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Yes and a parking infraction is the same as a hit and run because they both happened on the road with cars. What a nonsense bunch of words you put up there as wisdom lmao.

In the late 1990s in Australia we had similar attempts to promote domestic products in the supermarket. As a kid at the time I questioned why we’d buy local when global brands were higher quality and more familiar to me, especially as I’ve lived in Europe and Asia.

For me personally - part of the issue with nationalism movements promoting domestic production that is that they are often tied with racism/xenophobia and are often used as a ruse by some greedy person to promote their own business to the local market. They get people angry which creates free publicity and unearned brand loyalty.

In Australia, we have a number of very loud and outspoken racist politicians who allegedly believe in this country and want it to do well, but when you look at their actions they’re all wining and dining billionaires and only looking to attack Aboriginal or foreign people, not uplift all Australians to a brighter better future.

It sounds to me like the program you were a part of had noble intentions, but without knowing more details I have to assume it could easily have been affected some of the issues I’ve mentioned.

I found a similar thing with “small business”. Right wing neo-liberal conservatives love to go on about small business - but their notion of what that is does is very different from ours.

The right wing idea of a “small business” is 100 employees and a $40 million turn over. They aren’t thinking of a general store or a diner that a family has owned for three generations.

May they all get in a Cybertruck…

And then having things that happen to Cybertrucks happen.

We have the same cycle here in Australia with our centre-right Labor and fascist-nazi Liberal parties.

You read that right - in Australia the conservative party is called “Liberal”. 1984 level lying…

They also have the support of the world!

Now we just need to teach them the Spirit Bomb…

What’s with the photo of Kathy Bates with a lesbian haircut?

Is she playing Elon Musk in a biopic of his life?

I’m responding to the premise of the thread. I agree it doesn’t make sense to characterise people based on age brackets, however I am noting a pattern I’ve observed in reality, not speculating a fictional scenario. It’s also true my view is anecdotal, backed up by memes and other anecdotes and not by science or extensive research.

However I’d like to point out that we are in a group called “memes” and the thread is about “used to consume not produce”, the OP’s meme image is specifically talking about the pattern where younger people don’t understand fundamentals of tech and just consume it. As an IT professional of nearly 20 years I have observed the same phenomenon and so I wrote a funny reply based on that.

You’re right IT probably won’t entirely evaporate that’s crazy. As crazy as picking apart a funny comment to wag your finger at a well meaning stranger.

It’s gonna be really funny when all us millenials die and the tech infrastructure evaporates.

What age do we think they’ll be set back to? Pre industrial? Bronze?

My prediction seems extreme but don’t forget that while books continue to exist, the average adult born after 2000 would rather die than read one.

Is that a recent photo of Trump? He’s so fat and round, Trump looks like he needs to be rolled outta there sideways by singing Oompa Loompas!

Oompa Loompa, what do we do?

With President Nazi and his orangutan crew

Oompa Loompa, how could it be?

A thunderous applause for the death of liberty

They’re doing a great job ensuring the armed forces take their side when the rioting starts… Giving zero reason for a soldier to think things like “Why should I shoot follow illegal orders to execute a civilian when the bad guy who caused this is right here?”.

He can’t, the seed is stored in what Mark lacks!

As much as I hate much of the news about AI, I love the dilemma this puts the copyright lawyers and tech bros in. Either they admit that the majority of copyright law enforcement is a joke and stifles innovation - or they admit the creation of AI using stolen works is standard practise and requires government intervention to get back on track.

I remember multiple Christian authority figures growing up espousing the importance of kindness, natural wonders and thinking for yourself. Deeply ironic in hindsight! Perhaps no one was more hypocritical than my parents though.

I was kicked out of home for being gay. My parents have never grown a vegetable or had a house pet - which I think says a lot about their ability to love something other than themselves. Despite being immigrants, they both love Trump and extreme right wing beliefs. They are also very racist towards immigrants from other countries, dismissing them as “lesser”.

You could rise up. Isn’t that what all the guns are for?

They need to join forces and make the Cyberplane!

The Boeing Tesla Cyberplane could be a revolution in aviation:

• First aircraft to use afterburners to overcome lack of aerodynamics
• Heavy and yet strangely flimsy construction
• Cell phones and radar can ignite the battery in flight
• Fuel efficiency can be throttled mid air by shedding parts