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I no longer really care, 30, 20, 10.000, I knew my fate long ago, and I’m tired of feeling anything within this fake world.
Only thing that matters, is the hustle.
Ha! Wait until you’re 40 😁
I’m in that ballpark (ok a bit over).
I’m in that vicinity (ok a bit last) and I think it kinda depends on what you’re doing. Talking to anyone about the latest meme/influencer BS will quickly make my head want to explode, but then again so does taking to prior my own age or older who engage in social-media-spawned politics.
But I also host people in the teens to early 20’s, and I absolutely love engaging with them in activities. Suddenly, those sites you’ve already seen a hundred times and stopped noticing become kinda new again.
It kinda goes the other way around too. There are many things I do that may beyond the means of younger people, especially stuff that involves technology which has massively jumped in cost these last few years (thanks AI tech-bros) but I’d already had before. They get to enjoy some of the stuff I like without having to front the cost-of-entry, and I get to enjoy sharing. Heck, even stuff like certain repairs/renos/shop-work can be interesting to somebody whose never had the opportunity to go hands-on.
I might not have the energy to do all the late night social stuff that somebody half my age does, but I do have the resources and energy-drinks to host a periodic late-night movie-watch, LAN-gaming session, aurora-hunting, how-to-do-X or various other stuff that we can all enjoy.
I think the biggest hurdle these days is allowing people across ages to find mentors without running into (or seeming like) creeps.
I’m a 51 year old (as of today) and I feel like I’m 25, and when I talk to people… Wait, I don’t talk to people…
Make sure to lie about how old you are elsewhere so as to blur the digital footprint you’re leaving. My estranged twin taught me that when we grew up in Alaska.
Happy birthday!
Thanks buddy.
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I tried to explain to my 23 year old grandson’s co-worker that we used to have to jack off to magazines and he had no idea what the word magazine meant. What a sad little wanker.
I mean, everyone has their kinks and I ain’t shaming anybody. But did you really jack off to the part of a gun that holds bullets??? /jk
Once you hit 40, you enter a whole new plateau of consciousness. You start dressing for comfort instead of looks. And the only friends you have are the people you’ve been talking to you for the past 20 years. And the prospect of making new friends Has absolutely no interest
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I made friends with a 37 year old, and I love him so much! I’m adopting him, and not letting him go, ever!
Poor old man.
guess I have been 40 all my life
Ehhhh depends on the person really. Not everyone has a close circle of friends they have known for 20+ years. I have several but wpuld still be happy to make more.
I’m 42, I dress fly as hell, and my employees are young models. I have no friends, lol- my life is all work and my family.
Accurate.
And the only friends you have are the people you’ve been talking to you for the past 20 years.
Mostly because it’s impossible to make new friends over the age of 40
I’m in my mid-40s. I simultaneously feel 20 and 70 and that becomes about 327 when I interact with anyone under tha age of about 30.
Something similar has been hitting me recently. I’m 30. So I was born is the last millennium, but you know, not by a lot. Most of my life has been the 20XXs. But even though it’s been 26 years of that, it just all feels so recent. Like it’s hard for me to call anything that happened after 2000 “old” because… old was last century/millennium. “That can’t be old, it happened just a few years ago!” Checks when it happened: 2012, 14 years ago…
Thinking about how we perceive the time we live through is weird. When you think about it, the lives of everyone alive today has been radically different than the vast majority of human history. There were times when things might not meaningfully change in your whole lifetime, maybe even several generations of people living the same way. Post-industrial revolution everything has happened so fast. Tech and culture changes so often that we conceptualize each decade in the 20th/21st century as being it’s own thing. (Obviously that wasn’t entirely the case, there’s all sorts of bleed over, but I’m just talking about how we think about it.) We talk about almost any other time in our history in terms of centuries and some key historical turning points.
I have now written way too much for a comment on a shitpost. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I’m 34 and pre2010 is kinda old to me. Even Raspi1 is old to me.
I’m not there yet, but I’m slowly shifting to view pre-covid as “stuff from back then”. It’s a turning point for me that makes the 2010s different from the 20s
Yeah I get that. “Old” to me is maybe around the 80s. I grew up around a lot of 80s stuff.
The music i listen to (since I was little ) is usually 60s through 80s, because those are the records I had. Some 90s and select new indie artists now too.
An “old” car is a 1969 chevelle. A 1991 f 150 is not an old car. The Xbox 360 is new. Etc. I regularly drive a 30 year old car and notice nothing I want or need (also I hate new cars but separate issue)
A huge thing about this is the tech. We went through insane technical revolutions in a super short period of time. Kids now dont have that. GTA 5 is how old, 14 years?
Tech basically peaked in 2012. Nothing has really been improving or groundbreaking for the common person since then. I think thats why when I think of 2012, I think oh yeah bout 4 years ago huh.
I mean my 2010 macbook still works perfectly. My 2001 windows 98 laptop, not as much.
Yeah, the tech thing makes sense. I used to get really excited by new pieces of tech. My first smart phone, a new game console, etc. Now? I couldn’t even tell you off hand what model iPhone I have nor what the newest one is. When will I get a new one? Probably when my old one breaks.
I think on the gaming side of things, the turning point might be around the Switch. Basically the point where Nintendo stopped experimenting with weird new things for their consoles. They basically just joined MS and Sony in releasing a standard console that could play modern games with the exception of it still having the motion controls from the Wii. The other companies also abandoned trying to do gimmick stuff like motion controls.
Very true.
Theres no innovation any more. We basically saw the peak in the 2000s of innovation. It is now solely driven to suck us dry of every cent and steal our data to sell it back to us on a subscription model.
Vr is one fun new tech though. Its also not new, we had vr in the 80s. It was awful ofc.
I guess for music it also depends on the genres. For me 90s is ancient, since it’s basically the beginnig. 2000s is old classics with a sound that isn’t really produced anymore
I’m confused at this comment, but recorded works have been around since the 1800s.
“Modern” techniques started in the early 70s for recording and multitracking.
I’m a little scared if you think 2000s is classic. Its also one of the worst sounding eras in music history because of digital brickwall limiting.
Random example of a 2005 song that could have come out yesterday and would sound right at home with its amount of limiting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_(electronic_dance_music_genre)?wprov=sfla1
2000s was the era of Mainstream Hardcore and Classic Hardstyle
These genres are to some degree based on flopped synthesizers from the 80s, like Roland TR 909 and Roland Alpha Juno. Which made it possible for normal people to play around with that hardware in their free time due to low prices
edit: in 2000s DAWs became more accessable, which changed the sound and gave more people the possibility to make music on their own on their home PC
Ahhh I see. you are speaking of the electronic bleep blorps! Yeah, I mean electronic one could argue started in the 70’s as well but yes.
Also I’m not sure that hardware was ever that low priced. Good hardware has always been spendy. But anyone could still make that music today if they wanted to . The synths are still around. Propellerhead reason is still out there for free if you wanted.
Weird too to be 55 and physically feel 65 and emotionally feel 15 and have friends who are 35 to 45 who will make me feel socially 25 until my practically guaranteed death at 75.
Most of my friends are considerably younger than me, it’s great; I get to die first and have them mourn me vs. the other way around.
Suckerrrrrrrrs
Oh I hope I never lose the spark and stop feeling like I’m a 15 year old pretending to be an adult.
… 5… 85, 95, 105…
10x+5
the key is to not talk to people
There’s a new party being born, the “People Who Hate People Party.”
People who hate people, come together!
“No.”
We’re kind of having trouble coming off the boards, you know.
“Are you going to be there?”
“Yeah.”
“Then I ain’t fucking coming.”
“But you’re our strongest member!”
“Fuck you!”
“That’s what I’m talking about, you asshole!”
“Fuck off!”
“Damn, we almost had a meeting going.”
I like you. We should talk.
[scrambles off into the distance in opposite direction leaving a trail of dust]
The real cause of the fall of society.
My brother was telling the “What’s black and white and read all over?” joke to our niece, and she asked what a newspaper was.
This is why it’s important to isolate your children from life as you speedrun them through YOUR childhood first. You’re not just giving your kids one good life, but two bad ones!
…that’s why I use “sunburned penguin/zebra” as my punchline
That’s all well and good until you tell it to kids born after the global species collapse
I always see this stuff and really it has nothing to do with age. I think its the kid or parents interest in teaching and learning. When I was 9 I knew what an 1899 Victrola was (and no, despite my steam profile, I wasnt born in 1901). I knew what typewriters were and had a couple. I knew what a john Deere single row plow was.
I’m not really a history buff though. I just figured throughout life that we should know about things that came before us. I keep learning more about old things and some new things daily.
I think its just ignorance. If you are 13 today and seriously dont know what a CD is, thats just idiocy. maybe if you dont know what a cassette is I’d get it, but still. Its not hard to learn.
Trolling all my friends who were born after 9/11 by showing them clips from “Love, Actually” and talking about how easy it was to get through airport security.
The pre 9/11 world was truly a different place. I used to cross the border into the states as a 15 year old to go to concerts with nothing but an old red and white Canadian health card that didn’t even have a picture on it.
I was stationed in San Diego, and we would walk across the border to Mexico. To get back in, all you needed was to show a US drivers license and be sober enough to say you are a US citizen.
The Schengen area:
just wait til you hit 55 and there’s no foolin’ anyone anymore.
damn, Why ppl in lemmy has to be so old.
nah dude, I’ll be 21 forever!
I already have been in first year of college the last 4 years and that isn’t even a joke!
I’ve had a 40 year old body for like, 25 years. I’m not 40 yet.
In the freezer?
Speaking as someone whose in their mid 40’s, no you don’t have a 40 year old body, you only think you do. When you actually get there you’ll realize how wrong you’ve been.
Oh, from 40 on upwards there are so much “oh shit” moments. The fuck around phase is over and the find out, final, phase starts.
“Told you so” also starts trending among friend circles.
This used to be easy and my bones were stronger.
It gets much, much worse.
I don’t think I’ve felt young since I was like 12, body wise. I have next to no health issues or genetic issues.
As a I went from kindergarten to high school I saw adults around me aging.
To me, it looked as if they were gracefully descending a long staircase with dignity and elegance.
I had the staircase part right, but sometimes you’re falling down the steps. Four of five flights at a time.
