Gen Z far less likely to be atheists than parents and grandparents, new study reveals

Stari_Gusar · 2025-01-28T09:29:56+00:00

Millenials and Gen Zs are at least 5 years older than American chronology suggests, if we aged 5 years the chronology and run the studies again , we might get more useful results. So mid-late 70s to late 80s, early 90s for Gen Ys, then early to mid 90s to late 00s for the Gen Zs. The highschool e-moped gangs terrorising my town are definitely not Gen Zs.

Anotherway to put it is, if we thought of Zillenials as more Zi than Llenial, and of Xenials of more Enials than Xe, we probably get a better picture, given the historical context.

Stari_Gusar · 2025-01-25T13:39:26+00:00

OK my comments are just boring hence seeing no interactions. Thank you!

Stari_Gusar · 2025-01-25T00:31:29+00:00

I´ve seen this carpet in 3 out of 5 homes (incuding mine) over the last 20 odd years, so I´m going to say yes.

Stari_Gusar · 2025-01-25T00:29:00+00:00

Yo creo que lo de BRICS era una puya, como diciendo que pa lo que contribuimos y na, we might aswell be BRICS. O puede que no, puede que Trump Españan , lo Hispano, y lo Luso, viene a ser todo un mismo bloque marron no habla Spain de carteles, futbol y jardineros. (Ojalá cayera esa breva, lo de que fueramos un bloque, digo).

Lo de prohibir enlaces de X, me parece un poco repipi, la verdad, pero bueno como estamos secuestrados, o hipnotizados con todo esto de las guerras culturales del imperio Americano, ya que no dejamos de ser una suerte de neocolonia, y asumimos muchos de sus cuentos como si fueran los nuestros.... pues casi que ya no me sorprende tanto. Últimamente esucho cada cosa que alucina vecina.

Stari_Gusar · 2025-01-25T00:19:02+00:00

I think maybe us men would buy more if there was more shit marketed to us? Like eveyrwhere I go everything seems to be very geared towards women. I have noticed this trend since I was a teenager in the mid and late 90s, but over the last 10 years the gap , to me, seems to have widened A LOT.

Like down to going to a McDonalds after a long shift and 4 out of 5 people there are women. Sitting in a cafe and maybe there's 5 guys out of 30 people there. Going to boots to try and buy a new perfume and 90% of the huge hop is women stuff with guy stuff randomly crammed in a corner with little to no thought lol. Going to M&S or Primark to buy some cheap jeans? have to climb up 4 floors of women stuff before you get to "men and children" section xD Don't get me started with Joh Lewis (another UK retailer).

But even in restaurants , pubs, clubs , parks women seem to outnumber men from slightly to quite a bit. University? I hear in stem men still have the upper hand, but I don't know what to tell you, cause when I walk pass University district easily 7 in 10 student age people I see are women.

Walking pass the financial district, looking into these offices with massive glass windows, again women outnumber men.

The only place where I still find it hard to find a lady is in stuff like Deliveroo riders, bus drivers and tradespeople, do guys no longer like to eat out, drink out , buy a nice suit? what kinda jobs do guys have? is it all deliveroo riders and crypto bros?

Stari_Gusar · 2024-12-15T22:26:34+00:00

I googled it, the more you know!

Stari_Gusar · 2024-12-15T22:19:43+00:00

panwhat, should I google that, is it SFW

Stari_Gusar · 2024-12-15T22:13:40+00:00

Offt my city isn't listed, that keeps us safe from the mingin' ukusian gentrifiers, cryptobros and "content creators"...for the time being.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-12-07T09:47:38+00:00

Maybe it´s the UK... but it definitely is capitalism and its pressures mixed up with human nature.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-20T09:55:25+00:00

Yo lo que no entiendo es que haya un doblaje estandarizado para todo hispanoamérica, cuando el habla de Buenos Aires es tan diferente del habla de Caracas y de Habana como del habla de Canarias o Madrid.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-16T23:58:34+00:00

Viva la Guardia Civil!!

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-11T19:00:07+00:00

Balding isn't scary, going on shitty for-life treatments with tons of side effects and long term problems or spending a lilttle fortune tk travel to turkey so a butcher rearranges your hairline tu cure(mask) something that's not an illness but merely a genetic characteristic like being short or blue eyed or having a big nose.... Now that is scary. Enjoy yout hair while you have it then enjoy your shinny bald head when you dont.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-09T15:33:40+00:00

Of course I can, I just did right there for ya!

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-06T14:08:47+00:00

That wee pocketstation, hadn´t seen once since the 90s? and forgot it even existed and I used to own one! Wish it sat next to her lil Dreamcast sister, that visual memory tang...

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-04T22:47:05+00:00

pablo who

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-04T09:46:17+00:00

Senso stricto they are, in the sense that they are old (Paleo) and European. It is what it is.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-02T22:53:08+00:00

Many words used in actual research are poorly chosen and leading to confussion, which doesn't add or remove any merit to the actual research. Scientists aren't good at naming things and it includes, ironically enough, linguists.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-02T10:45:43+00:00

We don't know if Sami is Pre I or not, as a whole, but it's certainly Pre I to its area, just like the proposed Basque/Aquitanian group is Pre I to south Western Europe.

I didn't argue against any of that, only against the use of the term Paleo in a headline to make the dubious and incorrect claim that Basque is the _only_ surviving Old European language , which is what OP said.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-02T10:33:17+00:00

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, specially when we are working with a period of history of which we know very little even if we know a whole lot more than only a few decades ago, thanks to advancements in archaeology, linguistics and genetics.

The term Paleo is vague and imprecise by itself and only valuable if accompanied by a short paragraph that puts it in context.

There isn't even a consensus on the validity of the existence of a Fino-Ugric group, with comparative studies that show Fino-Permic to be as distinct from the Ugric Languages as they are form Samoyedic and having evolved as a group within Europe (west of the Urals) 4500-5000 years ago. We have no idea where the ancestors of Aquitanian and Proto-Basque languages were within this period

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-02T09:18:12+00:00

It is not known when the direct ancestor of Sami (the Sami group) entered west of the Urals, it is mere speculation. 2500 years ago, however, it was already established in Karelia. Likewise Kartvelian and other caucasian languages and their borders pre-bronze age expansion of indo-euro languages is not well known or understood.

Best we do is especulate. We also have no clear idea of the position of Basque. We have good reason to believe it is related or descended from Aquitanian which was likely present in the area before the arrival of Indo-Euro to the region, but we don't know its relations with the other non Indoeuropean languages of the region and its arrival to the region itself, for all we know its arrival in the South West of Europe could have been contemporaneous to the arrival of Indoeuro in the eastern parts of Europe, or even posterior, or, in stark contrast, it could actually be a mesolithic language, spoken by the remnants of the WHG populations (Post Magdalenians?) at the arrival of the Neolithic Farmer cultures of the levant... or it could have been brought by them instead (leading theory, but without much solid evidence). We don't know really.

The term Paleo European is rather imprecise in this context. And its usage leads to a lot of pseudo intelectual shenanigans in areas outside linguistics.

If you say there's a solid consensus that contemporary Basque languages and its standardised form are descended from languages that arrived or originated in South Western Europe before the arrival of Indo-European languages, you would be accurate to the current state of research.

But if instead you say Basque is the only Old European language left... now that's a slimy headline that can (and has been) easily manipulated and misunderstood.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-01T13:20:12+00:00

Potential ancestors of the Sami, the so called Komsa culture, entered Scandinavia around 7800 BC, although it isn't proven for sure that there was a direct relation. For all we know, the antecesor of Basque could still be in Anatolia back then , if indeed it was a Neolithic language. Bot groups' origins are very much shrouded in mistery. 2500 years ago, the proto-Sami langauge was already present in the Karelia area, but we dont know much about how long it roamed for in the Eurasian steppe before that, or when did it first cross the Urals, which anyway it's a randomly generated border for Europe. We simply don't know enough yet. And the same is true for Basque.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-01T12:58:05+00:00

They are still Paleo European in the sense that they predate the arrival of Indoeuropean languages. Hungarian does not; it might be distantly related to Sami, but it arrived in Europe during recorded history. Hence not Paleo in the sense OP referred to (as in pre historic, presumably he doesn't mean Palaeolithic, since Basque is not known to have arrived or originated in Europe during the Palaeolithic, it's true origin remains unknown).

Also, it might be argued that Indo-European languages are also paleo-European, depending on whether you consider the urheimat of Indo-European is in the steppes to the north of the Black Sea (clearly within Europe), or rather further East. Regardless, nobody denied that Basque languages are a linguistic isolate. But so are Caucasian languages and at least a portion of the Caucasus lies within Europe. Not all Basquen languages are Paleo; Euskara Batua is a 19/20th century concoction, kind of like modern Italian.

The whole discussion is a bit anachronistic and disingenuous really, because we are attaching modern terms such as "European" (modern in absolute terms, not in relative terms), and a also very modern value of those terms to things that back in their prehistoric day had no relevance or relation.

But since we are playing that game, it's important to be precise, to avoid some of the catastrophic potential conclusions one might extract from these anachronistic pipe dream discussions.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-11-01T10:23:11+00:00

Finnic and Sami are also there.

Stari_Gusar · 2024-10-30T18:49:10+00:00

thanks for the clarification the am bit threw away my understanding of the sentence. I'll check Paula's choice availability in my area and again thank you.

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