like every now and then i see someone with their age being like 14 or some shit in twitter or some other site and im like how tf r u so young wtf grow up shithead
I cope much better with hearing "I'm 14" than "I was born in 2006". Now that is not okay. Gross.
I was being ironic, I wasn't sure how to better signpost the irony (thought this was a reference, but maybe it's too obscure)
Shouldn't be allowed to post on the internet till you're at least 16. Those shit opinions catch up with you
I believe the UK passed some law saying that people who post on the internet before they turn 18 aren't legally liable for the cringe. I'm very pro that.
I have two reactions to this:
God yes you're so right, children are so annoying, why can't they all have crippling anxiety like I did
and
Wait I forgot how old chapos are. These people are grumpy old fossils. I'm 17, they probably consider me a child. That's not right
No, children are the stupid annoying people who stand in the way of my locker. I'm a cool young adult 😎
You're at that magical age where you're too young for chapos and too old for libertarians.
This is me, but with 24 year olds.
(Not really, I get that 18+-somethings are full adults, I just feel really old on this site.)
I get that 18±somethings are full adults
I don't think 18 yo are "full adults". We're talking about people who still have to ask permission to go to the toilet... well, at least before the pandemic
Just because our school system doesn't treat them like adults doesn't mean they aren't adults.
They really aren't. They are ready to start learning how to become independent and definitely have the right to make decisions for themselves... but they're still learning. I feel like the idea that an 18 yo is "an adult" has more to do with the fact that they can work full time than the maturity they have, lol
We should give 14 year olds the vote.
They are clearly not fully independent, but none of us truly are. And trust me, most high schoolers are independent enough in a lot of ways to be treated like adults.
Tfw you're 30 but work at amazon so you gotta do the same... I dont think the amount someone is oppressed is very related to their maturity.
I remember dial-up internet. I actually remember no internet, even at school.
I had to copy Oregon Trail code by hand because my dad wanted me to learn how to do it on (I think) an Apple II.
Oh yeah - didn't have internet until, like, middle school. I tried to assume my sacred duty of Posting on Usenet and it was very confusing and tried to play Command and Conquer on null modem but people kept picking up the fucking phone.
We got internet in elementary school, and my dad (at that point) was working to set all of that up, so we were a bit of an early adopter household. So we got home internet around when the school district got it.
But I still never had a console. :(
Whatever, what's the point in a game you can't mod?
my family were early adopters on the internet train, but i do at least remember our teachers asking us if we had internet access at home when assigning projects
I asked this of my students in 2017. There are still a substantial amount of families who do not.
oh yeah for sure, but i lived in an area where you could expect the answer to be "yes" for everybody
ngl, I expect at least one of those families was lying.
Maybe I've just never lived in a real upper middle class community, but, uhhhhh, poor people have other priorities, and the library exists.
yeah i grew up in a suburb that ranged from "upper-middle class" to "almost billionaires" so there weren't exactly a lot of poor people in my school. not zero; there was a small area out of town where poorer people live that was included in the school zone (i had a mentor in high school from that area and he was one of the people that really introduced me to socialism. also he had internet access at home) but not many
This is wild to me. I thought those types of places only existed in movies.
and when i said poorer earlier i mean relatively speaking. i'd expect everyone there was still above the official poverty line.
My town growing up had a median per-capita income of $19k (in 2020 dollars). So this is what I expect from others.
hell yes...some of my favorite childhood memories involve coding in BASIC on an Apple II
Can someone give me some good examples of Millennials being wildly self-important narcissists because two seconds of political TikTok has me going full Boomer about the fucking teens and I'd like some ammunition to counter that.
I work with high school students every day, and I can tell you that they are exactly the same as they've always been, except with smartphones and a greater sense of impending doom
