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[–] 103 points 6 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    You are me. I am you. Old enough to be burdened with the memory of a world before the internet, doomed to watch the death of freedom because of it.

    Old, like me tag

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    [–] 73 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    '75 here. All you youngsters can get the hell off my lawn.

    Actually, what I've noticed is that I don't so much feel older as I do the "kids" keep getting younger. Was I like that at their age? Yep, probably, but I felt mature and adult then. To some degree. That thing about how you never really feel like an adult? I still get that a little bit. But after three decades of being an adult, it has also set in a bit.

    Mostly, I'm opinionated, and I remember things from the past 40 years because I was alive for them, so they aren't history to me, they are a part of the life I experienced.

    So as you guys get older, I think you'll find that - like whatever happens after Trump, unless it does continue to get worse (which is quite possible), there will come a time when a younger generation won't know what it felt like to live under this fascism, and you, having lived through it, will have your mind blown because it's history to them.

    Which I guess has helped me when I think about figures from history and the past in general. While I can't imagine living before the era of cars, I do know that whatever time frame you look at - to the people living at that time, it was all contemporary and modern. And so when you see people that had relationships with other people and arguments and such, you really do realize that we're all human.

    Also, the older I get, the more I realize just how precious life is. And when you're young, you really are going to live forever. But every single day that passes is gone forever. Every month takes you further forward. Each year goes by and never comes back. When your 20s are gone, they won't ever return. Don't let that upset you, just make sure you aren't coasting along and wasting time, waiting for what comes next, because if you spend you life waiting for what comes next, you die without anything ever coming next. Don't "make every moment count" - do take time to relax. Just make sure that you are not ONLY relaxing, and don't put everything off to the future. Do what you can to enjoy the life you have as best as you can while also trying to keep improving things.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I remember watching a CRT television belted to a five-foot tall roller stand, and we had suspended all classes that day, even though we were at school. We had just sat there, crying and watching the news, as both towers were smoking, then one had collapsed and myself and other kids had screamed, wailed, and one vomited there on the carpet. Occasionally someone would get pulled away to take a phone call, and they didn’t come back the same. They changed. We all changed.

    I still remember Kevin Cosgrove’s last phone call.

    Newberg, Oregon, September 11th ‘01.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    For me, it was my first day at Texas Instruments. I had to show up to a mandatory Outlook training session (which was hilarious as I was being hired for a helpdesk position. I'd used Outlook since the first version in 1997 and supported it…). A guy came in and turned on the televisions.

    I called my wife, who was working in the flight path of DFW airport. We also tried to get hold of my stepmother, who was working in the tallest building in downtown Dallas at the time.

    It was much chaos, as I'm sure you remember, as nobody really knew what was going on or what further attacks might happen.

    So for me, I was a young adult, married for about a year and a half when it happened - I got to live half a decade as an adult in the pre-9/11 world.

    It's hard for me to remember that for newer generations, all this bullshit that really started taking off hardcore after 9/11 is normalized. I saw our rights being taken away, the constant fear increase, the hatred for Muslims that blossomed into racism coming back out of its dirty closet, the rise of fascism.

    It wasn't always that way. :(

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    [–] 35 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    These people gonna have their minds blown when they’re 50 and they’re still alive.

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    [–] 30 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'll take getting older over the alternative every time.

    I'm not happy I'm sixty. But, I am happy I'm not dead.

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    [–] 29 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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    [–] 27 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Okay. I was born in the early 70's. Lemme just brush the dust off, and I'll join you.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It's weird to think about it. I was born in '87 and grew up hearing ahout the distant '60s and '70s as though they were this mythical, out-of-reach time in which my relatives reminisced. They even came with those old, shitty polaroids that really sold the vibe. Now it's 2026 and people talk like the late '80s were a lifetime ago. Then I realize that from young peoples' perspective now, that time period is even further away than the '60s were back when I listened to my parents talk about them.

    I think the late, great Bozo the Clown said it best when he said, "WWHHHAAWT DA FFFFFFUUUUUCK..."

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    [–] 24 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Limnals and early millennials spent enough of their lives able to perceive Good Shit and still have some modicum of hope.

    '90-'99? Those folks grew up in a fuckin' 911 world. All they know is shit and all they pray for is an early grave

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    USian ‘90s born:

    • 9/11 before kindergarten, watched it on live TV.

    • Increasing school shootings year over year

    • Incessant racism by paranoid family members and media writ large (which made even little me feel icky)

    • 2008 Great Recession. Constant fear of where my next meal was coming from all through middle school.

    • More school shootings

    • Was supposed to idolize a man who dumped drone bombs on foreign kids because at least he wasn’t Bush. Still wondered why we had troops in the Middle East if things were supposed to be better?

    • At least equal marriage was federally legalized in 2015. Yay

    • Missed the deadline to vote in 2016 due to moving issues, had to watch hell happen in real time.

    • Lived in a major city, therefore in constant fear of nuclear holocaust due to a deranged rapist not keeping his mouth shut. After growing up in fear of anthrax in the mail and getting gunned down at school :)))

    • Told that college was the only way I’d make anything of myself. Graduated into COVID.

    • Watched reproductive rights get ripped away from millions after my family scoffed that they wouldn’t. My own grandmother had bodily rights longer than I did.

    • Been pinching my nose and voting consistently since 2018, but still see fascism come roaring back full swing and transphobia+racism+now pedophilia get openly celebrated by a majority of rubes.

    Plus a ton of my own health issues that only worsened after getting COVID (and that’s with the vaccine, I fear for what would have happened without it)? Yeah, I’m waiting to get off the ride but refuse to do it myself out of spite.

    I want to see the obituaries of at least a few of these bastards, first.

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    [–] 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I'm from '78. I might count as archeological evidence now.

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    [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    holy shit, I am born in the mid 80s. I must be decrepit.

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    [–] 17 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Bruh, someone from '99 is only 26

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    [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Can confirm, I feel old and tired all the time. Not gonna fuck around (in a bad way) with my partner. Unfortunately, I'm also not gonna fuck around much in a good way, because I feel old and tired all the time.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Dude, get your B12 levels checked. Was feeling old and tired, so I went to drs for something else, he ran bloods just to make sure. Came back ok except B12 deficient. Now I get a B12 jab every 12 weeks and top up with high dose B12 pills every day after 4 weeks. Tiredness gone, cold feet at night gone, visual migraines gone grumpy old git moods gone. Oh and fucking around in a good way is way more on the cards!

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Early '85 here... I'm scared of getting out of the chair after reading this one, might get a hernia.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Sigh, they always forget the gen X.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Huh, I guess I'm old, but the joke's on you -- but I won't make you happy. 😎

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    [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    1965 clocking in. I want slippers and some soup.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What I do if I am that old person who is tired and still not happy

    Send help

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    The elderly urge to comment on this thread

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    That's right ladies, I'm exhausted

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Wtffffff I just woke up. I don't need this right now.

    I was 2 when the Berlin wall fell.

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    [–] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I guess that means I'm ancient. In the context of Stargate I'll take it, just call me Janus.

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    Look man, I wanna chill with some hard ciders and a little whiskey. You have problems, I'll help you analyze them and find a solution. I want you to have a better childhood and adulthood than I did.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Old person from 1990... Lol.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Joke's on you. You're gonna have to live through the worst of what's coming.

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