There's either a Gen X saboteur on the Trump/Vance team or everybody is either too young or too old to know about ALF.

Seriously, "illegal aliens are eating all the cats?"

Boomer: Oh my God!
Gen X: Haha...ALF!
Millennial: Oh my God!

I've re-watched that Gojira performance like 10 times. The beheaded Marie Antionettes were <chef's kiss>.

I'm getting old and have watched a lot of opening ceremonies with all of this art that they have to explain the meaning to you.

In front of an in-person audience of hundreds of world leaders and live to the entire world, the French chose to depict their final monarch that they deposed and beheaded while playing death metal and opera. That's one of the most badass things I've ever seen. And the announcers didn't have to explain to you how badass it was.

I used to hate olives, along with a lot of other things. Peppers. Beans. Blue cheese. And I used to tell everyone about how much I disliked stuff.

But then I grew up. You don't have to eat olives if you don't want. But if you restrict your life to your little pre-approved list of acceptable foods, you're missing out.

Life is short. Way too short. You don't want to discover how delicious a dirty martini with blue cheese olives is when you're old.

Me no lurk. Me comment.

Yes and No. 48.

There was never a horizon or dividing line I crossed between youth and adult. It just happened.

I'm still the same person I was when I was 10/20/30/40. Still like cool things, still confused about why we're all here.

Other than my body getting real creaky and doing all kinds of weird old things, the only real difference between youth and adult is the realization that this very thread addresses. We're all just making it up as we go. There's no such thing as "adult". There's no Council of Super-Smart People running the world.

The only thing that makes you an adult is the realization that you have to be the change you want to see in the world. That you have to be the super-smart person running things.

Not really though...if young voters turned out en masse, they could replace all politicians with people they actually wanted. But they won't, because "I'm not into politics" or "My vote doesn't count".

So it's pretty much apathy...they have the power.

I searched for a community named "FacebookSaysItsFine" and haven't yet seen anything.

Be the change you want to see in the world!

My kid's school just implemented an app-based pickup process this year.

You have to download an app and register your phone and email and child, then when you get in the line to pickup your child you have to press a button in the app.

I literally cannot retrieve my child from school without a smartphone.

Isn't it still kind of the same thing though?

Star Trek calls that "matter stream" energy your "pattern". Pattern sounds a lot like Information. Data. Which is very easy to transmit and duplicate. Data can also be lost or corrupted.

So it's as if they convert all your atoms to a file, then FTP your file to somewhere else where the technology turns your pattern back into matter.

"You" can't exist as just data, so at that point you're already dead. I think...

There are episodes where your pattern is stuck in the pattern buffer. You're only information being stored at that point.

Oof...everybody being able to go to whatever the latest viral pool above a waterfall or cronut shop is all at once...

Agreed. Fuck hormones. I'm over here trying to be logical, and my hormones are telling me other things.

Thank you, fellow human.

I'm really torn by this. Should all this data be preserved for the betterment of society, or is that what Reddit should get for killing their goose that laid golden eggs..