The baby boomers didn't have calculators.

All we had were slide rules. Here... have at it...

https://sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Course.htm

https://teachingcalculus.com/2019/12/10/slide-rules/



I had one that looked like this.






Calculators... pfft. LOL

Back when ships were wood and men were iron.

This post was edited by Ghot on Jun 27 2022 08:10pm

I ask again, what are you talking about? Our version of "poverty" would make you the richest man in the region in any third world nation. Over $700 Billion was spent last year to provide free healthcare to those in poverty, and everyone has access to schools. As for careers, it takes a lot of work to first qualify, and then obtain, and then maintain a career. Some people are weak-minded, and are not willing to put in that work. Isn't that sort of what this topic is about?

Now, if you want to talk about investment groups and billionaires buying up massive swathes of farmland, residential real-estate, etc. and actively preventing regular people from gaining access to these things, we could have a real discussion. It's a fair point and I suspect we'd agree more than we disagree.

Nobody is denying that life isn't fair. We already knew that. The steps required to make life fair are authoritarian and anti-liberty in nature. I'm telling you flat out that I'm perfectly fine with the fact that you support socialist policy in your nation. Feel free. Your nation is sovereign and can do what it wants. What I'm curious of is why you would promote revolution in the United States when you do not live in the United States? Can you please show me on the doll where the US has hurt you?

Assuming OP is talking about the latest new generations, like Gen Z or w/e, the answer is absolutely yes.

They are hopelessly brainwashed due to shitty parenting combined with access to cell phones and social media starting from very, very young ages. Millenials didn't get social medial until they were 18-21 years old. These kids are starting as young as 10-12 and will be exposed to the echo chamber for practically their whole lives.

It will take a miracle to break them out of the programming.

And using calculators and computers lets us compute things our forefathers could only dream of. I don't think the average person appreciates the pace of scientific discovery now with modern tools compared to the even the 90s or early 2000s.

I don't think the current generation realizes that all those nifty new tools, were invented by guys with slide rules.

I don't think that's true at all. For example, this came out today: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01361-8. The work here has more data within it than the entire output of biological research in a given year pre-1990, and the technique was invented by the first author who's probably in their 20s-30s.

I don't think your generation has realized how far new technology has outpaced the old ways.

This post was edited by Sioux on Jun 27 2022 09:31pm

Yeah, you're probably right. The people who invented the new technology had no idea what they invented it for? LOL

what? 70 year old dudes trained on slide rules aren't inventing anything new

Well, not much anyway.
But it's still better than the current generation that hasn't EVER invented anything, AND can;'t drive a stick. LOL

Did you not see what I just linked? A millenial invented a technique that allows for single cell RNAseq of all transcripts as opposed to just polyA mRNA which lets us look at the the total RNA expression in any single cell in any context. Watching meme boomer youtube videos doesn't really tell you the reality. Scientific progress is moving at a fucking insane clip due to the computational tools developed in the last 10 years.

This post was edited by Sioux on Jun 27 2022 10:19pm