The delightful irony is that late last year, Chinese students started doing a big bicycle ride from Zhengzhou to Kaifeng for dumplings. Too many young folks together gets Chinese officials nervous so the authorities shut it down.

So, master of your own time if the party approves of how you spend said time.

I do love that the “popooh, are you offended bro?” Folks are rhe ones who are also driven into hystrionics by the word cisgender.

I had multiple involuntary physical reactions to that sentence.

You win.

Yes but if we can’t spell divide I’m not sure I’d hold out hope for nuanced or accurate political commentary.

Oh yeah the first ones were pretty bad for that. But once they figured “anti shock” iirc they were good enough to play from my jacket pocket while walking around.

Mp3s were absolutely a game changer. I bizzarely had a cd player that could handle regular cds and cds with MP3s and spent a couple days copying over a few cds worth of mp3s before I spent a year abroad.

And for all that, I bet you also appreciate the shit out of having all music all the time in all the places.

Maybe fully appreciate isn’t quite the right phrase but there is something to having been forced to do things a worse way that helps you remain constantly grateful for the improvement.

Eg…I went from walkmen to cds. Holy God that was so much better, even if the first few players were pretty bad. I still chuckle when I think about my effectively unlimited access to almost all the music I can imagine vs fast forwarding to get to the song I wanted, if I was lucky enough to have the right tape on hand.

Oddly, off the top of my head, I’m not sure the most recent generation of younger adults (say, 18-25ish, whatever the “basically grew up w smartphones” generation is) have had any similar groundbreaking changes beyond AI which uhhh, isn’t super popular here. Some stuff has improved (graphics etc) but off the top of my head I can’t think of something that’s really solved a constant annoyance. (I imagine fully autonomous vehicles would be another similar tech leap.

If you talk at all like you’ve written, I would treat you like a child too.

Maturity has nothing to do with your calendar age.

I thought the game awards were like the Oscars in that they are supposed to ignore the commercial success of the nominations? (Never follow that stuff so I could be completely wrong.)

Probably the coolest looking group of non ninja/mutant/teenage animals I’ve ever seen.

A lot of folks are overlooking one of the largest factors, unlimited student loans for whatever.

As long as people have access to an ever increasing amount of money to use for tuition, it is in those institutions’ interests to rise their prices to extract as much as possible.

Whereas other countries tend to subsidize their education at source, that is to say, by funding the schools directly which somehwat obviates the price gouging aspect.

Not agreeing with OP.

According to that, there is no better defender of women’s rights than Donald trump, as he himself has declared.

Inadvertently or not, you’ve parroted a lot of Right Wing talking points. They usually insist thinking of race is itself racist, white people are actually the most discriminated and so on. From the Left, the refusal to see/think of race etc is a convenient way to ignore structural racism etc.

The first part of your last post comes across as a tone deaf right winger trying to say we should stop talking about race. And once people have read that first paragraph, they are unlikely to read much in depth of the next few.

I’m a big fan of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a webcomic.

That sketch was my forst thought too.

I mean, just reading that question as one long run on sentence certainly didn’t make me think of you as an adult.

Also, might be a language thing, but buddy has almost no age connotations and is used pretty frequently across age groups.

Thanks, I was super confused for a bit!

I don’t have the app (well, for main facebook. Still have messenger as a friend group uses that as the primary communication medium) but do have a few friends who live elsewhere on there so keep it around. It’s also my yelling into the virtual void place but with feedback from folks I know.

API issue made me leave, AI scraping posts and forcing ads made me stay away.

Dressing in drag had been a staple ofEnglish comedy for decades if not much, much longer In the first world war guys were doing it for concert troupes (essentially, vaudeville acts by and for the soldiers.)

This seems to have hit too close to home.