Allow me a suggestion: how about stopping labelling people based on the year of their birth?
Better yet: how about we leave labelling for packaged products?
Real.
Fun fact, putting people in boxes is a horrible way to treat people, is dehumanizing, and doesn’t get an accurate look at individuals and their motives.
Fun fact, putting people in boxes is what companies and governments do in order to organize their marketing efforts to try and sell to specific demographics or to get elected.
Putting people in rough boxes can help you discover things about them. You merely have to remember that it is an approximation and does not describe real humans.
Just means they’ll be further developed. I hope.
These devs kinda suck.
must be true, the account is verified
no community note
A news outlet said it, and they would never make ridiculous claims based on no evidence
What happens when we get to the end of the Greek alphabet? Do we adopt a spreadsheet type notation AA-AZ? Generation Alpha Alpha?
Then they get named after corporate sponsors.
Generation Mountain Dew® Baja Blast™
Generation Rockstar and Generation Monster will probably be at odds with each other… and themselves.
we started at X, so we could go back and do A-W
Don’t worry.
We won’t get that far.
Personally I vote for using Mkhedruli letters (for writing the Georgian language) solely because that script looks cool
How you gonna not provide an example?
მხედრული
I vote for cuneiform:
𒀱
An avid cunnilinguist i see
They can switch to Cyrillic: az, buki, vedi, glagol’, dobro… Then Futhark, and so on, there’s no lack of alphabet systems out there. The preference for Greek is kind of lazy.
Maybe just call them Omega. By 2039, the reasons should be apparent.
Aren’t generations separated by 30ish years?
This is a farce.
Weren’t they defined by major cultural events? Zoomers not remembering 9/11 for example
The short answer is “no.” The long answer is:
The boomers were defined by a demographic shift and the millennials (gen y, because Y comes after X and also because “y2k” ) were defined by being young-ish around New year’s day 2000. Meanwhile X, z, α, and allegedly now “β” are just arbitrary postmarks who’s locations are malleable and variable by the person you’re talking to.
This is one of those cultural things that I tend to get grump and annoyed about because it’s stupid and people pretend that it’s real.
I thought it was 20ish years i.e. the average time it takes for babies to reach adulthood and have kids.
Although to be fair I don’t actually know what the average is. It might be 30 for all I know lol
Will we go Generation Cuck next?
When Generation Stable comes around in 2040 and ironically has the most incomprehensible memes yet.
The one after beta is release candidate, after that you get stable
There’s no official designation, it’s more gradual than that
please make the next one be “release” and not just the third letter of a random alphabet
I can’t wait for generation Stable.
That’s not fair. Why not a generation Beti? /s
generation beetroot
