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[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@lauren_wilford This is why if/when I have kids I wouldn't ever let them have a smartphone and would enforce that with a vengeance. Unlike most US adults, I do this myself (dumbphone, no Meta products). 99% of US parents that want their kid to have a dumbphone don't do this.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

Why does reddit have so many people from Canada?

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@Itsfoss Since about 2009. I use mainly Kubuntu now.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@DesireeAmerica4 I remember when I was in high school, I got a bootlegged copy of The Sims when it first came out and I played that shit for probably 6 hours and it felt like 45 minutes.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@toys_retro I remember being able to take my Super Soaker into McDonald's. Nobody cared in 1992. That's how life was back then.

What's crazy there's was more crime back then, too! Kids would get shot for their Jordans but there wasn't a panic over anything resembling a gun.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@toys_retro Are water guns even still around? Or is that, too, considered too dangerous for kids nowadays? Seriously asking because I haven't seen too many kids play with them recently.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@omgsidewalks In the rural area of the US I live in the outsiders that come that are weirdest and most sketch are the ones who say they work from home. Come on now. People don't buy that.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@omgsidewalks I do think the prevalence of WFH is exaggerated because of the Internet. It's like how half of reddit lives in the SF Bay area and works a tech job.

It's also a convenient place-holder story for those who are unemployed to explain what they are doing.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@BarbellFi Being a teacher in NYC is like being a CO in California. That's not the typical pay.

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@GrowingUpRetro Yup, I miss those big spider web deals that you would climb up in. Those were dope!

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@theficouple I think this all the time. The US household median NW is like 200K.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@GrowingUpRetro I remember the little cross bar at the bottom would get loose.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@GrowingUpRetro Yeah, it's crazy. Crime was worse back then, too.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@TheGBreaker I deleted mine in 2019. I do fine.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@tfmadden17 @GrowingUpRetro This. Exactly. I can't remember the first time I was dropped off, but I can remember walking alone or with friends and I'm talking 1st or 2nd grade (1991-1992) in Houston proper.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@GrowingUpRetro Heck, I was walking in Houston on Fondren as early as 1st grade. This is in Grade A inner city Houston. There's a story behind that.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@GrowingUpRetro It's actually kind of crazy kids are micro-managed now and crime was WAY worse back then! You'd hear stories of kids getting shot for their Jordans and you still walked without adult supervision during the elementary school years (with other kids at most).

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@GrowingUpRetro Walk around the Amtrak train alone without a parent holding my hand. Did it at 8 years old, summer of '92.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@GrowingUpRetro Yup, there were people I got into fights with that I became good friends with later. Elder millenial.

[Andrew @Coreco259405]

@stats_feed Breastmilk.