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. May 19, 2023 · It's easy to focus on the nuances that get lost in translation, but what about the insights that are found? This hour, TED speakers on what we can gain by adapting information in different ways.
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Watching Old School in high school doesn’t count.
. For after hours inquiries, getting back to them during the first 3 hours of the next business day works. You wore acid wash and now hide the photographic evidence.
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Whereas Boomers had the free love of the late '60s, Gen X was about safe sex, which usually meant less sex.
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You identify with the word slacker, even though you are an upstanding citizen with a full-time job. .
Generation X (ages 38-53) has essentially fallen off the radar among marketers. We are now at the age we have seen most of this bullshit before, so you’re not going to fool us easily.
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Before Gen X, graphics weren’t good enough, and after Gen X, you’d play the games on your own home console.
Gen X absolutely was the first generation to experience firsthand the bullshit of late stage capitalist policies, lifestyle, etc. . .
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Watching Old School in high school doesn’t count.
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This essay appears in print in the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine with the headline, “Meet the slackers.
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So while they're over there going at each other, let's enjoy some memes that absolutely only make sense if you're a Gen X'er:.
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