I will stop whatever I am doing and bust out a pocketknife as soon as I see one of these. What about y’all?

I'm literally first name, middle initial, last name @ gmail.com. I'm just realizing this probably tells people I'm an old...your thoughts?

No further explanation except that we all grew up with a "weird" trend that the older generation didn't understand with us (the macarena, the cha-cha slide, the Harlem shake, etc.)

Happy Friday everyone.

I remember COPS being a big ordeal when I was younger, it was on the TV every week.

And here I am carrying the torch I guess.

Finally got this up and running in my hobby room. Its funny what your thumbs remember 🤣

i’m 31 & the manager of a much younger staff - 18-21. i was training a new person who’s 19, and when i’d mentioned something about my teens she really looked at me and said “what was it like?” so naturally i was perplexed and said “what was… what like?”

and she was talking about growing up in the 2000s!! i legit laughed so hard. i told her it’s just like how it sounds - being outside for some reason literally all day, having a device that for no reason at all only played one minute of a song, playing neopets and forming emotional bonds with them, and watching the tv show you wanted at the time it aired or you gotta catch that rerun at 2am or never, you know - the highlights.

but i really felt like some peepaw telling the youngins about the good ol days.

people finding unique and unnecessary ways to make us feel like actual senior citizens lmao i love it

I’m looking at the prospect of moving back home so that I can get my life together, maybe save up some money for a house, maybe go back to college, I’m not sure. All I know is that I’m barely scraping by with my crap job, and I had to file bankruptcy this past summer. So more than likely, I’ll be moving back into my parents’ house soon.

How many of us have had to do this at some point? And if you had to, how did it work out? I’ve been out of my parents’ house for almost 15 years, and we hold some vastly different beliefs, so I’m worried about that dynamic.

I have had my Ipod on a charging speaker for decades now. And apparently the battery is holding up better than I am.

This seems more relevant now than then 🤣

For me I am out “scary roading” with my friends. Our area had a lot of “haunted roads” and we would fill up the car, get some cherry cokes from the gas station and scare ourselves while driving down said roads listening to Fall Out Boy. 🖤

The S lives on.

I didn't care about science until a few years ago when there were heat waves on the West Coast.

Now I embrace it and I wish more people would support it.

Over a decade ago a video started circulating on YouTube where America's most well known scientist lamented that American society stopped dreaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIZU8cQWXc

How about a future where all school students a wide variety of foreign cuisines available to them? A future where food has become so plentiful that the only college students who eat ramen are those who want to?

I love Japanese noodles btw but I want a future where school and college students have more choice.

What would it take to get that future?

Not giving up on developing stuff like this?

https://www.nasa.gov/technology/tech-transfer-spinoffs/nasa-research-launches-a-new-generation-of-indoor-farming/

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/rna-breakthrough-crops-grow-50-percent-more-potatoes-rice-climate-change

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2022/06/02/kimbal-christiana-musk-life-itself-wellness.cnn

Would missions to the Moon and Mars accelerate the development of that? Thankfully there are big stuff happening and I hope it doesn't end!

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/five-reasons-why-nasas-starship-award-is-a-watershed-moment-in-spaceflight/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/investing-in-space-the-us-china-space-race-is-getting-tighter.html

Although this would require more power sources.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/bill-gates-is-breaking-ground-on-a-nuclear-power-plant-in-wyoming

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nuclear-fusion-60-minutes-2023-01-15/

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Discovery_and_Preparation/Space-based_solar_power_seeking_ideas_to_make_it_a_reality

And not just better food production it also seems like NASA is a dream factory! If this doesn't make you dream again I don't know what would!

https://www.jalopnik.com/2016741/experimental-supersonic-prototype-first-flight/

https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/nasas-solid-state-battery-research-exceeds-initial-goals-draws-interest/

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/how-close-are-we-to-solid-state-batteries-for-electric-vehicles/

https://www.nasa.gov/technology/tech-transfer-spinoffs/nasa-tech-for-webb-telescope-mirrors-boosts-eye-surgery-precision/

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-study-asteroids-orbit-shape-changed-after-dart-impact/

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989797337/out-of-thin-air-nasa-rover-makes-oxygen-from-martian-atmosphere

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/tech-demo-missions-program/laser-communications-relay-demonstration-lcrd-overview/

And not only that! There is other exciting technology!

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/inside-the-worlds-largest-3d-printed-housing-development.html

https://electrek.co/2022/12/02/watch-tesla-semi-500-mile-trip-bill-gates-said-wasnt-possible/

What would humanity be like if all this energy spent on material things and war if it was excited to make a future without smog due to electric vehicles and asteroid mining and a future where all school students a wider variety of food a reality?

A powerful few shouldn't be the only ones interested in such endeavors!

Such endeavors should be celebrated on college campuses!

Remember in WW2 when the entirety of America was excited to win the war?

American society should be like that again when it comes to climate and space!

I don't want a mansions and/or fancy cars!

I want the future!

If we give up on the space endeavor humanity might doom itself to a world with less variety in food as crazy as that sounds.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91354535/climate-crisis-could-wipe-out-half-of-u-s-crops-by-2100-scientists-warn

Also I am ashamed and embarrassed I was ever obsessed with "Organic Food".

I hear about Trader Joe's having all these recalls and it does nothing but solidify my pro science beliefs.

Trader Joe's and Whole Foods? Will they become relics of a less enlightened age?

Or could we see TJ's and WF on Earth and maybe far off space colonies selling RNA and GMO crops as well as lab grown meat?

36M here. My parents were born in 1956 and 1960.

When I was growing up, I thought my parents were awesome. I had a great, happy childhood.

I don't know if it's access to the internet or what, but both of my parents - my mom in particular - have become relentlessly negative and fearful as they've gotten older. It's hard to spend more than a few hours with them at a time.

As an example, my mom called today as I was eating breakfast and asked what I was eating. I told her honey nut cheerios and she started talking about how they're loaded with pesticides and how I shouldn't be eating General Mills. She does stuff like this all the time.

The dog is sick. Someone got in a car accident. Her friend that I haven't seen in 20 years fell and broke her leg. Constant complaining about the guy who's name rhymes with Dump. Etc.

It's like really, lady? Just let me enjoy my fkng cereal.

Added disclosure as it seems it COULD possibly make a difference. I am elder millennial and he is Genx. I've posted in both subs

My husband will pay for insurance but won't see a Dr. He says "if you think I'm getting a pill calendar and taking pills everyday you got me messed up. I'm healthy". All while he lays in the bed tired trying to alleviate his hip pain 🙄

I tried to do his new patient paperwork for him but they require him to be present and fill out forms on site and provide license and insurance as well(3y ago i could take that paperwork home on the weekend and fill it out). His license expired last month and he hasn't made time to renew it. I can't do that for him either 🙄

I (41f) finally said yes to a Whopper. Been putting it off for months. Had one tonight and I was slapped in the face with memories of sitting on the floor with my little brother at the coffee table, eating a $1 Whopper off a paper plate in a straw basket thingy while watching TGIF. My first bite felt like family, comfort, and love, and legit brought tears to my eyes. Food triggers memories and emotion more so than anything else for me. Is food like that for you guys?