I’m in my mid-40s. I simultaneously feel 20 and 70 and that becomes about 327 when I interact with anyone under tha age of about 30.
Once you hit 40, you enter a whole new plateau of consciousness. You start dressing for comfort instead of looks. And the only friends you have are the people you’ve been talking to you for the past 20 years. And the prospect of making new friends Has absolutely no interest
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I’m 42, I dress fly as hell, and my employees are young models. I have no friends, lol- my life is all work and my family.
guess I have been 40 all my life
Ehhhh depends on the person really. Not everyone has a close circle of friends they have known for 20+ years. I have several but wpuld still be happy to make more.
Accurate.
And the only friends you have are the people you’ve been talking to you for the past 20 years.
Mostly because it’s impossible to make new friends over the age of 40
I think it’s because we are all “choosier” with prospective friends due to time being valuable. You don’t want to invest if you know its probably not a perfect match up.
I’m a 51 year old (as of today) and I feel like I’m 25, and when I talk to people… Wait, I don’t talk to people…
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I’m 52 but I feel like I’m 90 from responses I get. I wouldn’t even give a shit but I need to work at least 20 more years. I’m actually okay with the idea, but I’m not sure there will be many jobs left. I can always turn into a vigilante I guess.
Something similar has been hitting me recently. I’m 30. So I was born is the last millennium, but you know, not by a lot. Most of my life has been the 20XXs. But even though it’s been 26 years of that, it just all feels so recent. Like it’s hard for me to call anything that happened after 2000 “old” because… old was last century/millennium. “That can’t be old, it happened just a few years ago!” Checks when it happened: 2012, 14 years ago…
Thinking about how we perceive the time we live through is weird. When you think about it, the lives of everyone alive today has been radically different than the vast majority of human history. There were times when things might not meaningfully change in your whole lifetime, maybe even several generations of people living the same way. Post-industrial revolution everything has happened so fast. Tech and culture changes so often that we conceptualize each decade in the 20th/21st century as being it’s own thing. (Obviously that wasn’t entirely the case, there’s all sorts of bleed over, but I’m just talking about how we think about it.) We talk about almost any other time in our history in terms of centuries and some key historical turning points.
I have now written way too much for a comment on a shitpost. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I’m 34 and pre2010 is kinda old to me. Even Raspi1 is old to me.
I’m not there yet, but I’m slowly shifting to view pre-covid as “stuff from back then”. It’s a turning point for me that makes the 2010s different from the 20s
Yeah I get that. “Old” to me is maybe around the 80s. I grew up around a lot of 80s stuff.
The music i listen to (since I was little ) is usually 60s through 80s, because those are the records I had. Some 90s and select new indie artists now too.
An “old” car is a 1969 chevelle. A 1991 f 150 is not an old car. The Xbox 360 is new. Etc. I regularly drive a 30 year old car and notice nothing I want or need (also I hate new cars but separate issue)
A huge thing about this is the tech. We went through insane technical revolutions in a super short period of time. Kids now dont have that. GTA 5 is how old, 14 years?
Tech basically peaked in 2012. Nothing has really been improving or groundbreaking for the common person since then. I think thats why when I think of 2012, I think oh yeah bout 4 years ago huh.
I mean my 2010 macbook still works perfectly. My 2001 windows 98 laptop, not as much.
I guess for music it also depends on the genres. For me 90s is ancient, since it’s basically the beginnig. 2000s is old classics with a sound that isn’t really produced anymore
I’m confused at this comment, but recorded works have been around since the 1800s.
“Modern” techniques started in the early 70s for recording and multitracking.
I’m a little scared if you think 2000s is classic. Its also one of the worst sounding eras in music history because of digital brickwall limiting.
Random example of a 2005 song that could have come out yesterday and would sound right at home with its amount of limiting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_(electronic_dance_music_genre)?wprov=sfla1
2000s was the era of Mainstream Hardcore and Classic Hardstyle
These genres are to some degree based on flopped synthesizers from the 80s, like Roland TR 909 and Roland Alpha Juno. Which made it possible for normal people to play around with that hardware in their free time due to low prices
edit: in 2000s DAWs became more accessable, which changed the sound and gave more people the possibility to make music on their own on their home PC
Ahhh I see. you are speaking of the electronic bleep blorps! Yeah, I mean electronic one could argue started in the 70’s as well but yes.
Also I’m not sure that hardware was ever that low priced. Good hardware has always been spendy. But anyone could still make that music today if they wanted to . The synths are still around. Propellerhead reason is still out there for free if you wanted.
Yeah, the tech thing makes sense. I used to get really excited by new pieces of tech. My first smart phone, a new game console, etc. Now? I couldn’t even tell you off hand what model iPhone I have nor what the newest one is. When will I get a new one? Probably when my old one breaks.
I think on the gaming side of things, the turning point might be around the Switch. Basically the point where Nintendo stopped experimenting with weird new things for their consoles. They basically just joined MS and Sony in releasing a standard console that could play modern games with the exception of it still having the motion controls from the Wii. The other companies also abandoned trying to do gimmick stuff like motion controls.
I tried to explain to my 23 year old grandson’s co-worker that we used to have to jack off to magazines and he had no idea what the word magazine meant. What a sad little wanker.
That’s an odd conversation to have with your grandson’s co-worker.
I mean, everyone has their kinks and I ain’t shaming anybody. But did you really jack off to the part of a gun that holds bullets??? /jk
Did you tell him it’s what you reload if the police haven’t come into the school yet??
/s
Modern porn is so much better anyway. Much better resolution.
Tell me you don’t know what a magazine is without saying it.
Magazines are/were 1200 dpi
Dude, I’m 44 and the 24 year old guy beside me seems like a child to me. He knows nothing of my cultural references of the halcyon days.
The wee bastard had never heard of the Lost Boys, Nine Inch Nails, Father Ted, Twin Peaks, Boris Yeltsin, Thundercats, The Waco Massacre, to name a few recent ones.
I’m 35 and just starting to see everyone under 25 as kids. Some look older so you’re not sure but as soon as you talk to them it’s like we’re from different planets.
I’m 48 and most 25 year olds look 15 to me.
Same, I think tv doesn’t help. I can’t express my horror the last time I was at the dmv and saw them giving licenses to literal children.
I’m 51, I have several 30-something coworkers, one in particular gets all my cultural references, one in particular gets none of them. It’s fun to get them together…
I’m 27, I know about Boris Yeltsin and the Waco massacre
For real, pick people of all ages and the general knowledge is all over the place. “What city is the furthest away from Chicago?” “Florida” facepalm
just wait til you hit 55 and there’s no foolin’ anyone anymore.
My brother was telling the “What’s black and white and read all over?” joke to our niece, and she asked what a newspaper was.
That’s a nun falling down the stairs, what does a newspaper have to do with it?
What you talking about, it’s clearly a killer penguin
What’s black and white and laughs?
The priest who pushed her.
This is why it’s important to isolate your children from life as you speedrun them through YOUR childhood first. You’re not just giving your kids one good life, but two bad ones!
I always see this stuff and really it has nothing to do with age. I think its the kid or parents interest in teaching and learning. When I was 9 I knew what an 1899 Victrola was (and no, despite my steam profile, I wasnt born in 1901). I knew what typewriters were and had a couple. I knew what a john Deere single row plow was.
I’m not really a history buff though. I just figured throughout life that we should know about things that came before us. I keep learning more about old things and some new things daily.
I think its just ignorance. If you are 13 today and seriously dont know what a CD is, thats just idiocy. maybe if you dont know what a cassette is I’d get it, but still. Its not hard to learn.
…that’s why I use “sunburned penguin/zebra” as my punchline
That’s all well and good until you tell it to kids born after the global species collapse
We were both 40 when our only son was born, and we didn’t have the patience for baby talk, so we always treated him like a little adult, and he responded as one.
So I was always surprised when I’d come in contact with his school friends, and they behaved like children! Luckily, his best friend was also super smart, and came from a neglectful situation, and responded to it by getting her shit together at an early age, so she was a good buddy for him. They’re still close friends, a decade after leaving high school, because they still can’t relate to people their own age, who only seem to be into Marvel movies and Anime.
My observation has been that kids are really fucking capable of learning. But the adults assuming “they won’t get it” end up holding back their full potential. So good on you!
who seem to be enly into Marvel movies and Anime
They are in their mid-30ies?
Good job! Unfortunately, a lot of people have kids and don’t know how to raise them.
Imagine how easy it would be to sew simple parenting classes into schools, but no, broken people are more profitable to capitalism. It’s not the parents fault. People have to scrabble to survive, what kind of parent does that pressure create. It’s not even the people, my friend. Compassion and empathy are how we change things in the world. Shaming helps nothing.
damn, Why ppl in lemmy has to be so old.
nah dude, I’ll be 21 forever!
I already have been in first year of college the last 4 years and that isn’t even a joke!
At what point does being carded go from “come on man” to “bless your heart”?
Ha. Was at the self checkout with Wine, so the attendant had to come over and approve the purchase. The sign said ALL Wine purchasers MUST show ID. She didn’t bother to ask for ID, so I said “Umm don’t you have to check my ID?”, gesturing at the sign. She looks and me and says " Nah I think we are good".
So 55 is the Staff’s “I’m pretty sure I won’t lose my job over not chrcking this guys ID”
the key is to not talk to people
The real cause of the fall of society.
I like you. We should talk.
[scrambles off into the distance in opposite direction leaving a trail of dust]
Weird too to be 55 and physically feel 65 and emotionally feel 15 and have friends who are 35 to 45 who will make me feel socially 25 until my practically guaranteed death at 75.
Oh I hope I never lose the spark and stop feeling like I’m a 15 year old pretending to be an adult.
… 5… 85, 95, 105…
10x+5
I turned 37 and realised ive already become the grumpy old man down the road that i told myself i would never turn into when i was a kid. But honestly, WHAT IS WITH THE YOUTH OF TODAY!?
