The generational divide is so overrated – here’s how I crossed it and forged new friendships.
The tide must be turning now a bit.
Merely a few short years ago, “good” liberals claimed with straight faces that any friendship that had a more than 1-2 year age gap was abusive, unethical and should be illegal, much less any romantic relationship.
That people are now approaching some form of sanity is better.
That’s because journalists and other commentators absolutely do not understand how high capital expenditure businesses are structured, why they are structured that way, how corporate financing works, what bonds are and how they work, or why large capital-intensive businesses are 100% expected to have extremely high initial outlays.
It’s all a completely mystery to them, and therefore “wrong.”
Where’s the lie?
Before it started getting cooler, there was a black widow in our yard that was getting almost large enough to be rideable. I was looking for a saddle.
How does one get “turned on” by the violet blueberry girl?
What a terrible day to be literate. I now regret teaching myself to read when I was but a wee lad. It was a tragic and regrettable mistake.
My own benchmark for AGI is when AI can give a plausible explanation of what Beck songs are about
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion) October 28, 2025
Beck can’t even give a plausible explanation of what Beck songs are about.
The Oval Office looked like that one friend's basement in 2001. pic.twitter.com/3y3pxwOZ7z
— Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) October 24, 2025
Indeed, both Trump and Obama have terrible taste. The Obama Presidential Library looks like it was designed by a Russian prison architect.
Early Windows versions (2001, 2006 and 2010).
LOL @ “early.” I first used Windows in 1986.
One of the strangest parts of getting older is all the things that people fervently insisit “could never happen” or “did not happen” that used to occur frequently and were just a normal part of life.
I think Gen Z is worse about this even than past generations because we’ve screwed them up so badly, enervated their very souls with social media and smartphone poisoning. They cannot help it because their brains have been blighted. But it’s still annoying.
I know the pain. Often, I succumb. I try to be better. But I’m not.
New Microsoft Toilet with Copilot!
Also, why is Bill Gates there? He hasn’t been CEO since 2000. The latest evils are all on Satya & co.
Were kids in 80s actually allowed to roam around unsupervised, or is that just in movies?
It’s terribly sad that Gen Z folks post this same question on Reddit every few days. The world that was seems to them some impossible phantasmagoric dream.
But yes, almost all kids roamed wherever they liked in the 1980s after the age of 9-10. Not just those with “bad” parents. In fact, the “bad” parents back then were ones who didn’t let their kids outside much. Then that would’ve been considered at least near-abuse.
Deny it as many people do, but the fact is the world has changed immensely since that time. It feels very foreign now even to me and I lived it.
It’s pronounced (not gonna use IPA here) itch-(tiny glottal stop)-tuk-nee.
I’ve heard tourists say:
Itchy-took-nee
Icky-took-a-nee
Icky-tuck-a-nee
Itchy-a-tuck-a-nee
Icky-toke-annie
Ict-toke-nay
Itchy-toch-nay
Icky-tock-nay
And many more I’m sure. When I lived near the confluence of the Santa Fe and Ichetucknee Rivers, every weekend we’d get 1-3 tourists asking where the river was. They never pronounced it right. Not a single time.
Also, nearly none of the YouTube videos or pronunciation guides on the internet render an accurate Ichetucknee pronunciation (as North Florida natives do). All of them totally butcher it. Whoa, I found one woman who gets it about 95% right! She says it as close to a native as anyone I’ve ever heard.
The rest are so bad. But if you ever get a chance, do see the Ichetucknee. It’s one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Reading this kind of thing is interesting because it shows how different people are.
Nearly all of this advice sounds terrible and are things I’d absolutely hate. I’d rather kill myself than do some of this crap.
But they seem to work for her, so who am I to judge? It is indeed remarkable just how divergent the same basic neurarchitecture can be.
What is this port? Thought it was Ethernet but I think I’m wrong.
Oh my fucking god. That’s a phone line. Specifically, that’s an RJ11C wall socket designed to accept an RJ11 connector for (usually) analog phone service.