• Wogi@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’ve been hearing about how older generations always hate younger generations all my life. How I must be destined to grow in to some crochety old man by 40.

    I gotta say these kids seem like they’re headed in a pretty good direction, they’re funny, they’re not taking shit, frankly it seems like it’s going pretty well.

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      9 months ago

      They are also not fundamentally brain damaged by years of the inhalation of lead and then being irradiated by one of the worse nuclear disasters of all time.

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        9 months ago

        Actually only Gen Z will be free of the epigenetic effects. It actually takes 2 gens of not being exposed for a generation not to be affected.

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          Actually only Gen Z will be free of the epigenetic effects.

          Literally the exact generation we’re talking about.

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        I knew about the lead for Gen X. Are you talking about both Millennials and Gen Z not having been poisoned in their developmental years or are you referring to Boomers (and older), some of whom were irradiated and/or got hit by smog, etc. It sounds like you’re saying something also happened to Millennials otherwise, and I never heard about this.

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      Yeah dude. I’m Xilenial, was told how I would grow up and be just like them. No, really, becoming old is a choice. My younger brothers are full on MAGA and hate-filled. They look and act older than I do by a long shot. I work with teams of Gen Z students and stay young by being around them.

      You can age without becoming old. Some people chose to be old, and those types tend to hate younger folks and also hated the older people when they were younger themselves.