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then half the people living today are younger than you are. World's median age is around 31. Imagine all those people who have seen less than you, learned less than you. By a slight margin they make up the bulk of humanity. Congrats on becoming an elder. Go teach them what you know.

My source: the literal CIA world factbook which I will not link here

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

Congrats on becoming an elder. Go teach them what you know.

But I don’t know anything blob-no-thoughts

[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

And others know even less than you. This is the way of the world and the context in which we must continually mold it!

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

”context” and “in which” in the same sentence

kamala-coconut-tree

stop-posting-amogus GET OUT OF MY HEAD! GET OUT OF MY HEAD! aaaa

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

We're closer to the end of humanity than we are to the invention of flight

Are these the things I should be teaching or too doomer for the zoomers? 🤔

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

I keep trying to teach them things but they keep telling me I have L rizz and negative aura and that I need to become a skibbity sigma rizzler.

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

How can you teach if you're not first willing to learn?

edgeworth-smug

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I watched all the videos about a head coming out of a toilet and I still don't get it.

This shit is more confusing than Hegel!

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Jokes aside, I feel that the hexbear mode of communication - confident belief and fearless defense of your principles, combined with slightly unhinged and uncompromising shitposting - is pretty close to what the kids find cool. It's always been that, really. Trying to baby speak to them is a lost cause. Preaching at them even more so.

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago
[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

This is also baby speak, coming from us olds

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Lol way to make some of us feel fuxking old

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

See, I'm one of those folks who just keep moving the goalposts of what young means to include them too.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

The median age in the United States is 38, which is the highest it's ever been. That makes some of us the most middle-aged people of all time.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

but the things they need to know are not the things i know

i guess i could start learning how to distill water from human beings and build deep-earth bunkers

[-] Philosophosphorous@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

yes, i will teach the young ones how to become a pathetic sexless loser, how to be dead broke unemployed and living with your parents as a 'middle aged' adult, and how to obsess over niche sci fi military topics to the point where they cannot have a normal conversation with literally any person.

[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Don’t say things to yourself that you wouldn’t say to a friend!

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago
[-] ExtimateCookie@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Wow thanks for the existential anxiety

[-] Blottergrass@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I will teach the children how to torrent

[-] june@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me, 31, letting the "more than" in the title restore my youthfulness 😌

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Does that mean I'm half way done?

[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Tomorrow is not promised!

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Preemptive apologies to the next generation.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago
[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If any kids want to learn how to smoke cigars, please message me.

But, seriously, damn, that's some pressure. I hope I can pass on something good.

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