This is not my personal opinion, I know Gen Z men who voted for Harris. But the voter demographics really speak for themselves, and maybe now people will look at the radicalization of young men as a serious (but solvable) issue.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    842 months ago

    Who thinks they’re good with technology? They’ve never had technology that requires any more knowledge than how to swipe. They’re shit with technology.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        02 months ago

        Do they? That’s what I’m asking, who thinks that? I don’t know anyone who thinks zoomers are good with technology.

        • Cethin
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          302 months ago

          It’s absolutely a belief and it used to be true. For millennials especially it was true. We grew up with technology around us, but they required effort from the user to make them work. These created a lot of self-learned resourceful technologically literate people.

          Modern technology almost all wants to prevent you from messing with them. They function out of the box and limit your ability to modify them. This has created a lot of people who can’t understand how technology works beyond the user interface. They’re great at using a touch-screen, but they don’t understand what the device is doing beyond that.

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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            12 months ago

            Millennials aren’t zoomers though. The original statement was specifically about zoomers, and idk anyone who thinks they’re good with technology, and from what I’ve seen, they are not.

            Gen X and older millennials are the only generation who knows stuff on average. We had to teach our parents, and then we had to teach our kids (who don’t care to learn). We’re sandwich meat!

            • Cethin
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              182 months ago

              That’s why I worded it the way I did. There’s still a sentiment that younger people should be better with technology, since they’ve interacted with it their whole life also. Their interaction was much different than ours though.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 months ago

          I personally don’t, but it’s a sentiment I hear around me from time to time in the workplace or on TV.

          • @keegomatic
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            52 months ago

            That’s been a common and roughly true trope for a long time, but I think we may have hit the point where high technology has been ubiquitous for multiple generations now and it’s probably not quite as true as it once was (that the younger generation is always better with technology than the previous)

        • @bitchkat
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          31 month ago

          My 80 some year old dad was better at some technology than my 30 year old son.

          • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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            11 month ago

            Your 80 year old dad used DOS. Make your 30yo use it for a year exclusively and he’ll be fine

            • @bitchkat
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              21 month ago

              No he wasn’t using DOS a couple of years ago although he did use Windows. In fact, I don’t know if he ever used DOS. When they did move the drafting system to computer, he was likely using a jnix workstation or special purpose hardware.

              But he learned how to acquire media from the UK that isn’t available in US. He’d search and download torrents, unrar when needed, move to his plex libraries,etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      Who thinks they’re good with technology?

      Millennials, it’s the only thing we’re good at, we suck at everything else…

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        We killed napkins motherfucker

        Also stigma about depression, no stigma when you’re the majority.

          • aramis87
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            Apparently millennials prefer paper towels over napkins and it’s affecting the napkin industry.

            • @[email protected]
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              “tissues” vs “kitchen rolls” for anyone wondering what a paper towel is compared to a napkin.

              I gotta say, I always found tissues just sub-par for the job. A kitchen roll (towel? sleeve? paper?) you just need to fold it once and it will hold against a storm

              • GHiLA
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                I’m not, tho. 😎

                Have a discussion with me about napkins. This is a social website.

                • @[email protected]
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                  21 month ago

                  Lol fine

                  Napkins are shit and deserved to die. You need to clean your face, a paper towel is better. You need to clean a general mess, napkins are useless. You need to blow your nose or touch a sensitive orifice or mucous membrane, Kleenex is your boi… Napkins were a dumb waste of additional manufacturing lines and supply chains.

              • @[email protected]
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                21 month ago

                Ok, the first article says “Millennials killed the paper napkin industry” then says they’re using paper towels instead

                WTF is the difference between a paper napkin and a paper towel? I thought they were the same thing? 😂

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 month ago

                  Lol apparently so did millenials ;)

                  It’s a different grade of paper, usually flat and without the ridges that make paper towels absorbant (or at least the “look I’m absorbant” marketing signifier). Very very cheap napkins and paper towels are mostly indistinguishable.

                • GHiLA
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                  11 month ago

                  Paper towels are (traditionally) rolled on a cardboard tube and meant to clean up larger messes.

                  Napkins are meant to adorn a table and clean one’s face while eating.

                  A paper towel is a napkin but a napkin is not a paper towel.