They aren’t as tech savvy as millennials.
I’m GenX. If you ask my group of friends “who here has built their own PC from components?” every hand is going to go up. Including the teacher, the administrator and the financier.
Ask a group of Millennials who knows what the command line is for and see what reaction you get.
GenX is the generation that does tech support for its parents and its children.
No. I believe that adage about absolute power corrupting absolutely. I don’t trust myself or any other single person with that kind of money.
Came here to mention that. They reinvented agriculture and democratic government.
The dude contributed greatly to physics, optics and mathematics.
He also tried to cure the plague with magic frog vomit.
Nothing.
And that’s why we were able to afford it.
Younger me’s anxieties were unrealistic. I was a nervous child.
If that happens, I think the economy will suddenly always have been the least of our problems.
Marmite crumpets shouldn’t exist!
You’re right. Not without cheese.
“None of the things you’re worried about will happen, so relax a little.”
He’s practically got ‘clueless middle-manager’ stamped on his forehead. He has he confidence to fake it through an interview and the animal cunning to blame others for his mistakes.
Is this an advert? It’s an advert, isn’t it. Are you an AI?
No. I realised years ago that I always come away from a Facebook browsing session irritable and dissatisfied. I still have it, because it’s the only way I keep in touch with some of my oldest friends, but now I might go weeks without opening it.
I have three to four Firefox addons dedicated to keeping it useable. I will not install the phone app for love nor money.
Two things really stand out to me.
I saw a unicyclist swerve and nearly wipe out avoiding a lamp post that he didn’t notice because he was looking at his phone.
I saw a goth dwarf scramble for safety in a service station forecourt because an oblivious woman was driving straight at him.
Why bother to breathe when you’ll just have to breathe again in a few seconds?
People talking about their suicidal feelings on the internet. Not sure why you’d want the whole world to know you’re feeling vulnerable, or what you think it can do to help. And people are so casual about saying it.
There they are, the words that make me instantly close a youtube clip.
I’d like to try being a lemur. Swinging through the canopy on those long arms, giving/receiving back scratches as a form of social currency and hooting at leopards when I feel like it.
If you’re an angel, on the head of a pin.
How many hours had you been awake?
Happens to me every time I read an article on quantum physics. Pretty sure the universe is just messing with us at this point.
And there’s a small but significant number of people on the internet who use “can” and “can’t” interchangeably.