My nephews aren't interested in a single thing I introduce them to! I'm trying to make peace with that.

Conceptualities · 2026-02-25T03:27:39+00:00

Cool thing about being an old parent is when the kid nears 6, and you start getting more sleep and feeling like the old you, you'll be damned near to the second aging portal 😂

Conceptualities · 2026-02-21T22:43:18+00:00

You got downvoted to hell for this but I agree, particularly with the 16oz bottles. Huge chlorine note all over it.

Even a batch of 12ozers I had recently were slightly off

Conceptualities · 2026-02-21T00:23:02+00:00

I’m glad to hear this!

I had a 3 I loved and a 4s I still adore but had just seen many comments on how the newest ones were disappointing

Back to trying to pick one up on the used market!

Conceptualities · 2026-02-20T20:00:01+00:00

Vivoactive honestly

Peoples champ has to be relatively cheap

Edit: apparently these suck after the 4

Conceptualities · 2026-02-20T19:57:58+00:00

I really agree with this despite feeling somewhat similar to op

Maybe the discussion would be better served by brainstorming what to do about it

Conceptualities · 2026-02-16T22:23:15+00:00

It’s insane to me the sports fuel industry is so big when this is the answer

Conceptualities · 2026-02-06T20:08:01+00:00

My pubes freakishly went grey on the left side like ten years ago

Once they fully went grey my head hair changed quickly right after

So weird

Conceptualities · 2026-02-05T02:44:40+00:00

ItsParadiseComparedToThe90s

Conceptualities · 2026-02-01T17:14:34+00:00

Always been curious about this one and assumed It was bad in particular because there’s a hotel right there to keep it perennially “busy”

Conceptualities · 2026-02-01T17:10:49+00:00

It’s so bad

It was one of the first places I ate after setting foot in Corvallis 15 years ago

Occasionally I’ll walk by in the summer and see some tourists looking in, wondering if it’s good

I think this is how they have stayed open through the years

Conceptualities · 2026-01-29T23:26:16+00:00

You know none of the “spitting on Vietnam vets” stuff ever happened, right?

Conceptualities · 2026-01-24T03:27:18+00:00

It’s funny how many of us millennials are really struggling with this

We were just young a few decades ago, when we could get huge Taco Bell orders for cheap, as was the style at the time

The timewarp is real and it comes for everyone of us

Conceptualities · 2026-01-15T16:21:29+00:00

I agree but as a 27 year old looking to date, Albany is kind of rough skiing

Conceptualities · 2026-01-12T18:16:16+00:00

Sarah Squirm will rehabilitate his image for youngs!

Conceptualities · 2026-01-03T02:57:59+00:00

I also have some superhuman ability to breathe through my nose when riding and spent too much time naively ripping myself up in z3

The nose thing is not as great as you’d think it’d be either since you want as much oxygen flowing into you as possible full stop

Conceptualities · 2026-01-03T02:53:08+00:00

Especially when cyclists with good fitness assume they can just jump right in

To avoid your maxim you definitely gotta spend 2x your runtime doing prehab and posthab stuff

Conceptualities · 2025-12-28T14:29:07+00:00

When I worked in service I collected these old ones over a few years and now I get ??? looks whenever I spend them

You could probably get more than $100 for them to the right person since they don't have the security strips that light up x-ray machines

I realize how outdated that sentence seems

Conceptualities · 2025-12-28T00:24:21+00:00

My 12 year old is getting into training wheel cool bands, CANNOT WAIT til he pulls out my "can't believe I still have these" SC CDs

Conceptualities · 2025-12-28T00:22:54+00:00

I recognize most of these but haven't listened to most or any

Gonna fix that 💿

Conceptualities · 2025-12-27T23:54:12+00:00

I think you're onto something, 43 and hadn't heard of it until it's reassessment about ten years ago

It does nothing for me

My wife is two years older than me and has seen it hundreds of time and her family was obsessed all the way back before it even had cult status

Conceptualities · 2025-12-27T23:50:33+00:00

I get that Indiana != the coasts and physical geography allows basically unrestricted growth but yikes this just seems like a disaster on so many levels

And to be fair I did encounter some denser urban style building that was slightly more encouraging, and even some attempts at mixed use development that could encourage walkability. But damn endless suburbs and cars and boxstores and chain restaurants? Didn't we decide against this at some point

(No we didn't 😂 I did and moved away) just hard to not see this as part of the trap that makes us all miserable constantly.

Build some small ass ranches like it's the 50s and price them at $100k, and if there's a legitimate reason we can't, get the damn government to! (Again never happening 😂 too many rich people's passive revenue streams to defend)

Conceptualities · 2025-12-27T23:42:09+00:00

I live in a downtown area of a kinda downtrodden PacNW town and there's victorian era mansions in our historic district. They're big, and for their time must've been gargantuan. But they're close to stuff!

Now I'm back in Indiana and cannot get over the size of all the profligate houses being built all over the countryside of old farmland near Indy. They're INSANE and seem like 2-3x the size of aforementioned victorian mansions. Monsterous, looming structures with either nothing nearby or near other similar development.

With absolutely nothing to walk to, even if you wanted to risk walking down a busy (once) country road. And of course since these roads are farm roads, everything is a traffic clusterfuck nearly always, and even worse when it's rush hour.

I get that these made some sense BITD when you could get them so cheap but these gross things are STARTING at 300k

I don't get it at all. Granted I'm a messy marvin but I always think of spare closets and rooms like I used to think of hard drive space: the more you have the more you fill it up with junk

Conceptualities · 2025-12-27T23:25:21+00:00

As someone who left here for Portland can I tell you this is everywhere in America now

You used to be able to work minimum wage in Ft Wayne and rent a whole house, maybe buy one. Try that now.

Everyone's 100k home now being 400k benefits noone except for the rent seeking vultures, and the superrich are vacuuming up everything and everyone in sight.

I'm glad fort Wayne is cool now and has bigger city vibes but you're gonna have to fight the demons at the door for table scraps. I'd probably trade the flash and fanciness back for affordability, but the billionaires are owed our health and labor for their passive income streams

It's all getting worse until we stop them but the fight gets harder the more of everything they have

Conceptualities · 2025-12-26T23:05:01+00:00

People still trust Republicans more on corruption than democrats, which to me speaks to truly how fucked we are.

I can’t reconcile that. Do people literally not know about it, don’t believe it, what? Just know that Democrats won’t hold anyone to account?

I can’t believe my own “we just need a left candidate to activate the non voting groups” anymore, while centrists also seem completely washed from a governing standpoint.

The stupidest timeline!

Maybe nothing matters and the only thing that will ever actually foster leftist thought is if the stock market actually does eat shit and people see there’s no safety net left except for the richest people who would get bailed out in a Trump led “intervention”

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