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This evening, in the #friterie, I overheard a fascinating conversation about #ironing. Apparently, the younger #generation mostly uses #steamironing these days.
But, um, me—well, us, I mean—honestly, we hardly iron at all. Maybe twice a year? It might be less. It seems like something from the past, though I was surprised to hear it's still quite common and a small talk subject...
The perfect topic to test Mastodon's polling features.
So, Mastodon community, how do you iron?
Another way our #generation gets #screwed: #salary secrecy culture costs me $10k/year.
Gen X thrived on a blow-it-all-up attitude. Things look different now that Trump is actually doing it
Being of this particular age, with their particular set of life experiences, at this particular moment in history (which didn't end, as it turns out), means the generation once notorious for its cynical and detached at...
#economics #history #generation #News #Canada #Calgary
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/generation-x-experience-liberation-day-tariffs-global-recession-1.7505252?cmp=rss
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Diese #Managementkultur, die immer nur #kurzfristig|en #Profit im Auge hat, zerstört jetzt auch die #Bundesrepublik!
- Hauptsache in der eigenen #Amtszeit gibt's fett #Boni bzw. #Großspenden & post-politische #Lobby-#Jobs, denn für #Christofaschisten gilt.immer "nach Mir die Sintflut!"
Deswegen wählen nur #Letztwähler und antisoziale #Wanker wie #Boomer diese Partei:
- Jene #Generation die sich ihr Restleben 'schön #konsumiert'!
Dass ähnlich wie beim Einstampfen der #Forschungsabteilung eines #Konzern|s die #Schuldenbremse ein Land zerstört, ist denen shiceegal!
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« Les manifestations en #Turquie expriment l’exaspération de la #génération-Z »
Le Monde · « Les manifestations en Turquie expriment l’exaspération de la génération Z »
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@christineburns that's very true, and the problem doesn't seem to be improving.
This is an article from November 22, saying at that point National Grid had a 176 GW of generation capacity in the que for connection, a huge chunk of which didn't even have planning permission.
Between the difficulty of connecting to the grid, the labyrinthine and hostile British planning system and challenges of securing investment, so many of these projects just seem to never come to fruition.
Maybe I'm biased because this is all I see, and it's just as bad everywhere else, but the UK does seem to struggle tremendously to deliver any large scale infrastructure projects.
www.nationalgrid.comQueue management: the next step in accelerating grid connections | National Grid ETIn the race to connect enough renewable power to the grid to help Britain reach net zero, we’re committed to reducing the time customers will wait for a connection.
"You need a vision bigger than you've been told is possible!" - Kat Abughazaleh
That's her phrase, not mine! She's 26-year-old Kat bAbughazaleh, and she's running for Congress. In the middle of her announcement video, she stated: "You need a vision bigger than you've been told is possible!"
I'm always a sucker for a good inspirational phrase - and I can also spot the nascent signs of what might be a major trend early on. This might be one of those moments.
Look, I swear to god I'm not working to turn my daily post into a political journal, but the timing of this video yesterday was just too perfect in light of my post earlier that day about the need for the system to get 'youthanized.'
So what's this post about? It's about what might happen when the social media/influencer generation gets aggressively involved in politics. Later in the video, she said this: “I say it’s time to drop the excuses and grow a fucking spine," And then, "We're focused on meeting constituent needs with one simple rule: What if we didn't suck?"
Talk about message clarity!
Watch the video for yourself, and try and tell me that this might not be the early sign of something happening in US politics right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OhclGO3CY
And since US politics has a huge impact on whether the future unfolds or not, well, it's in the territory of this daily post. Yesterday, I was listening to The Daily podcast from the New York Times, and one political expert said that the Democrats might be having their own Tea Party moment, what with the anger at aging politicians and all. Maybe this was the moment stuff was thrown in the harbor.
The video is blowing up on social media right now - and no wonder. What we might be seeing right now is the first of a sudden groundswell of today's 20 and 30-year-olds launching themselves into a system that has become geriatric by design
**#Vision** **#Youth** **#Politics** **#Change** **#Influence** **#Future** **#Generation** **#Disruption** **#Leadership** **#Momentum**
Significant Chinese initiatives. "This vast project creates significant economic effects throughout its implementation. The B&R Initiative led Chinese companies to build 156 GW of #power #generation facilities, which would supply electricity to five times the current output capacity of Australia."
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/china-24-gw-energy-expansion-2024/12198/
ECO News · 24 GW and a whole country mobilized: China starts the biggest project ever seenChina installed a record 24 GW of power in 2024, doubling last year’s capacity. Discover how this massive investment is reshaping global energy markets.
Postcode pricing already exists. We pay more for our electricity in Scotland, despite the generation than anywhere else in Northern Europe - and that includes England.
Of course England is opposed - in principle. But then the system as supported by Westminster screws England as well. Just not as much!
The Guardian · Postcode electricity pricing is a minefield for Ed Miliband
I was #born in the right #generation I love phone in #bed time and #complaining
If you are interested in how life of current #teenagers is different from every #generation before them, then this article by Jean #Twenge (#Atlantic) is worth your time.
Some quotes:
- The allure of independence holds less sway over today's teens
- The arrival of the smartphone has radically changed every aspect of teenagers’ lives.
- comfortable in their bedrooms, they are safer than teens have ever been.
- But rates of teen depression and suicide have skyrocketed
The Atlantic · Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Children born in 2025 will be part of "Generation Beta"…
"Gen Beta babies will exhibit ultra-high technological fluency and inherit the impact of climate change, one expert says."
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/a-new-generation-is-born-today-who-is-generation-beta/8i8z6dxuu
SBS NewsA new generation is born today. Who is generation beta?Like generations Z and alpha, gen beta will be profoundly shaped by a world in which technology and the environment are rapidly changing. Here's what that means for the new generation that just dropped.
I know that those who aren't into #AI #image #generation and creating fake US Midwestern cities as fun worldbuilding projects, like I am, have been getting annoyed at the increasing amount of posts I've been devoting to it; so I decided to start a brand-new blog on the subject, so that those who are interested can voluntarily opt-in. It has its own Mastodon link you can follow, at the bottom of this introduction I'm linking to.
https://write.as/tales-from-progress-city/what-is-progress-city-6z5v
Tales From Progress City · What Is Progress City?An introduction to this experimental multimedia project, chronicling 200 years of a fictitious US Midwestern powerhouse metropolis ####...
Help Wanted: Keep the World’s Oldest Windmills Turning - While the Netherlands is the country most known for its windmills, they were origi... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/07/help-wanted-keep-the-worlds-oldest-windmills-turning/ #millinggrain #engineering #windturbine #greenhacks #generation #windpower #milling #power #mill
Hackaday · Help Wanted: Keep The World’s Oldest Windmills TurningWhile the Netherlands is the country most known for its windmills, they were originally invented by the Persians. More surprisingly, some of them are still turning after 1,000 years. The ancient wo…
How did the far right win in Austria? To understand, look to its global networks
"We will kick upwards and clamp down on those who don’t mean well for us”, said #Herbert #Kickl in May 2023.
Under Kickl’s leadership, the Austrian Freedom party ( #FPÖ ) has scored its biggest election victory since it was founded in 1956 by #Anton #Reinthaller, an Austrian Nazi who had served as a lieutenant general in the SS.
Not only is the FPÖ now more popular than ever, it is also at the height of its radicalism.
The FPÖ’s victory in Sunday’s national elections is being celebrated by far-right movements and influencers across Europe.
No wonder: it demonstrates how successful they have been at normalising and internationalising their extreme ideologies, conspiracy myths and policy proposals.
Many of the FPÖ’s ideas have been inspired by #Generation #Identity, a pan-European white nativist movement that has its roots in France and is particularly strong in Austria.
In a post-election livestream to his followers, the movement’s Austrian leader, #Martin #Sellner, celebrated the FPÖ win as “a dream result” .
He has been one of the most influential proponents of the term “#remigration” (the policy of mass deportation of people with a migration background),
which had its first spike on social media following a 2014 extreme-right meet-up in France.
Ten years later, the FPÖ is far from the only far-right political party that has embraced the concept.
Germany’s #AfD party used “remigration” as part of its campaigns for regional elections in Saxony and Thuringia on 1 September,
-- and #Donald #Trump recently called for “remigration” in a post about “illegal migrants” on X.
Even though Sellner communicated with and received a donation from the @Christchurch #shooter who later killed 51 people in two consecutive mosque attacks in New Zealand in 2019,
Kickl has since described the identitarian movement as “a project worthy of support”, which should be viewed as an “NGO from the right”.
A year before the Christchurch attack, Sellner wrote to me in a direct message on Twitter:
“I don’t think that my videos and speeches incite violence. The anger is there in any case and I think it has its material basis.”
#Immigration is only one of the FPÖ’s controversial campaign topics.
#Covid conspiracy myths,
#climate change denial,
#anti-#feminism and
#anti-#LGBTQ+ discourse are other features of the party’s branding.
The FPÖ member of parliament #Michael #Gruber recently shared an election campaign video on Instagram that showed him throwing a rainbow flag in a bin with the tagline “Cleaning up for Austria”.
With Kickl using dog whistles such as “climate communism” and “WHO dictatorship”,
the FPÖ has been able to expand its support base among conspiracy theorists and Covid deniers.
What does Kickl mean by kicking upwards, for example?
He promised to become an FPÖ chancellor “who won’t bow down to the EU, Nato and the WHO”.
In a new year’s speech he spoke ofhis long “wanted list”, which includes centrist politicians whom he refers to as “politicians of the system” (#Systempolitiker ) and whom he accuses of “treason against the people” (#Volksverrat ) – two terms known for their use by #Adolf #Hitler.
A key to FPÖ’s success has been the growing landscape of alternative, hyper-biased and conspiratorial news outlets that have formed around the party and its sympathisers.
In the run-up to the election, a series of false claims spread in a chain reaction across these alternative media websites and social media channels such as Telegram.
Reports, for example, were circulated claiming that the “deep state” wanted to steal the FPÖ’s victory
or that centrist parties were planning to reintroduce mandatory vaccinations after the elections.
#AUF1, a particularly influential new rightwing channel, has aired ideas of “vaccine mass extermination” and a “deadly transhumanist agenda”.
The channel was the first outlet to feature an appearance by Kickl on Sunday night after the election victory.
The FPÖ’s historic victory not only poses a risk to Austria’s minorities, independent media outlets, scientific community and democratic institutions,
-- it also has the potential to significantly strengthen the far right in Europe and internationally.
#Alice #Weidel of the German AfD,
#Marine #Le #Pen of the French National Rally
and #Geert #Wilders of the Dutch Freedom party
all enthusiastically congratulated the FPÖ.
“The Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, France, Spain, Czech Republic and today Austria! We are winning! Times are changing,” commented Wilders on X.
The Guardian · How did the far right win in Austria? To understand, look to its global networks