Provided it’s got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories
One of my favourite books I've literally only read on audiobook. I don't love ebooks, and this book is out of print with second-hand copies going for $200+ online, so audiobook is basically the only option. It's not the same experience as reading with your eyes, but it's still a great way to get the story.
I absolutely love how much discourse in the past few months on the podcast and elsewhere in the Jet Lag sphere has been about airport arrival times. It feels like they've been laying down the perfect setup for what's going to happen next episode...whatever that may be.
Oh interesting. I thought Snake was thought of as one of the weaker seasons. They mentioned on the podcast that they even realised it would be a weaker season while editing it.
This was a delightful opening episode to the season. I imagine it was harder than normal to edit into an interesting show, but they did an incredible job of it.
My experience is that on Reddit it replaces the comment with [unavailable], similar to [removed] when a mod removes it, or [deleted] when they delete it themselves.
And that on Lemmy, it depends on client. On lemmy-ui (the default web client), it sometimes shows up as that "1 more reply" option, but when you click it, it never loads in. On Jerboa, it says something along the lines of "unable to retrieve this comment".
Both of those are what happens when you come across a comment from a person who blocked you in the wild. It may or may not be different when it's in your inbox.
I've been blocked by at least one person on Lemmy, for reasons that I honestly have no idea, and have come across this in the wild a couple of times, including opening something I originally found on my computer in Jerboa to double-check, as well as opening up incognito where I'm logged out and therefore not blocked.
My point was that the dates can stay the same regardless of where you go, even if the stereotypes change.
What it seems like you were saying is that the dates themselves become irrelevant if you leave America. If that's not what you meant, your comment lacked clarity.
not every Western country was on the same side of WW2, and not all of them had the fighting happen in their territory, which means not all of them were levelled. And not all of them were Marshall planned after.
This isn't actually relevant to my point. They didn't have the same experience as other Boomers (or whichever generation) in other countries, but did have a notably different experience from Xers (or whatever) in their own country. Because it may not have been in identical ways, but yes, every western country was affected by WWII in some ways. Even those like my own that never saw conflict at home. So the experience of being born in the immediate aftermath of the war is a handy generation-defining experience, even if what that experience translates into is different for a German compared to a Brit, or to an Australian.
Of course, it's also fair to say that there's a much bigger difference between a German born in 1946 and one born in 1963 than there is between two Germans born in 1963 and 1965, even though one case has two "boomers" and the other a boomer and gen X. And in either case, the experience of someone in West Berlin is probably extremely different from someone from Hamburg, from someone born in the small town of Deesdorf. And for someone born to wealthy parents or poor. Generations help categorise, and the rough boundaries we use are roughly useful, but that's a lot of rough.
You're a little younger than me (young millennial), and a little older than my sister (old Z). And yeah, there's definitely a fuzzy border. We grew up with technology, which sounds like a gen Z experience, but that technology was not pervasive and everywhere, it was more like appointment viewing. We had the experience of really noticing the technology improving, which is more millennial. I relate to some of the typical millennial children's shows, like early Pokemon, Batman TOS, X-Men, and I'm familiar with many more even if I didn't like them myself (like Rugrats, Hey Arthur, Doug). But the shows that made up more of my core viewing are a little too recent to be called millennial, like Avatar, Kim Possible, and Lilo & Stich the series.
Also, while you had a millennial parent, I did not. Heck, I didn't even have gen X parents. My old folks are both younger boomers. Which I'm sure introduces its own variable to the equation.
I don't think the names are particularly relevant, but the idea that people born in those years have done shared experience notably different from other times is—to the extent it can ever be true for any specified dates (which is a very low extent)—fairly consistent across at least western countries and their colonies.
A great question, but I don't know the answer. There have been numerous styles of romanisation of Korean, none of them perfect, but Revised Romanisation, the current best practice, is the one that has that particular flaw.
One of my favourite books I've literally only read on audiobook. I don't love ebooks, and this book is out of print with second-hand copies going for $200+ online, so audiobook is basically the only option. It's not the same experience as reading with your eyes, but it's still a great way to get the story.