• Lucky13@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I used to work at a hikers’ hostel on the Appalachian Trail. A group of hikers needed a ride into town but were short on cash. One of them suggested they offer the hostel owner some weed in exchange for a ride. Another one said, “He doesn’t smoke weed. He’s old, like in his 40s.” He actually was in his 50s and bought his weed from me lol

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I often need to remind myself that Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings are not recent movies.

    It’s the same as being a kid in the 80s, which I was, and thinking The Seven Year Itch was a recent movie. Now, I had seen that movie on TV, because my parents liked it, and I thought it was funny, but never did I think of it as “recent”.

    Still, you can’t tell me that Harry Potter movies didn’t happen in the last ten years.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I’m a school bus driver and my elementary school kids go on about somebody named “Queso” (sp?) on Youtube and I find myself constantly fighting the urge to see what he’s all about. It can’t possibly be good.

  • 257m@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    As somebody who was born in 2007, I have no clue who modern celebrities are either. People consider me out of touch but I have no idea what half of what people around me are saying. The acronyms don’t help and I am too scared to search them up.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      I watch NBA basketball and back in the day (1990s) there was exactly one player that was referred to by his initials: Michael Jordan. Nowadays fans use initials (with their jersey number occasionally tacked on as if that’s the cleverest thing to do in the world) for almost every player and it’s almost impossible to know who they’re talking about. For some players this is legitimate (e.g. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is a mouthful so SGA is a good replacement) but for most it is not.

      • Lucky13@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        In baseball now, they like to make nicknames by taking the first initial and the first syllable of the last name. Like J-Hey. It’s annoying and unoriginal. Baseball used to have the best nicknames too.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          15 hours ago

          they like to make nicknames by taking the first initial and the first syllable of the last name

          Oh god, this is worse than the initials+jersey number thing.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    In the distant future, when we look back on scattered social media caps, we will regret that the date of posting is not shown. Like scattered pages from books unknown, page numbers elided.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      The fun thing is that none of this stuff is going to survive long-term at all. Databases are backed up onto forms of media that have a very short lifespan. Only material that is endlessly copied forward (like DNA) will still be around, and nobody is going to pay for that kind of archiving, at least not for the generally trivial bullshit that comprises social media. FWIW this fact make me happy.

      • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        16 hours ago

        What forms of media are you taking about that have short life spans?

        I think that as storage density goes up and price goes down, what used to be cumbersome and expensive amounts of data become easily manageable. So the only reasons we loose data will be business or political. Which will also decrease as there’s now money in buying failing platforms.

        But yeah, I’m also happy none of the social media I created when I was young still exists, and the platforms are buried by the sands of time. Having everything you do on the internet stay around forever feels like a nightmare.

  • DaChrissy@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I feel that. I have no clue about new celebrities. Or old ones. I just don’t care enough about them to keep with their lives. Only a few I have an actual interest in/like

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        1 day ago

        Fuck im 25 and feel 40, this is why I will not shy away from my day of destined death. I can feel that it’ll be before I’m 40 and I frankly want nothing to do with being 40.

        • oatscoop@midwest.social
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          1 day ago

          One day you’ll wake up and realize people born on the year you graduated school can legally vote, drink, etc. A short time later those kids have kids of their own … and you are ( or are old enough to be ) a grandparent.

          The worst part is you’ll still mentally feel like you’re not much older than your late 20s or 30s.

        • turnip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Luckily by the time you get there I’m sure you will feel it will be yourself soon, and will be more a feeling of existential dread than a fear of loss.

          But what makes it sad, death is the harm of deprivation, presupposing lack, loss, or absence of some future goods. At the same time, people deprived of things valuable for them try to acquire them joining some movements or struggling for some privileges.

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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            1 day ago

            Perhaps I should’ve spelled out why I am so willing to embrace death. I do not care about myself and of the general opinion that I could do more for mankind by throwing myself into violence. I wish to make someone I hate or who opposes my end goals bleed out right alongside me, I ain’t picky. The problem is that even if I end up like my 3X great grandfather and practically don’t age till I’m 70 I would still face some amount of slowdown in my physical or mental faculties, slowdown that may make me less effective.

            The only way I could be convinced otherwise would be if I could purge my biological fathers blood from my veins. Or if I do my damnedest to get myself killed and somehow survive. Not like I’m rushing into it, I swore an oath to my friends that I wouldn’t do anything unless I get a Stamford bridge.

        • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Na, being 40 is fine. I’m 45, eat well and get a little exercise. I am healthier than I was in my 20’s, I have more stamina and I think more clearly.

  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Personally, I loved the idea of new media. Cable was shit.

    After experiencing new media… there’s some good stuff in there, guys. I promise. Just gotta wade through mountains of shit.

    There should be some rule like; if you have a preference it can’t exist all by itself unless it’s watered down or mixed in with every other preference.

    Thank all that is good for genres. At least there is some media that can define itself clearly enough and still build enough of a following to self fund.

    • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      If its good enough, the news of it will get to me eventually and I will see for myself.

      This is how I live now.

      This is what it means to be old.

      I’m 34.

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m 29 so maybe I’m too young for this statement but if you ask me it’s because younger celebrities tend to be the result of nepotism and don’t have any actual talents.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    My friend with young cousins was telling me that kids are using “sigma” instead of “cool” now?

    “That’s so sigma, bruh.”

    The fuck?