1. Spam Calls Posted on 12/02/2023 12:17:41 PM PST by DallasBiff
Spam calls may see a decline as baby boomers dwindle. People have become more tech-savvy and have access to advanced call-blocking and filtering technologies. Additionally, regulatory efforts and increased awareness are aimed at reducing spam calls, making it less likely for future generations to experience the same level of nuisance and intrusion.
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I’ve seen some of those. That and AI restorations of the Lumière Bros. films from the late 1890s. Truly incredible.
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"Hello? Debbie? Yeah, Debbie's here, Who's this? Well, Ralph, uh, Debbie can't talk right now..........I'll have her call you back when I'm through."
"I love wrong numbers!"
But it's not. It's in family albums that people thoughtlessly toss in the trash. So much history forgotten.
Someone famous said something about the latter, can't remember...
Too much prosperity. After the privations, shortages, and losses of WW I, Depression, and WW II, people wanted their kids to have a better life (a natural impulse). There was almost no hardship in the post-war era and Cold War. So kids were indulged and the work ethic faded. Then liberalism took advantage of the prosperity and life of leisure and taught “tolerance” which became a requirement to tolerate everything, even things that were intolerable a few years earlier. Now it’s not just tolerance, but adoption and celebration of perversions and embracing those who want to kill us (mohammaden jihadis).
We raised our kids to be hard working and self-reliant and they turned out well.
Twenty-six years? That's an awful long period for a "generation." The Boomers are only 1946-64 (18 years), and some people think that's too long. Every subsequent generation is of a shorter period.
And unless one's family members were famous/important/did something horrible...NO, THEY WON'T BE IN ANY MUSEUM nor archive of any kind.
I don’t know but just from that picture of that angry screaming creature I’m not interested in reading any further lest I see more of the same.
Most of it is old tech, in some cases it is switching from people to computers doing things.
It isn’t much different from the previous generational shift, when vacuum tubes were exchanged for portable electronics with semiconductors, and elevator operators and gas pumpers went the way of the dirt farmer.
Interesting perspective.
Did you serve in the military?
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“The greatest generation gave us the most prosperity ever known, to the boomers.”
The American culture developed over the ages gave us the most prosperity ever known to the boomers.
“How did boomers eff up?”
No one generation ever, ever has total power and influence. This generational sneers and snot spewing is done by people with room temperature IQs.
There has been a degradation of Western culture described by C S Lewis in “The Abolition of Man” written about 1942, long before boomers were born. Maybe people should read that book.
The boomers effed up by raising the worst generation ever known...their children...
No wonder this article is so STUPID! If a chatbot wrote it, it was programed by some stupid millennial or older Gen Zer who wasn’t raised well and is an imbecile.
There’s exceptions to every rule of course. But we know the trends. Actual silver silverware is considered a burden by most folks under the age of 60. My wife’s sole memory of the family silver is that her mother would force the kids to polish it as punishment. Her mom stopped using it over a decade ago. Because she doesn’t trust her thieving grandson (who she really should kick out) the silver is in our possession. It’s on top of the cabinets, hasn’t been touched since it was given to us, and will be sold within a week of her dying.
Names on the back help. But eventually you still get to the point where nobody alive knows who they are. So even “Sam and Marge at their wedding” mean nothing to anybody. They DON’T get handed, they get thrown out. It’s current way.
Sure your Gen Z kids love them NOW. I liked old family photos when I was young. Once I hit adulthood and stuff became a burden. Once you have to move box of photo albums for the 3rd time since you last opened them. The attitude changes. And keep in mind the other thing about Gen Z, they were raised in the streaming world, physical media isn’t their thing. Photo albums that are in with the family library of other books are very different than photo albums that are the only books they have. Especially when all their other photos, the ones they took, are digital, on some cloud somewhere.
They WILL be thrown out. Maybe not your kids, maybe not your grand kids, but at some point they will wind up in the hands somebody who has no memory of you or anybody in the pictures, for whom they mean nothing, and they just a burden, and they will just be gone.
By the way, about a third of those things listed have already diappeared.
The Boomers did all right. But then they raised the Millenials. And now we have Gen Z.
It appears that the problem is with Gen Z now.
Gen Z is pro Hamas.
I thought you were just another bill collector.”
“”””Twenty-six years? That’s an awful long period for a “generation.”””””
Something is going on with this generation stuff.
The “silent generation” was or is 1925 to 1945 and there was never a “greatest generation” but now I see the lefty’s term is being used.
It’s not thoughtless. Having tossed many many photos thought went into all of them.
Meanwhile, there’s museums. And books. And plenty of history.
“ How did boomers eff up? ”
What have they done?
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