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   binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:40:20 JST binkle
   After observing the older millennials at work I have come to the conclusion that the boomer phenomenon is not something specifically tied to a generation but rather a gradual mental transformation which occurs with aging. I'm not sure whether it's universal/unavoidable or whether there are preventative measures you can take to stave it off, but it should certainly give one pause
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:40:17 JST Rusty Crab

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     @binkle @sendpaws knowledge is knowing zoomer slang
     wisdom is knowing not to use it
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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:40:18 JST binkle

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     @sendpaws @RustyCrab I don't mean a specific set of behaviors, but rather a disconnect between reality as it is and what they appear to perceive. I think that with aging comes a certain point at which one stops taking in as much new information, and consequently stops adapting, leading to the misapplication of strategies and the mismatch of reaction to stimuli. People call it "being stuck in the past" when it's particularly egregious for an individual, but I think this happens much more broadly than anyone considers, and may not be a moral/habitual so much as a biological problem.
     
     I see some of these older millennials at work who quite LITERALLY seem to see things differently than me. Their reactions to things are too genuine and incongruous to believe otherwise.
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:40:19 JST Pawslut420

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     @RustyCrab @binkle >there are people under 20 acting like boomers online

     NOOO YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO XYZ ONLY

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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:40:20 JST Rusty Crab

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     @binkle there are some people on here on their late 20s already falling prey to it
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     Viscount Economic_Hitman (economic_hitman@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:36:39 JST Viscount Economic_Hitman

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     @binkle @RustyCrab @sendpaws
     what are some examples? Are these older millennials acting like boomers because of politics, or technology, or...?

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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:36:39 JST binkle

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     @Economic_Hitman @RustyCrab @sendpaws I mean the way that they react to things appears to be less tied to what they're actually seeing and more tied to other things they've seen previously that they remember - so they'll see a movie or a TV show that has a superficial aspect they remember from something else and treat it similarly to that other thing, going so far as to make assumptions about quality or philosophical intent
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:37:14 JST Pawslut420

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     @binkle @RustyCrab @wertimer @Economic_Hitman what happened was the "golden age" of more subtle propaganda gave way to propaganda that is not in line with reality whatsoever in order to speedrun social change (WR) (ANY%).

     Also the hilarious paradox of how trying to force certain social change led to backlash intensifying the more people actually learned about it and not the sanitized version they saw on TV.

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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:37:15 JST binkle

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     @wertimer @Economic_Hitman @RustyCrab @sendpaws it would be less noticeable if cultural changes were more gradual, but I think the underlying process would still be there
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     wertimer (wertimer@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:37:16 JST wertimer

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     @binkle @Economic_Hitman @RustyCrab @sendpaws so couldn't it be avoided if those cultural artifacts were more in line with reality?
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     d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:39:24 JST d

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     @binkle @RustyCrab @sendpaws @Economic_Hitman ooh ooh I've got one for this
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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:40:04 JST binkle

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     @sendpaws @RustyCrab @wertimer @Economic_Hitman imagine in the before-times, how repetition of shared stories formed the cultural backbone of a society - and then compare that to the now industrialized production of stories in books, movies, music, games, etc. The volume of cultural output has increased drastically, and as a result cultural touchstones and reference points come and go much more quickly. What I'm trying to get at is how a person's cultural references and, more importantly, their whole mindset for dealing with the world and further how they perceive it slows its adaptation and eventually stops, becoming rooted at some point, resulting in them misunderstanding situations and being completely bewildered by situations that are easily understandable and predictable by younger people - and not in the "80 year old man has dementia" kind of way but in the "this guy is 40 and used to get it but something shifted in him and now he's """old""" " kind of way (where "old" is a stand-in for the thing I'm trying to express)
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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:40:05 JST binkle

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     @sendpaws @RustyCrab @wertimer @Economic_Hitman I would agree with you ordinarily but the kinds of cultural changes I'm alluding to are more benign than all that - I meant more the broad churn of new stories and mediums developed at a breakneck pace. The actual contents appear secondary, only that there are contents to be recognized or missed
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:40:05 JST Pawslut420

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     @binkle @RustyCrab @wertimer @Economic_Hitman Can you elaborate a little?

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:45:47 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @binkle @RustyCrab @sendpaws @Economic_Hitman @deprecated_ii Perhaps heuristics that they operate with that haven't been challenged by any pushback. The meme answer would be "trained him wrong on purpose as a joke", which maybe has a kernel of truth depending on conspiratorial we want to be in our views of things. It's pretty normal for people to lose IQ but increase crystalline knowledge which they use to build said heuristics; once you "understand" how a system works to a predictable level, you don't need to think about it at all. Who knows if it's just tiredness or apathy or TV brain.
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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:45:48 JST binkle

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     @deprecated_ii @RustyCrab @sendpaws @Economic_Hitman YES. This is a much better way of explaining it, and it seems to apply more broadly to everything they see
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 06:38:51 JST Pawslut420

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     @BowsacNoodle @binkle @RustyCrab @Economic_Hitman @deprecated_ii
     >Who knows if it's just tiredness or apathy or TV brain.

     All 3 to some degree, along with being more "well off" than we are, trying to fit in with retards online and doing literally anything to be with them, etc.

     I think the "never experienced hardship" phrase can apply to many of these people as well. You tend to behave differently when you realize the TV and shit people say online is fake, when you can believe what the TV tells you about XYZ because you've never worked a McJob, etc.

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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 00:51:32 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     @binkle learning gets harder with age, and if you ever stop, you lose your neuroplasticity and it becomes almost impossible
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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 09:57:00 JST binkle

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     @professionalbigot69 you will live to see it happen to Gen Z too :abyss:
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     Ulysses (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 09:57:01 JST Ulysses

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     @binkle ”you still rent/lease” is the millennial's memento mori
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