100%. Turns out you’re always still going to be you. There’s no magic line to cross. You’re the same living, breathing entity experiencing the same linear stream of existence.

50 years old.

1. That I am as “successful” as I currently am. Measured by typical achievement of “The American Dream”.
2. Why the fuck do I live on a cul-de-sac in some boring-ass suburban neighborhood with literally zero charm or culture. I should be living on the top floor of some mixed-use urban building with a subway or light rail station across the street.
3. Most importantly, younger me would be so disappointed in my Christmas lights. Where are all the Christmas lights? I have a house. I can afford plenty of Christmas lights. Why are my house and yard and trees and bushes not absolutely doused in Christmas lights. Like Clark W. Griswold levels…you see younger me, it turns out that having a house is already a lot of stupid, unnecessary work, and then putting up Christmas lights and taking them down is even more work and I’m tired.

5 beers per hour?

Man I’m old but even when a wasn’t old 5 beers per hour would have me pretty trashed.

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This person is a monster.

Im totally not crying right now.

A Leisure Suit Larry numbering prank reference in the wild! Niiice…

There is no answer here other than Half-Life fucking 3.

If there were any way to legally force a game to be made, it would be HL3.

Well now I’m starting my day in existential dread. Neat!

Well I went back to the Merriam Webster page from 2010 and all the news articles from 2013 about changing the definition of literally are objectively bullshit, so I was wrong.

Merriam Webster Literally 2010

Yup. And sometimes bad means bad and bad means good, but bad still means bad in the dictionary so unless I’m in an casual discussion where slang is acceptable, bad still means bad.

Unlike literally which is now defined as literally or figuratively in the dictionary as of 2013.

Merriam Webster updated the definition of literally to include the “informal” figurative definition in 2013.

Now I use “objectively” because literally doesn’t literally mean literally in the dictionary.

UBI will only come as a response to a new economic depression. The idea that our society will proactively fix itself has been proven wrong time after time.

Humans only learn the hard way.

So I thought this post was threatening me with a good time.

I did a google image search and turned off the safesearch.

Just a bunch of door knockers and one or two hand drawn goblin girls.

What a let down.

Yeah even without AI and CGI at this point nothing on a screen is real anymore. We stopped having a 1:1 conversion of a photon hitting a media quite a while ago.

When you take a pic with your phone it’s already digitally filtered and processed even before you start removing a trash can or an random person with AI.

What is even real at this point? You can’t trust anything that’s not real world meatspace any more.

I used to clench up in public bathrooms if there was anyone else in the bathroom.

Now I just let 'er rip. Even if I know it’s gonna be loud and funky.

That was always my argument back in the day.

Technically when you bought any music wether it be 8-track, LP, cassette, or CD, you were purchasing a single-user license for the music and the media was just how the record companies delivered it to you. That’s why Napster and all the piracy that followed it was/is illegal, because you don’t own a license when you copy the digital file.

HOWEVER… Over the many decades I’ve been alive I’ve scratched, twisted, demagnetized, or just plain old lost hundreds of LPs, cassettes, and CDs. Do you think if I requested a new copy of the music that the record companies would send me a replacement?

No, they would not. So I obtained digital replacements by…other means.

Vinyl, without a doubt. Because it’s analog.

CD’s are lossless 16-bit/44.1 kHz PCM digital audio. You can already get that in file form. Why would you want digital audio that’s stored on media that degrades? It doesn’t sound any different than the digital file…it’s quite literally (not figuratively literally but literally literally) the exact same data.

She wants to touch your penis?

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Are these people actually actively working in the in the immunology and virology field, or are they paid schills who used to have real jobs but now work for a “think tank” for 10 times what they were making?

I think you’ll find that these outliers are no longer actively working and have been corrupted by either money or cognitive decline.