“Mein Führer, what are you doing?”
“I'm making it so zwitter refreshes zhe timeline for no reazon every time the uzer sees anything zemotely interesting.”
i know i definitely feel like a teenager trapped in a 23 year olds body wondering when i will truly grow up and then actually coming to face with a real teenager and acts like a teenager and realizing i am a Lot more put together and mature than I thought I was
When I was nine, our teacher made us write letters to "our heroes" for a writing unit. Most kids chose their parents, or Michael Jordan, or the President. For some reason, I was deeply obsessed with the golden age of piracy, so I wrote my letter to Blackbeard. It was a very aggressive letter demanding to know where he hid his treasure and warning him that "the British Navy is coming for you." My teacher, Mrs. Gable, instead of explaining that Blackbeard had been dead since 1718, actually looked up a historical museum in Ocracoke, North Carolina, and mailed the letter there. Three months later, I got a package at school. It was a hand-stained parchment scroll sealed with actual red wax. The museum staff had written back in character as Blackbeard’s ghost, telling me the treasure was "buried in the minds of those who read books" (which was a bit of a cop-out, honestly), but they also included a replica Spanish piece of eight. I was the coolest kid in third grade for a week.
People claim to hate driving in traffic. And yet any time you look at a gridlocked highway, it’s full of cars, and those people chose to be there. Therefore revealed preferences would suggest that people actually do want to drive in traffic.
how couples argue in 2026:
gf: cool how theres 4 mustards in the fridge but none that go on my sandwich. you have no theory of mind for me
bf: emotional blackmail. not my responsibility to provide you mustards. those are mine for dipping.
gf: oh the goy needs his dipslop
My basic outlook about gender is that the social power/status of women has increased dramatically over the last generation, and neither men nor women have fully adapted to this changed reality and incorporated that reality into the way they do gender. So it's just out of joint
There’s all kinds of people who have no representation on here. For example hippies still exist, people who believe in “expanding consciousness” and “saving the earth.” Fascinating.
There's common perception that millennials were irony-poisoned, but the generation was actually extremely earnest. Emo and indie rock were their favorite genres. They thought Obama and Kony 2012 would change the world. Zoomers are far more cynical about the world than millennials were at their age.