When your family does nothing but put you down because they’re still living in an idyllic 1950’s fantasy world where all your issues mean you’re just not working hard enough, it can make you want to off yourself. Especially when that same family clearly didn’t budget well and is financially fucked themselves because they were living beyond their means and yet they get angry at you because you asked for help for buying fucking $5 of soap that one time you were really bad off.

In effect, the fruit is a nonce.

What’s the fruits name, Jimmy Savile?

You struggle to make new connections as you get older, and as old connections fall, you become more isolated and realize just how few people give a shit that you exist at all.

“We may not be able to prove it was ever used against us and that doesn’t matter as long as we can build our own and use it against others.”

I fucking hate this boring dystopia we exist in.

Shocker that a rapist will never understand the word “no.” He probably thinks Greenland is “playing hard to get” or some sick loser shit.

Also, and I’m just throwing this out there, maybe the circlejerk of nostalgia bait for Gen X/Millennials means fuck-all to younger people in general because it’s the nostalgia of their parents, not their own thing?

Like, aren’t we seeing this in so many different properties? As time marches on, interest wanes? Nobody cares about Marvel movies anymore. Nobody cares about Star Wars anymore. The most hardcore fanatics tend to be older and had the originals, which were literally original content, as things they grew up with. Part of the mystery and excitement of them was how much was left unexplained. Seriously, the Clone Wars was this mysterious fucking thing when it was just an offhand comment by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope. Now we have entire TV series dedicated to the background of the Clone Wars. Mystery gone. The first season of The Mandalorian brought back a sense of mystery to the series and then promptly dropped it to mix it in with every other piece of Star Wars memorabilia.

Young people want their own stuff that they’re growing up with, they don’t want rehashes of the shit their parents obsessed over.

Look at the continued interest in Adventure Time spinoffs, for example. Adventure Time first came out when I was just shy of 29. It would be fodder for the children of people just slightly older than me. It was also enjoyable for older folks who enjoyed silly fantasy, which gave it wider appeal. It persists more because it was an actual original thing that some people grew up with.

We live in an era where copyright that lasts 100 years after authorial death has broken corporations brains and they are scared to death of anything original in case it might not be a clear moneymaker. Letting interest in a new property grow over time is almost unheard of in the Netflix era of two seasons and then fuck you, it’s over. So even when new properties are explored, most aren’t given enough time to mature into something that becomes truly nostagliac for a younger generation.

If corporations want people to be as invested in long-lived series, they have to allow the option for new, interesting series to take the stage. Is it really a shocker that people are over games that started in the NES era? That young people want stories and ideas that reflect the world they live in, not the one their parents grew up in? Young people absolutely lose their shit over Undertale and Deltarune, both games made by a single auteur developer. Pokemon, referenced in the article, were sleeper hits that took time before they became an absolute craze.

I’m in my forties, and I constantly talk about how the world our parents brought us up to live in was dead before we were born. It’s the same but at an accelerated pace for kids these days. The world we know and are trying to prepare them for no longer exists. Our stories and nostalgia become meaningless for our kids because it doesn’t speak to their experiences.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

No, these are the bollards I’m talking about, they have actual bollards at various places on this stretch of bike lane.

My point is they could be effectively used in more places. I’m not a fucking idiot, I know what an actual bollard is. I’m talking about a concrete post with a rebar center firmly affixed to the base concrete/asphalt. Why would I even be using the word “bollard” if I didn’t know what the fuck it was?

I’m not talking about these:

Yes, that’s my point, there are actual bollards elsewhere on this stretch of bike lane, and I’m proposing actual bollards on this curb.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, how are so many people misunderstanding this?

These are the actual bollards I’m referring to. Fuck me. Why does everyone assume I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about. I know what a fucking actual bollard looks like. It’s a concrete post with a rebar center that extends down into the base concrete/asphalt underneath. It’s the whole reason I used the word “bollard.”

I’m definitely not talking about these worthless things:

My point is those curb markers are not enough, as evidenced by one already being run over and torn away. Which is once again why there should be actual bollards there.

“If so, you may be entitled to compensation for your loss.”

Hey there, fellow rat people.

This is, emphatically, not a crosswalk, and is the bit I am talking about. It’s a raised curb which still protects the biker and extends between the two crosswalks but not crossing over them.

I guess my point is an out of control vehicle can still fly over that curb and cream a biker and/or pedestrians so it seems (to me) like a good place for bollards.

Wider view showing in context with the crosswalks:

Nobody is forcing you to watch Donald Sutherland films… oh wait, nevermind, misunderstood the post.

but who knows, I might be wrong

“But fuck it, who cares if I’m wrong, we ought to indiscriminately murder the infirm for the crime of being infirm.”

I hope this motherfucker gets hit with a brick and is suddenly infirm himself. I’m sure he’ll think he’s the exception to the rule. Especially since this motherfucker is already 52. Sounds like he’s getting old and infirm even without a brick to the skull.

Sorry for being so angry, getting cancer at 42 through no fault of my own and having jackoffs like this think I should die makes me wish they’d get a taste of their own medicine.

It’s nice to see the traffic bollards, but they really couldn’t put any on the corner that the biker turns right on at the end?

It’s definitely nice to see effort put into separating it from the rest of the street, which is the safest option for cyclists.

I mean, it depends a lot on where you are I suppose. I am stuck in a backwards, conservative, largely MAGA hick town where all the white people seem super glad that we’re deporting a bunch of their friends and neighbors considering this a big farming town, and we have a lot of immigrant farm workers. They don’t seem to care that the white people left over aren’t strong or resilient enough to actually do the farm work nor do they want to because they think they’re above it.

I don’t have any friends here, and I am staying with family who while not MAGA is still very conservative in the economic sense, so I get a lot of grief for being broke and having cancer and acting like I should be worshipping the ground they walk on because I’m not on the street instead of that being the bare minimum you should do for family who did nothing to get saddled with an insanely costly disease.

So I huddle inside and try to avoid going out as much as possible because there isn’t much here for me. All the people with educations and thoughtful opinions leave this town in their twenties at the latest. I’m not going to suddenly meet a whole group of smart, thoughtful people. It’s also not even particularly good to look at, it’s a drab, dirty, desert town without a lot of trees and a bunch of concrete.

Like seriously, when you’re in a situation like mine, what the fuck is going outside even for other than being reminded that you live in fucking hell?

I put a trans mask on your trans masc so they can be trans masked while they are trans masc

For states that have had all-mail-in voting for decades now, like Oregon and Washington, this is basically wholesale disenfranchisement of the whole state.

I think you mean first rule if Project Mayhem.

…and making them involves not talking about it like they’ve already won. Excuse the fuck out of me for knowing that allowing them to dictate the terms of reality means they get to control the conversation which is how we fucking got here to begin with.

Look just because he’s looting the fucking US doesn’t actually make it his money and you do us all a disservice by acting like it is his money instead of ill-gotten gains stolen from the fucking taxpaying populace.

How we talk about these things matters and normalizing it as “his money” hurts all of us.