I have to laugh when I see similar pronouncements now, usually with a reference to Sidney Sweeney and how she is a signifier of boobs being back on the scene as popular. LOL, when weren’t they popular? I remember talking about this just last summer with someone I know and asking about Sweeney - are you telling me there was a time when a beautiful blonde with a great body and a huge chest was going to have a hard time in Hollywood because of those traits? Like someone casting parts was going to be like, “sorry, we’d hire you if you get a breast reduction and gained a lot more weight, because boobs are out and being fat is in”.

The rightwing chuds were all celebrating her as if it was only flat, unattractive and morbidly obese people on the screen just prior? What universe are they even living in?

Also: I’d love to know when or if any heterosexual men were consulted on whether boobs were “in style” or not. I cannot imagine any man that consulted his calendar or with some fashionistas as to whether they were “in style”. 🤣

I have a feeling such pronouncements are being made by groups that are not heterosexual men?

Some companies cut employees as a basic threat and the implication is that others pick up the slack.

PS The only derogatory I can say about the young generation as a whole is, where the fuck is your rock and roll? You’re listening to your grandparent’s music. Lame.

I think about this all the time, actually. I think part of it is that music is so atomized into a zillion sub-genres, and there doesn’t seem to be really big zeitgeist-level types of things. Streaming vs. curating has changed the dynamics back to being more similar to what the boomers started off with, ironically, when they were buying 45’s, and before albums became a thing. :)

Anyway, the things that make the really big $$$ all seem rather nutless and uninspiring, if you ask me. Where is the music that might scare the parents?

But then, if you look back at what was charting in a given decade, you might be surprised at how schmaltzy things were way back, too. Look at the Seventies, as a for instance, and see what the top 40 was playing.

In Canada it wasn’t until 1964 that a woman could open her own bank account without her husband’s consent.

My mother would always remind me that in the United States, this was not lifted until 1974.

Eh, this seems to be looking at things with rose-colored glasses. That generation, in the prime of their youth, had to worry about getting drafted into going halfway around the world to fight a war of empire, for instance.

Boomers expected that civilization would end before they got to adulthood.

I figured that was our (Gen X) curse. I remember being fairly sure I’d not see age 20, given all the dystopian nightmares that seemed to surround us. Maybe it was all the boomer-created media we were saturated in.

I seem to recall Douglas Coupland writing on that in much more evocative ways than I could ever muster…but then, even though he coined “Generation X”, I think he’s one of the very oldest in that generation.

I wonder how it will stack up to the mushroom leather.

Uh, I still have the same question. Linking to Wikipedia doesn’t really answer the question.

I am sure that most of the cereals I’ve tried in recent years have changed since I was a child. Not for the better.

corporate America has spent the last 15 years hiring people based on their race instead of their qualifications

Wait, in what universe did that happen?

I always think of Kramer saying he faked orgasms, LOL. 🤣

Thanks again for all the info. Two of my monitors are years old, two of them I bought in the past few months (all are Dell). The nice thing is that a years-old 1070 will work with all 4 - even if refresh rate and resolution is not necessarily up to snuff for something like games, for the everyday stuff they are just fine.

I have to look at the specs, but I’m not sure any of mine support daisy chaining.

All good info. I should have clarified and said I’m trying to figure out what hub(s) (and software?) to use to drive 4 external monitors. The monitors I already own and have them situated for another computer; I have the Macbook driving two of them, but I’m not sure how the best option to add the other two to the Macbook…

Depending on what you have a taste for, I seem to remember seeing this in Emacs:

https://github.com/magit/forge

I so hope this is fake, because this is so stupid, even by Space Karen standards.

The Texas Republican Party made being against critical thinking part of their platform, explicitly.