this is fine
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Chronic pain is not a normal health issue for someone in their 30's.
Chronic pain is pretty normal health issue for someone working in trades.
Well i'm not to the point of chronic but almost there.
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I realized recently that teenage-me was right about a lot of things I believed about the future, and I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about it.
It's like my anxiety is doing a victory dance on my hope's grave.
Of all the things I could have been right about, it’s this bullshit.
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Chronic pain is not a normal health issue for someone in their 30's.
I'm in a disabilities chat group and we're often surprised when we're reminded that "0" is the "normal" level of pain you're "supposed to have" day to day. Everyone's baseline is different. Pain sucks. (Unsolicited fact: my back pain got much better after I started physical therapy for it. I'm glad my health insurance covered it. Next round of PT: my knees. Why they be like that? [it's probably the EDS])
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I realized recently that teenage-me was right about a lot of things I believed about the future, and I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about it.
It's like my anxiety is doing a victory dance on my hope's grave.
If anything, I'd be more concerned that I still agree with my teenage self. Because that means that either you were a very prescient teen, or that your opinions haven't matured beyond surface-level understanding.
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Isnt a 90s kid someone who grew up in the 90s not born in them? I was born in 84 and i consider myself a 90s kid and I’m certainly not 30
Born in 83, grew up in the 90s as well.
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Only about half of them have turned 30 so far...
wrote on last edited by [email protected]As a millennial born in 83 am i an 80s kid? Legitimate question here.
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9/11 was significant global news...
Yes and no, I heard about it in the UK but it didn't mean much. I was about 10 at the time. Usually when people talk about it online people of a similar age in the US seem to have had more of an impact.
It wasn't something we talked about, teachers didn't put it on or have a talk with all of us about it. Just heard about it on TV the next morning as the TV was on and oh that's a thing.
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Born in 83, grew up in the 90s as well.
How are your fourties???
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All the comments about what it means to be a 90s kid still miss the obvious fact that this is indeed what it felt like for us 10 years ago. There isn't a meme yet to describe what it feels like entering our 40s currently. Personally, it feels like the time Shredder and Krang got pulled back into and trapped in Dimension X; only we are Shredder and Krang.
To me it feels like every year a new joke from Rocko's Modern Life that I didn't get at age 8 becomes relevant.
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To me it feels like every year a new joke from Rocko's Modern Life that I didn't get at age 8 becomes relevant.
Instead of the Staircase to Heaven ride, we're on the Bullet Train to Hell ride.
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9/11 was significant global news...
But it wasn't some shared trauma thing
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The term Millenial orginally and specifically, academically and etymylogically in general usage... refers to generational cohorts of USAmericans.
As does Baby Boomers. As does Gen X.
You can maybe make an argument than Gen Z / Zoomers and Gen A / Alpha are more globalized, due to the massive proliferation and normalization of digital culture... but they are again still based off of a naming convention schema describing USAmericans.
So yes, I am using a US-centric definition for a US-centric term.
If ya'll want to come up with your own terms, I'm all for it, the US has long had and still does have waaaaayyy too much influence over many aspects of general internet culture, global culture in general, the other economies and societies of the world, etc.
Easier to just co-op your terms and make them global. Not like English speakers can complain about that
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'96 and up are not 90s kids, that's Gen Z .
You have to actually remember the 90s to qualify as a 90s kid, which basically excludes anyone younger than a Zillenial. If you were born in 1996-1999, you were an infant or very young in the 90s, so your memories of the time period are going to be vague at best. You can't relate to 90s kids.
Hell, smartphones had already replaced iPods by the time anyone born 1996-1999 was in middle school. That ain't no 90s kid lol. 90s kids had a cassette Walkman and dial-up internet when they were in middle school. We were still rocking CD players and flip phones even into high school. Smartphones weren't a thing until college.
ay yo fr fr — people born 1997+ = Gen Z, 1981–1996 = Millennials. facts.
but lowkey memory flex ain’t everything: being a “90s kid” vibe = grew up with 90s culture/trends during your formative years, so someone born 1996 might catch some 90s vibes while a 1999 baby probs won’t remember squat.
still, calling 1996–1999 “not 90s kids” is kinda cap if you mean strict generational cutoffs — 1996 is widely used as the millennial cutoff (Pew et al.). so both takes hit different lanes: one’s about birth-year labels, one’s about lived memories.
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Isnt a 90s kid someone who grew up in the 90s not born in them? I was born in 84 and i consider myself a 90s kid and I’m certainly not 30
There's no rules. Millennials are called that because they hit adulthood around 1999-2001ish. So all children in the 90s.
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How are your fourties???
It’s alright for the most part. I’ve worked in the mining industry for 20 years now and I slowly paying the price. I have a bad back and I’m slowly losing my hearing. And yes I did take all the precautions to prevent this I think it’s just long term effects of the job. Beyond that it’s ok being 42. I have been trying to take better care of myself since Covid I have been eating better and I do morning stretches and light weight lifting. I wish i would have started doing more when I was younger.
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Easier to just co-op your terms and make them global. Not like English speakers can complain about that
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Easier yes, but also more confusing, causing terms to lose specificity and accuracy.
I am the kind of person that complains every time I see people incorrectly using any term adopted from another language, culture, academic field, whatever.
So... yes, I can and do complain about things lile that.
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To pick a random example: Almost no one uses the term 'black swan event' properly.
Its from Nassim Taleb, meant to describe... a kind of risk of an event that would have been impossible to predict, due to said risk being completely unprecedented, outside of the possibility of conceiving.
But, most people just use 'black swan event' to mean... a thing that is fairly uncommon, but certainly has been studied, has a precedent, has known situations in which it arises.
Thats not a black swan event. Thats a predictable but uncommon event, not a wholly unprecedented and totally unpredictable event.
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The 9/11 attacks were significant here in Australia. It was all over the news for ages and also directly led to other major changes such as a real stepping up of our airport security measures, a swathe of legislation in the name of anti terrorism, and us getting dragged into the war in Afghanistan.
Fuck Rupert Murdoch
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The term Millenial orginally and specifically, academically and etymylogically in general usage... refers to generational cohorts of USAmericans.
As does Baby Boomers. As does Gen X.
You can maybe make an argument than Gen Z / Zoomers and Gen A / Alpha are more globalized, due to the massive proliferation and normalization of digital culture... but they are again still based off of a naming convention schema describing USAmericans.
So yes, I am using a US-centric definition for a US-centric term.
If ya'll want to come up with your own terms, I'm all for it, the US has long had and still does have waaaaayyy too much influence over many aspects of general internet culture, global culture in general, the other economies and societies of the world, etc.
I don't agree with this at all to be honest. I'm French, and the baby boom was very much a thing there. The term might have been coined in the US but the demographics events behind it very much happened in much of Europe post-WW2, and for example my parents referred to themselves as such long before we started having a shared online global culture. As for millennials, I'm pretty sure the entire world changed millennium at the same time, why would only Americans be allowed to use the very obvious term?
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I don't agree with this at all to be honest. I'm French, and the baby boom was very much a thing there. The term might have been coined in the US but the demographics events behind it very much happened in much of Europe post-WW2, and for example my parents referred to themselves as such long before we started having a shared online global culture. As for millennials, I'm pretty sure the entire world changed millennium at the same time, why would only Americans be allowed to use the very obvious term?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]::: spoiler I've encapsulated my gigantic response so as to not further blow up the formatting of this thread.
Yep, the baby boom happened in many places... the term 'baby boom' and 'baby boomer' and then 'boomer' are very much US-centric if you look through newspapers, academic publications.
Also... you're telling me your French speaking parents referred to them as 'baby boomers', as in... a loan word, from English, as opposed to something that might more naturally arise from French?
bébé d'expansion?
Granted, I do not speak French, that particular guess may be wildly unrealistic in some way, but I would think that general linguistic and etymylogical concepts apply generally.
https://www.etymonline.com/fr/word/baby boom
Assuming google translate is doing a decent job of translating that to English for me, I am fairly confident this literally says the French term "baby-boom(er)" is a loan term, from English, specifically from the US.
Anyway, I am not saying that people should not be free to use or adapt terms from other languages, that would be stupid and also impossible to enforce, especially stupid coming from an English speaker such as myself, with English essentially being a bastard mutant step child of at least three different languages smashing into each other.
I would be unable to go to the karaoke bar, sing a song about a latent gestalt consciousness, grab a bahn mi to much on, and then further discuss the relative 'lingua franca' status of varying languages of the world, all whilst doing my best to stave off ennui.
What I am saying is that criticizing my US Centric definition of a US Centric term on the grounds that the definition itself is too US Centric... that is stupid.
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Is 'millennial' a commonly used generational cohort word present in many languages right now?
Of course.
However... I would argue my definition still holds.
If you can remember 9/11 happening, generally, you are some kind of a millenial, you would identify as such, you would use that term.
Yep, 9/11 happened to the US.
And it was the biggest news story on the planet at the time.
Governments around the world reached out to the US with formal announcements of sympathy.
Newscasters and print media ran the story for days, weeks, in many countries.
It was a pretty big deal, the world hegemon having its financial center directly attacked.
Markets all the world freaked out, to varying degrees.
And I could casually argue that generally, roughly, though of course not as directly traumatizing to non USAmericans, it was a bigger deal in countries that were culturally/economically connected to the US, and thus inhabitants of those countries were/are more likely to later use a fairly direct equivalent of 'millennial' as a generational cohort term... as a loan word, from our media's intial popularization of the term, to decry our avocado toast habits and whichever stagnant and poorly operated line of shitty franchise restaurants we are apparently responsible for murdering.
Why not use the local language word for 'millenium' as a basis, instead of adopting one from English?
But to further nuance this, I am sure you would point out that the English word millennial is of French origin, and you would be correct.
So sure, this obviously makes more sense as a wholly and truly French word, we English speakers did after all, more or less borrow something like 70% of our vocabulary from French.
But then we can refer back to my actual proposed definition:
I bet you do actually remember 9/11 being on the TV, in the papers, being discussed, to at least degree, if you are a millennial, who speaks French, and was roughly 5 years old or older, in France, when it happened.
If I am wrong about that, please let me know.
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