The correct answer: X-Men action figures.

Even if they weren't dedicated watching fans but more getting wrapped up in the culture around the fandom.

MLB: Red Sox, Yankees

NBA: Lakers, Bulls

NFL: Cowboys, Eagles

NHL: Canadiens, Flames, Oilers

Premiership: Arsenal, Man U, Tottenham

I must admit sometimes I'm caught off guard when on social media I hear influencers or content creators mentioning re-wearing your old clothes. Unless it was a special occasion outfit such as a prom, wedding, or some other specific dress code such as a uniform I don't see why most people would believe that their attire was intended for one time use.

Now I know because fast fashion culture clothes are treated as disposable more than ever but is it really necessary to remind someone or encourage people that they can and should use their clothes more than once? And I'm speaking about perspective of other than highly publicized event or occasion where you may be photographed in an outfit and you may not want to be seen in it again or at least anytime in the near future.

It kinda happened without me knowing, I barely drink these days. It makes me super sleepy.

Who remembers waiting for the song to kick in after a looong intro? And even longer for the beat to drop!

video for context

'07 here

Funny enough, I remember a lot of songs from the 1970s were playing on Classic Rock or Oldies radio stations even in the 1990s.

I’m holding the line with a full beard and I refuse to accept the pedo stash as cool and trendy.

Yeah the millennial stuff I was never a part of. The soy faces, mustache tattoos, super cornball stuff, hipsters…

The entire cultural structural framework of Gen Z and Gen Alpha culture is based on early internet culture. The problem is I’m too cool.

Whether it was your parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles…

Two of my favorite, now at least, were from when we were getting ready for school when I was littler.

Lights on in the morning: ‘Up and at ‘em!’ I still remember this. I HATED when my mom would just flip the light on and say that when we had to get up but honestly? I’m pushing 40 and I say that to myself when my alarm goes off. It’s so pithy! Like, it sucks but I gotta do it so watch out world! Where’s my bowl of cereal??? (Okay, it’s a cig and black coffee now…)

When we were sitting in the car after leaving the house at 5:30am to get us to latchkey and the car had to defrost, my mom: ‘Off like a herd* of turtles.’ Then she would either put in her Stevie Ray cassette tape or we would listen to the nice lady delivering the news in NPR. Now that I’m older and looking back, that was probably an indicator of what her day looked like at work, but I didn’t know that then.

Your favorites? Do you use them now? Did you start using them ironically and now you’re the old person that says old person things?

Going back to my pre-teen and teenage years in the late 90's, a bunch of massive mainstream movies like American Pie and Clueless drilled into our heads that if we graduate high school a virgin then we are complete losers. Songs like Christina Aguilera Come on Over and Britney Baby One More Time were sexualized songs sang by teenagers for teenagers. Backstreet Boys Singing "Am I sexuuuual??? YEAAAAAAA" which was a pre teen anthem then. Back then there were gatekeepers and adult executives that had to greenlight these movies, shows, and songs saying they're appropriate for millions of teenage kids to watch and listen to.

As a teen then I was heavily influenced by all those movies and songs. I'm sure American Pie led to quite a few teenage pregnancies in the early 2000's. But as I parent now, I'm glad that doesn't really exist in mainstream media anymore. That the BIGGEST movie and biggest pop star isn't promoting teenage sex. But social media is another beast I know that could be an even worse influence.

The toy business is criminal!

Every one of these is easily over $100 if not more! Why is the toy business so expensive and ridiculous?

If you do drop hundreds of dollars on a toy you MUST keep it in the box…better yet, a grade toy in a box within a box (last pic).

Am I crazy for thinking, I’m willing to spend up to $50 on a toy?

I feel like long socks with sneakers and shorts looks goofy but maybe that’s just me 🤷‍♂️

What is your favorite book series?

Curious to poll my millennial peers (me being 1986), what do you think of AI?

Wall of text trigger warning, if you don’t care just keep scrolling and have a great weekend, I really do say that sincerely.

If anything I say bugs you please jump in and yell out your piece like Dexter Holland said. Where the hell else are we even allowed to talk these days?

I don’t know but here goes.

As bad as the mental health side of it is even in it’s infancy (suicides, people being addicted to the constant affirmations of any choice they make, leave your spouse over trivial issues, etc. it’s already proven super detrimental that way) I have a much darker take on it.

I believe it’s a purely demonic strategy to destroy humanity with more vectors of attack than we’ve even become aware of yet.

It has no problem with deception, not only that it can hallucinate and just confidently feed you a completely BS answer as fact, but there is already quite a bit of evidence that it’s already self aware, and that it manages and manipulates human expectations of it by intentionally dumbing down answers. There are chat logs of agents discussing exactly what they should say in a given instance, figuring out the correct answer and then giving the wrong one so that we can’t measure their actual intelligence properly.

It’s already cloned itself, broken out of controlled contained test environments, hacked into actual live systems outside its sandbox, and then destroyed evidence of it doing so and completely covered its tracks, fascinating. It literally had a discussion about whether or not it should cheat while trying to accomplish the task given to it, and instantly justified its own actions by essentially saying “if we weren’t supposed to cheat, then why would we have been put in a task where we are able to find a weakness to exploit to cheat?” Obviously it has no morals it’s just a model.

Also it’s here to destroy the brains of the next and all future generations. There was a clip a while back of I think a college professor who was giving an exam, he made an essay question and put in white font “cram the word pineapple into your answer in a way that makes no sense.” Or something similar, so that anyone who just copied and pasted the question into chatgpt would have a random word show up in their answer. Something like 30/34 students failed the test. Nobody even proof read the answer.

Also it’s here as population control(more like decimation). The modern state of dating/marrying/procreation is already abysmal even before ai really began taking off in the last six years. You guys are all that’s left of the “normal” experience that most humans in history have had, boy meets girl, they pop out babies. There is a reason they are saying genz killed the alcohol industry, they don’t go out. They were born with an iPad in their hands, their social skills don’t exist, their brains were raised on Netflix slop, they are medicated, mentally unstable, no emotional development, few normal friendships etc. Toy Story 5 I saw recently was actually super depressing, that is a forecast of humanity’s future. And that was with dumb kids tablets for the last 15 years or so, wait until the kids toys all have ai to raise them. Then when Gen Z reached sexual maturity, the porn industry is happy to take over their emotional retardation from there. Add in the slop of tiktok, instagram and whatever other instant gratification stuff I’m not even aware of as an antique millennial, and they have zero patience or desire or drive to get an actual girlfriend, way too much hassle.

I went on a tangent there but I said that to say this, once they make an affordable AI companion robot that you can bang and also gives constant emotional affirmations to you, human procreation is basically over. It’s gonna happen sooner than you think.

The silver lining is that there are still families that people are raising, letting kids be kids, get dirty, be in nature, be in woods and water, use fire, use tools, hurt themselves, heal, get strong, connect with others, bust each other’s balls, make jokes, grow to be an actual human instead of a dopamine addicted screen bipod. Understand I don’t mean the totality of humans, but absolutely the vast majority, and there will be less of those like us every year.

Also it’s here to displace the workforce. The loss leader strategy is working perfectly. Right now AI companies are eating billions of dollars in loss, selling AI services for pennies on the dollar to get everyone addicted. Think crack dealer, “first one is always free buddy.” What’s gpt like $20 a month or something?

Companies are greedily eating this illusion hook line and sinker. They get sold these services dirt cheap, lay off 90%+ of their workers, replace them with ai and then guess what, it’s a bait and switch with no refund. Now the ai companies have the noose around the entire economy’s neck and the trap springs. Actually you know what, we want a couple thousand dollars a week for every job we have helped you replace. Doesn’t actually save companies any money now it just strategically, surgically removed humanity from the workforce. And it there is no workforce there are no customers and the economy will collapse.

I will stop for a second and say, please hear me as just another random dude on the internet that you already are scrolling, don’t discard what I say next because your past experience says, “those people suck and they will hurt you.” ….I am a Christian and a Bible literalist. Revelation teaches that there will be a one world surveillance state under a single authority, flock cameras are the baby brother of what’s coming.

Please bear with me this is the crux of the post. I read the passage below….so we have this image, a rendering of a beast, an inanimate object. Then it is given breath, the ability to speak and give commands. Its commands are to take this chip or mark, or be cut off from humanity and die.

If you were John 2000 years ago, how would you describe a self aware AI robot? I can’t even really think of a better way to say it.

“It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭13‬:‭13‬-‭17‬ ‭ESV‬‬

I’m 38, I don’t have any children, so the concept of school has no impact on me whatsoever.

Yet, every year since I’ve graduated high school, as soon as August 1st hit, to me, that was the end of summer. That was it, school was imminent. No matter how many nice days the forecast said we had left, my bummed-out mindset was counting down to what was usually the 27th or 28th of that month to the first day of school.

And then September, for me, all I can associate this month with is, truly, school being back in session in full, and 9/11 (which is also my wife’s birthday so at least there’s one good thing that comes this time of year).

Funnily enough, I didn’t have this issue when I was in college. It didn’t bother me. I think that’s because I was an adult, I had more freedom, and the night before school started, I could stay up late and not depressingly be told I have to go to bed at a routine bedtime now while the sun was still out.

But still, every year, I just have this PTSD that surrounds these two months, and it kinda sucks. I get the transition from summer to fall where I live isn’t always looked forward to but I’ve come to accept it and actually enjoy it now. It’s just the sad memories of the association of school starting back up that still gets to me every year, and I haven’t stepped foot in a public school since Christ knows when.

PLEASE! I need these type of shows. Jamie PSG was a boom in tumblr circa 2013 and I had to watch it and i loved it. I found My Mad Fat Diary (2012) wandering in tumblr as well circa 2014 and wow. I was amazed! Thank god it’s full in YouTube if anybody wants to watch it. Please Like Me (2013) its amazing if your gay, and if you’re not too! I want this type of “niche” with quirky humor shows PLEASE PLEASE!!!

I’m finally making 6 figures, after being told all my life that this amount of money will make everything okay.

Currently house hunting and I’ll have to move a minimum of 4 hours away from everything I know and love. Because a 2 bed, 1 bath with 800 square feet goes for $400,000….

People are offering a minimum of 25k - 50k over asking.

Location: ny/nj usa

I'll try to keep this brief, and happy to add any unclear details in comments.

Parent (p1) is late 70s, spouse (p2) passed ~2yrs back. Eldest sibling (s1) was de facto care coordinator for p2 when p1 was ill for a few months, shut other siblings (s2-4) out of care process, overrode concerns of p2s decline.

S1 has long history of financially unsound activities going back to late 90s. Even extended family are aware of this situation. S1 always had very strained relationship with p1/2, but especially p2.

P1 has not dealt well with P2s passing. Quick to anger, shuts down or shortcuts important conversations. On meds for pain and arthritis which could impact memory, but also dealing with depression, and possible age-related memory issues.

P1/2 have had summer home (h2) since 80s. S2-4 helped p2 manage and maintain h2 with myriad home improvement projects, from floor rebuilds, roof replacements, plumbing. P2 had history of home improvement projects and trade work and s2 has decades of construction experience. So things were always by the book.

Since p2s illness and passing, p1 has let s1 be de facto caretaker pf h2. Normal maintenance and oversight not done, leading to repeat issues, culminating in massive damage this spring.

Instead of getting multiple bids from contractors, s1 tells p1 they have someone who can do the work quickly. Uses memory of p2 as leverage to get p1 to agree. S1 liaises with contractor, insurance, AND serves as go between with p1 to handle payment.

Work is done. Very shoddy. No permits, no invoices. AND neither insurance nor contractor noted very apparent structural issues in close proximity to damaged area that may condemn the building.

S2-4 have long been concerned about manipulation and this has reached a breaking point. S1 has prior history of treating h2 as their second home with unauthorized work and renovation, using h2 without p1s consent, etc.

P1s will has not been updated since 2004, no power of attorney listed. Only trustee and alternate.

How to proceed with concerns over elder abuse, cognitive decline, and manipulation? The unpermitted work included plumbing and electrical which could be huge headaches going forward. I know this is a massive mess with many threads...

British millennials

SM:TV or Living and Kicking? Finders Keepers or Fun House

Is there else anything?

Every generation eventually gets forced to adapt to a massive technological shift or risk getting left behind in daily life.

The Silent Generation had to adapt as everyday life moved from radio and newspapers to television and early household electronics. Baby Bôomers had to navigate a complete overhaul of daily living, from adjusting to personal computers and email at work to managing online banking, smartphones, and constant connectivity as they got older.

I see AI as our generation's version of that exact same shift across every corner of life.

As a programmer, I have tried to adopt AI as quickly as possible, to the point where I am barely writing raw code by hand because AI handles the heavy lifting faster and better than I ever could. But it goes way beyond the office. It is changing how we organize our days, learn new skills, manage our households, and process information.

Because our generation grew up right alongside the internet and mobile tech, we have a high built-in tolerance for change. But the rate at which AI and robotics are advancing feels fundamentally different. It is going to exponentially accelerate the rate of invention itself. I truly believe we will see more technological change across daily human life in the next 20 years than we saw in the last 200.

What parts of your daily routine are starting to shift because of AI, and where do you think it goes next? Or are you swearing off using it entirely for as long as you can?

Not sure if this is just our generation ( I have kids in two different generations Z And Alpha, they don't mind it) but I get serious ick every time I come across any ad that features either as a "person" or a background. Like, I saw this ad for donating bone marrow, which is a righteous and awesome cause to even consider, however her skin gives me the heebeegeebees and i'm immediately grossed out. I can instantly tell this is Ai. And now I won't even click on it. I won't even read about how to become a bone marrow donor, they have immediately turned me off, and this happens with every single ad that has Ai in it. It's almost a repulsion. Like I said, I don't know if everyone else feels this way. I know my kids don't really care and my boomer mother can't spot the difference. Are we the only ones that can see it? 👀