Give it time, and I bet younger generations will surpass them by a country mile. Most likely skipping Gen X since they grew up pre-digital like the boomers, but were completely ignored and lived nearly all their lives in the shadow of boomers.

Why? Well, partly because of their numbers, but I see quite a bit of narcissism in younger generations, and unlike the boomers who, yes, grew up in a media that showered constant attention and praise on them and their outsized numbers, media is now entirely tailored to make it all about the individual.

I don’t see any reason to believe that human nature won’t fall prey to this in younger generations…if the boomers were steeped most of their lives in algorithms trained on maximizing engagement, they would be even worse. Now imagine a new group of people that have been fed that their entire lives…

What’s propping him up then, all the Gen Y and Gen Z males?

https://scribe.rip/@ystrickler/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1

Hey, that sounds like the way the mods and the inside clique at BoingBoing operate!

Reminds me: HOW THE HELL is their stock UP 23.72% this past week. I mean, what. the. fuck.

Buttery Males!

With each passing day, the Dark Forest theory of social media seems all the more prescient…

virtually a nonissue

Emphasis on virtually. It’s not 100%. That’s why there is talk about herd immunity. I don’t think anyone here is proposing to not get vaccinated or that they don’t accept the science [1]. I think everyone here is actually in agreement except for the finer point about efficacy not being 100%.

https://theconversation.com/if-my-measles-shot-was-years-ago-am-i-still-protected-5-questions-answered-115691

One dose of the MMR vaccine protects against measles at 93% efficacy (that is, 93% of individuals will receive the protective benefit of the vaccine), two doses of the vaccine provides 96-97% efficacy.

[1] I much prefer this phrasing than saying someone “believes” in science, since science does not require belief.

That’s what is so sad to see - whole lotta young dumbasses with the same kind of short-term thinking dunking on “boomers” and things like Social Security. As well as unions, the post office, and public schools. Even worse when the framing of it is accompanied with some blather about “my generation” and so on, yadda yadda.

They are probably so filled with Dunning-Kruger that it hasn’t even occurred to them that prior “generations” were told the exact same hokum and that their “generation” is not magically any different…

The stupid “doge” thing was never about balancing the budget anyway. That’s all bullshit red meat for the dumbasses that voted for donvict.

Uh, I still have the same question. Linking to Wikipedia doesn’t really answer the question.

That P/E ratio it has is crazy. It’s basically a meme stock. I think 1/5 to 1/6 is being very, very generous.

Yep.

I am sure that most of the cereals I’ve tried in recent years have changed since I was a child. Not for the better.

corporate America has spent the last 15 years hiring people based on their race instead of their qualifications

Wait, in what universe did that happen?

The donvict motto: “the bucks stops with ‘that was other kids’”.

Chances are that if the lonnie and donnie show annex Canada that the idea of free and fair elections would be over. Or, if they were to somehow come out of such a scenario with free and fair elections, they do something to rig Canada so any progressive majority would be blunted (just like it is already) by the Electoral College.

The guy already should be rotting in prison for a whole host of reasons, but here we are.

I wonder how long before the fake org called “doge” seeks to defund any police anywhere that are catching pedos, because it is probably just “waste, fraud and abuse” to bust what are probably mostly qons.

Secretary of Pedophelia.

What would be the effective outcome, but because this is the maladministration of lonnie and donnie, or lonvict, they’ll give it a dumb “meme” name that spells out something a 12 year old can giggle about or some Orwellian name like Ministry of Protecting The Children.