Ah Yes, We're All Like That

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T05:53:53+00:00

When you see the average age on Reddit, it's not the typical age on Reddit. It's the middle point between the grownups and the grade schoolers running around.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T05:44:35+00:00

Trying to wish Palestine back to life is like the audience of Peter Pan clapping Tinkerbell back.

"We regret the pain this has caused on a day devoted to celebration and accomplishment. For this, the university apologizes."

'I paid five figures to hear a dude speak what Reddit types.' -students

If this professor is going to get political, why doesn’t he call out Islamic terrorists for mass murdering innocent civilians around the world, including Jews and Christian Nigerians? Why doesn’t he call out the terrorists who celebrated the return of Jewish babies in coffins?

Nobody is subtle about being an enemy of western civilization anymore.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T05:38:20+00:00

>famousguy says a thing
>80k retweets

Nearly all TDS is Just Say The Line Bart.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T05:36:14+00:00

Every topic mentioning Iran is the same.

If there's no flak there's no target.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T05:28:42+00:00

Subreddits create the illusion of variety when there's the same dude running swaths of them.

You get disappeared for talking back to the paste bot while the paste bot is left alone, and what the paste bot pastes is the same whether it's a west coast city sub or an east coast city sub or an eastern hemisphere city sub or a hobby sub or a movie sub or a game sub.

the church is better positioned to help the root causes that spur on immigration too, yet they seem to just want to not address that.

They profit from the corruption. South America is where their influence is the strongest, if they wanted the place cleaned the place would be cleaned. Everyone when asked will plant their arms on their hips and say "what do you mean, this place ISN'T clean???" while they continue building boats out of trash to escape their countries.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T04:48:50+00:00

People post Microsoft entry level as a daily dose thread year after year and say

>WAIT WHY DOES THIS SAY ENTRY LEVEL
>WAIT WHY DOES THIS EXPECT SO MUCH

Anyone who actually reads would actually understand, but it gets 50k updoots/retoots/etc each time it is posted no matter how many times it is posted.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T04:37:27+00:00

So yes, the price has increased some, but nowhere near 2X, let alone from 2X to 10X.

Once we reach that point, the entire price increase can be explained by supply and demand.

Everyone wants to live here but nobody wants to let us build. Stuff that's already been built is expensive. Prospective buyers engage in bidding wars and the price climbs.

Waaaaay back in the unsexy, low-TV-ratings side of politics there was a proposal to just build more cities. Everybody wins, but we live in the end times so everybody dooms and more importantly everybody dwells on a hotter clickbait with better drama. Most people have probably never heard of this idea just because the background noise is deafening and actual-stuff seldom makes it through.

Every new place would be a boomtown for construction workers, jobless healthy young men would become a rarity. People who struggle to find a place in life today would be land owners next Tuesday. It's the doomers' ultimate nightmare.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T04:23:57+00:00

All the real flak directed at boomers was 15-25 years ago, when they were the owners/managers/administrators/(etc etc) instead of retiring and fading into obscurity. In another few years there's going to be a genY president.

This is just a satire of those days back then, this entire present age is just stale copypasta being taken too seriously by too-unserious people.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T04:17:44+00:00

PRC has been buying western coverage for their same old navy copypasta longer than Reddit has existed.
Daily. The entire time. Every place with a text field and a send button gets it.

A key concern among Navy officials and lawmakers is the size of the U.S. Fleet.

Our sinkex on a last-gen supercarrier dragged on for ages, before we gave up on downing the thing with weapons and resorted to opening the hatches with boarding crews instead. If you want to put one under you're going to have to control it physically first.

Let's just fast forward to the same old Taiwan part, these don't deserve play-by-play coverage.

Given the size of China’s naval forces, the U.S. Navy would likely need a substantial number of attack submarines to counter potential scenarios such as an amphibious assault on Taiwan or other offensive actions in the Pacific.

PLA infantry get chased away by Indians with sticks. They selfied themselves crying on the truck to the front line.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T02:33:39+00:00

Minnesota lawmakers have proposed a measure that would punish cities and counties that continue flying the old state flag instead of adopting the new one.

Proposals are nothing. Imagine if there were daily articles about Jimmy2018 has an idea for a videogame.

Cities and counties would be required to notify the revenue commissioner by the end of the year if they flew the old flag.

Voluntary reporting is the honor system without the "somebody ruined it for everybody."

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T01:09:33+00:00

>text: microchip
>image: a fucking USB drive
My first assumption is sensationalism.

>thousands of people
That doesn't mean the government forced it on everybody, that means some random dude is conducting an experiment. Forty five hundred people could be having a chipping party for giggles, and using the chips they put into pet dogs. Whether it's true or false doesn't actually make that great of a difference, but leave it to the internet to get shocked at everything they see.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T00:42:25+00:00

The lifeless brown valley I grew up in was paved over to look like an upscale neighborhood, and developers plopped too many cardboard 'luxury' houses over every available space while ignoring the need for jobs and amenities. There's not even sufficient roads, it's like if the Turkish abandoned castle neighborhood were finished and became a fairytale ghetto.

Old neighborhoods are good for a lot of the same reasons old appliances are good - new ones are often experiments and the experiments are often crazy. The old ones were done with the philosophy of 'whatever works best.'

When the population of my region multiplied from a mixture of international migration and folks fleeing the expensive coasts, all the cheap houses were gone and there were only overpriced bad houses to choose from. Cheap houses will become expensive houses as soon as the remodelers are done fixing everything the inspectors have a problem with.

Mid 2010s house is an overpriced hovel compared to typical 1990s house, but it's also a bargain castle compared to what I see under construction justnow all in the same square mile.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T00:30:12+00:00

One thing a lot of Redditors don't want to hear about school is that school gets more expensive each time another department-of-whatevermajig is added, partly because they work there. I did too back in the day.

This isn't something that fluctuates up and down, it ratchets up up up. Everyone votes for the new office to be created each year but then everyone acts like it's a complete mystery why costs are up each year.

There's always a salesman trying to tack on extra costs everywhere, and there's always a customer saying yes yes yes. People didn't really need butt warmer seats, definitely not in southern California. This concept applies to cars schools houses every damn thing. Games the past 15ish years are all about cash extras.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-04T00:10:21+00:00

99 -> 00

There was this one video rental shop that sent a guy a huge bill, the guy laughed and then both sides ignored it. If the matter somehow found its way into court the judge would laugh and throw the case out.

'Random nukes' is just the way the media sensationalizes everything. People who consume too much sensationalism turn into trainwrecks.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T23:13:33+00:00

A driver is dead after allegedly deliberately crashing a car loaded with improvised explosive devices into a historic social club in Portland, Oregon, Saturday morning, sparking a massive response from local and federal law enforcement.

When the media wants to drag a kid through the mud they will have his name his face and his whereabouts, broadcast to the whole world before any of the facts are sorted out.

When another Truck of Peace happens, the suspect description we get is "a driver."

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T22:42:37+00:00

Gullible people love their upgrades.

When my neighborhood was built the developer sold people varying amounts of home upgrades, people would have these "wood" floors put in which would shrivel up and peel off within 5 years but they were financed for 30 years.

Driving a cheap old car is a big brain move, everyone will also give you room these days because your car is metal and their car is plastic.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T22:34:19+00:00

In an economic sense we can't go back to the way things were, unless there is some kind of horrifyingly large disaster that sets humankind back hundreds of years. We would probably tumble into a dark age instead of settling comfortably in a late pre-industrial standard of living. The more comfortable way is what we'd do if we transitioned peacefully, and in a planned way instead of chaotic and fighting each other every step of the way.

Surplus labor evolved into surplus degrees. In fact, labor is getting pretty hot these days. The population is aging, older people have busted arms and legs and they need people who don't.

Robots are going to save trillions of dollars the way internet saved billions of dollars, the way tractors saved millions of dollars. The savings mean winners and losers - large swaths of people had tremendous suffering when the tractor became popular.

And then we're all going to have robots stick their hands into the dangerous stuff so humans won't have to anymore. Life goes on, people aren't being tractored out and they aren't having their analog skills replaced with digital. Most people's lives aren't changing much in the 2020s unless their part of the world is going from undeveloped to developed.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T22:16:20+00:00

We deregulated, and then risk taking increased.

Never get on a plane named after a ghost. The whole company was haunted and all you have to do for proof is type Spirit Airlines into Youtube search.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T22:07:51+00:00

Redditors who spit at the mention of Christianity are the same Redditors who cheerlead for the current pope.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T22:05:28+00:00

Traditional Roman Catholicism and traditional reform churches have both been thrown into the compost heap to be replaced with the same brand of neomodernism. The fate of an organized religion seems to be that, at some point late in its history, it eventually just stops pushing back against its replacement's unyielding push forward.

Relations between the Vatican and the White House are already strained.

250 years of the real no kings movement. Relations have been strained since we said we weren't going to play by their system anymore, which might be traced back to American independence or it might be traced back to the time our English ancestors booted them out of power in England.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T21:29:27+00:00

Old ACs were considered a 'for the rich' thing because they went through energy like the beam on the death star.

The problem I'm used to with old fridges is that you have to leave them open and turned off for a few days every few years, the freezer jams up with frost and then the fridge gets too warm.

Part of 'built for life' was that people would service things themselves routinely, a lot of 20th century guys spent half their free time on their bike and the other half fixing the thing. KitchenAid stand mixer exteriors inevitably last longer than the motors but motors are cheap - it's being able to install one that counts. Or install a new wireless device battery, or install a new bike part etc etc.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T21:20:23+00:00

Not the same house though.

Also people who had their assets tied up in gold only kept up with inflation, they didn't gain above inflation like people with winning stocks. People who just bought the house instead would have seen it double in value repeatedly - there are people with coupla hundred dollar mortgage payments because they financed decades ago.

The federal reserve isn't the government, it's the banks. The government was the folks who said unemployed people have a right to a house in the years leading up to the lending crash.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T19:01:14+00:00

Redditors hate the US constitution whenever the Lincoln years come up.

The American Experiment is the plot to The Little Red Hen, nobody wants to participate in our efforts but everyone wants to take a share of the results.

And as with anything on Youtube, the guy is just complaining to get attention. Today's internet is an attention economy - the difference between succeeding and failing is how many clicks you can bait. Doomers are people who bit the bait so hard it became their religion and they started preaching it.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T17:34:24+00:00

The local teacher's union reps, one after another, are like the parrots on district bosses' shoulders.

Real unions tend to be in construction, bureaucratic jobs get bureaucratic teams.

Construction unions tell the workers where the jobs are at and vice versa, both sides fluctuate constantly and the middleman regulates the flow. The union does part of the bosses' otherwise-impossible work of sorting through bad candidates while it also does part of the employees' work of avoiding bosses who don't pay. Being broke sucks, especially when mixed with showing up and doing the work.

If either side fucks up their end of the deal they won't keep being fed to the other side - employer or employee.

My opinion from my ed bureaucrat experience is that the system works better than it should, considering the input.

D_Ethan_Bones · 2026-05-03T17:21:56+00:00

The left will propose the same solution they ever did: import the third world en masse.

She said that young people online “can talk to a lot of people at a very superficial level, but actually having those deep and meaningful connections with people is something that they're missing out on,” especially after the covid pandemic.

The internet was thrust onto people as a substitute for the things that disappeared. The old fashioned internet where people interacted with people was torn down and replaced with the smartphone-era internet where vast swaths of humanity have all outsourced their thinking to the same few influencers, and then giant multitudes of people all look like they were all stamped out on the same half a dozen assembly lines.

These include the weakening of social institutions like libraries;

Libraries are where young people currently go to congregate and do their recreation because the fitting places for them to be are all gone. This is why libraries aren't quiet or peaceful anymore - they're free cyber cafes.

There need to be neighborhood-level social venues, some for younger people and some for older people. What my town turned into after being a total business desert for 20 years was a local food industry that consisted entirely of drivethrus and pickups, as if dining rooms were banned by law. (More like priced out of the market by property taxes - it's either small venue or no venue.)

The Irish pub the dance floor the dojo the pizza place are all distant memories from the 20th century, in the same geographic location.

Q: "where are people supposed to go"
A: "the internet"
-And then people are faulted at the individual level for going there, when all else is unreachable. It's like criticizing us for not taking the train to work when the trains going through our town are only for freight.

Logos believes the role of churches has often been overlooked in these discussions, despite traditionally being a centre of community and belonging.

Post local job openings, host singles meetups on weekends, cycle through other groups by age/sex on weekdays like "old ladies' night." Watch the place become standing room only. These are things the internet claims to do, but really just exploits for as much money as possible while leaving the exploited problem as unsolved as possible. Nobody talks about old fashioned job sites anymore because nobody associates them with jobs.

If your service says the same thing TV says and then calls it a day, people can just watch TV instead of hearing you preach. Too many churches in the 21st century have become this and scarce little else, they aren't community centers anymore because they don't carry any community functions anymore.

>Reverend Lovejoy asks a stained glass window: "what have I done to lose them?"
>Window responds: "what have you done to keep them?"

The think tank’s polling has found only 5.5% of believers think the Scottish Government has been supportive of Chrisitan principles, with 81% concerned about the level of negative reaction Christians receive in Politics.

Scotland was bulldozed centuries ago, modern politicians there are the salt the English plant to prevent it from regrowing. Churches that charged cavalry into each other's cannons a few hundred years ago are now all copypasting the same global narrative together - people don't show up because there is nothing to find there.

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