its the end of the rule as we know it

My parents once asked me why I didn't have enough savings to buy a house yet.

I almost lost my shit.

To keep your sanity you just have to lower your expectations.

I, for example, am really stoked for the burrito I ordered. Fuck, it’s good to be alive.

The century of find out with almost no active participation in the previous century of fuck around.

A lot of "climate collapse global late stage capitalism and food is more and more plastic" stick with very little "convenience products are kinda nifty" carrot

I really wish my generation was a bit more optimistic. Yeah shit sucks, don't get me wrong. But have you guys seen all of history? This is par for the course. Yeah the challenges are different but every generation had their challenges. And yeah baby boomers definitely had it better than us, but that doesn't mean there's nothing but bad stuff to come. You have to take life with the good and the bad and make the most of it.

When Fallout Boy did the cover of We Didn't Start the Fire, all hope was lost.

The Ukraine-Russia & Israel-Palestine wars, and the likelyhood of China going after Taiwan before 2027, and the Koreas continually being a powder keg influenced by all of this. Between all that and me being 23 years old I sincerely think I might witness World War 3, it's terrifying, yet it feels inevitable with our era of false 1st world peace built on a house of cards.

That's not even mentioning the Republican Project 2025, as a trans person I might have to fight for my life.

My GenX existential horror was learning in my thirties that all the western American Exceptionalism ideology I was indoctrinated in as a kid was just a way of keeping us from getting proactive for sake of the future generations, and my parents and teachers and ministers knew this and actively lied to me anyway.

"This is the worst things have ever been!"

"You mean this is the worst things have ever been ... so far!"

Not just those under 40. I do feel bad I sorta got a brief taste of "good times" and worry eventually younger folks will think the post 2000's are normal.

Every day I wake up exhausted trying to look for a silver lining but more often not finding it until sleep.

Over 40? For me is even worst! You younglings still have time to do something. I have no house, no savings, no retirement plan and no time to do all that! I'm the most fucked! Do you think I expect good things?

I'm 40 and I can say with confidence that's not the cut off point.

and yet we essentially live in the best of times.

Sad we can't find a political way for everyone to have enough of what we have.

primal needs to hoard are strong in humans.

My method is hoping that I'm just old and western enough that I'll be dead before the real bad shit hits me. I'm 35 though, so... let's say there's a smidge of optimism in there.

I don't know, my premium notebook is arriving tomorrow, that's pretty exciting.

Bought my house right before the new housing crisis. I'm locked in so cheaply that I may not ever move.

Gonna ride my residual income as far as I can take it. I'm done breaking my body for a world that doesn't care.

Some of us are doing ok and just trying to keep our heads down and not get caught in the crossfire. Good luck you guys. I wish you better fortune in the future.

We should have listened to uncle Ted

Also, Feliz el año del Niño! Gonna be a great 16 months for weather. Especially in Texas!

be thankful if you don't live in a concentration camp blockaded on all sides and have clean water / electricity. yet.

i thought that too but then dan and phil announced the gaming channel is coming back yesterday

You should come with me to the end of the world

Without telling your parents and your friends

You know that you only need say a word

So we might live at the end of the world

That's a bit dramatic

70s and 80s were shit. The 30s and 40s? Thanks, I'll take today.

Damn you sound like you have a rough time.

Time I had some rule alone

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