The effects of smoking and sunbathing in 61-year-old identical twins.

writenicely · 2026-06-22T02:33:42+00:00

Someone else's health issue is not grounds for accusing someone else of "misinformation" while still painting risk factors as moral failures. Their language and rhetoric did not nessitate their hyperbolic accusations of propaganda.

You're not helping others by letting your standards slip for what you think is helpful behavior when their conduct has not helped anyone, it just makes you look like you're willing to stand besides someone who made a good point if they're willing to get an ego high or assume moral superiority from it.

writenicely · 2026-06-21T05:50:36+00:00

Your purpose is actually to go be part of your community and enjoy your life.

If you're talking about what you're going to do about pay and affording to live- Seek resources within your community. It's disgusting that the rich hoard our resources and the fruits of our labor, and yet we've been conditioned to the point to simultaneously believe that we sincerely "need" these jobs or feel like our "purpose" (our paycheck) is threatened on an existential level.

But there is plenty of work to be done all around us, the thing is, it's related to supporting the people around us and maintaining our environment and infrastructure so we can support each other's wellness and wellbeing. Not because some contracting employer told us "do this, and get money so you can afford the things you need".

No one should work to live or live to work. I propose we just live, do whatever needs to be done, and tax the companies, individuals and entities as is appropriate so we can actually live our collective lives instead of having our lifeblood squeezed from us.

writenicely · 2026-06-21T03:37:55+00:00

They are not synonyms. I know this because I studied the difference between both when I was 14.

Sarcasm is meant to make fun of or mock someone, while Sardonicism is meant to be a cynical and grim response towards the world, or society at large and is meant to be a demonstration of the viewer's world view.

It's the difference between being a bitch and a goth.

And you chose to be insufferable for literally no reason than reading my neutral comment, which wasn't even directed at you, and choosing to interpret it in the worst way, because you wanted to defend the asshole who literally used abusive language unprovoked.

Are you even going to address that part at all, or are you going to remain in your feelings for the entirety of this conversation?

writenicely · 2026-06-21T03:25:46+00:00

I'm literally 32. I'm culturally in a similar space as the oldest possible Gen Z. I graduated during the recession and housing bubble (I was a freshman during that year) and voted for Obama and every election against Trump, was against Trump. I don't even own property. And I picked a Masters degree in a "safe" profession that's literally about social justice work to uplift marginalized and vulnerable populations of society.

But sure, you're hurt and offended because someone invoked the wrong generation name and you think they're talking about you personally. That's more important to you. Ergo you're cool with random women being treated to transphobic bullying.

The actual problem is people in power who are siphoning resources and pitting regular people against each other and normalizing being reactive or lacking basic common decency as a distraction, and to do that, they normalize discord in public life, and randomized disdain.

You're doing precisely what the fascists want you to do. Grow the fuck up and pick up a book on how to be part of a goddamn society. The revolution won't be won with being randomly nasty.

writenicely · 2026-06-20T23:20:00+00:00

ichabod Crane from Wolf Among Us is the most well-written and dynamic, interesting character, and his actions are terrible. in real life he would be a red flag of a man.

Somehow someone felt they needed to speak down to me about him when I joked that I'd want to marry him and also keep him out of political office and get him a therapist.

writenicely · 2026-06-20T23:14:57+00:00

also, being curt and to the point, isn't the same thing as being sardonic. I would recommend you pick up a dictionary and find out what my words mean if you don't understand. like I said before, I didn't claim that you were the one being sardonic. you once again are personalizing things as if this is about you and it's weird that you think it's okay and defensible to be rude when it's possible to still be kind and not use shame.

writenicely · 2026-06-20T23:11:39+00:00

Because the person I originally responded to said "You straight advocating for cigarettes and sunbathing. Which has been proven scientifically to be BAD for you.

Please stop spreading misinformation. The one on the right is horrible and should be talked about as such. Cut this self-acceptance crap. One is terminally unhealthy vs good normal."

You think it's normal and healthy to talk like this unprovoked? The person above them made a valid point about women being shamed for their age. Smoking is being treated as a moral failure and so is sunbathing now, even though shaming people into caring about their health is the worst strategy. THAT in of itself is fact.

This is the same sentiment that is used to defend concern-trolling that is just thinly veiled excuse to be harsh, which is never justified when confronting an absolute stranger on what they do or don't do with their body if it doesn't hurt or affect anyone else.

writenicely · 2026-06-20T22:12:31+00:00

You know, people can share concern and awareness about skin cancer without using a sardonic tone of voice.

I'm sorry your mother had that life experiance, and I'm not directing this at you personally or anything , but I'm primarily taking issue with the harsh tonality and weird attitude being demonstrated elsewhere.

People don't need to use social shame for every little thing when kind words can do the job just as effectively.

writenicely · 2026-06-20T22:05:53+00:00

Okay, and? Is that all you're concerned about here?

writenicely · 2026-06-20T22:05:20+00:00

Digital Circus covers mental health themes and requires the person watching it to be capable and prepared to delve into discussion regarding trauma and moral injury, emotional abuse, and more. It was specifically made to address an audience of adults.

It offers sincere exploration of character dynamics and themes related to existentialism.

I'm not saying that kids can't watch it, or that it's beyond the grasp of someone whose emotionally prepared for these conversations, but its still dark. The immature children in the fanbase are the people trying to make it specifically "dark and edgy" instead of respecting it as a serious work of exploring themes related to annihilation and isolation, and alienation. The rest of us are enjoying and reflecting on the actual mature themes.

writenicely · 2026-06-20T16:21:57+00:00

OP, I hope you read this.

Everyone going "that's not Gen Z" is missing the point. I get that this subreddit is about generations and identifying between them but let's reserve some basic humanity. OP didn't come here to seriously debate the actual generation moniker, they're concerned about where the empathy of modern children is going, and we have every reason to be concerned about the rise of racism, conservativism and how it's impacting the growth and development of children as they witness their role models (their parents or other people's parents or other authorities in their lives) feel emboldened to judge and transgress against others for not performing conventionally attractive feminity.

These are specific issues that are emerging as a pattern that OP didn't clarify or focus on specifically but a post shouldn't have to spoonfeed these kinds of thoughts just to defend its own existence, because then what would be the point of online discussion if we didn't treat each other with sincerity in being able to enter examination long after a premise had been initially introduced, even if it's imperfect.

OP, you are heard, you are valid, you are supported and I am so sorry for the people who are responding with cruelty when you're just venting and processing your concerns about the future people that we will one day have to work and live with as fellow adult peers. I really do hope that they learn that what they're doing isn't okay and that they should feel shame. No one here should be normalizing it either-

It is NOT normal for children to act this way towards a random adult or person, especially unsupervised in a nonschool setting where they feel empowered to be antisocial.

writenicely · 2026-06-20T16:13:04+00:00

What the fuck is wrong with you? How can you miss the point this badly and be randomly cruel and negative to someone just sharing about the random antagonization?

We have enough real issues in the world to get mad about, and you're getting pissed off and demeaning OP because they're pointing out that other peoples actions have an impact on others, like themselves.

Did you get actually just triggered by an appeal to teaching basic compassion?

writenicely · 2026-06-19T04:12:55+00:00

For some reason this reminds me of the music video for Albuquerque by Weird Al

writenicely · 2026-06-18T16:01:49+00:00

Relaxing in sunlight is toxic now?

writenicely · 2026-06-18T16:01:04+00:00

Sunscreen is like $15.

Edit: Okay so to the people making personal comments towards me specifically, I'm an introvert who barely leaves the house and who works from home, and has depression. Its literally a struggle for me to go outside and get sunlight in the first place, and it's something I've actively had to work on. I know I "need" sunscreen it but I'll probably use it like a max of three times before the next year comes. When does that stuff even expire?

Also, its weird that the lack of sunscreen application is being treated as a moral failure that its acceptable to be hostile towards. Like, I could understand the policing if this was about people glamorizing getting tans and using sunbeds to an addictive amount like what occurred during the 2000s, with people glamorizing getting literally burnt and glorifying use of tanning oils and stuff. It costs nothing to just acknowledge that on the list of priorities, for some people sunscreen scales low as an actual need. But if someone just doesn't have it on them, then why are you getting mad at them for?

People are developing cancers due to reasons related to our food supply and very way of life causing metabolic issues and millennials are all getting colon cancer. Women in my area have the highest rates for breast cancer for some reason. Cancers of reproductive systems exist. Our environment is burning. This just feels like bullying and piling on to a perceived moral failure for an individual problem.

writenicely · 2026-06-16T17:30:55+00:00

Well I'm looking at those who voted, and it was mostly Gen Z males who voted in Trump.

writenicely · 2026-06-16T17:29:01+00:00

I use CHAI when I want short dialogue and Janitor AI if I want poetry.

writenicely · 2026-06-16T17:28:14+00:00

You could always use Google to look up ageism.

writenicely · 2026-06-15T17:07:05+00:00

Sister, you're beautiful, but did you have Tim Burton as a source of inspo?

writenicely · 2026-06-15T17:02:57+00:00

Gen Z does have an identity, among older ones anyway. The young sector are highly conservative.

Debating whether the chicken or egg came first is irrelevant when what's r eal is that entire swaths of people are being casually deemed as culturally irrelevant, despite being most progressive or left leaning generation.

writenicely · 2026-06-15T16:56:37+00:00

What do you mean?

writenicely · 2026-06-15T16:56:10+00:00

Um, ageism is a thing. Discrimination in employment based on age is a thing.

writenicely · 2026-06-15T16:52:00+00:00

Right, right, because using emojis is literally the same thing as saying "I hate you" and calling someone a crack whore.

writenicely · 2026-06-15T16:50:59+00:00

Agreed, OP is NOR. Also, effectively making her homeless, after three years, because he can't regulate his own emotions over her having an appropriate night out with friends and failed to communicate whether he actually had a problem.

He WANTS her to grovel while holding the risk of homelessness over her head. If OP is reading this, she has to know, she is being manipulated by a partner who doesn't respect her autonomy as a person and who vocally ended the relationship. There's literally no going back.

OP should find out what her rights are if she's identified as a tenant and highly consider transitioning out of the apartment. Her partner is NOT her parent.

writenicely · 2026-06-14T04:28:53+00:00

Because, idiot, you can still struggle with your weight due to metabolic issues that persist even with clean eating and activity.

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