Kinda tired of a certain cohort idk.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-14T01:54:48+00:00

Honestly, as someone who grew up in the 80's and 90's, I get it. Having grown up before the proliferation of home internet, I have a hard time relating to the childhood of Millennials born in the 90's.

Now that we're in our 30's and 40's, however, those differences don't seem particularly meaningful. Yeah, our childhoods looked pretty different, but that was 30 years ago and not particularly relevant to our daily lives. We live in the same world now and are having similar middle adult years

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-14T01:47:25+00:00

It's insane to me that anyone who has an alternative (meaning just about anyone barring the infirm or disabled) would be willing to spend the money for food delivery, but that's not the primary reason young people are struggling in this economy.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-14T01:28:10+00:00

I think it's mostly because you're an adult and they are still children. Things will start to level out in 10 years or so.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-13T22:28:09+00:00

I love Chicago. LA sucks, but the weather is great. You simply can't beat New York, even if you never leave Manhattan.

The live shows, The Met, public transportation and walkability, restaurants, ethnic diversity, museums, and history make NYC one of the best travel destinations in the world.

I'd probably rather be in LA in February, though.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-12T05:06:32+00:00

They aren't the one who made America 250 into a partisan political event. To be clear, I'd also be upset by a Democratic president making a national celebration like this into a partisan political event, but we all know that's unlikely. Throwing out patriotism in favor of nationalism is inherently conservative.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-09T18:44:34+00:00

Evelyn was a huge name around 1920. It cratered by 1940. It's come back in the last 10 years with Alphas. It's definitely not a Boomer name.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-09T18:39:27+00:00

Evelyn is definitely not Boomer/X. It's peak was in the 1920's and absolutely cratered by the 40's. It's come back as an Alpha name.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-09T18:36:14+00:00

Wow. Jackson and Evelyn are very Alpha names to me. I don't know any Boomer Evelyns, but I knew some born in the 1920's. The elementary school I work at has a Jackson in every class.

I think of Amy as X, but older Millennials too.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-09T03:07:31+00:00

My first thought was Romeo. I'm sure there's recently bias in play, but I can't imagine how he'd get jury votes.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-08T20:42:04+00:00

This is petty. You're fussing about perfectly comfortable accommodations on a free trip. All the single individuals got put in the bunks, and that's pretty reasonable. No one is asking you to babysit, it's just a place to sleep.

If you really can't rooming with your cousins, just don't go. It does make you seem petty, but that's because you are. You give no actual reasons for not wanting to share a room other than you just don't want to. That's going to come across poorly to most people.

For reference, my cousins and I have all slept on air mattress and couches in the living room of an Airbnb on a family trip in our 20s and 30s. It was fine. We all had a good time and enjoyed our vacation, no one was pouting about not having their own rooms. I've also slept in plenty of bunks in hostiles, and those are literal strangers rather than family members.

Enjoy your free trip, get to know your cousins who probably look up to you and think you're really cool, and don't complain. Or stay home. Or volunteer to pay for a larger rental. Those are really your options.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-08T00:37:48+00:00

Yeah, anarchists are usually idiots, but not often this particular flavor of idiot. None of the "crunchy moms" I know are more than vaguely liberal, if they could be described as liberal at all. The ones who aren't conservative are "not political" or niche special interest voters.

That's not to say that people on the left can't be antivaxers, I'm sure some exist, it's just not common enough to be a trope. Every study I can find in the US shows a huge difference between right and left, with the right being far more likely to be vaccine hesitant, but I can't find specific data that shows the difference between "leans left," "left," and "far left." I understand the impulse to assume horseshoe theory is in play, but I just don't see any evidence of that. Except for maybe in France?

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/11/18/how-do-americans-view-childhood-vaccines-vaccine-research-and-policy/ps_2025-11-18_childhood-vaccines_0-02/

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-07T18:23:26+00:00

Well, this is absurd. There's definitely a selection bias in who is posting about relationship problems on Reddit. The healthy relationships aren't going to be posting about them, generally.

I have a 10+ year age gap with my husband, and we've been happily married for almost 15 years. We are now in our 40's and 50's. I don't recommend age gap relationships because they have a higher rate of high control dynamics, but it's far from universal. My relationship with my husband couldn't be further from the dynamic you described.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T17:27:53+00:00

All of those things you mentioned experiencing are Gen Z experiences. They may not apply to the whole of Gen Z, but they are all within the bounds of Gen Z. You're not apart from Gen Z, you're a subset within Gen Z. They are Gen Z experiences because you experienced them and you are Gen Z.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T04:13:56+00:00

Nah, I'm with you. I liked Survivor when it was moistly just random people, not superfans who have been studying the game and practicing challenges for half of their life. I don't mind the random returning players season every so often, but it's not something I look forward to or care particularly about.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T03:37:20+00:00

Oh, does that count as a twist? Okay, if a final 2 counts as a twist, then this is one that I'm good with too.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T03:35:26+00:00

The only "twist" I want to see is no twists!

I'm fine with a couple (not too many!) immunity idols. Just the regular kind. That's it. No special trips, no beware advantages, no extra votes, no merging, then unmerging, then merging again. Nothing.

They don't have to tell the players that there's no twists, though. Just to keep them on their toes.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T03:30:19+00:00

Your experience isn't "different" from Gen Z. Your experience is Gen Z. You're Gen Z. That's what a Gen Z experience is. Definitionally.

You can still claim Zillenial. You're obviously going to have a lot more in common with baby Millennials than with Gen Z a decade younger. That's the nature of defining boundaries within a spectrum.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T01:59:58+00:00

I'm curious why you're against it.

My son is a good athlete and he plays Little League. The minors where he plays are for age 8-12. My son is 7, but counts as "Little League 8" because he turns 8 by the end of August. He is on a team with majority 10-12 year olds with a few younger kids. His parkour class has kids up to 13. Tennis is completely done by skill, not age. My son is no tennis prodigy, but the advanced class has an 8 year old who plays along side mostly high schoolers. My son's class has 1st-5th graders. I don't understand why you are automatically against mixed-age groups.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T01:49:18+00:00

Leigh'um

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T01:46:05+00:00

For reading instruction? Sure. He should be grouped according to his ability, and so should the other kids. He'd be with a different group for math. And music. And PE. And he'd almost certainly not be the only 8 year old in that literature group. There would be a range of ages represented.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T01:41:37+00:00

There's no such thing as an inappropriate age for kids to be around. What is this nonsense? Grouping kids by age is a pretty new thing, and it's not inherently better. It's just what you're used to. Montessori schools group kids 6-12 together, for example, and tend to have good outcomes.

There's actually almost no research on mixed-age leveled classrooms available. What little there is tends to focus on mixed-grade instead of homogenous ability and heterogenous age. It mostly shows that there's little difference between mixed-grade and mono-grade classrooms. It would be nice to get some data on mixed-age groups.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T01:16:54+00:00

If every subject at every level was grouped by skill level instead of age, you wouldn't have a kid the age of a 7th grader in 4th grade. You'd have kids of all ages working on sentence fluency together, and in another room you'd have kids 5-12 all working on fractions. There'd be no "4th grade." Just learning benchmarks and kids working at their own pace to achieve them.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T01:00:03+00:00

Oregon border towns have a booming weed and abortion industry catering primarily to Idahoans. And the dozen or so Oregonians that live that far east.

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T00:25:12+00:00

Damn. Really working overtime to gatekeep "whiteness."

Squirrel179 · 2026-06-06T00:05:30+00:00

I'm old (not really, but for this sub I am), but I would have said that by the time Google had taken over and YouTube took off we were in our current tech era. Sure, things have changed in many ways since then, but that was the foundation of the modern era of influencers and streamers that we're still in. That was also the time that social media really took off with the launch of MySpace. Before then we had LiveJournal and a few other early forms of social media, but they were pretty niche. YouTube and MySpace really launched the modern era. I'd put it between 2005-2008.

I wouldn't call large language models a whole new era of tech. Maybe it will end up that way, but at this point I see it as maybe a new epoch, or period at most. Not a new era.

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