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⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.
It migrated inward.
Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.
That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.
So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.
The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.
The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.
The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.
That is the trade.
A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.
This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.
The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.
It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.
The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.
Oh so you're saying they actually never had to force both parents to work a full-time job plus a side hustle to support a family and it was all done to fuck with us wow good to know
College football is another one of those things that destroyed itself by putting money before tradition, and now is just running on fumes
It was enjoyable when teams kept players for years, the student-athletes at least pretended to care, and the other schools played were in the same general region and recruited from that region
Now it's just a mercenary endeavor, with the players bouncing between schools and collecting absurd checks, as schools travel haphazardly across the country to play dizzying assortments of other schools with which they have nothing to do culturally or geographically
What's the point?
In a 24-team playoff, both these teams are comfortably in, with a bye. This game means nothing.
In 2013, it’s widely regarded as one of the most dramatic football games of all time.
@CatholicPacman Also let us play random games within dynasty! I want to play the game of the week here or there, or a major #1 vs #2 game for the hell of it.
@conorsen@GayBearRes 200k a year gets you the mail man’s house from 1980, who hasn’t updated the insides since 1990. Who also has 3 new cars in the driveway and a boat.
It’s why they are confused
It’s actually fucking insane how a man made virus caused the entire world to shut down and now everyone who didn’t purchase a home before 2020 is in the permanent underclass.
Golf was so much better pre covid
You could show up to any Muni on a Saturday afternoon without a tee time and play 18 by yourself in 3 hours
Now you have to share a cart with a random guy that offers you an edible
And the round takes 5.5 hours
And it’s $120
Piensen esto: El sistema solar se mueve a 800mil k/h alrededor del centro galáctico. La Tierra, a 107mil km/h alrededor del Sol y la Luna, a 3700km/h alrededor de la Tierra. Nada en el espacio es estático.
i think that once americans go boots on the ground and once iranians start posting videos like this on american soldiers it’s going to traumatize the nation in a way war has never before
Let me explain what just happened 👇
5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.
5 minutes…
These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.
There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.
Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.
American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.
This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.
This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.
You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.
Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.
The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…
People on Instagram are enjoying sunsets, vacations, destination weddings.
People on X are posting like we’re in the final chapters before civilization collapses.
Same world. Different timelines.