Inspired by a post I saw on AskReddit (which has now been removed). What is something you believe is growing because of young people?
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- 7 hours
Baggy pants and chunky white sneakers. Ugh I’m so done with then. When can we get back to straight cut? I’m so sick of the skinny-baggy jeans back and forth
3 daysThe consensus in the West that Israel is an unapologetic fascist ethno-state prosecuting a genocide against Palestinians
- 3 days
Hey, now. You almost forgot to include the Lebanese people in that list.
- 3 days
They haven’t really done anything comparable to the Lebanese, but there is all kinds of places in the Middle East they covet.
- 3 days
Only because they haven’t had as much time and because Iran is much more capable of fighting back. The Israeli government officials have said similarly genocidal language as they have been saying about Palestinians.
- 2 days
Iran is an ally of Hezbollah, which is actually in competition with the (other?) Lebanese state. Iran’s also pretty tight with Palestinian Hamas.
- 2 days
Yeah, that’s true. Israel was specifically talking about Hezbollah when they said all of those things, but they are absolutely still massacring civilians, regardless of their ties to Hezbollah, as they are trying to seize land.
Iran does monetarilly support Hamas from what I understand, but they did not help militarilly defend either Hamas or Palestinians in Gaza when they were being massacred. It was only after Israel and the US attacked Iran directly that second time did Iran get involved militarilly.
- 3 days
more than that, it extends to the us empire.
people seem to recognize that they are the baddies now.
- heliotrope_ophidian@lemmy.mldeleted by creator2 days
Flip phones, dumb phones, interest in ‘digital minimalism’ or alternatives to smartphone use. Some of them see what is happening to their elders or peers and want to do something different.
- 3 days
Maybe not directly related to young age, but incompetence in problem solving is growing. This could be COVID era fallout.
My kid is a teacher and the newer generation of kids can’t do anything by themselves without explicit direction. They dont know how to help themselves. They have no life learned skill or curiosity, as they possible just were fed screen time as a babysitter.
- 3 days
This sounds a lot like gripes that older generations have always had about younger generations.
This sounds a lot like gripes that older generations have always had about younger generations.
But this younger generation is the youngest one yet!
- 3 days
It does till you experience it, and think wtf. Like a sudden dropoff. So maybe all the phone bans across countries is a good thing.
I had a degreed engineer ask me to help them tally the count of screen objects because they kept losing track. There were just over 10 items. I told them they needed to discuss the issue with their manager because clearly that’s a problem.
A solution if you lose track while counting could be hand tally on paper, colour code the objects as you tally, use the system and select them all and read the selection count. But to call tech support for manual counting help is crazy.
- 3 days
That does sound extreme, but no more insane than older people who can’t complete basic tasks in a word professor application.
I was born just before the death of the floppy disk and the number of people I’ve met who can say “I bet you don’t know what’s that symbol is based on” while also not knowing it saves your work is the reason I’m in mental health instead of tech.
Stupid has nothing to do with age.
- 3 days
It’s not that they “can’t count to the teens”. The wording used in the OP was that they keep “losing track”. That’s very different and could suggest some kind of visual processing or attention issue rather than not understanding basic numeracy. Those kinds of issues are common intellectual disabilities that people can still succeed with if they find the right mechanisms to allow them to do the same tasks as other people.
- 3 days
Its one example, but the new engineers coming in expect people to solve their problem while they check their insta. Literally had my tech guy deployed to help a new engineer, as our guy demonstrates the software steps to solve the issue the guy needing help is doing personal social media checks… He though people just come do it for you when you get stuck. We have even had young supposed IT staff call in for support and they clearly have no skills on solving issues.
- doleo@lemmy.oneEnglish3 days
I think you might have replied to the wrong comment? I’m not sure how what you’ve posted is connected to what I wrote.
- 3 days
I actually never understood that part. Like VCR clocks flashing. Especially when this lady exists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVI6SCtVu4c
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This has been going on for generations. The world used to be a much more dyi, less prepackaged place. Each generation does less and less for themselves. I see the difference between my father’s generation and my own as well as between my generation and later ones. Shit, my grandfather built his own fucking house.
- 3 days
People once complained about people reading newspapers on public transit.
Nothing has actually changed.
- 3 days
From what I understand, the kids who can figure things out, they read well, they can problem solve, they’re doing it really well. But the kids that my generation raised on iPads, didn’t work with them, didn’t let them go outside and play, didn’t let them fail, they really really can’t do anything.
It’s not that this generation is ALL fucked. It’s that the gap between the “smart” kids and the kids who got screwed is wider than usual. A lot of these kids are functionally illiterate. If they’re reading a paragraph and come across a word they don’t know, not only can they not figure out how to pronounce it but, they have no idea how to use context clues to figure out what it even means.
My 17 year old niece saw idiocracy for the first time recently. She compared it to half her high school. Some kid made fun of her recently for using the word “peculiar” because it’s apparently a big word no one has ever heard of before.
I have a 12 yo. Definitely a different childhood than I had, but not less helpless or ignorant than I was at that age. Less curious, i.e. in school and sciences, but that could be just a personality thing.
- 3 days
There are exceptions, but overall there a decline in self help or curiosity for self learning. We even see it at work with the new engineers.
- Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish3 days
The dicks of people in the Epstein files who are still not prosecuted
- untorquer@quokk.auEnglish3 days
Well certainly not Lemmy it seems 😝
I suggest that youth or young adults are a core contingent of pretty much every antifascist and climate movement. Those movements are growing as well.
That’s not because of young people, that’s their reaction to the actions of the boomers.
- sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish2 days
Huh, interesting. This is something i associate more with millennials
- eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish3 days
It’s hard to imagine why they would remove it; I can’t think of a way that this topic would be objectionable to anyone.
