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Pretty tired of “everything from the 20th century is boomer”.

CyberDildonics 2y ago
Baby boomers were born in the 50s after world war 2, crypto used to mean cryptography, serverless uses servers and posting on 'social media' used to just be called putting something on the internet, but everything is destined to become the most nonsense version of itself.
- dylan604 2y ago
  And the plot to Idiocracy becomes more and more probable
- deleted 2y ago
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- xanderlewis 2y ago
  And ‘content’ used to be called… well, actually, that word was only used to distinguish the ‘content’ from the medium of transmission or the particular web or magazine layout being used, or something. Now people say ‘I love your content’, or even ‘I’m gonna get my phone out and consume some content’ which would have sounded utterly bizarre until very recently. There is a weird tendency for distinctly technical words to leak out and become common outside their original, very specific context. With the meaning warped, of course. Not a technical term, but I guess the most on-topic example here would be ‘hacker’. I guess ‘coding’ works too. ‘Influencer’ would be another. It originally was a term used to describe others, in much the same way as, say, ‘celebrity’ would be; now it’s common to see individuals proudly describing themselves as ‘influencers’. There’s something slightly disturbingly self-analytic about it. Like speaking in the third person. Anyway… </old man yells at cloud> (I’m not even old!)
  - bravetraveler 2y ago
    In a word, objectification
  - RGamma 2y ago
    It's quite frightening how fast these spread and infect the conversation (even though they're low stakes). Corpos and propagandists especially love how words can shape thinking. For some time already it's en vogue to label all on-prem systems as legacy, as if repeating it will make it come true.
    - xanderlewis 2y ago
      > Corpos and propagandists especially love how words can shape thinking. Oh yes. Which is why it's not so silly to care deeply about how language is used. They are 'just words', but we think (to some extent) in words and we certainly converse in words. Therefore, words are a significant part of what controls societal attitudes.
walterbell 2y ago
Transient tech turnstiles can't compete with unmetered timeless techniques and vintage products made immortal by repairability. Name-calling could reduce a renaissance of proven products, or further stoke interest in past-futures.
jamesgreenleaf 2y ago
Everything older than me is boomer, everything younger is zoomer.
- bravetraveler 2y ago
  Signed, Millennial or gen X We didn't ask for these either. Enjoy being part of the game; y'all (boomers) maintained it Definitely wasn't the silent generation, we all love gram-gram

Baby boomers were born in the 50s after world war 2, crypto used to mean cryptography, serverless uses servers and posting on 'social media' used to just be called putting something on the internet, but everything is destined to become the most nonsense version of itself.

dylan604 2y ago
And the plot to Idiocracy becomes more and more probable
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xanderlewis 2y ago
And ‘content’ used to be called… well, actually, that word was only used to distinguish the ‘content’ from the medium of transmission or the particular web or magazine layout being used, or something. Now people say ‘I love your content’, or even ‘I’m gonna get my phone out and consume some content’ which would have sounded utterly bizarre until very recently. There is a weird tendency for distinctly technical words to leak out and become common outside their original, very specific context. With the meaning warped, of course. Not a technical term, but I guess the most on-topic example here would be ‘hacker’. I guess ‘coding’ works too. ‘Influencer’ would be another. It originally was a term used to describe others, in much the same way as, say, ‘celebrity’ would be; now it’s common to see individuals proudly describing themselves as ‘influencers’. There’s something slightly disturbingly self-analytic about it. Like speaking in the third person. Anyway… </old man yells at cloud> (I’m not even old!)
- bravetraveler 2y ago
  In a word, objectification
- RGamma 2y ago
  It's quite frightening how fast these spread and infect the conversation (even though they're low stakes). Corpos and propagandists especially love how words can shape thinking. For some time already it's en vogue to label all on-prem systems as legacy, as if repeating it will make it come true.
  - xanderlewis 2y ago
    > Corpos and propagandists especially love how words can shape thinking. Oh yes. Which is why it's not so silly to care deeply about how language is used. They are 'just words', but we think (to some extent) in words and we certainly converse in words. Therefore, words are a significant part of what controls societal attitudes.

walterbell 2y ago

Transient tech turnstiles can't compete with unmetered timeless techniques and vintage products made immortal by repairability. Name-calling could reduce a renaissance of proven products, or further stoke interest in past-futures.

jamesgreenleaf 2y ago

Everything older than me is boomer, everything younger is zoomer.

bravetraveler 2y ago
Signed, Millennial or gen X We didn't ask for these either. Enjoy being part of the game; y'all (boomers) maintained it Definitely wasn't the silent generation, we all love gram-gram