Michael Goldtrap

@DigitizedUser Here you go.

@MichaelGoldtrap I’m stealing this image

you can’t play this digitally

@DigitizedUser No prob, I did!😜

@xunathoclips I mean, this event could turn into an “Unfathomable Horror Mistake” down the road.🤷🏻

@travelingflying Multiple times during the initial run!

Did someone here see Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in theaters when it came out in 1977?

@Supersonic_Red So, basically Gen X?

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.

@uscfan981 You really ought to give Iowa a try.

Say something nice about Iowa.

@DigitizedUser TRON

Genuinely curious, what is your personal favorite TRON installment? (only counting shows and films)

@MLB @Pirates I love the font.

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@ronsterd89 Window unit.

Growing up did your family have air conditioning?

@TheCinesthetic 70’s Battlestar Galactica

What TV Show has the best Pilot episode?

During a flood in Columbia, this woman continued chatting with her friend on FaceTime instead of helping the people being swept away by the floodwater in front of her house

@MarkMaddenX With all due respect @MarkMaddenX but change “legibility” to “intelligibly” or “comprehensively.” Good day!

You should be proud. It's become a great sports station. But you're a very peripheral part. Kind of like the Dodgers' batboy, except he almost certainly speaks more legibly.

@unclelawr Nothing in the scene narration matches the plot of the movie.

The plot twist in this scene is insane 🎬

@BeAfraid_Movies Something Wicked this Way Comes.

Post a good gateway horror movie for a kid

@TheNetDaily Broadcast news people: “Always behind a tree!”smh!

That cop was sprinting with 30 lbs of gear like he’d been waiting his whole life for it 😭

@meatsweatmcgee This

what do you think goes on here

@AmazingPopPod Blame the music video industry for focusing on Ric. I’m glad that, by Drive, Benjamin let go of those phony “Ocaseky” affectations and used his natural singing voice. The Lace was great solo album.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that Ric Ocasek sang all the Cars songs.

@Games__ovr Is this a group home?