While this is all plausible, may describe your personal experience fully, and may to some extent be true for a subset of the population, it appears that the notion of the baby boomer generation being, or ever having been, more progressive than the generations that followed is unequivocally false, according to any high quality polling data I’ve yet found. If this is something you are reading somewhere, I would be curious to know where so I can discover how they arrive at that conclusion.

I’m certainly not saying there aren’t progressive boomers or conservative younger people. There’s always a spectrum for every group, no matter how you define the cohorts. The baby boomers on the whole just happen to skew more conservative than the younger generations, and it is an especially strong correlation at that.

Which, come to think of it, is essentially the tin can method, just with conversion to an electrical signal that preserves fidelity over longer distances than kinetic vibrations on a string.

I dunno, some of them might suddenly have a great deal of potential

Edit: yeah this is misinformation

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Wait, are you serious? It would shock the hell out of me, but it would be so encouraging to learn that boomers were changing their minds.

Unless we’re talking about a specific national progressive policy that benefits them directly, like improving social security, or local progressive policies they rely on, like increasing agricultural subsidies, in my life I’ve only ever seen that cohort grow more conservative.

Or are you saying that gen xyz are rapidly becoming more conservative, such that they’ve surpassed the boomers?

I’m not disbelieving you, just trying to make this make sense since it defies the trend. I’ll look for these polls but if there are specific ones you mean, I would be interested to know which.

Update: so far I’m finding the complete opposite to be true (at least from anything close to a reputable source, which doesn’t include opt-in online polls). It appears the generational group often referred to as boomers is now polling more conservative than ever before. Part of this trend might be explained by the fact that we are losing the oldest boomers first, and these were the ones who had the chance to identify with the countercultural movements of the 60s and 70s, whereas most of the younger boomers, who were famously outspoken fans of the Vietnam war and Reagan, are still present.

even old data retroactively

My impression is that retroactive opt-out data grifting represents the lion’s share of user data sales today, and that it’s a popular strategy because it works.

The formula: appraise the data and find your buyers in advance. THEN update the privacy policies to include the data you want to sell. That way, the moment new policies go into effect, all you have to do is hit the transfer button.

After that, it’s done. Users that find and flick your new opt-out toggle only stop you from selling their data to additional buyers, and that’s nbd since data brokers only pay top-dollar for exclusive access to stuff that’s not already on the market.

It’s why I consider the introduction of any opt-out privacy policy an explicit admission of data theft.

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Le poisson, le poisson, how I love le poisson!

• Odo

Hear me out. It feels extremely good to hit walls sometimes.

You can feel its response to that impact reverberate through your tissues, starting with the shock of the grit against your skin, and then hear the sound of the surface which conveys a bit about the materials and structure. Once the sound subsides you can feel the dull warmth of minor tissue damage. Etc etc.

These are a lot of sensations all at once and sometimes you just need to feel, ya know? Not a guy, and haven’t felt the urge in a while, but I get it.

Most of the time a backhanded compliment is actually an insult that only sounds like a compliment

But the inverse, a true compliment in the form of an insult, is one of my favorite games to play with friends

Love the [weirdly muppet-like] thumbs up while pulling away from whatever emotional chaos is happening behind the camera.

As if he’s saying “good luck with your racism!” or something like that lol

💙

Also, advertising concrete details about yourself in the most public field of a user profile

Ah! Yeah it’s been a while but I seem to recall seeing alkaline batteries in a some freezers or refrigerators sometimes when I was a kid, along with other curiosities like rolls of film. No one ever explained why.

IIRC freezing accelerates the chemical degradation of lithium ion (especially if you attempt to charge the battery at the same time) and tends to lower both the voltage and amperage of most battery chemistries, but it seems plausible that this might

1. temporarily defeat a cell protection circuit, allowing a charging procedure to initialize, or
2. delay a thermal failsafe cut-off of a damaged cell long enough to boot or charge a device

Regardless, for those tuning in at home, best to keep your batteries out of the freezer, especially lithium types, unless spicy pillows are what you’re after.

Hmm, you’re right. At a guess, this field might represent the maximal combined interest of both scientific and pedestrian readership within technology research, since on the one hand energy density and storage logistics is the key limitation for a ton of desirable applications, and on the other most consumers’ experience with batteries establish them as a major convenience factor in their day-to-day.

Edit: you’re*

Is this $10k for high fantasy or low reality?

Technically correct. The best kind of correct.

But to clarify, the stigma doesn’t/shouldn’t extend to people with Teslas from the early days. If you happen to already own an old Tesla, don’t worry about it. You’ve suffered enough misfortune on account of that choice already.

I say this because I’ve seen few old ones around here with all the branding scraped off, and even saw these hubcaps dumped by a bin in a nearby public park late at night as if the Tesla owner didn’t want their neighbors to see:

If this is you, I just want to remind you that reasonable people can draw a distinction between EV early-adopters and the current Elon stans/nazis. Your old Tesla doesn’t make everyone think you’re a racist or whatever. So you don’t have to damage the resale value of your car [further than Elon has] just to convey your principles, and you don’t need to feel bad about supporting that company before everyone realized the CEO was such a douche canoe.

At the very least, I’m not judging you, and you won’t get keyed on my block.

Edit: but if you purchase one now, I am judging you, and not just your integrity but your mental acuity as well.

Don’t judge me. I got kids to feed.

Also for completion of the taxonomical reference above, Safari GNOME Web and Konqueror use the actual WebKit rendering engine that branched from KDE Plasma in 2001.

Chrome, Edge, and all the Chromium-based browsers use “Blink,” which branched from the WebKit project in 2013 and evolved separately. It’s different enough now to be considered distinct (developers supporting these browsers need no reminder) but a portion of the original properties are still shared.

Most of the time when people say “webkit” they’re referring to Google’s Blink engine, but the original WebKit project is still around and lives on in a handful of evergreen browsers that bear mention.

Oh. I thought “literally” was just referring to the fact that many of those data centers pull from nuclear grids.