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@ShadowJonathan

No. You're the next generation.

But it sounds like you have a Gen X soul.

That is a compliment. We raised ourselves. From second grade on, I got up to an empty house, drank my coffee while I read the paper, cooked my own food, and got my own ass off to school. I came home to an empty house as well. It taught Gen X a kind of self-sufficiency that I've never seen in any generation before or since.

We may not have had a mighty war to fight, for or against, but we had a kind of guts that I'm only starting to see repeated in the young 'uns who grew up with active shooter drills and 24/7 surveillance.

Being honorary Gen X is a compliment. We're not the Boomers.

@ShadowJonathan

@OvertonDoors @redsad i just don't give ads that level of respect, I only listen or watch things without ads or I just won't watch them

I don't even dignify ads with my alertness to silence them, they can just fuck off with the medium they've infected and grabbed, it's become worthless to me the moment that medium got unskippable ads

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt i do all of the same things ngl

@ShadowJonathan yes, and streaming is the worst. They run the same ads on a loop all evening ...and I do what you do :>)

@redsad @ShadowJonathan Not watching TV really helps in this regard. And uBlock Origin for the web.

@Uair @ShadowJonathan
I hate making everything a generational thing just as much as I hate ads.

@ShadowJonathan I guess I'm doing it right, when the advertisers are already actively attacking all the ways I avoid watching the ads, including attempts at blocking ad blockers or just trying to win me over with sad pleas.

@ShadowJonathan sponsorblock and ublock is my answer to ads

@ShadowJonathan you can eliminate almost all of them with some effort but it really annoys me that you can't do anything about the ones in the bus (stops) and the train (stations), apart from moving

which means either to a cool place like Skåne that has actively taken action to prevent advertising in public spaces; or to the middle of nowhere where advertising is not profitable, like in rural Scotland where bus stops are just cute wee wooden shelters and billboards are a foreign concept

And for most ppl neither is really an option:/

@ShadowJonathan It it also a sign that the product is overpriced as you (the customer) have to pay not only the manufacturing costs and the salary of the seller but also all the marketing expenses you never asked for

@Takiro @ShadowJonathan

There are generational differences. My parents were Boomers, and the Vietnam War defined their lives. Gen X were latch key kids. That was a defining feature of our generation.

Yeah, putting hard edges around the years defining generations is dumb, but there really are giant cultural experiences that only exist for one generation.

In case you didn't read the whole thread--I woke up to an empty house, made my food while I drank my coffee and read the paper. And then got my own self off to school. At age seven. In second fucking grade. Most parents won't even let their kids play outside any more. I only saw mine for 45 minutes at dinnertime when we were forced to pretend to be a family.

Gen X raised themselves, and as far as I know that was unique in history. There really are broad generational differences in society. If your parents tried to raise you the way mine did me, DYFUS would have taken you from them.

@CazzPhoenix @ShadowJonathan

Seriously. I was already living on 4 hours of sleep a night, and starting on Stephen King.

I'm a hyperlexical autistic person. And, not to front, a genius. I was National Merit if you know what that is.

@ShadowJonathan ban advertisements

@Takiro @Uair @ShadowJonathan generational segmentation is a marketing tactic in itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation

@ShadowJonathan
I've never identified so closely to a character from a book as I have with Case Pollard of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition - a character defined by her "allergy" to advertising.

@ShadowJonathan sounds like me

@helenaisvibing @ShadowJonathan Spray. Paint.

@ShadowJonathan If I cannot suppress the ads, I do not use the service, plain and simple.

@Uair@autistics.life @ShadowJonathan
I also had a terrible life 30 years ago and even back then I experienced every generation shitting on each other and what I learned, no matter what events shaped them, is that every generation was equally stupid in their own rights. Don't use your own trauma as an excuse to talk shit about a whole group of people. Many of us went trough shit of our own. It's not a contest about who had the most fucked up life or most hours in therapy.