Live in the past, is mine. I will listen to things over and over because some songs or even podcast episodes, rewind me back to times where I felt comfortable in. I do sometimes poke my head out to see where things are currently in the present, but nothing around really makes me gravitate to anything current-day. But, then I just go back to my hole in living in the past.
People used to tell old people to get over it about them remembering things as they were all of the time. I’m understanding why they do that. Sometimes the present really truly sucks.
Finally being the Luddite. I’m a software engineer and have always done well by jumping on new technology and making it work. But my company is really pushing ai and as far as I can see, most people are just taking longer to do worse. I end up cleaning up their mess and of course that’s not something LLMs can do
For example instead of taking an hour to upgrade a dependency then investigate the test results, now you can spend half a day screwing with ai to accept its 5 minute change without looking at the tests.
Ans by the metrics, they completed the task in 5 minutes instead of an hour, and no mention about whether the tests still pass. And then they escalate to me to get it working
Even worse, I’m dreading layoffs for the first time in years. Not just because of the economy and policy chaos, not just because I lost my “sponsor”, but ai …… not quite the way you expect though. Reviews are coming up and the people who screw around with ai instead of working have developed agents to go back through all of our online systems to present huge reports on their years activity. While I’m sure no one will read it, how can I compete with that?
Yep - development is not fun anymore. I’d retire 5 years ago if I could.
Getting pissed at the noise kids make outside, playing.
Yapping dogs… Loud cars…
People crinkling paper bags on trains.
Sorry, ima speed runner, so I sequence broke. I used the kidney failure glitch to get a bunch of old person achievements early, but now that I got the transplant achievement (and the cancer beaten one by doing this complicated trick of avoiding a specific virus almost no one has to get cancer from said virus via transplant) I’m back on some of the young people achievement farming.
Taking a guess - some kind of polyomavirus - probably BK?
Nope; Epstein-Barr virus.
Same, 18 yrs post Tx here. Life feels like a weird time travel episode
Jeebus you rolled like ten ones in a row on the ole d20.
Can you go out and buy a lotto ticket, like right now. You got a 20 comin up any day now.
Telling my son we need to go out. Its such a nice day, we can’t spend in front of a screen…
Back in the day, I just assumed the adults were saying that because they were old and had no idea what joys were waiting patiently, calling from the keyboard, controllers, etc.
Now, I know that they had seen far more than I could imagine, and that they knew all too well that those sun-dappled, happiness-brimming days outdoors were a rapidly diminishing resource… 😭
sun-dappled, happiness-brimming days outdoors
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.-Yeats
I am hopelessly fond of the romantics my self. Thanks for reminding me
Yeats has just got a sound, man. Some of his phrasing is so hauntingly lonely, but there’s a hint of hope.
eg
all disheveled wandering stars
live alone in the bee-loud glade
She stood in desperate music wound
The fury and the mire of human veins
etc
I grew up just as the 9-bit nintendo became widley available (and affordable) in Norway in the late 80s/early 90s. And got my first pc (a 486 DX) in 1994. Not a misspent youth, as we had a viciously steep footpath perfect for snow racers and a frozen area for hockey.
Summers were perhaps more misspent
Gauging upcoming activity options for the day based on their likely effect on my lower back.
Didn’t think I’d be telling my kids the TV is rotting their brains. Yeah, Looney Tunes wasn’t educational in the least but at least the shorts had plotlines. Stuff my kids watch (mostly on YouTube) will transition between scenes within seconds and there’s no point or resolution to any of it!
I started vetting youtube channels and downloading them for my kids. No ads, and it won’t auto select some random video with something offensive in it after it finishes. They ended up getting bored of it and spend their time on other stuff for the most part.
It’s not all garbage but man I wish they still had the block channel feature.
Its entirely unmanageable for parents honestly. It does a good job of appearing like its working though, which I’m sure fools a lot of people. Someone needs to setup some sort of p2p style video distribution platform so we can move on from youtube.
this is why I limit YouTube to 1 hour per week.
Me sitting in a restaurant right now at 3 pm eating dinner: Can’t think of anything
I went to my friend’s kid’s volleyball game. Those girls had on very short shorts that were tight and it made me feel super creepy and I didn’t want to watch. I was trying to support my busy friends with kids, but I’ll never do it again because “these young girls need to put on some clothes.”
If I was their dad, I wouldn’t let them out like that.
This reminded me of a moment last year when I volunteered to help clean up a historical cemetery. I get there and not only was I the only guy, but all the girls were either high schoolers or like first year college kids all wearing booty shorts. My brain is making me think I look like a creep being a 30 year old surrounded by young girls in revealing clothing and also making me think “why are you doing yard work in stuff that barely protects your legs??? Who told ya’ll this was ok!!!”
Idk this is how I feel with my younger sister but she says it’s comfortable. Idk
Man, maybe she just has a point and I’m paranoid because of all that’s going on.
Yep. You and me both
While on a road trip if it’s raining hard or the weather is otherwise bad, I have to turn my music down or off so I can see better.
I cackled the first time I read about something like that but now I’m that person 🫠
Also had an 8:30 bedtime for at least 10 years. I’ll be 40 next year.
Lowkey though, mornings are way better than nights. I’d rather get coffee with someone at 6am than a drink with someone at 10pm.
The rough thing with me is I’m neither a morning nor a night person so 6am is too early, 10pm is too late 🫠
Bro, level up: try coffee at 10pm.
It literally makes me sleepier. Might not be using enough caffeine though.
Or, you have adhd, and a neurodivergent response to stimulants.
Possibly, I might be biasing my feelings with thoughts about sleep. The whole, “if you are trying not to think about something then you are thinking about it” thing. I fall asleep very easy now though, and I dont have much to gain from staying up later than I do now.
I don’t give a single shit what people think about me anymore.
And it stems from the constantly-reinforced experience that people almost always have no idea what they’re talking about.
For now, I’ve at least retained a basic level of decorum, but the line is blurring in a way that has me a bit frightened to be honest. Throw in some neurological degeneration and I totally understand why old people act like lunatics in public
Last night I went to a show with my college kid. I complained that it was getting late…. The show ended at 7:30
Using one of those “days of the week” plastic pill containers. Also, getting impatient for my urine stream to complete.
This. Along the same lines, I have to make myself little notes, using real stickies, computer stickies, and phone reminders I or will almost always forget to do or go to whatever it is I am trying not to forget.
but do you pull your phone out to scroll while you’re pissing?
No. I’m late to the phone game and only have a little ZTE flip. I am familiar with the ingredients and instructions of various bathroom products though. :)
Looking at young people and having sad thoughts about their future - feeling we owe them something I can’t give them.
Happily eat salads. Hated them as kid. I just lettuce out of bag sometimes
It’s so weird how bitter some plants tasted as a kid and how I can now pick up subtle sweetness in them. So many things I hated as a kid and couldn’t even force myself to keep down are quite tasty to me these days
I heard that kids really do have more taste sensitivity towards bitterness, so that could be why.
Since I changed to a vegan diet, lettuce is one of my favorite vegetables for taste. I think when I was younger I ate too much sugar and processed stuff all the time, and it spoiled my appetite for healthy whole foods.
True that. I used to eat sugar right out of packets. So many sweets daily. Now its like mostly fruit smoothies a few times a month even then im only using honey.
How excited I am about buying a new frying pan.
I bought some high end stainless steel ones with thick base. Would definitely recommend. The nonstick ones I used to use suck by comparison.
there’s now a no-teflon nonstick carbon steel pan made by misen, and it looks really good on paper and in early reviews, but it’s only been out for a short while and I’ll look at what happens to it in a year or two before deciding to buy it. After all, hexclad and their imitators with grooves of teflon really don’t fare well after a year or more. I’m very excited for it though, maybe the dream of a good pan with no maintenance is finally real.
