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[–] Soupbreaker@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

This generational bullshit is all made up by marketing assholes. None of it is legit, it's all a distraction from the class war we should all be waging.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm gen z and did this as well.
Stop pitting generations against each other.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The whole generation thing gets so much funnier when you think how other countries exist.

Imagine you experience a military coup at age of 10 and flee to North Iraq with your family where you live for a few years until your Asylum status gets processed and come to US.

Because of how weird whole process is however you still have to stay in a migrant detention center for anywhere between 2 days to several months depending on your age and gender as they check your papers and luggage.
(It looks like this btw.)

Then some highschool teacher calls you overgrown toddler because "your generation is too sissy to drink from a hose."

[–] Katzimir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago

Oof. Poignant. hope you're safe these days.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 3 days ago

sigh

Where's the competitive spirit in today's youth?

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (17 children)

I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Back in my day we had generational tribalism for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and we liked it.

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[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Back in the day you could book computer time at the local library in my town. I would walk to the library by myself so I could play Oregon trail on an apple iie. Honestly I'm glad that kids have access to the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in their pocket, but I do miss the days of pre social media and the 24 hour news cycle.

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[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

I'm gen z and I did this, this whole gen vs gen stuff is dumb imo.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 44 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Well, as a garden hose drinker from back in the day, I'm here to tell you that it was run through a filter. It's just that that filter was back at the water treatment plant. Same thing with public water fountains, which were everywhere. We're not that goddamned tough. We weren't slurping pond water through a straw or something like that.

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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 86 points 4 days ago (17 children)

The tap outside is the same water you drink from the tap inside why would you need a filter

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 52 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Like the commenter above said .... having that water sit stale in about 50 feet of hose for about a week or two or longer and depending on where it was placed, being heated by the sun and cooled every night.

As a rule of thumb, if you ever want to try this, run the hose for about five minutes first.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 71 points 4 days ago (2 children)

5 minutes!? Jesus Christ, it clears out in about 10 seconds.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 days ago

Some people are just really overcautious. I'm not sure why but Reddit was basiclaly known for that.

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[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 days ago

Run it until it's cold. You don't need 5 minutes.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Five minutes? It should take about 30 seconds to run numerous gallons through. I think project farm was testing hose nozzles and he was getting 5 gallons in less than a minute.

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[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Apparently it’s the hose that’s the problem, something about it breaking down or whatnot.

[–] SGG@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well obviously, it's probably depressed from getting called a hoes all the time.

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[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

People used to eat lead paint chips, too. Now they run our government.

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[–] j5906@feddit.org 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am late GenZ, we used to drink all day, every day from pumps on playgrounds and parks that were just unfiltered well water. Until they shut them down one by one. This was not a GenZ idea, this were Boomers and GenX trying to line their pockets with the "savings" these measures had.

Legends say that Boomers and GenX then complain about children not playing outside anymore.

If you blame GenZ or Alpha for how they have grown up in the society and environment you left them with it just reeks of the signature Boomer mentality to fuck everything up for everything but themselves and then blaming everyone else.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

I still laugh about boomers bitching about participation trophies while being the ones handing them out

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 17 points 3 days ago (5 children)

And we have to dodge bullets at school. What's your fucking point, old timer?

  • Gen Z and Gen Alpha
[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My school was 20 minutes from one of the most deadly school shooting in the early 2010s. I went to high school with survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre. But gen z is too sensitive is all I hear. We are literally surviving a war that takes place in classrooms and cafeterias, in our developmental years. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

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[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I did this as a gen z kid after the new millennium. I did it with probably 40x contaminants than gen x ever had growing up. I apparently have a spoon weight in plastic in my brain by 25, let's see if I can drink enough water that I can fit a Frisbee up there by 30. Lets speed run this shit

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[–] dmention7@midwest.social 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Used to drink out of the hose all the time growing up in the 80s, but it was usually after playing in the sprinkler or otherwise running the hose for quite awhile. But never really thought twice about it either way.

Now as an adult the hose water always has this super appealing nostalgic smell, but I don't run it very often, and the idea of whatever might be lurking in that stagnant water just squicks me out too much to take a swig :(

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I was born mid eighties and grew up in South Florida. You better believe we learned to let the hose run for a solid minute before even thinking about drinking from it.

Also most filters don't filter out pthalates.

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 days ago

Just an extension of Boomer survivor bias arguments.

They also didnt use seat belts blah blah blah....

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Did this and it was glorious after playing bball in the driveway. Nothing better.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They'll he defined as a generation thay never got to be in charge.

The youngest X-ers need colonoscopies, and the Boomers still fucking refuse to step back.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I was going to make a pithy comment about Obama but nope turns out he's a boomer. Boomer ages are roughly Trump at the old end and Obama at the young end. So yeah y'all lost your chance at having a potus with kamala. The silent generation may manage another though, because somehow they took power and barely ceded any to the boomers.

Us millennials will get a solid decade or two of power and then you'll see. You'll all see! Who's occupying wall street now?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Actually, Harris was the tail-end of boomers.

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[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Have a sip of water that's been solar heating in a rubber garden hose for a pavlovian blast from the past!

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[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 19 points 4 days ago (5 children)

As a gen X I always think it's kinda weird how Gen Z (or whatever is the last), care about health considered the shitty world they're supposed to meet.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I think it's because a lot of Gen Z already have health problems that they can't afford to go to the doctor for. Or if they can afford it, the doctor doesn't know how or doesn't care about treating it. I know a healthcare provider that said they can't believe how many young people come in with old people diseases.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 20 points 4 days ago

Because they live in a poisoned world. If you know you're constantly being poisoned, do you accept it, or do you become worried about the level of poison?

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 13 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Aren't Gen X the parents of Gen Z? That feels more like a failure on gen X for not teaching the ancient art of outside hose drinking.

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 10 points 4 days ago

Libs: owned

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