I remember buying a Sony mp3 CD player with 5-second skip delay for $80.

Everyone was still using regular CD players with their 80 minutes of audio, carefully holding their precious device.

While I was living like a god, playing over twenty hours of music, dropping my player over and over, without losing a beat.

I’m full of micro plastics.

We are all Japan on this day.

Konnichiwa bitches.

You’re never too young to have a midlife crisis. Have two or three.

Ham radios are awesome though and that’s less of a midlife crisis hobby, and more of a crisis hobby.

Wait, BDSM is a group event?

I thought it was more like a partner tennis, not community soccer.

30yo kind of have their lives together.

Have a coffee. Just chat like people. Expand your network. The worse that can happen is you shut it down.

From my own perspective, there will be a generational gap. I’m 40, and I can connect with someone around that age. But lower than 30 or older than 45, the connection is platonic.

Especially since PayPal has a history of locking people’s accounts.

Back in the day, people used PayPal for e-commerce and if they didn’t like you, say you sold “Fuck PayPal stickers”, they would absolutely freeze your account with all the money in it.

My kids went through a period where I could wrap a box of crayons up over and over and that would make their whole day. Literally beaming at just getting anything.

I’m going to go against the grain and suggest finding people with like-minded life situations.

I had a friend who has a divorce at age 40. I did all I could as a friend, provide sympathy, check in. But he was extremely miserable, or just downright offensive.

Dating is hard at that age - I get it. I don’t need to hear his opinion about why women of today aren’t what he wants in every conversation.

I also cannot play his wingman. No, I’m not going to “pretend” to flirt with girls at a bar with him when I’m married.

But it became offensive. Like my niece turned into an adult and he asked: “Is she looking for a man?” Dude, you’re twenty years older. WTF.

Joke or not, as a married man, that’s not where I am in life. And yeah, I absolutely stopped hanging out with him because this version of him is hard to deal with.

They still do.

This is what’s crazy about it all.

This is it.

My wife comes home and fires on all cylinders about her day. Then I share how much my one coworker sucks and what they did today.

Then we wonder about the heat death of the universe.

Do you… Like stuff?

I thought I was losing it because this app wanted to save things to a “downloads” folder. Only to find out it saves it in something like

documents/app name/downloads Instead of

Downloads/

As if he came from the Nazi-verse where everyone is a Nazi and was like, “Oh boy let’s check out this punk show”.

I always wondered about this. Like what if it’s just one person, who is extremely prolific?

And now you might say, “There’s a dozen accounts.”

Well what if they are extremely prolific and made multiple accounts?

As a kid, back before we had wikis and websites with all the information you want, I thought it was the funniest thing when I gave my Magikarp hyper beam.

brand new X-wing or lightsaber or landspeeder isn’t all that different from one that was built 50 or even 100s of years ago.

If you want to get extremely weird… The Old Republic takes place 3600 years before the original trilogy.

Tech is mostly the same.

Compared to 3600 years in reality, we went from pooping in a hole to pooping into a magic toilet that sings you songs while spraying you with water.

Isn’t there a community on Lemmy for this level of unhinged?

If not, we need one.

Or… Here me out, don’t do that.

By giving them money, from their perspective, you’ve accepted their t&c. If they get data or not, that’s just icing on the cake.

I used to roll my eyes when Redditors posted anti-police sentiment, I thought they were just being edgy. Turn out they were right.

Glad you recognize the problem.

I was pretty “cops are kinda okay” to full blown ACAB after this story, where a my neighbor, a man in a wheelchair, was shot 9 times in the back of the head because Ryan Remington has a trigger finger.

9 times. In the back. 60 yo man in a wheelchair. And Ryan Remington is still Scott free.