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
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
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 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.
Opinion dismissed
Counter-argument: voting got us legal pot.
and gay marriage... :thinkin-lenin:
Well, only in some states.
vooting rn, brb
deleted by creator
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.
post hog(age)
Old enough to remember my childhood landline phone number.
does that count as old oh fuck
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