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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (5 children)

My millennial (or maybe gen x) roommate spends a lot of time on tiltok, so she's always teaching me (a gen z) new 'gen z' slang.

It's fun, but on the other hand she has a pretty skewed perception of young people. She's always watching engagement-bait content online, and she seems to think most people my age are complete idiots.

I mean don't get me wrong, we are idiots, but we're not a different species or anything lol.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Do not let generational gaps fool you, most people are idiots

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Growing up is realizing your parents were idiots too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Highly disorienting to realize that the world is run by idiots.

And also invented the atom bomb.

In the glim flickering light, a moth invents a lightbulb which outshines the sun.

I try not to think too hard about it, for optimistic reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For spooky AF reasons, look up the Demon Core incident.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Don't drop the screwdriver.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are always pearls among the swine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

People who complain about younger people are the biggest idiots who forgot that other idiots said the same about them a long time ago. Same with those who complain about older people a little too much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yup. I went to school and college with some monumental idiots back in the day. I had my moments too, of course. Idiocy transcends generations.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

She sounds like an idiot fr fr.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

she seems to think most people my age are complete idiots.

Very boomer of her.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

No. Gen Z is the future. The rest of us are dinosaurs.

Love, someone who manages students at a university.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

but we're not a different species or anything lol

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