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But I am le tired.

I'm still convinced that people age a lot more slowly than they used to. Drinking water, using sunscreen, not having 7 kids by the time you're 25, and not having a diet of Marlboro Reds and Jack Daniels will certainly do wonders for your skin and your overall vitality.

However, I also noticed something very interesting about how adults my age behaved in the 90s vs today. I will say this probably depends on where you live, but I remember adults being a lot more formal. They tucked their shirts in, they addressed each other as Mr. or Mrs. if they weren't close, shook hands even outside work, dressed conservatively, and didn't use slang or colloquialisms. A 35 year old guy going "sup bro" and giving you a fist bump wouldn't be too weird now, but that would be extremely unusual back then.

Now, I feel like we express ourselves a lot more casually. You'd be hard pressed to find a group of 30-somethings who address each other using formal titles or dressing business casual outside work. There's no longer an age limit for having a sense if style (sometimes I still buy from the junior section because the whole timeless look just doesn't speak to me), and there's less pressure to abandon all the hobbies you enjoyed when you were younger.

Anyway, these are just personal observations so they may not resonate for everyone. I'd like to hear your thoughts!

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I WISH I was 35 again 😭

I feel like everyone was in a garage band at this time lol.

All my friends were in a band or at least knew someone in a band..it was a wild time to be alive.

In 2005 I was building computers and pirating music, movies, software, games, you name it. By 2008 I was in college and started getting deals on software, and paying for games, but the movies and music piracy was peak (private torrent trackers, file trading on the University T1 line, etc).

Slowly I was moving from things like self-hosted content to megaupload or whatever other streaming sites. By 2015 things like Netflix and Spotify/Pandora made it so easy, that I started just paying for instant access to high quality content.

But now, in the year 2026? I hate pretty much all streaming services, but I'm not on that piracy train so I'm just... Not consuming content? Like, I'm not gonna pay for it, but if I can't find a link to play the video without download, I'm just not gonna ever see it.

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Though the inner corners are a still a little sparse lol

My actor headshot back in the day when I first started to make a serious attempt to get into voice acting.

(Yes, I know- why the hell would one need a headshot for voice acting)

Anyway, anyone else have pictures from Y2K that they look at and laugh?

Let’s be honest: we don’t read or understand everything we’re signed up for.

I’m 37 and had the distinct and incredibly naive pleasure of finding out that dental insurance maximums are a joke if you run into ANY problem outside of a couple cavities, 2x yearly cleanings, and 1x x rays.

I needed an emergency root canal with a crown. The thought of, “But I have dental insurance,” crossed my mind ….. but then I saw my MAX benefit for the year was $2000.

I’m just glad I can eat / drink again, but $2000 OOP was ooooooof.

I think I'm late to the party, but did a double take when I saw these.

We are old enough to remember how the world was prior to the recent technological milestones (internet, powerful computing, social media, smart phones), and--maybe more critically--we are young enough to understand the current tech and its implications and risks.

I'm generalizing here, but consider this: the younger gens simply don't know what that old world was like, and the older gens have issues understanding and adapting to new world: scams, (especially AI-driven scams), higher gullibility towards AI-generated content, etc.

From a social perspective, allowing AI to generate images of physical matter existing in our universe was a mistake. This gave us the ability to produce alternate reality: people, animals, scenes, backgrounds, landscapes and other things that do not exist in this world. Then we give this ability to virtually everyone in the world, and to no one's surprise, it's going to get used for all sorts of nefarious reasons.

We (society) are at a point where we have to question whether an image or a video we see is real and we have to do that multiple times every day. It's exhausting.

A basic foundation of human societal (social?) trust has been eroded as a result of all this, and no one knows how this impacts all of us, but we are seeing now that it does.

For those elder millennial ailments.

edit: recent*

Just experienced my first bout with sciatica. I’m in my mid-thirties and feel decrepit. Can hardly function. Anyone else dealing with this?

I’m curious about this because I was born into the age of the Internet now whenever I have a question I can just go to Google or YouTube.

If you didn’t know where to start looking, or the information you needed wasn’t available in the sources you had access to, how would you go about learning something?

And when the internet became more widely accessible, were there specific things you’d always wanted to learn but suddenly found easier to explore because the information was available online? Or do you still primarily learn things offline, even now?