i feel like a lot of culture nowadays is questionable. a person with the fullest social calendar will still feel special if someone texts them the next day. ‘i’m loved and wanted,’ they’ll think, even if they’re annoyed and not interested in the person.
so, where is this energy coming from?
those aren’t encouraging numbers tbh.
half of the population hating you is a big deal. half of a state hating you, even montana, is a big deal.
a lot of that approval may have to do with cancel culture as well. people may be hesitant to share their real viewpoints even in supposedly safe environments.
if you’re a man, go out in public wearing pink sneakers and tell me you don’t feel the gaze of other humans.
this is why psychiatrists are useless most of the time–they’ve never experienced what you’re going through.
‘just have fun’ lol.
the entire reason you have anxiety is that you’re incapable of achieving that mindset. it takes A LOT of work to undo all those crossed wires.
this advice is like dumb shit in a hollywood movie, like when good will hunting is cured because he gets a hug and someone tells him that ‘it’s not your fault.’
tommy tuberville is making me laugh the most.
we’re really just living in a bad parody movie at this point.
the fact you have to declare this obvious truth tells you that america hasn’t changed much at all. we’re just shitty in different contexts.
that’s only viable for people who make 50+k a year and spend like irresponsible assholes in a reasonable cost of living area.
if you’re closer to the poverty line, frugality ain’t gonna save you unless you live with your parents.
regardless, this rhetoric is just victim blaming. people should be able to enjoy a meal out a few times a week and some beer AND own a house even if they work as a janitor.
like, give me a fucking break.
i issued a strong warning to my son about leaving the toilet seat up last night.
why was there so much fuss about gaming journalism when regular journalism is such a shitshow? tell me more about these strong warnings and that so and so ‘slammed’ another so and so and how this recent iteration of ai-produced pop music is the second coming of jesus.
how are humans going to progress if you eliminate all the resources for humans to share experience?
imagine 20 years in the future where you no longer have a resource like stack overflow to troubleshoot the latest technology.
where is AI going to steal its answers from?
this seems like a dumbfuck gambit based on hopes and dreams. even if an AI can achieve what they’re hoping, it won’t know everything. they’re banking on AI having the experience and intelligence of billions of humans.
we’re fucked.
hey, scientist here. i did an extensive study on ram prices that tracked the cost of ram between 2007 and 2026. this may not sound impressive, because all i had to do was look at the average price every year, but trust me, bro, it was difficult.
if you think your average american can read or use microsoft excel you got another thing coming.
that’s just one aspect that ties into the real problem: we had so much ‘fuck the man’ and anti-corporate horseshit shoveled into our mouths, and look how the world turned out–it’s a corporate, gentrified hellhole.
not every gen-xer became ‘the man.’
but a sizable portion of the straight-laced, 100k a year set feel it on some level. the despair of 2026 america isn’t limited to certain demographics; when there’s a perpetual storm you’re bound to get wet even if you have an umbrella.
why would you compare the two? seinfeld is actually funny because it’s universal social observation. it’s a streetwise comedy of manners like curb your enthusiasm.
we’ve all been george when he leaves a dumb message on an answering machine and then stresses over it; we’ve all had touchy friends or acquaintances who cut ties for some petty reason. it’s often exaggerated, but it’s human and relatable.
i wouldn’t just question the taste of someone who doesn’t like seinfeld but i’d question how much awareness they have about everything going on around them.
some jokey sitcoms still hit–frasier and golden girls are witty. but most aren’t funny anymore and they weren’t all that funny in their day.
i’d hope you don’t get downvoted for pointing out the obvious.
people seem to think the internet is real life and forget that ‘progressive social media posters’ probably make up 1% of the population and then never leave the house on top of that. in real life, i’ve met more rabid skunks that quote oscar wilde.
this is a great sentiment if everyone around you is rational, intelligent and sophisticated. but they’re fucking not.
my mother terrorized my sister and i as children and everyone in the family knew about the abuse. but she’s ok.
me? i don’t get invited to the family BBQs because i experimented with psychedelics.
pizza is one of the things that’s actually beat inflation. look up how much a pizza hut pizza cost in 1995 considering the prevailing wage at the time.
spoiler: a large cheese would cost $30 at menu prices adjusted for inflation.
you just get lower quality these days; it’s the same with so many other items. a pair of gap jeans was the same price in the late 90s as it is now even with a doubled minimum wage in NY.
but dipshits will gaslight you online being like, ‘actually, you’re just being nostalgic and nothing was ever better than it is now.’
doubt many ‘of the most valuable’ books haven’t been digitized or aren’t available on amazon or ebay for a pittance. when i need to find something on anna’s archive, it’s usually because it’s some bullshit, tween pulp romance novel from the late 70’s.
yeah, ok.
“atlantic writer” should be renamed to 'i’m a dumb, overeducated nepo-baby liberal that spends $15 on a coffee every morning and takes an entire month to write a horseshit essay that an indian could churn out on fiver for less than $5 if you asked nicely.
i notice this issue whenever i watch new films–everything looks so sterile and uninviting. culture has taken on this showroom/instagram aesthetic that gestures to class but has no character, taste and doesn’t look like anywhere where anyone would actually live; it’s nowhere where anyone sensible would want to live, at least.
calling it minimalistic is disrespectful because that word and style aren’t mutually exclusive.
is she though?
she’s a third or fourth tier suburban women who’s not fat and has a stylist and makeup artist to tweak her into star status. she only looks hot because most people in the states look sloppy.
imagine doing all that lol. that indicates he takes a personal issue with abortion.
maybe we should start shaming men for this. ‘why you trying to pay child support, bro?’
the difference is the level of freely available instruction. you can go on youtube nowadays and probably a find a guide to augmenting or hacking your preferred mmorpg in whatever language you prefer. you can find a tutorial on anything and everything.
back then if you wanted to learn how to code, you’d have to go to college or buy some dry $50 text called the C++ bible and try and make sense of it. online tutorials existed but mostly to teach the basics.
it’s wild to me that zoomers are so stupid when you can learn ANYTHING YOU WANT for free.