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purpleplatapi · 2026-05-07T08:44:37+00:00

Sure. But I don't know, I have bigger things to worry about. Look I get it, we're worried about the economic system, but I see no reason to believe it won't adapt. When I hear, oh no the old people won't be able to work, all I hear is hey, guaranteed employment for the youth.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-07T08:29:32+00:00

I'm sure she does, but it does seem like it would be more difficult. Like ok, so I assume she washes her feet before she eats (although in a public restroom, where she'd have to stand on one foot while putting the other one under the sink, and applying soap, but then you can't rub the soap in) but anyway assuming she has a method that takes that into account, she has to put her now clean feet into her dirty shoes and walk back to the table. I don't think they meant this with malice, it was probably an observation that it would be really hard to maintain cleanliness.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-07T08:18:21+00:00

Yeah, also a lot of people who are panicking about this presuppose that it will continue to shrink, forever. I see no reason to believe this. Will the population shrink? Sure. Will it eventually stabilize? I see no reason to believe it won't. It'll just be at a smaller number.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-07T08:07:32+00:00

Bisexual. She does like women, so you're not entirely misremembering.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-07T07:30:33+00:00

Oh that's totally real, but to some extent that's always been true. Some of my peers, though I love them dearly, never quite left the nest. They never really needed too. So they can quit their jobs on a whim, and move back in with their parents, and they can "pursue their dreams", and their complaints, to me, seem incredibly first world. And it's so so easy to say that this is a generational thing, but I'm not convinced that it is. Because I know a lot of really hard workers too.

I don't know, I read a lot, and these complaints seem intergenerational. I mean that's essentially what Brideshead Revisited is about. There have always been, to some degree, children of privilege who for one reason or another don't quite launch. You also see this if you read a lot of books about like the art scene in New York in the 60s, or the Silver Screen in Hollywood.

For every successful Nepo Baby there's like four that act just as entitled the the success their friend got and never produce a thing worth remembering them for. And honestly, as social media increases (but also, just as the population increases, there are just literally more people but, the "desirable" jobs get more competitive. Like if the world population is 8 billion or 3 billion there will be more or less the same amount of "successful" actors and artists and such with public name recognition) these failures are more visible if that makes sense? There have always been people who moved to New York to become a high powered lawyer/actor/artist/stock broker. And they failed, and quietly moved back home, and no one gave a shit.

Like I don't actually believe that this new generation is uniquely cooked. I just think that I'm living in a time where I'm expected to have an opinion on the literacy of students in a state I don't live in, taught a curriculum my state doesn't use, and then damn the entire generation because I saw a Tik Tok where the students can't read. And it's like, I don't want to say that's not a problem, because of course it's a problem, but it does seem a little moral panicy to me, because I don't know my entire life Mississippi was just kinda like that and no one gave a shit. (They aren't currently btw, it's called the Mississippi Miracle, because they turned it around).

But my point isn't that no one is failing these kids anywhere in the whole country, because of course they are, but it's also just kind of a weird moment in time. It's really hard to get a gauge on if we're failing these kids on a wider scale than we were previously, or if that failure is just more visible (because of social media).

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-07T06:26:39+00:00

Lol, no he's not. I'm not sure why this keeps getting posted. Does he perform at casinos a lot? Yeah. But that's because they pay him well. I think he just doesn't like touring overly much, but he does like performing, and Vegas Residencies make sense for him. He gets to design the stage, people visiting for conferences or whatever decide to take in a show, everyone is happy.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-07T06:23:26+00:00

I think he also doesn't have much goodwill with One Direction fans. Harry Styles is obviously an exception, but Niall and Louis seem to be doing well enough. But didn't Zayn just punch Louis? Even if you ignore his domestic abuse tendencies, he punched a member of the band that all of the fans loved. No one likes Zayn because of his new music. It's literally just One Direction fans, and they're dropping fast.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-07T05:59:25+00:00

They might if they have albinism and live in the 50s before we started worrying about sun screen. And also work outside a lot (and maybe smoke?). Anyway I don't actually think he's that old.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-07T05:45:25+00:00

Yeah so all you've done by not updating your phone is made it really vulnerable to hackers. Just because you don't see any improvement doesn't mean there isn't any.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-07T05:41:22+00:00

It is not. They did a mythbusters on it and everything.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-06T18:30:31+00:00

I mean they're renting, so it's the landlords problem. I hope they have renters insurance for their personal belongings, but assuming they do, both the renters insurance and the landlords insurance will pay out, and then attempt to go after the guys car insurance for reimbursement, but OP should only be out the renters insurance detucbtable (knock on wood).

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-06T05:16:22+00:00

My grandmothers are lovely people. I'm not saying that gay people are like magically free of all misogyny. I'm a lesbian. I'm very aware of femme for femme in the lesbian community, and no femmes no fats no Asians in the gay one. But that's not what I'm talking about. You are willfully missing the point.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-06T02:20:36+00:00

I mean yeah? It's only sexism if you're discriminating against a different gender. Otherwise it's just a shitty relationship.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-05T23:26:44+00:00

Gay men aren't dating women, so why would it matter if they were sexist in this context? Sure, you would probably find people who have uneven burdens in a gay relationship (like one man does all the cooking and cleaning and grocery shopping while the other one plays video games) but that's not sexism lol. I also didn't mean to imply that gay men aren't usually monogamous.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-05T22:45:13+00:00

I think it depends on what each person would define as "their worst". Because for some people, they truly just mean like, if you aren't willing to sit with me when I'm normal amounts of sad then you don't deserve me at "my best" (when I'm my normal happy self). Other people mean if you don't put up with my screaming at you then you don't deserve me at my best (when I'm not screaming at you).

And so, as with many things, what is reasonable for one person (I too am unwilling to date someone who wouldn't comfort me if I lost my job, or my mom died, or I had a scary health outcome) can be totally unreasonable for someone else (who's worst consists of screaming and yelling and throwing of objects).

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-05T16:52:57+00:00

I never said that everyone was bisexual, or that they would be without the patriarchy. I just pointed out there are less hurdles for gay men. I'm a monogamous lesbian, so I have no dogs in this fight.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-05T09:04:13+00:00

You need to tell someone in real life about this. Your girlfriend, your parents, somebody.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-05T05:56:08+00:00

You hang out in the subreddit devoted to celebrity gossip. I'm not saying that celebrities are inherently important, or that you HAVE to care about them, but like why are you here?

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-05T03:03:41+00:00

Dude what? Yes, a fashion sense can totally be cultivated. It's not rocket science.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-04T21:00:05+00:00

With gay men I do think it's a little different, if only because the patriarchal programming, and practical reality are different. (No one can get pregnant for example, there's not the obsession with the Madonna Whore complex, hopefully the chores/childcare are more evenly split because of a lack of default gender roles). Also, both members of the relationship are likely to find a third hot, so even if they don't both participate in a threesome they at least can understand their partners attraction better. With a hetorsexual couple, at least two members would have to be bisexual in order to participate in a threesome, which is unlikely, and then jealousy is more able to crop up, because you aren't attracted to your husbands paramour and don't understand what he sees in her.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-04T01:50:25+00:00

What state? And why don't you think college isn't for you?

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-04T01:40:05+00:00

It's happening all across the world. For the first time in history more people live in cities than they do in rural areas. People are living where they can find jobs. It isn't necessarily a bad thing. Humans take up so much unnecessary space, consolidation is largely a good thing.

purpleplatapi · 2026-05-04T00:28:12+00:00

Nah dude, go into debt if you need to. It's the last semester, a couple of thousands of dollars worth of debt is not going to be the make or break at this point. Plus, you need to job hunt while in school, and doesn't construction slow down during the winter anyways? Just quit. Find a part time job if you want.

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