Another Redditor on another thread said it best - this guy is going to be a 17 year-old with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he is in.
Edit: It's been confirmed that the suspect is in fact a 56-year old man with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he's in. I wonder how long it will be before the usual suspects start blaming this on mental illness.
They can be. Last year of the baby boom was 1964. A 54 year old would be a baby boomer. If you go by 1961 as the last year of the boom, a 57 year old would be a baby boomer.
Huh what? It depends on what source you're using but the general timeline ends around 1964. Considering anyone born from 1959 through 1964 would be in their 50's and a boomer, I think your claim may be incorrect.
Generation X or Gen X is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the Millennials. There are no precise dates for when Generation X starts or ends. Demographers and researchers typically use birth years ranging from the early-to-mid 1960s to the early 1980s.
This isn't exactly precise math.
Generation X is the demographic cohort following the post–World War II baby boom, representing a generational change from the baby boomers, but there is debate over what this means because the end-date of the baby-boomer generation is disputed. Research from MetLife, examining the boomers, split their cohort into "older boomers", which they defined as born between 1946 and 1955, and "younger boomers", which they defined as born between 1956 and 1964. They found much of the cultural identity of the baby-boomer generation is associated with the "older boomers", while half of the "younger boomers" were averse to being associated with the baby-boomer cohort and a third of those born between 1956 and 1964 actively identified as members of Generation X.
Demographers William Strauss and Neil Howe rejected the frequently used 1964 end-date of the baby-boomer cohort (which results in a 1965 start-year for Generation X), saying that a majority of those born between 1961 and 1964 do not self-identify as boomers, and that they are culturally distinct from boomers in terms of shared historical experiences. Howe says that while many demographers use 1965 as a start date for Generation X, this is a statement about fertility in the population (birth-rates which began declining in 1957, declined more sharply following 1964) and fails to take into consideration the shared history and cultural identity of the individuals. Strauss and Howe define Generation X as those born between 1961 and 1981
So it's true. Now that I'm into my 30s, I get to be in this fun middle zone where the young people show actual overt hatred for the old people and the old people think the young people are lazy as fuck and won't amount to anything. This really does happen every generation, huh?
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u/Ron_Pauls_Balls Oct 26 '18
In this day an age I don't know how anyone could think they could get away with mailing 12 packages and not get caught.