The oldest millennials will turn 40 next year. The youngest ones are mid-20s. Anyone after that is Gen Z. I don’t expect that name to stick though. Remember when millennials were referred to as Gen Y?
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In the instance of the statement, “OK, Boomer”, it is meant to delineate a type of person, not their specific age. Someone who is set in their ways and perhaps stodgy. It isn’t meant to define a specific age category. It’s more general than that.
I am so tired of having a cold.
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Senior NCOs in the Army are like “blah blah kids these days millennial” and I’m like “I had a millennial as my company commander many moons ago and she’s a full bird colonel now.”
Warrant officers trend older anyway (because they were experienced NCOs before they switched tracks) but at 41 I am older than dirt, as far as my classmates are concerned. Armying really is a young person’s game.
In the infantry 41 is Smaj and Top territory. Maybe your supply sergeant or some shit. The Colonel is that old maybe, but he’s a light bird on his way up through another combat command.
I remember looking at my platoon sergeant at 30+ and watching how much they freaked and groaned as they ran us into the dirt and thinking in had to leave the infantry… so of course instated infantry in the Guard too. My knees thank me, my back, and the occasional sound of a distant lawnmower that won’t stop in my ears thanks me.
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It drives me nuts when people who are in positions of authority spread misinformation. Another forum that I’m on (for quail) had a person with a sick quail. Their vet prescribed nux vomica, which is a holistic remedy. This person is convinced that holistic medicine is valid because her vet recommended it.
Several of us on the forums warned her against holistic medicine and recommended that she get a new vet.
This was her response -
I sense that you are trying to be helpful, and I really see where you are coming from. I would like you to know that I didn’t buy the product off of that website, I just linked there to show what it was. I have administered the product to my animals on the advice of a licensed and seasoned veterinarian who has a DVM from Cornell and relies on peer-reviewed research to employ complementary methods of treatment. I also personally saw the difference the nux vomica made in our cat, who was not responding to the prescription anti-vomit medication we tried first. This intervention got her eating and saved her life. I should likewise hope that the product only contain tiny amounts of the active ingredients, as strychnine and brucine are lethal in any other quantity.
Her quail died. I replied that I was sorry for her loss and gave her this link.
Gaaaaahhhh!!!
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Idiot on quail forum took my link as an attack. Oh, well. I tried. 
You can’t fix stupid. As you said, you tried.
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Ai ja. Some people.
At least she didn’t put coconut oil on it and cover it in a blanket. That’s the going cure on crazy rescue boards… 
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Ummm… ooookaay?
Well some other people on the board are apparently also homeopathic believers because one person called me “bigoted” 
I stepped out of that thread with that link. I’m not going to poke the crazy any more.
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I have followers on the quail forums. Seven of them. That just seems weird to me.
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Ja, best to keep away from crazy.
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I dunno… if you see someone being successful, following their lead and learning from them doesn’t seem so dumb.
That’s how I learned OJT in the Army, and how I always recommended FNGs learn.
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I just don’t think of myself as all that much of a pro. I’ve only been raising quail for six months.
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The odds that a private venture will have to do an emergency launch to save government backed Boeing missions are getting higher and higher.
And when/if that happens things will hopefully change.
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It seems that Boeing is digging a hole that goes deeper quicker the more they dig… They should just stop, do a full redesign and new plane and take it from there.
They can’t, they are so stratified at the upper levels they’ve lost the ability to reinvent themselves. Between over reliance on government contracts and the employee unions they are stuck where they are.
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Another Starliner setback?
I think it was actually last week or something, but they just can’t seem to get out of their own way. While the private ventures are going gangbusters.
Now, once someone dies it’s all up for grabs.