For parts of the world with data going back to boomers and earlier, there is a quantitative slide.

But it was a blind taste test by experts which showed that the best Californian wines could beat the best French ones, not marketing.

if your goal is to experience the culture

I think people also get touchy on what is “authentic”. Italian cuisine in Italy changed in a similar manner to Italian-American cuisine in the USA. So, you can have “authentic” Italian-American cuisine that comes from Italian roots, but Italians from Italy don’t want that cuisine to be seen as authentic.

Until the current generation, happiness was generally a u-shaped curve, with happiness going down around their early 20’s and coming back up around the 60’s.

Gen Alpha doesn’t seem to have a happy childhood.

Pretty slow.

The problem is that your tools are going to have to be compatible with other people’s tools.

For me, it depends if I’m getting a refund or not. If I’m getting a refund, usually by mid February after all my paperwork gets in. If I owe money, I’m waiting until April.

Since you like At the Drive-in, have you listened to the Mars Volta?

Also, Nine Inch Nails is still on tour.

They have their greatest hits, it is best to stick to those.

About a year ago to go see “An Enemy of the People”. Great acting.

Get in the fucking robot versus don’t get in the car.

The Menzingers still play well in concert. “America, You’re Freaking Me Out” hits a lot harder now.

Looking back on my childhood, I see that my Mom had anxiety issues and there were a lot of cases where she was white knuckling to get things done while having a panic attack. She had developed some maladaptive behaviors to deal with this, in part because mental health wasn’t a thing back when she grew up.

It sounds like your mom had her own maladaptive traits.

No, my beard hair is strong enough to resist that kind of abrasion.

China takes a lot of action to control its currency well above typical markets. This includes significant regulations on capital transfers outside of China.

It isn’t sustainable at scale and the devs have stated that they don’t see it as an issue since they don’t want a single instance getting too big.

Eh, I like you.

Baby Boomers are the reason why high school became so culturally relevant.

You had a large cohort of students coming of age together at a time when the country was wealthy enough where you had a class of people who had gone through puberty but wasn’t being given the full roles and responsibilities of being adults. This new separate age group between kids and adults was relatively novel.

You also started seeing a major change in cultural forces like music and cinema which catered to this set of consumers. This catering became very important as companies realized this was when adults formed a lot of their tastes and preferences. Cultural output started focusing on this age group as tastemakers.

Israel had a larger hand in Benghazi than is being let on and Israeli intelligence provided Republicans with a lot of intel regarding the attack as Obama was starting to rift with Israel on how to handle the Middle East.

Nah, sailors wanted to fuck seals.