Your first bullies are family members.

I remember someone asking what are good documentaries on evolution that doesn’t say “this is why religion is BS”. I cannot recall a time having watched a documentary on evolution that blatantly says that. Religion on the other hand…

Anyone with two thinking brain cells would already put two and two together and see the contradiction. When I first learned about evolution in school, I thought to myself that it contradicts what the Bible said, and my teacher and the book never even said anything explicitly. However, I somehow rationalised that god must have created beings first and evolution took course after. It is in my later formative years, through education and more reading, which made up my mind that religion overall is nonsense and the denial of reality.

You know, as someone who doesn’t have a PlayStation, I want to support PS game developers by buying the games on Steam. But after this atrocious nonsensical debacle by Sony, I will have to leave for the high seas.

Younger folks are just electorally apathetic. This isn’t exclusive to GenZ and Millenials, if you look back on voter records in the '60s and '70s, even the young boomers at the time also did not vote in droves. It is an age thing more than any specific generational traits.

It worked for him before-- it might work again. He is still neck to neck with Biden in polling after all.

Yeah a lot of people might not be aware just how heinous Japans actions were in The Second Sino-Japanese War

Unless if you’re from Asia.

Then on the other end, you have bosses who willingly took pay cut to save employees from lay offs such as Nintendo bosses Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto. They’re far and wide among the bloody sea of cut throat and greedy executives.

That still doesn’t explain why cancer exists.

All religions claim to be the truth, yet contradict each other. One religion believes in only one god while others believe in more than one. One religion believe this is how the world was created, then another says differently. If all religions can’t even agree on the fundamental basics, then none of them are true. Moreover, scientific discoveries have already disproven many of the religious claims.

These cows are small…

“I will show you love by being mean!”

Sounds like this god is a gaslighter if you ask me.

You mean to tell me that industries sacrifice long term consequences for short term profit?!

shockes Pikachu face

Haha. I would have expected better from Lemmy to know that it’s well studied and news long ago that younger people have lower attention span because of smartphones and internet. But I guess this is still the Internet after all with all its ignorance, despite having access to information at the touch of the finger tips.

I guess Lemmy millenials and Gen Z can’t accept the fact of having lower attention span 😂

There is a nugget of truth at times to generalisation. And it’s not a bad thing to acknowledge flaws.

You must be a butthurt Gen Z or millenial-- and you seem to be embodying the stereotype of snowflake generation even though I dislike it (I always say who raised us if we’re snowflakes?). Because there is modicum of truth; and it’s not a bad thing to acknowledge it. I cast my vote that you give the younger generation a bad name for doing stupid thing-- at times.

What country are you in? I thought landlord reference is the norm.

Russia is testing if NATO is indeed an anti-Russia alliance. It may well be, although Russians culturally distinguish themselves from the West and would never align with the latter. Even after the fall of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, the man responsible for the collapse of communism, still expressed concerns about NATO expansion. Russia even set up CSTO, as something of a counter to NATO, with several former Soviet republics. So, this clearly shows Russia wants to be independent from the West and carve their own influence; that ideology being called Eurasianist.

Keep in mind though that the West and Putin were friendly in the 00s but the former keep questioning the human rights issue in Russia. So, I think this annoyed Putin (as many dictators tend to be when questioned about human rights) and only galvanised his and Russia’s anti-Western sentiment. There are many Russians who are pro-West and liberal, but they are a minority in comparison to the nationalist and Eurasianist minded Russian population. Because if Putin truly doesn’t have support, the support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine would have already collapsed.

It “can” be stupid, means it is not always stupid but at times it is.

Learn to read, mate.

And what do you mean bash an entire generation? It is a proven fact. How does one explain the rise of Tiktok and short form videos? We have shorter attention span thanks to the internet.

I can say boomers are materialistic overall because those from the West were handed everything on silver platter and do not want to part those material gains; meanwhile those from poorer countries who gained wealth over the years have scarcity/hoarding mentality after experiencing poverty, like my parents have. How does one explain the difficulty of younger generation to afford their own home for the same salary that their parents were earning in the latter’s 20s?

Environment has as much influence on population mindset. If you are old enough to know that, I don’t need to explain it to you.

I swear, the Internet can be stupid-- and this is one of those times.

Do I think boomers are materialistic? Yes. Do I think every boomers are handed with everything on silver platters? Ask those who grew up in the 60s and 70s Asia, Africa and Latin America undergoing wars and social turmoil of what they think. Just because your country is part of the WEIRD acronym it doesn’t mean the “entitled” boomer stereotype applies to everyone else in the world. My parents certainly had to struggle and grew up in a dictatorship.

Attention span is decreasing in younger folks-- that’s the broad consensus. Thanks to the Internet and granting instant gratification. That’s just a fact, so deal with it.

I agree that generalising generations can be stupid, but it is though environment don’t shape people and culture, huh?

I’m not just justifying the use of red circle BTW, I’m just explaining as to why it’s common these days in the age of Internet.