Not trying to one-up, but I registered daychilde.com in 1996. It’s actually on my to-do to redesign again as I leaned in a bit on the AI for art, although it’s a bit older than the 2025 the articles are from. heh. I’ll get there.

I think the next iteration will use 1600s fonts because I adore those - https://fonts.google.com/?query=im+fell

USA! USA! USA!

:someone whispers rapidly in my ear:

Ah, about my recent outburst. I’d like to DOUBLE DOWN ON THAT AND USA! COAL! GAS! DIESEL!! SMOKE!!! FIRE!!! NUKULAR!!! WARRRR!!!

…erm, sorry. Sorry. Sorry sorry sorry.

(sarcasm aside, be nice if we could have more renewables. If we used something like a tenth of the land we grown corn on just to turn into ethanol (i.e. not food, not even cattle feed, but corn that we turn into ethanol only, adn 10% of that land) - if we used that for solar, we could power ALL of the cars in the US on electric, and free up 90% of that corn-ethanol land to grow food or something else on)

Only die

okay :(

I was born in 1971 and grew up breathing lead fumes in a large city.

Woah, woah, woah, now, calm down there, Mr. Criminal

(kidding, but born in 1975 and I wonder how much I’ve been affected by lead, although I don’t have a criminal history. Maybe I got lucky in my timing)

Solving our oligarch problem and thereby solving our wealth inequality problem would solve more than 80% of what’s wrong right now.

Is Pepsi okay?

$3 rocket

This is ridiculous on its face. You’re talking $15k-$50k for such a missile. You can’t use model rocket engines. Hardware costs real money.

Water falls 30 feet into each pool before flowing another 20 feet into a smaller central void, making the waterfalls the largest manmade waterfalls in North America, according to the memorial’s website.

Really? 50 feet?

I mean… I’d be tempted to create a taller waterfall just because. Although I suppose whoever did would be viewed as a bastard, but I mean, it wouldn’t be that hard… lol

(I know the design has nothing to do with that ‘record’, it’s just a point of interest, but still surprising)

delightfully so

Oh dear. lol. Perhaps the idiots who wrote that idiotic take on things should have actually done a little research first. It’s so beautiful to see companies make stupid mistakes.

I have had seven heart attacks. I am currently on dialysis. I’m 51 years old. The chances of me seeing 60 60 seem pretty slim to me right now. Oh and I’m a wheelchair user because after getting an amputation 3 years ago I have not been able to walk since. I can transfer and I can drive myself to places but I don’t go anywhere because I have absolutely no energy to go anywhere. Literally when I try and stand up and do anything, you know that feeling you get when you’re like. If I just sit here for a couple more minutes I’ll have energy to do what I need to do? Yeah, I never get that energy. I always have to fight myself to stand up and do anything at all.

Having said that, the way I approach life is simple. I try not to waste time on things that have happened in the past, because I can no longer change those things. The past is the past and it is what it is.

I try and plan ahead for the future, but I don’t worry about the future because it’s not here yet. But more on that in the moment

What I do focus on is taking every single day as it comes. Every single moment as it comes. Because that’s what I have.

I can’t do anything about the future yet. I certainly can’t do anything about the past. I can only affect the present. And if I spend all of my time in the present worrying about the past and the future, I waste the present and that means that my past is full of me worrying about everything and not getting anything done.

If you’ve done everything you could do about the things that are going on in your life, no additional good comes from worrying about the things that haven’t happened yet. Have you prepared for the future as best as you can? Then sit back and relax and let it come. You’ve done whatever you can.

I’m not going to be this amazing person. That’ll be remembered forever when I die. I’m going to be one of the countless nameless people that might be remembered by a few people but not for long

So what do I live for? When I go places I like making people smile and laugh when I can. I like holding the door open for somebody. I especially like holding the door open in my wheelchair because that blows people’s brains wows and breaks their brains. And I have to laugh as I’m going but but but what? You can’t hold the door for me, here at a wheelchair. And I giggle it them and tell them that it’s one of the things I enjoy doing the most.

I try and brighten people’s day if I can. And if I can’t, I don’t worry about it too much. Thanks

I spend time on the internet browsing. I get involved in arguments far more than I should. I keep trying to get better about that. If somebody is going to be bone-headed and wrong in the internet, it’s not my responsibility to educate them. Just let it go man.

Realize what’s important to you. Work on the things that are reported to you.

10 years from now, of all these things that you’re facing, what are you going to think about 10 years from now? Work on those things. And don’t sweat the rest as much.

You know, as a teenager, we all think everyone spends their time thinking about us. And hopefully when we’re an adult, we realized that really, nobody gave a fuck. Nobody really paid attention to us. Not in the way that we thought everyone was looking at us. In the same way, these things that seem so looming and large to you now will not in a few years. So don’t worry about them.

Take them seriously, do what you can about them, and then let it go. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen. Affect it positively however you can and then let it go man.

Although the drawing’s eyebrows are not as surprised as the real dude’s are. lol

This reminds me it’s time for an Animatrix rewatch :)

My only problem is that it’s not just cables, but like 10 banker boxes of crap that I don’t want to throw away in case I ever need, but it takes up space in the apartment and the main reason is because i’m poor enough that I can’t afford to replace all of that shit, but that shit just needs to go.

If I didn’t have that clutter (in the boxes, outside of the boxes), I’d have a neater place, and that would make it more pleasant to live here.

I have been downvoted so many times when I’ve responded to claims that “nothing ever dies on the internet” or like information once on the internet never goes away.

sure, a lot of it is still around, but a shit ton is NOT. Case in point.

But sorry, I have no topical answers to help :(

Exactly this! A few times in my adult life I’ve sought out cheap treats and thought - I liked these as a kid.

Disappointment every time. lol

I figured someone would do something with that (I realized after I typed it and thought - eh, let someone else have some fun, too lol)

No, dumbass, withherknife.

(Thank you for playing along with my stupid and lame setup hehehe) <3

And if you’re not a bottom, would that make you a trisexualtops?

…okay, that’s really stretching it there…

i don’t think so