My best friend is 30 years older. Here’s what she’s taught me about life.
There should be a whole lot more of this, even though socially busted-ass Gen Z finds it creepy.
Culture
Limitation
So glad I am not dating now. Men are told we are not allowed to talk to or meet women at work, in clubs, in the gym, in the supermarket, on the street, on the bus or train, in the café or anywhere else in public or private. So that leaves only dating apps, which only work for about 10% of men.
So what are the rest supposed to do, exactly? Seems like hell world.
Eighties
Being able to get a custom order quickly was not always the case. A commenter says this, but back in the day it was impossible in most fast food restaurants to get a customized order unless you wanted to wait quite a long while. Burgers etc. were under heat lamps and you got what you got, even if it had been sitting there an hour.
If you did want something not available under the lamps it’d often be a 15-30 minute wait.
And that’s how it used to be in the 1980s.
Could Quit
It’s quite clear that the reaction to Haidt’s1 claims about smartphones — even the “scientific” ones — are those of the addict’s defensive riposte to being told that their nasty habit is harmful to everything and everyone around them.
Left Behind
This is from a conservative perspective I do not share, but I still agree with the overall take. Secularism is dominant now. Religion has been largely vanquished. The left as much as the right has reacted poorly to this, attempting to replace old-fashioned Protestantism with its even-more-inferior substitute, wokism. Except it’s not been done with any sort of awareness or forethought, as the vast majority of the left doesn’t understand that there is a religion-shaped hole in their lives they are attempting to fill.
Religious urges seem to be nearly universal in the human soul1. Attempting to eliminate them only makes those compulsions emerge in a more dangerous, less controlled form elsewhere. This is also true on the right, where we see worship of a two-bit fraud like Donald Trump and other pathologies.
Clubgoing
It’s odd that conservatism is becoming the divorced dads/incel club and liberalism is becoming the angry cat ladies/blue-haired feminists club.
That cannot be healthy for the ol’ republic.
Southron
Why do non-Southerners always screw up Southern food so incredibly badly and make it taste like apocalyptically-atrocious garbage?
Southern food isn’t even hard to make! I cannot understand.
Character 80
What was the first PC game you ever played? Mine was Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0.
Not sure what counts as a PC here, but my first game was probably a ski game on the TRS-80 that had no graphics but was character-based. I don’t think that it’s any of the ones I can find on the internet, either. This would’ve been some time in 1980.
Before that, I played the original Pong console (which was of course not a PC).
BG
The talented bgirls of Olympics breaking who were overshadowed by memes of Raygun.
They really should have kept breakdancing for the 2028 Olympics. It’s great.
Unseen
What depicts the most terrifying encounter with alien life in fiction?
The aliens in the TV show Colony. They are nearly unseen (and that makes them all the scarier), shipping people off to slave colonies on the moon after having effortlessly taken over the planet. Their goals are unannounced and inscrutable, their power nearly infinite, and resistance against them only succeeds because they don’t care enough to do anything about it — until they do.
And their henchmen (and women) are other humans, part of the Vichy-style world government that they control. And the really terrifying part is that they seem to believe they are helping humanity.