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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also helps to remember the vast majority of users are children under the age of about 24. That really puts things in perspective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Do you see a 22 year old as a child? Lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I sure do. It's surprising you would disagree, so I'd guess that you are either very young yourself, or unaware of the facts. I'm almost north of the 40 border and the interns and junior associates at work literally look like children to me.

I'm not a neurologist but it's pretty much understood and accepted that brains aren't fully formed until 24 or 25, particularly in terms of judgement and rational though and emotion.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621648/

I'm an SME in a technical field (tax) so I need only refer to literally any thread to see abundant examples of petulant whiny children screaming about technical shit they don't understand. I remind myself that these are very young immature people still wet behind the ears, with very little real word experience, before engaging them in debate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unironically yes. Of course when I was around that age I didn't but now I really do. As far as maturity I don't see a major difference between an 18 year old and 22 year old. So you attended school a few more years? Entered the workforce for a few years? That's not maturity imo but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I wouldn't say child but definitely still in the teenager category imo although they're not actually teens ofc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wonder how this will change once you reach, like, 60 :D Would anyone under 40 be a child?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a reasonable thought and I'm curious too. Didn't Treebeard call Gandalf young once, and Gandalf is like 8,000 years old or something?

That said, I haven't seen or felt much change from early 30s vs late 30s, compared to a huge difference from early vs late 20s. My dad is almost 70 and I think of him as young-ish. Certainly not old anyway (although I know plenty of people a bit younger than him that I consider "old".) I asked him recently what he considers old and he said 85 or so. Guess it's all relative.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Shitposting aside: there is a valid point on there. Because we can't see our opposites in any discussion on the internet, we cannot take clues into account we otherwise might have. This leads to far-reaching misinterpretations. Imagine someone with a very weird and overly simplistic political stance they defend with tooth and nail. Now imagine that person to be some activist with a cap with political slogans on it. Okay, and now imagine the person to be not that, but a 15-year-old who just started to grasp the world around them but thinks they have it all figured out (puberty doing puberty things). Your reaction to either of them would be VASTLY different, wouldn't it. Imagine how many stupid internet fights would never have happened if it was known that one of the participants is a literal child that can't have a clue what they are talking about yet.

Yet, not knowing that we've been arguing with a child for the last hour and a half, we will leave the discussion with the impression that there are grown up people out there thinking childish bullshit. Don't get me wrong, there are those people, but they are not as frequent as one might guess from the internet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love that perspective, so true. It even goes the other way, YOU could be a literal child posting such a thought-provoking comment, we'll never know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What a classic.

Can you believe it turned 30 years old yesterday?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I refuse to take relationship advice from the internet. I wonder how many adults have gotten divorced because a teenager on Reddit told them to

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Every. Single. Post.

"You need a divorce. This is gaslighting and abuse. He/She does not respect you as a woman/man."

I remember this one post where a guy asked his girlfriend if she would bite the bullet and help the women in his very conservative family cook Thanksgiving dinner once per year. He was super apologetic but explained that the women in the family got super pissed and offended by women not cooking. He had already tried talking to them and they weren't having it. He was between a rock and a hard place. Clearly he didn't know what to do.

Reddit flipped their shit and said the guy had to choose between his girlfriend and his family. Obviously I am against traditional, conservative, gender-role bullshit. But I have dealt with plenty of shit to have a good relationship with my wife's imperfect family. And she has dealt with tons of shit to put up with my imperfect family. A good relationship is two people who do things for the other person. It's reciprocal and kind, even in unpleasant situations. This guy didn't choose his family and he won't change them. All they can do is choose to do it differently in their own house and raise their children differently.

I hate the relationship subreddits. Hot garbage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They should get a divorce. He obviously secretly believes in traditional gender roles being followed, and is trying to manipulate her into it with bullshit excuses. No other scenario is possible, no nuances are possible either. Everything is right or wrong.

This is sarcasm, just in case anyone wasn't sure :)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Average Italian violently discussing about their food absolute truth and eating shit the whole time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We let the flies lay maggots in the cheese 🤌

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep. Someone was talking about ear piercings and bodily autonomy. I commented that I wanted my ears pierced and my grandma took me to her doctor to have them professionally done instead of going to Claire's. Got downvoted to hell. Wtf.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where all I got was a drunk and stoned buddy of mine saying "Hey, hold still" while he jammed a dull earring through my ear into a potato.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ouch! That sounds painful!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was, but honestly, all these years later it was the popping sound that I remember most.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ah what the heck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Waste of a potato too, should be boiling and mashing em.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Throw in a chicken bone, a couple of carrots. Baby, you've got a stew going!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based gran, and I had no idea doctors do that. That's cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It was 1986. I remember it well. My Grandma was a gem!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I recently had a discussion with someone on Instagram, about freedom to and freedom from.

Turned out they are a Nazi cosplayer with multiple uniforms, going to actual Neo-Nazi meetings.

I got a strike on Instagram for mocking a bored ape owner, but the amount of actual Nazi sympathisers on that page is not an issue I guess.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Reddit moment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Bear Grylls entered the chat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Arguing over literal taste seems so utterly pointless to me lol

„There‘s no accounting for taste“

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Humanity does this to everything we touch eventually lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Usually when I get a really dumb comment from someone, I look at their profile and the only thing they ever talk about is sports. Not my idea, just an observation.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My brain refuses to accept someone voluntarily drinks their own piss regularly when they have other options readily available... If someone actually does this please post an ama... I have so many questions

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Maybe it's because it's sterile and they like the taste.

Edit: Y'all motherfuckers never seen Dodgeball? https://youtu.be/peUyLXrgYZ0?t=55

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is not sterile, that is a myth.

Edit to add source : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659483/#:~:text=Adult%20human%20urine%20is%20not,scientific%20exploration%20in%20urologic%20research.

Edit: Sorry, missed the reference. I've even seen the movie a couple times, I am just terrible at movie references.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wonder if the average Joe gets this.

Edit apparently not. The answer is a movie called dodgeball. https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxxescfF1pmQ3XUaXaJZWKXUbnt2FTZ6EG

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a sad day when you can't reference a movie without people correcting you. It's a little surprising, because that movie has been memed to death for like...20 years. Guess kids today on the internet haven't seen it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Actually it's only sterile in the bladder, once it passes through the urethra it picks up bacteria.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A true classic!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The mediocre loves mediocrity -- if a random person behaves like a 12 year old, then he (very likely) is a 12 year old or has a mind of one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You guys don't drink your own piss?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know, right? If we weren't supposed to drink our own piss then why does it look like lemonade?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The trouble is, everybody's piss looks like lemonade.

So what I'm asking is, would you mind filling this bottle?

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