Much is said about lead and crime rates, I’m wondering about the more mundane things.
Gen X here. There has been huge shift in office culture, and the generational shift from boomers out of it has led to a completely different experience, with the biggest shift being in the decrease in overt misogyny and outbursts of anger. Most of my worst bosses were from this generation, including one individual that would literally start screaming and hitting the wall when something went wrong.
Their generation is marked by a lack of impulse control and a deep inner rage that can often be triggered by trivial inconveniences. They also seem to have a vindictiveness to them that I never really understood, holding grudges far past their expiration date. This is in significant contrast to their parents’ generation, which, for all its problems, always seemed to treat us Gen X folks kindly.
I’m absolutely convinced that a lot of the batshit we’re seeing right now from them is the lifetime exposure to lead showing up in their old age.
We have a generation raised by traumatised world war II vets - in some cases those vets themselves were raised by traumatised world war I vets - and then marinated in lead for most of their lives. There’s gonna be…symptoms.
And now we’ll figure out what plastic does to the equation.
Their generation is marked by a lack of impulse control and a deep inner rage that can often be triggered by trivial inconveniences. They also seem to have a vindictiveness to them that I never really understood, holding grudges far past their expiration date.
oh shit i might be a boomer
No, I noticed the anger grew as computers were introduced.
That corresponds with the period people quit smoking so the anecdata may be affected (by people on short fuse because of nicotine withdrawals). An increase of women in the workforce may also be a potential factor (either way).
I’m still convinced most boomers are still contaminated. They still own a lot of stuff filled with lead or were too stubborn to give it up. I’m purposefully breaking my parent’s corningwear when I visit because they are too fucking stubborn to stop using it.
You can almost tell the difference between someone with high lifetime lead exposure and someone without. It’s sad and frustrating.
They are. You don’t flush lead out of your system, it’s there for life.
I’m extremely skeptical corningware contains lead which can come off… it’s sealed, ultra hard ceramic. that’s not how people have historically gotten lead contamination. there’s probably more lead in the soil in their front yard than in every piece of corningware in the house…
please don’t destroy these, just donate them to a thrift shop so sensible folks can use them as intended. many of those vintage ceramics are collectibles, more importantly they are infinity reusable.
What makes you think lead poisoning has wound down as GenX ages into taking over from the Boomers?
Watch the TV series “Mad Men”, it was like this for real…
The city just replaced my lead water lines.
We’ve been drinking straight out of the tap for about 5 years.
No change in my temperament, anger, mood I guess.
Remember that mineral deposits may line the inside of those pipes and doesnt necessitate that lead has been leeching into the water
What?
No like there was a lead pipe from the early 1900s from the street up through the woods to my house.
The city and utility company replaced it with a copper one at no cost. It’s a big initiative in our city right now to replace all the old lead water lines by 2027
https://www.pgh2o.com/projects-maintenance/lead-line-replacement-programs
The person you’re replying to means that the pipe had 125 years of mineral deposits coating the inner diameter and separating the water from the lead
It’s still good that they replaced it but I’d be shocked if drinking that water impacted you in any perceptible way
Other than perceptible hydration
