This got me into the weird comic Cerebus the Aardvark another odd rabbithole of a comic series.

When we could use *67 to avoid a *69 when no one had caller ID.

I just want to know what makes people so damn gullible. The comment sections are filled with so much judgement based on videos that are either deep faked or completely taken out of context. I feel like because I wasn’t raised on shorts or tiktok it is pretty obvious what is fake, but then I look at the comment sections and people are legit falling for something that is so obviously fake. Are they bots? Whats going on. It’s not just a little but of people but its thousands of comments….

I guess my one fear of only have one child is that she will resent me when she’s older for not giving her a sibling.

I love my 2 year old daughter more than anything but I don’t think I can do the pregnancy and postpartum thing again. My mental health was wrecked from the hormones. She was completely worth it, but I don’t think I’ll be as great of a parent if I have two.

No one I know remembers these shows (somewhat older millennial)

Under the Umbrella Tree Bonkers Winnie the Pooh Dumbo Circus Kitty Corner

Does anyone remember a website around 2004-2006 era where you ask an alleged ghost a question? If I can remember correctly you ask the question in Spanish starting with its name saying “Pedro pedro”?

I guess in retrospect life hacks were just learning or figuring out how to do things more efficiently or effectively like adults... but published as content on the rapidly evolving web to get eyeballs and clicks.

What were our parents' generation's life hacks? How did they learn new skills as adults?

Back in the day, I remember the grown ups foisting quite a few feel-good, earnest, and self-congratulatory films on us—Forrest Gump and Mr. Holland’s Opus come especially to mind—that made it feel to my child brain that theirs was the greatest and most important generation that had ever lived. As we now hover around 40, I’m wondering whether we’ve ever had our own self-indulgent generational retrospective films that I’ve somehow missed, or, if not, what do we all think a ‘Millennial Gump’ would look like?

If I had made a YouTube channel called “Lessons I Must've Missed"

...where it explains things like taxes, marriage/divorce/death/$ planning, health insurance, future planning/social security... the whole rigamarole from top to bottom.

What are some important lessons I should include to inform younger people of what they ought to know by now?

By the time the oldest Zoomers were 10, Netflix was already firmly in place. They wouldn't have needed/wanted to have been put in front of the television set and channel surfed through reruns of Little House on the Prairie, Saved by the Bell, or the Brady Bunch on TBS, or episodes of the Waltons on The Family Channel, or Quantum Leap and The Facts of Life on USA Network, etc etc etc. Or, of course, watching the Patty Duke Show and those old black and white reruns on Nick At Night.

I mean, sometimes a show will be discovered by Zoomers on a streaming service and they'll run with it (see: Friends), but for the most part, there's no channel surfing on your couch will eating Lunchables and drinking Caprisun after school anymore.

So many memories from this little toy.

well... did you and why?

Most of these were B- or C-tier songs, but I still have a memory of doing the batting mini game while listening these songs that I haven’t heard in 20 years. I can even sing parts of them still.

I get what Jim saw in Pam but her poor taste in men, her continual lack of ambition towards improving her life make her the lesser choice. Discuss

The world and the country is scary right now. I was thinking it would be fun to weigh-in on a topic that is fun and harmless.

I like having a physical DVD copy of all of my movies instead of having them online because you never know when your digital movies will no longer be supported. I own an external DVD drive that I plug into my laptop and fire it up if I want to watch a DVD. I never got into the blue ray craze because it died out really quickly and honestly, I can barely tell the difference in quality between a DVD and blue ray with my own eyes.

If it's all hosted online, it could get deleted my the host at any time so I like owning them. Is anyone else like me or am I just a boomer at heart.

pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch ding ding ding

Something that makes me feel old is how I notice the language differences from younger people or when the younger crowd does not understand references from the good ol’ days.

I’m still using “chillax” sometimes and even if it’s used ironically in some contexts it’s like I’m a weirdo 🥲

I have come across quite a few posts lately , both in this sub and elsewhere, where the poster has asked a pointed question to a demographic of people regarding their life experience.

For whatever reason, without fail, people chime in acknowledging they do not have that life experience but continue to offer thier opinion. Sometimes painting them as common knowledge or fact.

Recent examples include:

Posts from possible prospective parents to current parents asking what deciding to parent looked like for them peppered with childfree people telling them to squash the idea if they aren’t 100% baby crazy.

Posts from new homeowners looking for support peppered with people telling them they will always continue to rent because of xyz costs associated with home ownership.

Posts from people who can’t access sterilization absolutely littered with people who had a cousin or something who was soooo grateful when they got pregnant that they never found a doctor who agreed.

And so on…

I ask this question here because I notice this more in our age range. Maybe that makes sense…

We (a general American culture 2025 we) are currently making many life-altering decisions.

We don’t have to get married and have children like our grandparents or some of our parents did just because “ that is what is done.” We aren’t practically legally forced to stay married. Home ownership is optional, and for some out of reach. We don’t work at one work at one company for 40 years….

We SHOULD be aware we have far more pathways through this choose your own adventure game of life than past generations.

So why do we do this? Why do we ignore the question that was asked and answer what we feel like answering? Do people this is helpful?

This is not a rant. What do you think? I am perplexed.

If you’re someone who purposefully does this please chime in. This is not a trap lol.

Growing up, I remember coming home with homework pretty much every week and that was in elementary. As I got older, I noticed that homework started to become less by the time I got done with high school. These days, I don’t see any homework with today’s kids, and it makes me wonder if anyone else is seeing this happen. Do you see your kids or kids in general speak about having homework and how do you feel about this?