were the same, they’re just getting old. It should also now be fairly apparent that voting doesn’t seem to change that much in Western “democracies” regarding this particular topic. No matter who gets in, the bankers and the military contractors seem to make billions. When the boomers did rebel (and they did in a very major way), some of them were shot and killed, others were beaten by cops in the street, and still more of them were hit with fire houses at close range. The late 60s were hell. Yes, there are tons of boomers who suck, but my own generation is pretty shitty too (older edge of millennial).