Im an Xer but my parents were born in the 1920s. My parents were the same ages as my friends grandparents. I grew up listening to swing music at home. Lol.
Dr. Bob
Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
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She’s postwar. Boomer by definition. Silent generation is for children raised during the war.
Eta: I looked up the dates and I can see a lot of sources that give the 1946 date so consensus is on your side. I’m old, but the boundary used to be those who were raised during the war vs those who wouldn’t have any memory of it. There is the same argument on the other side as well where late boomers claim to be “Generation Jones” between boomers and X.
Dude those are not different generations. They are both early boomers.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campaign.English3·4 days agoMidday on the subway. I knew someone who attended that school and it was literally part of intro performance.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Court Orders Law Firm to Stop Filing Documents with Awesome Dragon WatermarkEnglish29·4 days agoIllegible when photocopied.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campaign.English28·5 days agoOr theatre students. They used to send them out to act weird in public to get over feeling self conscious.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated commentsEnglish12·6 days agoWith all the bots on the site why complain about these ones?
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Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam?English1·7 days agoI’m a scholar. It means not pulling stuff from your ass and citing your sources.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam?English2·7 days agoTechnology can therefore be defined both as an ensemble of deliberately created processes and objects that together accomplish some function as well as the associated knowledge and skills used in the conception, design, implementation, and operation of such technological artifacts.
O. L. de Weck, Technology Roadmapping and Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88346-1_1
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam?English51·8 days agoStart with your silly claim that “advertising”, as you define it, occurred 30,000 years ago. Any non-suppositional evidence please.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam?English6·8 days agoWhat are you even on about? Persuasion is not advertising. And in the absence of a material culture for advertising, there is literally no basis for the 30,000 year claim. This is pure nonsense and the worst kind of bullshit.
Your late cat clearly had an “outie”.
There’s plenty of blame to go around, but this is a stone cold stupid take.
Nobody else seems to remember the Hillary is 44 movement. It was an early version of foreign mischief and tried to do to the left what the Tea Party did to the right.
When I said she was John the Baptist I was actually thinking of her first run at president when she and John McCain were doing vodka shots in Moscow laughing about how one of them was going to be president.
She could have been a herald for a rejuvenation of the Democrats with a younger face. Instead she fought it all the way down.
Well does it!!??!? DON’T LEAVE US HANGING!!1!!1!
She was. She was John the Baptist but wanted to be Jesus. Opinion on her was fully established so even if she was 45% positive you could never move the dial on the 6% you needed to push her over the top.
She would have been an outstanding attack dog for a fresh candidate if she could have put her ego aside and accept that it wouldn’t be her.
Dr. Bob@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam?English221·9 days agoAdvertising is not a technology and there is no evidence that advertising occured 30,000 years ago. That time period predates capitalism, products and competition among manufacturers, and written language.
White tie is a level of formality above black tie. He might probably a diplomat honoring him as head of state rather than as the head of Catholic Church.
What is the bad news?
I’m pretty sure it’s something.