The guy out there on the surfboard, with the umbrellaā¦he REALLY IS doing it right. You know how I know? Heās got a shirt and a hat on, too.
Heās not out there, trying to get skin cancer. There is no rule that says āif I donāt massively increase my risk of dying from malignant melanoma, Iām not really a cool dude.ā But a lot of people seem to think there is.
Iām a chubby bald guy. People think I wear a hat and a shirt to the fucking beach/pool because Iām trying to hide my fatness and my baldness. No, man. Iām hiding my weak-ass white skin from Mr. Sun. That shit is the only kind of cancer anyone in my family has ever gotten, too, and it is NOT going to get me. But, also, I do still like fun.
And donāt let any of these whackos come at you with the whole Vitamin D trip. I take that shit in pill form, yo. Itās cool that my cells can make it, but itās not necessary, in the 21st Century.
Yeah America fucking knows logistics. I worked at a non profit and our warehouse where we would store donations would become quite the mess during garage sale season. We had a squad of US Army Reserve logistical something or another who basically work in warehouses volunteer for the day so I went ahead and gave them the task of organizing and cleaning up the warehouse, a task I thought would take them a few hours. I go on my 30min lunch break and I come back to 5 dudes standing around and a warehouse so clean and organized that you could eat off the floor.
I mean, technically boomers saw Korea, Vietnam, Cuban missile crisis, Yom Kippur, (sorry if itās misspelled), and the 70s oil crisis. I think the world has really just been interesting all this time
Yes. Granted not due to being a white educated man so much as a human who doesnāt have loads of money or influence. At least in 1923 you didnāt have every corporation trying to micromanage your life and life was affordable.
Maybe not 1923 exactly, but you can look at Europe in that timeā¦ That was right around the time Mussolini got to power, and why? Because of white males (and more) facing a cost of living crisis. America at that time had the āgolden 20sā, true, but then you go a few years later and the fucking great depression starts, probably the biggest cost of living crisis there was.
And then also compare the standard of living from that time with now, even though we are struggling, our standard of living in general is much better than it was at that time due to technology and other factors.
Right in the middle between two world wars youāre going to experience and probably die in.
Iām not saying you are wrong in the sense that all is good now, and that it doesnāt suck majorly for a lot of people, all Iām saying is that I think you overestimate how good the past was.
Depends on where you where born I guess? Living in Belgium, my boomer parents never got a higher education because it was not affordable for working class families with 6 or more children. My dad had to go to work in a factory at 14, which was very common at the time. Props to him though, he got a degree through evening classes when he was already married with two children and working full time.
Higher education only became common and affordable with my generation.
On the other hand, while I make more money than my parents ever did, they were able to buy a 4 bedroom house in the 1980s on a working class income, whereas I could only afford a 2 bedroom appartment in the mid 2000s, the tail-end of affordability for housing.
While itās true that I was speaking from an American perspective on a time period that definitely saw different situations in the US vs Europe, I would also say that the experience youāve shared shows a similar effect, just in a different environment.
Your father (to his credit) was able to work his way through night school while supporting a family and (presumably) not incurring a mountain of debt.
The notion of working oneās way through college is something that was certainly difficult, but also certainly doable in the time when the boomers were in their 20s and 30s. Many of them still think that itās possible to work a part time job while you study to pay your way through college and graduate with little to no debt (and use that perspective to pass judgement on anyone who doesnāt do that as lazy).
These days, a part time income may not even be enough to cover books, let alone room and boardā¦ forget about tuition. Honestly, itās so impractical that itās probably better for a student to not work and focus on study and health rather than try to mitigate debt through a side job.
These days, a part time income may not even be enough to cover books, let alone room and boardā¦ forget about tuition
This is again a more American perspective I think, which doesnāt make it invalid of course. The situation over there where students typically get loans and suffer crippling debt for years after theyāve graduated is frankly outrageous. Over here though, higher education is government regulated and highly subsidized, and while itās not free and can still be pretty expensive, itās possible to fit it within the budget of most families without loans, and people from families with a really low income are eligible for a grant.
So Iām going to stand by my point that in Belgium at least, education has become more accessible compared to how it was for the boomer generation. Itās visible in the statistics too: the number of people with a higher education level is still increasing every year, and younger people are much more likely to be highly educated than older people.
People are so much more āconnectedā now. Everyone hears about everything that goes on in the world. Well, except the good stuff, thatās not engaging. This and modern popular culture has us focused on the state of the world, which we largely have no ability to directly impact. In the past, people have been more concerned with their community and bettering their immediate life.
Now, this allowed for us to bury our heads in the sand and ignore global issues caused by state actors and accept systemic issues. But it also often set people up for success. The problems modern people are expected to solve is shit like climate change. Which, you know, is impossible for a single person to achieve. The irony is that weāre actually more alone. People today have fewer close friends and deep relationships than ever before.
The good news is that the worldās actually in a better place than it ever has been by many metrics. The woeful feelings are created by societal shifts and pressures. Things we can control in our own life. So I think the answer is to get yourself right and into a good place. Set limits and disconnect from the internet, build close and meaningful IRL friendships. Once youāre set, then reach out into the world and do whatever good you can.
I didnāt hear it anywhere, its personal experience. Spotify straight up isnāt shuffling any of my older liked music. Everytime I hit shuffle it always ends up localized around recently saved music and it never changes. Moreover, thatās a blogpost from a decade ago. Spotify changes stuff constantly. I seriously doubt that is the same algorithm theyāre using now. ESPECIALLY considering theyāve introduced āSmart Shuffleā which doesnāt only shuffle music you have saved but adds completely new music into the mix as well. That and Spotifys overall quality control has dropped drastically in the past decade.
Iāve got thousands of liked songs and I get a nice variety of old and recent stuff. From last month to as old as 8 years ago. Sometimes I get too many songs from the same band, sure, but when youāve got 50-100 songs from the same band liked, thatās bound to happen
Yeah Iāve got like 8000 and there have been times when it feels like itās focusing on newly added stuff, but older stuff definitely does pop up and I feel like itās a pretty good mix. 90% of the time Iāve just got my whole library on shuffle unless Iām actively looking for new stuff to add.
While I can agree with others that it might not be that strict and they may get more variety, from personal experience, my 700+ song playlist tends to focus on a handful of songs. Blue - Eiffel 65 gets a CRAZY amount of playtime for some reason. Itās a running joke with my carpool that itās my carās theme song. I can sometimes skip it 2-3 times on my drive to work. And some songs seem to never come up. Iāve been having some better luck with the AI DJ lately, although it will throw in an entire chunk of songs I donāt even care about as basically ads.
Yeah okay, so they use the Fisher Yates algorithm. Then how the fuck in my playlist of 1000 songs am I CONSTANTLY getting hit with multiple songs by the same artist? Once in a while, okay, thatās statistically likely, but not all the time, and not every time.
how many songs by the same artist do you have in that playlist? Your comments here donāt make sense. Repeating the same artist doesnāt make something not random and definitely doesnāt make it āthe most 100 recently saved songsā. In fact repeating the same artist makes it quite likely that it is random as randomness is frequently misinterpreted as non-random if you would have read the article I linked you would understand that.
Firefly. Only because Iāve never met anyone that wasnāt someone I had to introduce to it. Let alone the comics, novels, board/card games, etc.
But for real, if I ever got anyone enough of a base around me becoming such fans as I; I would also happen to have enough of the old school Mage:tAs books to equate Technocracy with the Alliance and equate the Trads to Pirates.
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