The Final Peckening
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Something is shifting. People I've never known to be political are suddenly angry. They're not in a movement, they haven't read theory or any of the other things protesters are supposed to do first. It's just a tense instability, like gasoline vapors building toward the lower explosive limit.
January 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Something is shifting. People I've never known to be political are suddenly angry. They're not in a movement, they haven't read theory or any of the other things protesters are supposed to do first. It's just a tense instability, like gasoline vapors building toward the lower explosive limit.
With so many cars being hatchbacks or Kammback sedans, we need to bring back louvers.
January 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
With so many cars being hatchbacks or Kammback sedans, we need to bring back louvers.
We're just a bunch of lamestains.
January 17, 2026 at 12:26 AM
We're just a bunch of lamestains.
Oh, and Third Place -- Stock Rear Wheel Drive in the July 2013 Oregon RallyX.
January 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Oh, and Third Place -- Stock Rear Wheel Drive in the July 2013 Oregon RallyX.
All I've got is a 1990 Michigan State Science Olympiad first place trophy in Computer Programming.
January 16, 2026 at 11:29 PM
All I've got is a 1990 Michigan State Science Olympiad first place trophy in Computer Programming.
"You guys."
Okay, bye.
Okay, bye.
January 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
"You guys."
Okay, bye.
Okay, bye.
If the only argument you have left is "I'm rubber, you're glue," I'm gonna bow out.
January 16, 2026 at 9:50 PM
If the only argument you have left is "I'm rubber, you're glue," I'm gonna bow out.
Nope. She never said Millennials were wrong to say that they lived through that stuff. The problem is the attitude that it's a burden unique to them.
January 16, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Nope. She never said Millennials were wrong to say that they lived through that stuff. The problem is the attitude that it's a burden unique to them.
I've seen enough Millennial shitposting about generations to know it was implied.
January 16, 2026 at 9:47 PM
I've seen enough Millennial shitposting about generations to know it was implied.
And then the Millennial yells at GenX for daring to act like they'd ever faced any difficulty in life. Kinda like this discussion!
January 16, 2026 at 9:44 PM
And then the Millennial yells at GenX for daring to act like they'd ever faced any difficulty in life. Kinda like this discussion!
Millennials only want to talk about us when they're blaming us for something. Like when my sister angrily told me Millennials were screwed because GenX had bought all the houses. Statistics didn't back that up, and I didn't even own a house at the time while she did, but that didn't matter I guess.
January 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Millennials only want to talk about us when they're blaming us for something. Like when my sister angrily told me Millennials were screwed because GenX had bought all the houses. Statistics didn't back that up, and I didn't even own a house at the time while she did, but that didn't matter I guess.
Also he was California governor and that's a strike against him in the other 49 states. The hatred people have for California is undeserved, but real.
January 16, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Also he was California governor and that's a strike against him in the other 49 states. The hatred people have for California is undeserved, but real.
It's rough when you're a new grad from the Midwest and there's this huge pool of unemployed California tech workers with experience you're competing with. If you weren't already living in Silicon Valley you didn't really have a chance.
January 16, 2026 at 9:35 PM
It's rough when you're a new grad from the Midwest and there's this huge pool of unemployed California tech workers with experience you're competing with. If you weren't already living in Silicon Valley you didn't really have a chance.
See, by the time that meme got to me it was "only Millennials really understand Grunge."
January 16, 2026 at 9:34 PM
See, by the time that meme got to me it was "only Millennials really understand Grunge."
While that post used a more concise form, I've often seen it phrased as "we're the only generation to live through all this."
I think what it comes down to is Millennials, like Boomers, see themselves as the central characters of reality. Everything is about them. The rest of us are just NPCs.
I think what it comes down to is Millennials, like Boomers, see themselves as the central characters of reality. Everything is about them. The rest of us are just NPCs.
January 16, 2026 at 9:33 PM
While that post used a more concise form, I've often seen it phrased as "we're the only generation to live through all this."
I think what it comes down to is Millennials, like Boomers, see themselves as the central characters of reality. Everything is about them. The rest of us are just NPCs.
I think what it comes down to is Millennials, like Boomers, see themselves as the central characters of reality. Everything is about them. The rest of us are just NPCs.
There is a real issue with the housing market, and a shocking amount of it is due to the backlash to "urban renewal" projects. People saw people being displaced, and tried to put in place legal structures to prevent that, and the result was it became harder and harder to build new housing anywhere.
January 16, 2026 at 9:32 PM
There is a real issue with the housing market, and a shocking amount of it is due to the backlash to "urban renewal" projects. People saw people being displaced, and tried to put in place legal structures to prevent that, and the result was it became harder and harder to build new housing anywhere.
Millennials always post about this stuff in a sort of Oppression Olympics context, where they're trying to prove they had it worse than anyone in history has ever had it before so no one else is allowed to complain. I guess as a GenXer I experience as a form of erasure, if not outright blaming.
January 16, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Millennials always post about this stuff in a sort of Oppression Olympics context, where they're trying to prove they had it worse than anyone in history has ever had it before so no one else is allowed to complain. I guess as a GenXer I experience as a form of erasure, if not outright blaming.
I thought Xennial was a subset of GenX. Like, late GenX, on the cusp of Millennial.
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
I thought Xennial was a subset of GenX. Like, late GenX, on the cusp of Millennial.
I went to a state school because that's what I could afford, and graduated with an engineering degree. I graduated into the dot com bust and still have never cracked six figures. My first year as a sysadmin I made about $20/hour.
January 16, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I went to a state school because that's what I could afford, and graduated with an engineering degree. I graduated into the dot com bust and still have never cracked six figures. My first year as a sysadmin I made about $20/hour.
I was definitely encouraged to go to college but no one told me there were any guarantees. My parents were both college educated, but neither was really raking it in; my dad was a school teacher and my mom was a part-time nurse.
January 16, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I was definitely encouraged to go to college but no one told me there were any guarantees. My parents were both college educated, but neither was really raking it in; my dad was a school teacher and my mom was a part-time nurse.
There's a lot of survivorship bias there, and it's pretty regional. A lot of Boomers in the Rust Belt never really recovered financially from the collapse of the US auto industry in the 80s, for example.
January 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM
There's a lot of survivorship bias there, and it's pretty regional. A lot of Boomers in the Rust Belt never really recovered financially from the collapse of the US auto industry in the 80s, for example.
See, we were all gifted with houses by the Housing Fairy at age 29 and then retreated from public life. Or so some Millennials seem to think.
I had an argument once with my Millennial sister about whether GenX bought up all the houses and shafted them. At the time she owned a house and I didn't!
I had an argument once with my Millennial sister about whether GenX bought up all the houses and shafted them. At the time she owned a house and I didn't!
January 16, 2026 at 9:08 PM
See, we were all gifted with houses by the Housing Fairy at age 29 and then retreated from public life. Or so some Millennials seem to think.
I had an argument once with my Millennial sister about whether GenX bought up all the houses and shafted them. At the time she owned a house and I didn't!
I had an argument once with my Millennial sister about whether GenX bought up all the houses and shafted them. At the time she owned a house and I didn't!
New Orleans definitely seems like a place that continues to exist largely due to sheer force of will.
January 16, 2026 at 9:05 PM
New Orleans definitely seems like a place that continues to exist largely due to sheer force of will.