the silver lining of Covid is realizing that obedient rule followers are the most dangerous human beings on the planet, and that I will never ever give a single solitary fuck about what that type of person thinks of me
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.
Someone pumped serious money to flip the betting markets and now they are paying to advertise the latest odds
This is a high level, heavily funded Miriam Adelson and AIPAC op.
Clear as day.
Jay Leno has always been a class act and a caring guy
Here he tells a story of his friendship with Rodney Dangerfield and the last time he made him laugh
🚨This is the accountability this community has been demanding for five years, and today the Department of Justice delivered the first indictment.
David Morens, a senior advisor in NIAID's Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022, has been charged with conspiracy against the United States, destruction and falsification of federal records, and concealment of records.
According to the indictment, Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately routed communications through his personal Gmail account to evade FOIA requests, coordinated efforts to restore a terminated bat coronavirus grant connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and worked actively to counter the narrative that COVID-19 leaked from a lab.
The indictment also alleges Morens received wine delivered to his home as a kickback for his "behind-the-scenes shenanigans," and was promised meals at Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris, New York, and Washington DC. In exchange, he wrote a scientific commentary in a prominent medical journal advocating that COVID-19 had natural origins.
The unnamed Senior NIAID Official 1, who Morens briefed directly and who then relayed information to the President, Congress, and the public, has not been charged. That thread remains open.
The people who were told to stop asking questions, who were censored, silenced, and called conspiracy theorists for five years, were right.
This indictment is the proof, and it is only the beginning.
A cow, given grass and rain, produces:
Meat. Complete protein, top of the bioavailability table.
Milk. So nutritionally complete we feed it to our young.
Leather. Ten thousand years of footwear. Composts when you're done.
Tallow. Stable cooking fat, soap, candles. Currently being sold back to us as skincare at eight times the butcher's price.
Bones. Broth, tools, fertiliser.
Organs. The most nutrient-dense food on earth, ignored by the culture that buys three supplements to replace them.
Manure. Grows the grass. The cycle runs again.
Try to engineer that. A machine that takes rain and a patch of grass and produces six complete products while improving the soil and reproducing itself.
You can't. We haven't.
We're being told to eliminate them. While flying almonds in from California.