• Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    How disappointed we will all be when all the boomers are dead and it doesn’t solve any of our problems.

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      10 months ago

      We’ll just have to see, won’t we?

      Plus, it’s not like the climate will just snap back into place when the boomers are finally too old for their skeleton talons to cling to power. That shit is going to take generations of sacrifice to roll back, if it doesn’t topple civilization first.

      https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/warmest-arctic-summer-on-record-is-evidence-of-accelerating-climate-change

      The whole ethos of the majority of baby boomers seems to have been to raze the forest they got to enjoy behind them (as opposed to planting trees whose shade they’d never sit in like most generations aspire to), and they seem to be having remarkable success in that.

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    10 months ago

    Keanu reeves is so close to and so engrained in gen x culture that I think it’s unfair to label him a boomer

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    10 months ago

    2039 is the half-life of the boomer generation, assuming all of them were born in 1964 and will live exactly 75 years

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      10 months ago

      That’s not what half-life means. Half-life comes from radioactive decay and is the time for half the atoms in a sample to decay. After half the atoms have decayed it takes another half-life for half the remaining atoms (a quarter of the original sample) to decay. There’s some fancy maths you can do to convert a sample size of 85 million with a half-life of 75 years into the time it takes for the last atom to decay but at an estimation of about 27 half-lives that’s 2025 years.

      Maybe that’s the real problem with boomers: their multi-thousand year lifespan!!