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I went back to college and seeing a bunch of people born past the new millennium as adults still fucks with me. It's especially bad when I see people who graduated from high school in the past few years. It feels alien to me. I still see them as children.
 
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The fact the it's been over a lifetime of Elvis Presley ago since Elvis Presley died is insane. Same with John Lennon. Patrick Nagel, Bob Marley and even Kurt Cobain and soon with Joseph Stalin in 2027.
 
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REGENDarySumanai said:
I went back to college and seeing a bunch of people born past the new millennium as adults still fucks with me.
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I may feel like I'm college-aged, and yet I'm old enough to recall the world before 9/11.

A world with chalkboards in elementary school, no cameras for live-streaming of college classes, early 3D vidya being a new trend, new music releases being on both CD and audiocassette, the arguable Golden Age of Star Trek, any internet being "Web 1.0" and a novelty, and airport security consisting of just walking through a metal detector and luggage going through an X-ray scanner.

And yet, actual college-aged people now may not even have existed yet when 9/11 happened.
 
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This takes me back, right down to the CAPS, scribbles and blank envelope.
 
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The Last Stand said:
This takes me back, right down to the CAPS, scribbles and blank envelope.
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what a violent mother there 🤨

Also family used to communicate like that before "smartphones" and "texting" (minus the threats of violence).

Day Walker said:
The local classic rock station has started playing the stuff I listened to in high school
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glass_houses said:
I can go one better: the supermarkets are playing music I listened to in high school.
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I can sometimes hear newer covers of songs I heard in high school when I'm going out. I may be thinking "why not play the originals"?
 
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what a violent mother there 🤨

Also family used to communicate like that before "smartphones" and "texting" (minus the threats of violence).
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Another thing that gets me:

Kids don't get the belt anymore, and the above note counts as a "violent threat" instead of socially acceptable consequences to misbehaviour.
 
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glass_houses said:
socially acceptable consequences
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Depends on where you live.

There has been opposition to corporal punishment BS since at least Roman times* though not really "normal" until 20th century. Not all modern "progress" is bad progress.

* "Fear and love cannot live together. You seem to me to do right in refusing to be feared by your slaves and chastising them with words alone. Blows are used to correct brute beasts." - Seneca to Lucilius (Campaigns against corporal punishment - Wikipedia)
 
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REGENDarySumanai said:
I went back to college and seeing a bunch of people born past the new millennium as adults still fucks with me. It's especially bad when I see people who graduated from high school in the past few years. It feels alien to me. I still see them as children.
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I was feeling that earlier today stumbling on one of those really old youtube accounts from 2006 where it's one 15 million view clip from family guy sandwiched between some personal videos of the guy at his gradutation or his kid's birthday, then you see that '16 years ago' right under there and realize this guy's lived a whole life too, is probably well into his career and sending his kid off to college or a trade
 
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USSR lasted from 1922 to 1991, or 69 years. 69 years ago now isn't somewhere around the Great Depression, it's in the middle of the 1950s. Also USSR fell over 30 years ago.
 
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When your (lower) back hurts for a week because you acidentally fell asleep in the wrong position.

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Nokia and flip phones,my first phone i've ever got was a Nokia.
Shame that I lost it.
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Found a Nokia 6131 in the recycling bin some time ago, I used to own that phone back in 2007 with its 640x800 camera, impressive how far we've come when it comes to things like taking pictures with your phone in adequate quality.
 
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AnOminous said:
I still enjoy performative rage, but just so you know, it does get worse. I'm not even sure if I'm older than you but it does.

I can barely even get angry about the worst things any more. I get mad for a little while, then I just think it's funny and laugh at it. Maybe this isn't a bad thing.

Another weird thing is I was obsessed with death when I was young, terrified of the concept, extremely angry about it. The closer death gets, the less I care about it.
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Another thing is stress. The older I get the more I realize getting stressed over shit that doesn't matter or there is not much you can do anyway is entirely pointless and is better and healthier if you calmed down and be apathetic about it. Whether it is over financial issues, being late, political shit you absolutely have no control over, legal shit, or just sucking at a video game. It's all better when not let it all get to you and just go about your day carefree.
 
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Day Walker said:
The local classic rock station has started playing the stuff I listened to in high school
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The one for me was hearing songs on the classic rock station that I remember the album releases of.

Another is that I just don't like talking with people much these days. I feel like there was a critical point where I just realized I'd heard it all before. You listened to a certain amount of other people long enough and you just don't give a shit anymore because you've heard the exact same things in different words a million times. The same attention-seeking virtue-signaling crap in a thousand different forms and you're just exhausted with it. There are still occasionally people I enjoy talking to, but for an overwhelming majority of people I meet, I just can't care what they have to say anymore.
 
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Rome's rightful successor said:
Another thing is stress. The older I get the more I realize getting stressed over shit that doesn't matter or there is not much you can do anyway is entirely pointless and is better and healthier if you calmed down and be apathetic about it. Whether it is over financial issues, being late, political shit you absolutely have no control over, legal shit, or just sucking at a video game. It's all better when not let it all get to you and just go about your day carefree.
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Best two bits of advice I got in my life:

1. Always get the name of the person you talked to when you call a customer service line.
2. Don't sweat the small stuff.
 
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