We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days.

How disappointed we will all be when all the boomers are dead and it doesn’t solve any of our problems.
- We'll just have to see, won't we?
  Plus, it's not like the climate will just snap back into place when the boomers are finally too old for their skeleton talons to cling to power. That shit is going to take generations of sacrifice to roll back, if it doesn't topple civilization first.
  https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/warmest-arctic-summer-on-record-is-evidence-of-accelerating-climate-change
  The whole ethos of the majority of baby boomers seems to have been to raze the forest they got to enjoy behind them (as opposed to planting trees whose shade they'd never sit in like most generations aspire to), and they seem to be having remarkable success in that.
  
  thats the ethos you project onto boomers, not the ethos boomers live by.
- The issues they left behind will last for generations. Funny that anyone could believe this goes away in our lifetime.
  
  Or that we won't make new problems that we get to blame on new generations. It will never end
- It's not about a magic cure that'll fix everything over night.
  It's about repairing decades of harm done by a generational mindset that valued wealth acquisition and material possession above every other facet of society. We won't fix that trauma in one, two, or three generations but it will get better and better with time and distance to boomerism.
  
  The values of wealth accumulation and materialism are not at all limited to or even expressed mostly strongly by the Baby Boomer generation.
  The line of thinking that capitalism dies with boomers or that Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, or whatever comes next will not fully embrace capitalism and will move towards socialism or some other non-competitive society seems pretty naive.
  Humans are a competitive species. Most people want to win. I doubt this mindset dies with boomers.
- The next most conservative generation is Gen X. All few dozen of us. Expect those with power to retain it with massive use of wealth to constrain the rules of democracy, rather than numbers of voters.
- It will solve the problem of their voting habits. They have lead us down this insane path because they are a narcissistic generation. Things won't be perfect, but we might, just might, start turning things around. If we still can.
- Boomer is a state of mind. They are never going extinct.
- Because that's how it works, right? When your house is flooded because of a burst pipe, when you replace the pipe then your house is magically unflooded right? I mean of course no reasonable person thinks that, but that seems to be the understanding you're suggesting. Meanwhile you're trying to say that if we do repair the pipe and the house is still flooded, rightly acknowledging that the pipe is 100% the cause of the flood is somehow..... wrong?
  The facts are that boomers fucked the world up, heavily, and did everything they could to hold onto power and rob the next generation (at least) of their deserved place in the driver's seat of society, and cleaning up the messes and lessons left over by the boomers will take generations to clean up. The fact that boomer built long-term systemic problem without simple solutions does not mean that the boomers are not entirely at fault or that we aren't entirely better off without them.
- They're smart to balance their checkbooks on the way out. They never let any opportunity to consume go to waste.
- I dunno, I feel like if I lived through the Black Death and I was there when—at the end of the suffering, surrounded by death—the last plague rat died, I’d take it as a win…
- But then you have to blame the job creators!?
- most boomers where lost generation per them
  i said what i said
  
  They were called the Me Generation but they got offended and changed it to Boomer

Shame the damage they did won't go with them.
- And they're not done yet! It's also a shame they'll probably waste the money they've accumulated on the worst possible things and people on the way out (fueling the dumpster fire).

Interesting to look at, numbers wise.. but it makes me think of the time I have left with my parents. I'm calling them tomorrow!
- now*

The problem isnt going to end with them. My right wing friends are completely indoctrinated by their boomer parents. And getting louder and louder about it.
- They'll be outnumbered after the boomers are gone. They'll either have to adapt, hide back in the shadows, or go full extremist.
  
  Here’s to hoping. It’s exhausting. I can’t have a single conversation without them slyly trying to slip in some earworm or go off on a tirade unexpectedly because I inadvertently trigger them.

WTF are Keanu Reeves and Madonna doing there 😃
- Madonna - Born 1958
  Keanu - Born 1964 so boomer of the cutoff year.
  It's not my countdown clock, but all the images they chose are of the baby boomer generation, chronologically.
  
  False.
  
  I get that I just thought its supposed to be dead by boomers up there

Just How stupid does one have to be to think all their woes exist with only one generation? There are far bigger monsters alive today in current younger generations (many in millennial) that are far more destructive to our lives and the earth. They’ve seen more $$$ than any boomer and will laugh at you while you live out of a garbage can.
And you’d still probably be posting stupid memes like this acting completely oblivious to the burning hell around you.
- The boomers also have high levels of wealth inequality
- Ok boomer
  
  K incel.
  
  OK, person I just blocked.
- They don't vote. Boomers always vote.
  
  So stop whining and vote! Remember: You will ALWAYS be voting for the lesser of two evils.
- You're framing your indignation from a place of generality. No one thinks that boomers are the sole source of the World's woes. However, they are the largest generation and tend to dominate discussions surrounding housing and the economy. They also make up a huge portion of the elected officials in North America, and younger generations have had it much harder than boomers ever did. It's a lie that millennials and gen z have had more money than our parents and grandparents ever did. We don't have nearly the purchasing power people did in the 50s and 60s.
- It’s Lemmy. The hive mind demands sacrifices. And reason is one of the most valuable.

I find this insanely interesting. I hope someone does this for us Xers but I have a feeling that everyone will forget about us.
And with this, I’m also interested in the rate of change here. Are boomers dying faster, slower, steady rate?
- https://incendar.com/generation_x_deathclock.php
  They got you!
  
  Fuck that website, it lists abortions as deaths LMAO
- It would be very surprising if the rate was steady. Boomers are ages 59 to 77 today. The ones who have died have been on the younger side, but it won't be long until most are within a standard deviation for average lifespan.
  Also, there weren't the same number of boomers born every year. In fact, 1946 had a spike of them, and the rate started falling off each of the last seven years or so of the range. So we started with more older boomers than younger boomers.
- As an interesting side note: I have heard multiple times that Gen X is the Trumpiest and most conservative leaning generation, even more than Boomers or Silver. I find it plausible. The silver generation has old progressive labor movement diehards, and boomers have hippies. But Gen X never really had a progressive culture movement. They came of age during Reagan and Clinton.
  
  The good news is, there isn't many of us. Boomers and Millennials are the two biggest groups.
  But yeah I already hear BS like, back in my days we roam the streets blah blah blah from folks my age.
- I'd bet this site just uses something like a census base percentage, apredicted end date and a countdown clock that creates the percentage/rate.

I love how many people are going on about how one generation isn't the cause of all our problems. I agree. Neither the post nor the website say anything good nor bad about any generation, just that it's -mildly interesting- that boomers just hit 1/3 dead.
- The young hate the old for having more than them.
  The old hate the young for having more time left.
- No other arbitrary age cohort has been so unjustly hated in American history
  
  No other age cohort has been responsible for caring for the earth for the time they were adults and done such a horrific job. In the US, the cherry on top is also that this generation kicked everything their parents generation fought for into the dirt, including most of the social safety net, because of a bunch of dumb conservative rhetoric.
  I think it is pretty just as far as generalizations go, though of course it is a generalization.
  
  Ok, boomer.
  
  No other arbitrary age cohort has been so unjustly hated in American history
  You talking about Boomers, or Gen-Xers?
- mildly interesting- that boomers just hit 1/3 dead.
  I do wonder about the accuracy of that though. It's not like the website owner went through every death certificate ASAIK.
  
  That's how statistics work. You take a sample and abstract it to the population. If you required every one to be checked, then no numbers of any sort would be made up because that's too much work.

Who the fuck put keeanu in there?
- Just checked, wow he’s technically a Boomer! Born in 1964, so just made it.
  
  No, as long as he stays below 50 he'll be fine.
  
  Yeah, but he's not dead yet like the picture implies
  
  Just checked, wow he’s technically a Boomer! Born in 1964, so just made it.
  The identifier should be started at the age you entered society, and not the age you came out of your mother’s womb.
  
  That's....not even close to a Boomer. WW2 ended 20 years earlier lol.
- He didn't leave the matrix yet?
- I guess technically he's a boomer, but he's 1000% gen x. He doesn't make moves like a boomer would.
  
  Some real 'elven king of the dwarves' energy!
  
  I guess technically he’s a boomer, but he’s 1000% gen x.
  The identifier should be started at the age you entered society, and not the age you came out of your mother's womb.
- Keanu is eternal.
- Someone who can't count. Meaning this list is completely useless.

Not long ago I found out that my dad is too old to be a boomer. Apparently it's called "the silent generation".
- The real question is if your grandma, on the other side, is from the same generation as your dad. Then shit gets weird.

Is this like a timer for when we can start fighting climate change?
- Why the fuck are you waiting on your opponents to die when it'll be too late? Just do what you want and then fight or kill them if they try to stop you.
- Nah. Gen X are basically boomers so gotta wait that one out too.
- No, because it was never about the boomers.

Putting Keanu next to dead Boomers is like when Micheal Scott announced he hit Meredith and the doctors did all they could.
Why would you phrase it like that?!

Boomers were hated by their elders for being too liberal and hated by their youngers for being to conservative.
- Boomers were hated by their elders for being too liberal and hated by their youngers for being to conservative.
  ~~Boomers~~ People were hated by their elders for being too liberal and hated by their youngers for being to conservative. Since, like, forever.
  Fixed this for you.
- They got more conservative as they got older. All those hippie kids who protested Vietnam and experimented with drugs and sex ended up voting for Reagan.
  
  Are you saying they took what they wanted, then pulled the ladder up after them?
  
  People seem to have this view that everyone in the '60s was a hippie but that's just not true. Time Magazine put the number around 300,000. In a country of 200 million, that's only 0.15% of the population. They were a counterculture not mainstream culture. The vast majority of kids did not become hippies, and many actively hated the hippies.
  
  All those hippie kids who protested Vietnam and experimented with drugs and sex ended up voting for Reagan.
  No, we didn't. Also, inflation and Iranian hostage situation.

It's a start.
I kid, I kid, my parents are already dead, not everyone who was/is a boomer is horrid. But this generation has hung around power for too long, it's time to move on.

well that's fucking dark (and as others have pointed out, misguided - won't solve a thing)
- And as others have also pointed out, the website isn't anything anti-boomer. It tracks each generation, and it's just mildly interesting that boomers just hit 1/3.
  
  And one day, every generation's population will hit zero. Always happens....
  
  No, it's not anti-boomer. And, Trump isn't anti immigrant. After all his own wife is an immigrant.
  Give me a break!
  
  And as others have also pointed out, the website isn’t anything anti-boomer. It tracks each generation, and it’s just mildly interesting that boomers just hit 1/3.
  How it's presented to us though in this Lemmy article does suggest that though.
  On a tangent, I really hate how people who create Lemmy posts really bias the article they're posting about in the title of the Lemmy post, sometimes to the point where the title doesn't match the article they're posting, or speaks about the title in just one/two sentences of a long article.

At this point, I'd rather like to see edgelords go extinct.
- Fingers crossed!

One of my student in his 20s, recently told me "ok boomer". I'm 42.
- What did you say to illicit that response?
- are gen X? you're half boomer then at least
  
  Are you one my students?

The only way we can start to have actual positive change is unfortunately to wait for them to die out. They have proven they refuse to make the world a better place and will go out as selfishly and as damaging as possible. What a harmful and entitled generation.
- Problem is still the the whole population gets older on average (due to low fertility rate)...

Nooo my man Keanu. Your a soulless casket of meat

Must be nice to have Gen X parents eh? I mean…. Being able to afford the luxury of wishing death upon an entitle generation with no consequences…. Sounds so…. Easy.
- glad to see i'm not the only one who thinks that.

What kind of psycopath counts generation death as a good thing. All interesting humans dead and you take it as an achievement.
Stop crying on the past. Stop blaming past on generations. Start learning from past generation mistakes, and thank them for having you.
Because as a new generation we're going to make a lot of mistakes, who knows if more or less than the past generations. And we shouldn't be blamed in the future.
Blaming the past generations and not learning from them is a childish response. Start doing something productive and useful to society, blaming is not helping.
Stop having tantrums and grow up. And thank you have past generations otherwise you would have to create all we have now from scratch.
It's like saying "Newton dumb" because his work is old and it doesn't work correctly for all physical frames, not like Einstein his work is much better. Both are as good because they lived at different times with different technology, knowledge, society, etc.
This feels like explaining basic life knowledge to a 3 year old tbh.
- When I saw the post I thought this was some statistics sub, but then I read the comments. The comments made me write this.
  
  This is a neutral post and it isn’t anti-boomer per se.
  It's a little disingenuous to say that though .
  How is presented to us, in this Lemmy post, isn't really neutral though, it leans towards one point of view.
  
  Just the fact that this site exists is a testament to people without empathy.
- Yeah, not like boomers blame millenials or gen Z for everything. Oh wait.
  
  I’m guessing no “boomer” ever told you that bit about two wrongs?
  
  So you think Doubling down somehow erases the problem. It totally doesn’t put you at their level, right? Or did you think everyone is just so dumb they can’t see your stupid thrown into the ring too?
  
  No, they don't. They blamed the silent gen for ecological destruction, social inequality, and war. They also, like every generation back to australopithecus blamed their elders and thought the younger generation was spoiled & had shorter attention spans.
  Don't foolishly attribute a universal human flaw to a single group of people.
  
  Yeah, not like boomers blame millenials or gen Z for everything. Oh wait.
  Maybe we should stop dividing up into age tribes and attacking each other?
  The problems we face affect every age in the same way.
- What kind of psycopath counts generation death as a good thing. All interesting humans dead and you take it as an achievement.
  It needs 3 generations after a traumatic incident to get the negative consequences out of the population.
  
  Musk, Zuckerberg, bezos, chesky won’t be negative consequences going anywhere with boomers dying. You can’t keep blaming them for what current generations are doing that is far worse.
- Kiddies who can't think beyond the "us vs them" mentality but also think that all old people are bad, like that's not as insane a generalisation as saying "all people of X race/sexuality/whatever are bad". Human brains love trying to put everything in categories and labels, especially other humans.
  
  also think that all old people are bad
  Not many people actually believe this. It's more that statistically it's better for the country as more old people die. My boomer parents are progressive, but the generation by and large is holding us back. Of course the electoral college is part of the problem as well.
  
  Speaking of how we categorize …Rememberer how a bunch of idiots tried to categorize Covid as if it was china to blame and relating it to diet of eating bats meanwhile there’s white dudes in North America chowing down on venison infested with prions pretending mad cow isn’t a thing. No one should be pointing fingers.
- You sound 15.
- OK boomer
  (Please block me shitheads)
- Surprised your comment has positive upvotes because this thread has turned into /FuckBoomers.
  Boomers aren't the problem.
- Because as a new generation we’re going to make a lot of mistakes, who knows if more or less than the past generations.
  musk, Zuckerberg, Chesky, bezos are but a few who aren’t even boomers and have done probably far more destruction to society with their attainment of wealth.
  We’re gonna see this current generation posting this usVSthem bullshit explain all that away to the future generation when their kids look into their online memes like this one about how ‘they knew better than boomers enough to criticize’
  “Tell me about how you stood by Greta thunberg and didn’t just sit on your ass posting drivel on your iPhone while you rented Airbnb and got half your things off of Amazon. Did you vote in trump? Tell me how did he become president again?”
  Part of me thinks this generation posting this generation meme drek is a poor attempt to quickly burry this giant steaming pile of poo.

Thanks Lemmy. I just had to wiki to double-verify that Keanu Reeves is not dead.
Thank God.

Who was it?! Who took us over the edge?! I WANT NAMES DAMNIT!

We need a cross-garriso comparison of voting Republicans and use that countdown too.

Thanks for the decimal places on the percentage. Wanna be precise with that one.

Almost good enough odds to do Rookery in UBRS
- just don't touch the eggs!

I don't know any of the millennials pictured, and why no gen z pictures?
Pretty neat overall, reminds me of that death clock thing from, like, 25 years ago.
- Michael Jackson, Madonna, Steve Jobs, Keanu Reeves.
  I find it hard to believe anyone couldn't recognize them, they are among the most famous people ever.
  
  None of those people are Millennials 🙂 I checked out some other pages on the site, I knew all of the boomers for the reason you said.

what the fuck? people keep statistics for that?

Strange to see people blaming their fellow citizens, when it was a certain beloved King that started off his reign by hugely cutting the tax-rate of corporations, leaving them with the 'trickle-down'.
Somehow rulers manage to keep the people divided by keeping them blaming each other rather the root-cause.

That’s a lot of dead boomers in a few days …

"Ya'll wanna go back to the metric system or nah?"

And it’s only going to accelerate from here!

Gentle reminder that the whole generations thing is made up.
But true that many of these folks and older hold high positions of power, which is probably the cause for the clock.

Keanu reeves is so close to and so engrained in gen x culture that I think it's unfair to label him a boomer
- Popular comments like this remind me how mature the user base is here. Such a contrast to other social media

wow i would have thought it would be more than that.

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN~!

Death to all boomers. Except Keanu Reeves. He's alright.
- Keanu Reeves is born in 1964, which is generally considered the cut off point for boomers into gen X. Personally I don't think the cutoff is as hard as that, people just before 1964 can still be raised as gen X and people born just after 1964 can be full on boomers. I like to think of the cutoff as plus minus 2 years.
  In my book Keanu Reeves is gen X and not a boomer.
  
  Same, honestly. Either way, he's a good guy, he can stay.

My mother is pre-Boomer (born soon after the U.S. entered the war) and has been incredibly progressive her entire life. She has never voted for a Republican. She marched for civil rights. She wanted me to know that women and men are equal and that color and religion and ethnicity should not make you dislike someone. She taught me about sex (appropriately) when I asked about it at 3 or 4 years old rather than shielding me from it. My brother and I both have (had in my case, but that's another story) gay best friends who were also best man at both of our weddings. She always welcomed them even though my brother and his friend became friends in the mid-1980s. I remember asking my mother what she would do if I was gay and she said she would love me no matter what I was. I don't specifically know her politics, but my dad, born even earlier (1931) was mostly the same way. He definitely had his prejudices- although he would deny it- and he was a lot more sexist than he thought he was, but he was also an outspoken socialist until the dementia got too bad for him to be outspoken about it. One of the last things I was able to tell him before he was too far gone to understand was that Bernie was running for president.
I have certainly had a lot of issues with Boomers and people older than them, but it is far from universal, but I am really proud of my parents for always being progressive.
- I am really proud of my parents for always being progressive.
  I hate the burst your bubble, but they weren't being progressive, they were being 80's liberals. Today's progressives are a different thing.
  (BTW, your comment was a good read.)
  
  I'm what world is this kind of pedantry useful?
  
  Again, my father was a socialist. He wrote a his dissertation on Shaw and the socialist aspects of one of his plays. He was British and said he was never more proud of his homeland then when he helped it usher in the National Health Service with his vote. When I moved here to Terre Haute, Indiana, he made sure to get me to take him to the Eugene V. Debs museum because of how much he admired debs. How does that make him an 80s liberal? Do please explain.

It's a good start.

The greatest generation:
- The greatest generation birthed the boomers, who did not live up to their parents' reputation or expectation.

2039 is the half-life of the boomer generation, assuming all of them were born in 1964 and will live exactly 75 years
- That's not what half-life means. Half-life comes from radioactive decay and is the time for half the atoms in a sample to decay. After half the atoms have decayed it takes another half-life for half the remaining atoms (a quarter of the original sample) to decay. There's some fancy maths you can do to convert a sample size of 85 million with a half-life of 75 years into the time it takes for the last atom to decay but at an estimation of about 27 half-lives that's 2025 years.
  Maybe that's the real problem with boomers: their multi-thousand year lifespan!!

Many have spent decades wishing they were part of the boomers generation and its many benefits, BUT maybe the last laugh is that 1/3 of them are already dead while the lesser endowed generations that came after, especially Millennials and Gen Z are facing a future where aging and health issues may be a thing of the past.
- are facing a future where aging and health issues may be a thing of the past.
  or, just as if not more likely, are facing a future where healthcare is a thing of the past... along with civilization, the ecosystem, etc.
  
  That is entirely possible, along with complete planet destruction but we have been worrying about the end since the beginning. I am more on the tech is going to solve a lot of issues in the coming decade headspace, but the transition to that place, may be very bumpy. Hard to say. Big change is coming though and all I know is I rather be alive to see it, especially longevity and thus I am glad I am not nearly end of life right now.
- are facing a future where aging and health issues may be a thing of the past for those that can afford it

Extinction 2086?? TIL those born in 2010 are boomers
- It says 122 max, I think that year is if the last boomer lives as long as the oldest person ever did.