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@patrickrhone I wander through these strange lands in search of members of my tribe. Oh look! Found one!
@patrickrhone And tangentially, yet another reason why analog is awesome. Related: I want to frame this.
@annahavron Shoot me an email and I'll send you the high res version suitable for printing.
@patrickrhone Reminds me of this excellent Eliza Scherzinger โrantโ on Gen-Zers (TikTok link) ๐
@patrickrhone I read the article and didn't think it was that bad ๐ (although tbf the section she wrote over included the worst parts)
@pratik At least people remember who Millennials are and write whole articles about their issues. Same with Gen Z. If we Xers are remembered at all we usually get lumped into Boomers.
@patrickrhone fair point. Sometimes it seems like the Gen Xers are the most well adjusted though ๐
@nathanrhale We have to be. Our Boomer parents let us raise ourselves from about age 6 so nothing else to do but adjust.
(I'm not just saying this. I was latchkey from that age and I know I'm not alone)
@SimonWoods Less of a whine and more of a list of grievances that we said just once and then accepted our fate @patrickrhone @odd
@JohnBrady Our local paper was bought by one of those conglomerates and is now digital only. And even at that, it only has one actual reporter who mostly just copies and pastes press releases. Now our local "news" sources are facebook gossip groups and one guy with too much time on his hands and only the vaguest notion of how to write a sentence.
@JohnBrady Full disclosure, this is the New York Times and we only receive the Sunday edition (though, several times a year we get the local Sunday as well due to a cross promotion).
@jabel Our Gannett paper is down to ridiculous proportions, almost no timely local news. A retiree from there does a Substack with better coverage. I can understand the economics even as I lament so much.
@pratik That Billy Joel reference is perfect.