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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Can you source that claim? I’d be interested in seeing a more detailed analysis.
From today's developing What The Fuck Just Happened Today feed:
Two Arizona Republicans tried to make a donation to a Democratic congressman as members of the Communist Party in an attempt to link him to the far left. Two men walked into first-term Democrat Tom O'Halleran with a jar of $39.68 and insisted that the Northern Arizona University Community Party wanted them to get a receipt for the donation. When O'Halleran's finance director drove to the local Republican field office to return the money, one of the men appeared from inside the offices and was identified as the man who tried to donate the money. (The Guardian)
Newly released emails show Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross spoke with Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach about adding a citizenship question to the U.S. Census. Contrary to Ross' originally stated intentions for adding the question, the email reveal that Ross was instead concerned that not adding a citizenship question "leads to the problem that aliens who do not actually 'reside' in the United States are still counted for congressional apportionment purposes." The emails reveal that the political effects of asking about citizenship were indeed part of the original calculus for the decision to include it. (Washington Post)
One reason I she'd about Generation X was because I was curious if I was in it. Turns out I am (born in 1982).
Anyway, a strange local story I saw pop up on my notifications I thought I'd share:
[Idaho] Fish and Game commissioner hunts ‘family of baboons’ in Africa, faces calls to resign
https://www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/hunting/article219758365.html
My first thought was that the outrage came from taking international trips to hunt. As I work down the article, the issue seems to be that he was an unethical/unsportsmanlike hunter.
Edited by sgamer82 on Oct 12th 2018 at 11:44:49 AM
@Fruitpork I don't know, I'm also from late 1992 but from what I read Generation Z doesn't really start till 1998. It's our younger brother's and cousin's generation.
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Well, generations are more cultural than scientific, it's about defining when a generalized youth culture begins and ends. Thus, it's always kinda of arbitrary unless viewed from decades our centuries out.
Edited by Ludlow on Oct 12th 2018 at 10:38:31 AM
I’m 1995, and at the very least, I certainly wouldn’t identify with Generation Z. I can remember a time without social media, for one thing.
Oh God! Natural light!That’s far from a hard line, definitions vary greatly, I’m born 1993 but I’d be identified as a millennial not gen Z by some.
Just looking at Wikipedia I’m seeing multiple different start dates for gen Z. 1993 (by a group who don’t have milenians as a generation), 1995, 1995 again, 1996, 1997, 1997 again, 1998, 2000, post-9/11, 2001 and even 2005.
Honestly the divide seems to be generally somewhere from the mid ‘90s to the early 2000s. I’d say that identifying people born in the early ‘90s as gen Z is very much dodging it, honestly, if someone born in ‘92 in gen Z then what generation is someone born twenty years later in 2012?
Edited by Silasw on Oct 12th 2018 at 5:42:20 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran@Karkat The Dalek Wasn't that a great time? No fake news, no measuring up your life and your body to the carefully curated Facebook pages' of acquaintances, actual in-person interaction. What I wouldn't give to go back, lol.
Edited by Ludlow on Oct 12th 2018 at 10:43:29 AM
Yeah, I wouldn’t want to live in Bush’s America, unless it was a choice between it and Trump’s America.
Anyway, I don’t really remember that well anyway.
Oh God! Natural light!Yeah I had a childhood before online gaming was widespread (network play was a thing but most games were single player things bought on C Ds (later DV Ds), before social media (Facebook took off during my last year at secondary/high school) and before smartphones were widespread (my last year of secondary school one girl and a blackberry and it was the cool new thing).
However unlike the generation before mine my childhood did include us all having mobile phones, web access, handheld gaming devices and often personal T Vs, computers or similar.
We had phones but not smartphones, laptops but no tablets, gaming consoles but no online play, whiteboards but not smartboards, DV Ds not digital downloads.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAfter voting for Kavanaugh
, a pro-Kavanaugh Dark Money money group launched a six-figure television and digital ad campaign in support of Susan Collins.

@M84 Fair enough, I'll stop doing that for now. I'm more interested in talking about generation x and why they are the way they are.
Edited by Ludlow on Oct 12th 2018 at 8:58:15 AM