then half the people living today are younger than you are. World's median age is around 31. Imagine all those people who have seen less than you, learned less than you. By a slight margin they make up the bulk of humanity. Congrats on becoming an elder. Go teach them what you know.

My source: the literal CIA world factbook which I will not link here

  • june [she/her]
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    edit-2
    3 hours ago

    Me, 31, letting the "more than" in the title restore my youthfulness 😌

  • ExtimateCookie
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    5 hours ago

    Wow thanks for the existential anxiety

  • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    yes, i will teach the young ones how to become a pathetic sexless loser, how to be dead broke unemployed and living with your parents as a 'middle aged' adult, and how to obsess over niche sci fi military topics to the point where they cannot have a normal conversation with literally any person.

    • hypercracker [he/him]
      hexagon
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      6 hours ago

      Don’t say things to yourself that you wouldn’t say to a friend!

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    8 hours ago

    The median age in the United States is 38, which is the highest it's ever been. That makes some of us the most middle-aged people of all time.

  • Kuori [she/her]
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    8 hours ago

    but the things they need to know are not the things i know

    i guess i could start learning how to distill water from human beings and build deep-earth bunkers

  • buh [she/her]
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    9 hours ago

    Congrats on becoming an elder. Go teach them what you know.

    But I don’t know anything blob-no-thoughts

    • hypercracker [he/him]
      hexagon
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      9 hours ago

      And others know even less than you. This is the way of the world and the context in which we must continually mold it!

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        4 hours ago

        ”context” and “in which” in the same sentence

        kamala-coconut-tree

        stop-posting-amogus GET OUT OF MY HEAD! GET OUT OF MY HEAD! aaaa

  • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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    9 hours ago

    I keep trying to teach them things but they keep telling me I have L rizz and negative aura and that I need to become a skibbity sigma rizzler.

      • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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        7 hours ago

        I watched all the videos about a head coming out of a toilet and I still don't get it.

        This shit is more confusing than Hegel!

        • nohaybanda [he/him]
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          7 hours ago

          Jokes aside, I feel that the hexbear mode of communication - confident belief and fearless defense of your principles, combined with slightly unhinged and uncompromising shitposting - is pretty close to what the kids find cool. It's always been that, really. Trying to baby speak to them is a lost cause. Preaching at them even more so.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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    9 hours ago

    We're closer to the end of humanity than we are to the invention of flight

    Are these the things I should be teaching or too doomer for the zoomers? 🤔