Boomers are truly a unique generation
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There's also a tendency, especially among boomers, to not recognize the limitations of their knowledge and intelligence, and furthermore incapable of recognizing their own failing minds due to age related decline and degradation.
And they've almost always been insanely stupid when it comes to having the faintest understanding of any kind of modern technology and how it works.
They're often worse about it than even older generations were on account of how boomers assume that they understand it simply because some in their generation picked up on a few simple basics. All while failing to recognize that they only managed to grasp things at a surface and rudimentary level.
I think boomers, due to living in a bonobo paradise, have piss poor pattern recognition. Severian from Founding Questions has noticed they cannot tell when a girl has makeup on. Somebody pulled a study where it turns out they cannot tell AI videos and photos from the real thing. There was news a decade or so back of all those retirement communities in Florida built up to look like villages that were faker than fake but boomers ate it up.
I think they've gotten more retarded. I remember many boomers being very capable, but now in their 70's don't know how to do anything anymore. I don't know if it is age-related cognitive decline or decades of eating poinsonous food that contributed to sharp cognitive decline. I know some boomers who were very computer proficient in the 90s and now can barely use the computer. Nothing that drastic has changed with PCs since the 90s. The change in PCs from the 80s to the 90s was drastic. We're pretty much still using the same Windows OS 30 years later.
My father is 80. Back in the 1970s and 80s and 90s he was pretty much a computer whiz. In the early days when he started his business, he had bought these secondhand specialized mainframe computers. He had to re-solder firmware chips on some of them. He set up, terminals to access them. Later, I have very clear memories of him editing autoexec.bat and config.sys on our home DOS computer (386 4mb of ram. A real beast)
Today, I sometimes have to help him use his iPhone and Mac. I don’t think he really understands password managers… to be fair, I think he’s still worlds better than most 80 year olds and he will watch YouTube videos, read Reddit threads, etc to try to figure stuff out.
Definitely has fallen for some ai slop!
Aging is a bitch.
Edit: If he younger, he would 100% be posting on kia2.
Same here. In the 90s my father built our family computers and was the IT tech guy in the family. My siblings and I couldn't be bothered to learn anything about computers and barely used them. Flash forward to today and my father is like, "I don't know what's wrong with it. I'm just gonna buy a new laptop." I'm barely computer literate and I was able to fix his laptop.
I think you may have just hit on a key issue without even realizing it, at least in your fathers case.
Ive been soldering a bit and watching a bunch of youtube tutorials and while we mainly use lead free solder (which wasnt the case back pre 90's), I see many people who still recommend to use it for tinning and whatever since lead has such a low melting point.
I do some basic soldering, and use lead free solder and even then I have to hold my breath for a minute or two at a time because even a whiff of the stuff makes my head ache. I swear ever since that work poisoning, ive become very sensitized to chemicals.
This is in a room with a fan pointed towards open windows.
But yeah lead is terrible stuff, I suspect the little bit I was exposed to is what is causing my kidney->parathyroid issues.
But something society isnt talking about is dementia is exploding (was the case even before covid), no one can really explain why.
What else could it be but fucking chemicals in everything? Planet 9 hitting us with xrays or something? Who knows :/.
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People living longer, thats a good one. I cant imagine people are living their best lives stressed living paycheck to paycheck.
Another good example of lead in the environment, most of you should know exactly why they took lead out of gasoline even though it makes the fuel burn more consistently and efficiently.
Wells weren't enough huh
I mean, other than the fact that Microsoft just shuffled everything around and made it harder to get to the legacy features some people used all the time that they just didn't remove outright its pretty much the same. However, I could absolutely see someone in their 70's just kinda give up on adapting to the new layout and "features" out of pure "what's even the point" if they're not using it professionally anymore.
Yeah entire decades of neural pathways can be super hard to change, nearly impossible once you hit a certain age.
All that environmental lead coming home to roost.
Intellectuals often mistake knowing for understanding. It's something we first saw with the age of Enlightenment, and then decades later, with the industrial revolution