Many #GenX & #Boomer men are Republicans & some are anti-vaxxers, but a few women boomers are largely responsible for spreading #misinformation:
A small group of committed “supersharers,” predominately older R women, were responsible for the vast majority of the #fakenews in the period looked at. They promoted & shared links to vaccine hesitancy & politics-flavored fake news. 2,107 reg. US voters accounted for spreading 80% of it during the 2020 election.
@paul
Yeah, my family went there a lot! Here's one of their TV / radio jingles (from memory, so it may be off a bit):
Kmart is your savings store,
Where your dollar buys you more,
They give your dreams a helping hand,
at Kmart stores they understand.
Kmart is the saving <pause> place!
EDIT: Found this older recording. It doesn't have the middle lines. My memory is probably from an ad played in the 70s or early 80s.
Back in my day (class of 96), you kinda had to choose. Most kids liked them all but was your favorite band Nirvana, Soundgarden or Pearl Jam? I wouldn't have said it then but Nirvana wanted you to think they were cool. Edgy. Soundgarden just wanted to make good music. Pearl Jam was about community and purpose. Fuck Ticketmaster. #GenX https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4977330/live-nation-ticketmaster-sued
yes I do. pretty wide taste but what was interesting about the 90s imo was that the mainstream opened up, before the internet made access easier. I think it also got better because it basically became more democratic. less payola.
but I still care about what most people are listening to. I want that to be higher quality, just like I want the journalism most people consume to be better. it matters if we have to live with each other.
Don't know why after a day of meetings I'm thinking about this now but did anybody else have WordPerfect on their Atari ST in 1991? 💪 🤓 :mycomputer: :atari:
Well, I taught my younger sister to jump off the second floor of the house to land in the couch below. I mean sure, just an inch off target and there's be a few broken bones. But hey we survived.
The couch didn't.
Ok, so I claim my feral badge, I think I totally earned it.
My brain decided to bring up this memory for no reason today. Cereal box records. Back in the day, kid cereals would add cardboard records on the back of their boxes. You could cut them out and play them on any normal record player. The grooves were made with thin plastic and songs were pretty short.
@box464 Thanks for reminding me. This was an epic marketing ploy by the cereal makers.
And those "records" probably caused a lot of people to buy new needles for their record players!
