The term nerf in respect to video games was actually derived from Nerf guns. Because Nerf guns are basically just normal guns that have been heavily nerfed 😅

I’ve heard they tend to harbor a lot of alt-right types. Possibly because users can’t really get banned. Is that true?

It is marked NSFW.

You’re the one making a lot of assumptions based on what was originally a shower thought. It’s a nice thought but it’s completely and utterly incorrect in reality.

My kids are real life examples demonstrating that huge investment, while good for the individuals, does not reduce the cost or burden of them to society later in their life.

This isn’t an assumption, it’s a data point that contradicts your hypothetical theory.

The fundamental flaw in your thinking is your assumption that treating mental illness and disabilities will result in the person becoming a productive member of society. This is occasionally true, but much more commonly, the treatment serves to alleviate the more severe symptoms of the condition, without actually curing or fixing the condition.

Healthcare is primarily about minimizing the damage and suffering caused by various physical and mental ailments. It can’t magically transform people into something they’re not.

Yeah I feel you, at least the Orioles team is super stacked rn though (speaking as a Yankees fan 🫠). !yankees@fanaticus.social is equally dead.

My current thought process is that if we can get a decently active generalized baseball community going, it could provide a stepping stone to increasing the activity in the team-specific communities. I’m trying to be active on !mlb@lemmy.ml and !baseball@fanaticus.social as much as possible.

There is already a latent population of sports fans on Lemmy, but it’s sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy that the communities aren’t active so people assume there must be no other fans.

My other thought on this topic is that although I do miss the active fan discussion and game threads, the subreddits for essentially all of my teams were indisputably toxic cesspools. The whining, armchair GMing, scapegoating, and just completely idiotic takes were out of this world. So it’d be nice to have activity, but too much activity can also degrade the quality of discussion to the level of Twitter and just create a very toxic environment where fans are constantly arguing and complaining.

That’s good to hear, I agree that Lemmy is wholesome. Ngl I braced myself for the worst when I read the post title though 😅

Master, forgive me, but I have to go all out just this once 🤺

Yeah I was thinking this. I hardly expect the smugglers are setting up meetings with Apple executives and selling them blood minerals. The most important part of their business is knowing how to safely sell the contraband, they obviously have discreet channels where a few well placed bribes can get the minerals into the supply chain with nobody being the wiser.

You have to catch the smugglers/miners to stop the blood minerals. Even if it were possible for Apple to root them out, they’d just keep selling to other companies.

Lemmings really do be built different. You would never see this kind of raw mathematical genius on reddit

Ok thanks for the info. Fingers crossed 🤞

I remember hearing that Lemmy’s NLnet funding was going to run out soon.

Does this mean the Lemmy devs could potentially reapply for additional funding, or is this only for “new projects”?

My point is that your personal experience doesn’t negate the whole concept of generation jones. All the generational paradigms are based around the US anyway, it doesn’t line up perfectly with other countries.

I came off a bit aggressive in my original comment, I’m sorry about that.

I get that, but I just don’t have any faith that the next batch of politicians is suddenly going to be more ethical simply because they are 20 years younger.

Same. The spirit of the pre-corporate internet lives on here, and I find it very comforting and cozy.

I certainly hope so.

No one is saying that things are the same now.

Things have been fucked up in completely different, but similarly severe ways, for all of human history.

The flipside of the internet is that we have an ability to search for and find the truth, if we have the critical thinking skills. Before the internet, knowledge was controlled by institutions. All information that you could consume was filtered through the authorities first.

It fucking pains me to my soul how profoundly naive and petty our generation appears when we start making these criticisms of previous generations. Not only do we reveal our complete ignorance of history, we reveal our lack of empathy as well, because even without understanding exactly what prior generations had to contend with, it’s not that hard to simply give them the benefit of the doubt and figure that they were more or less the same as us, given that we share the same genome.

We all know people who are part of Jones. Your anecdotal evidence is unconvincing.

I’m a millenial and I received federal financial aid for my college tuition, so… clearly government-backed grants still exist.

Also, your elder siblings had to deal with the height of the AIDS epidemic. The first HIV medication wasn’t approved by the FDA until 1987.

Similarly, they got to enjoy 6-8 additional years of exposure to toxic concentrations of lead as children. So lucky.

See how you can make whatever argument you like if you start cherrypicking data points?

Boomers and older

Are we discussing the baby Boomers, or every generation born prior to GenX? Boomers and older isn’t a demographic. Millenials have been larger than Boomers for some time now.

That’s why they were called baby boomers. Because there was/is a shit ton of them.

They get blamed because of that.

Huh? I’m confused. What is that referring to in your last sentence? You think the reason they get blamed is because there were high birthrates at the time leading to a large generation? How tf is that their fault?

I would also like to ask how you think future generations will view Generation X, millennials, or Generation Z. Because from where I’m sitting, we are going to be the ones holding the bag on the whole… destroying the planet thing? Future generations are going to look back and see that we possessed the information and the technology to halt the destruction of earth’s ecosystem, but due to our own narcissism and greed, we let it happen in slow motion.

The Boomers are also largely responsible, but that doesn’t absolve us; just like the fact that the Boomers were raised by a generation which, by modern moral standards, was far more egregious than the Boomers themselves, does not absolve them. They can at least argue partial ignorance regarding climate change, we have no such luck.

Sorry to make two top level comments but I had two separate reactions to this post.

Generation Jones is a grossly underutilized concept imo. It’s totally unfair to lump in people born after 1960 with the early Baby Boomers.

Generation Jones were children during the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and were young adults when HIV/AIDS became a worldwide threat in the 1980s.

The name “Generation Jones” has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a “keeping up with the Joneses” competitiveness and the slang word “jones” or “jonesing”, meaning a yearning or craving. Pontell suggests that Jonesers inherited an optimistic outlook as children in the 1960s, but were then confronted with a different reality as they entered the workforce during Reaganomics and the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy, which ushered in a long period of mass unemployment. Mortgage interest rates increased to above 12 percent in the mid-eighties, making it virtually impossible to buy a house on a single income. De-industrialization arrived in full force in the mid-late 1970s and 1980s; wages would be stagnant for decades, and 401Ks replaced pensions, leaving them with a certain abiding “jonesing” quality for the more prosperous days of the past.