randomq - I will attempt to replicate and confirm, sir.
Doing the Lord's work - godspeed to your heart, liver, digestive track, and DNA during your randomqized trials! ;) (see Archived version of Durian Fiend's NYT article.)
Durian Fiend - In response I'd like to point out Gen X can be blamed for electing the current administration. - https://williamfleitch.medium.com/why-di...5ce5ac8659
The problem with that article, and others like it, is that it includes the voting members of the ~20 million boomers born 1960 through 1964 in the totals and then calls them Gen X (can't even separate out the data, but we're the slackers - [cynical eye roll] ;)
The thing is Gen-X is just a smaller generation than both the Boomers and the Millennials, the latch-key middle children of history as Tyler Durden might say, so we're never going to be the predominate force in electoral politics, regardless how the percentages for any candidate break down (heard a lot of my compatriots skip on Harris because of her tacit "nothing will change" endorsement of the genocide in Gaza - which is a fair criticism, even if it misses the realpolitik issue of allowing a far worse option for Gaza into power). I think that's part of why many GenXers tend to be more into direct action because Reality Bites and most of the time things just need to get done.
@HJ - highlighting just the questions/differences:
Planting trees on Earth Day goes back to the first Earth Day in 1970 and was an annual tradition for being a kid in the 70s and 80s. Of course we plant/ed trees on other days as well, silly.
Farm Aid was mostly 80s awareness stuff as I was largely still a kid, so unable to travel or donate, although my family called in. Did you travel or donate to Willy and the boys? Same goes for boycotting South Africa over Apartheid (which your boy Musk and his family was/is all in on) - the point is that much of GenX were raised in a protest culture and environment, doubly so if you had hippie parents.
ELF - We've had this conversation before, but if the powers-that-be aren't going to take a stand and do what is right then other people have to. Much like anti-slavery movement, there are times what is right and what is the law diverge. (see Ethan Hawke (b. 1970) as John Brown in The Good Lord Bird or Robert Wilcox for more info)
Those rounds of antinuke sign waving mentioned were not at the Pohakuloa Training Area, but back on the mainland. As for "jazz hands", that's a practice that evolved out of Occupy as a way of quickly assessing consensus without having to interrupt the speaker. Bill could learn a thing or two from it, so his 2 minutes of material doesn't take 10 minutes to deliver because of the constant interruption of the trained seals in his audience.
As for "GTO", corrected, thanks. I put originally G7, and tried to correct to WTO (Seattle '99), but mangled it all up. Probably long term effects from too much tear gas. ;) Never met Jimmy, just hammered nails locally, but learned plenty skills that we brought with us here. I find HI Redemption centers to be the preferred source for clothes - buy by the pound, give to others as needed, and keep usable items out of the landfill.
HJ - Well, your resume, again, while impressive, is rather outdated to today's world.
Ok I'll bite, how? Having skipped over the tech side of related activities that I didn't bother to go into as few would understand or appreciate, what do I need to do to update my resume of skills in your vast opinion?
Doing the Lord's work - godspeed to your heart, liver, digestive track, and DNA during your randomqized trials! ;) (see Archived version of Durian Fiend's NYT article.)
Durian Fiend - In response I'd like to point out Gen X can be blamed for electing the current administration. - https://williamfleitch.medium.com/why-di...5ce5ac8659
The problem with that article, and others like it, is that it includes the voting members of the ~20 million boomers born 1960 through 1964 in the totals and then calls them Gen X (can't even separate out the data, but we're the slackers - [cynical eye roll] ;)
The thing is Gen-X is just a smaller generation than both the Boomers and the Millennials, the latch-key middle children of history as Tyler Durden might say, so we're never going to be the predominate force in electoral politics, regardless how the percentages for any candidate break down (heard a lot of my compatriots skip on Harris because of her tacit "nothing will change" endorsement of the genocide in Gaza - which is a fair criticism, even if it misses the realpolitik issue of allowing a far worse option for Gaza into power). I think that's part of why many GenXers tend to be more into direct action because Reality Bites and most of the time things just need to get done.
@HJ - highlighting just the questions/differences:
Planting trees on Earth Day goes back to the first Earth Day in 1970 and was an annual tradition for being a kid in the 70s and 80s. Of course we plant/ed trees on other days as well, silly.
Farm Aid was mostly 80s awareness stuff as I was largely still a kid, so unable to travel or donate, although my family called in. Did you travel or donate to Willy and the boys? Same goes for boycotting South Africa over Apartheid (which your boy Musk and his family was/is all in on) - the point is that much of GenX were raised in a protest culture and environment, doubly so if you had hippie parents.
ELF - We've had this conversation before, but if the powers-that-be aren't going to take a stand and do what is right then other people have to. Much like anti-slavery movement, there are times what is right and what is the law diverge. (see Ethan Hawke (b. 1970) as John Brown in The Good Lord Bird or Robert Wilcox for more info)
Those rounds of antinuke sign waving mentioned were not at the Pohakuloa Training Area, but back on the mainland. As for "jazz hands", that's a practice that evolved out of Occupy as a way of quickly assessing consensus without having to interrupt the speaker. Bill could learn a thing or two from it, so his 2 minutes of material doesn't take 10 minutes to deliver because of the constant interruption of the trained seals in his audience.
As for "GTO", corrected, thanks. I put originally G7, and tried to correct to WTO (Seattle '99), but mangled it all up. Probably long term effects from too much tear gas. ;) Never met Jimmy, just hammered nails locally, but learned plenty skills that we brought with us here. I find HI Redemption centers to be the preferred source for clothes - buy by the pound, give to others as needed, and keep usable items out of the landfill.
HJ - Well, your resume, again, while impressive, is rather outdated to today's world.
Ok I'll bite, how? Having skipped over the tech side of related activities that I didn't bother to go into as few would understand or appreciate, what do I need to do to update my resume of skills in your vast opinion?