David Skowronek

Husband for 1. Dad of 3. Family is everything. Hebrews 11:1

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@BBGreatMoments Grass cutting income at 14 yo could get you front row seats in 1979!

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Skow me a better special teams gunner... we'll wait.

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@sullyengels Play first base position better. Run through first better. Fundamentals lacking.

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@GraduatedBen You also had World War II veterans still active as they would be in their 50’s and 60’s. Patriotism was very much alive with them.

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Yep. This sums it up for me.

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

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@FrankBr05713205 Think about the $23B GM spent on share buybacks lately. Maybe spending money on QC would have been a wiser strategy. Vanguard, Blackrock, and State St could less about these engines. They care about one thing.

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@TopGrafx Then you become a grandparent and those days are back! This time you savor it knowing you got maybe 25 years left.

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@mcuban @Breedlove2019 @thoughtson_tech Then you have non-profit hospital systems out there competing with for-profit hospitals which is another whole issue of who is making the money while employees and employers foot the bill of the money train.

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@Super70sSports Sadly, those days are gone. Everyone there without a smartphone and completely in the moment or drunk as hell. Stadiums were always packed and you didn’t need a 2nd mortgage to attend a game.

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@Henry___22 @LoveTheOrange1 It already has. Hard to watch now. I loved watching real athletes get to the rim and the physicality of the game. All shooting and finesse now. Zzzz

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@darrenrovell They need to focus on the barefoot concept with wide toe boxes. Foot joint health are the trends right now.

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@DomMirandaTV Please keep high school basketball the way it is.

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Does @Uber offer scent/aroma/air-freshener- free rides? Is that a feature? It should be.

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@FBGreatMoments I remember a punter breaking his leg during one of these games.

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@BSmile @TheRealSangy35 Happy Birthday! Have a great day!

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@HawkEmDownChris Jose Hernandez.

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