Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

[dandrumheller@mstdn.social]

@thordis yet another Xennial checking in. Voted Gen X cause I'm an elder Xennial lol.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@thordis I never remember which is which

[tieandjeans@theforkiverse.com]

@thordis I've been in the classroom with middle and highschool students since 2001.
There are always microgeneration bubbles. Current HS students are clear on the Z/Alpha border.

[futuristicrobert@infosec.exchange]

@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis

how are you doing fellow Xennial? Take care yourself. I'm where you are right now and I sometimes have to pull away from it all and dive into something completely unrelated to the world around me. I've watched most of my friends and family struggle. It is bleak right now and I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It is very scary.

But you're not alone. Stay strong. Once history turns over again, we'll be needed to help with our unique insights and wisdom as children somewhere between two arbitrarily defined albeit unique generations.

Apes, together, strong.

[futuristicrobert@infosec.exchange]

@jetlagjen @hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis

me and my hand-me-down TI/99/4a computer agree with you!

Chance has a lot to do with it.

[bcasiello@floss.social]

@thordis Jones

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@hamishb

Yes, many (not all) were certainly happy to kick the ladders away in the 80s, and that generation's luck has continued with triple-locked, final salary pensions.

I read something recently about European counties where Boomers had higher incomes in retirement than the average salary of working people, but this seems to be changing for more recent retirees thanks to retirement age increases and taxes.

@contrasocial @hajni @thordis

[possum@therian.zone]

@thordis@theforkiverse.com bruh i know multiple gen alpha why they haved to get lumped in

[kamiten@yiff.life]

@thordis *extreme nerdy voice* aktschually I'm a cusp year that's Xennial, but I identify more with millennials than gen X so that's what I chose.

[bertkoor@mastodon.social]

@thordis
I hate having to google the definitions of these nonsense labels.

[flittermouse@girlcock.club]

@thordis
Yeah, I decided you must think you're addressing only forkiverse people. I actually had to look up forkiverse, and ended up looking at the transcript of the first episode of the NYT's Hard Fork podcast. There are millions of currently active fediverse users so the spread of responses you get will depend on how well federated the forkiverse is.

@leffe

[brother@theforkiverse.com]

@thordis just a bunch of old farts fartin around

[geodon@mapstodon.space]

@thordis

Generation Jones

[nlbrt@mastodon.social]

@thordis genuinely disappointed to see there aren't as many zoomers (like me) on the fediverse. </3

I mean, I know the reasons why, but it's not as bad as some of them make it look like

[weezmgk@mastodon.social]

@ETARD_The_LifeCaster mmm nope. Booxers invented this shit, chief. @thordis

[batsify@pouet.chapril.org]

@thordis It's a misconception. To make people believe that they are all born with common traits, a bit like a way of putting them in little boxes, is an illusion.

I could understand it for major changes (the war in particular and what shortly followed). But today... Do we have to have a name worthy of the Apple brand on our backs?

[kletskous@mastodon.social]

@thordis Don't know, don't care.

[hosford42@techhub.social]

@FuturisticRobert @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis

First I have to survive. I have lost my job *again*, at the worst possible time *again*. I have no savings, because I used them all up last time I was laid off, and didn't get the chance to build them back up. I don't even know how I'm going to feed my kids tonight. And the job market is *destroyed* for people in my field. (Non-LLM machine learning) Add the tariffs and the oncoming economic downturn they're projecting, and we are screwed.

[clem@theforkiverse.com]

@hosford42 @FuturisticRobert @szczurtorebkowy @thordis there's always money in the banana stand chk-CHK

Edit - I should explain. I wasn't trying to be trite about your situation at all even though it looks like I clearly am in retrospect. That was more pointing out how generational wealth breeds the inability to notice others struggles. If you always have a banana stand in your family, you don't have to worry about the day-to-day of people without a banana stand

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@thordis not all millennials but definitely all old >_>