I’ll be 42 in a few weeks, I’m tired of living through these “once in a lifetime events” every 24-48hrs.
“May you live in interesting times.” -Wayne Gretzky
Will Smith is a bitch’s bitch
I think the worst part is that we do, in fact, know it will get worse… But we were raised thinking we’d all live in big houses and be free of debt by now.
More than half of millennials are >=37 years old now…hell, the oldest are in their mid forties now
And many of the “smart” ones still think economic market models are more accurate than reality.
I wonder how many of us have settled for being content with watching the world burn.
I’ll be 36 this year and I still live like I did when I was a student. I’m too worried about getting used to nice things and have been for the past 20 years that I simply just don’t spend money on anything other than food and bills and people around me tell me I should spoil myself more and go on more vacations and blah blah blah and I just want to scream at them xD
My life goal is to stay out of debt. You don’t stay out of debt if you constantly fly around the world and buy expensive shit you don’t need and replace your phone every three years or whatever I see some people do.
The good thing about my lifestyle is that when the next economic crisis hits, I am used to live like a rat so I don’t have to dial back too much compared to some people who treat their bankaccount like a Yolo slot machine.
I sure do miss rotisserie chicken, though. That’s one luxury I sadly got used to but whatever. Not the hardest thing to give up tbh and once in awhile you do get lucky that they are on sale to a reasonable price.
Every three years? Lol.
Yes. I have known a few people who made a bit of fun of me for having kept the same phone for seven years and told me that they had had three or four phones within that time span and that I was silly for keeping the same phone for so long. What about the newest updates and cameras and gadgets or whatever they call it? Why would I put up with outdated tech? The phone I have right now is from 22 and it still works fine. I hope it will last me until 2032, longer if possible.
No, I get it. My phones should last at least five years and some of them even have longer uses after being my primary phones. For example, I still plan to use my Redmi Note 4 Pro (mido) as a Kodi entertainment center with postmarketOS, even after six years of heavy daily usage. Every time I buy a phone I try to make sure it’s officially supported by Lineage OS, but people in general just want the new thing. Honestly, the mobile phone industry doesn’t even change that fast anymore. A 3-yo phone is basically as good as the new shiny thing.
Chicken thighs or quarters are good for moist, flavorful chicken
Source: fellow rat
Oh for real. We sometimes buy a very cheap and shitty red wine and soak chicken thighs in it and cook them with spices and veggies. Also chopping up cauliflower and fry it with garlic and pepper and using the red wine sauce from the chicken to pour over it before serving. Fucking magic. It’s almost enough to make you forget that you’re a rat.
From my own experience, it’s mostly just the ones without kids that don’t give a shit and have gone apathetic.
That’s a fair point of view. From some meagre research that’s about 33% of millenials and GenZ’s.
Another fair point IMO, settling for something is not the same as being apathetic. It’s more a question about finding the best way of coping with an unacceptable situation.
33, will be 34 not long after the Switch 2 launches…
At this point I welcome death, I feel like I’ve earned Valhalla at this point.
“We don’t know why are all the younger generations depressed! They just need to buy less avacado toast and they can buy a house…”
-clueless boomers.
First year Gen X-er here. We know why you’re depressed. We went through similar things, believe it not. I often wish I could share how scary living through the 80s was – often fearing a nuclear apocalypse, environmental decline, wars, riots and unrest all over the world, politicians who didn’t give a damn or had no idea how to make things better. Nobody listens to you when you’re in your 20s. It seems most now think the 80s were just like Family Ties. Not so.
But this too shall pass. You can help make it better by getting out there and working with the good guys. Don’t give up.
My parents lived in the mountains for much of the Cold War. We crowded around the radio daily to listen if the risk of the actual apocalypse was any closer. Several times we thought it was about to happen. Several times it really did almost happen.
I hope we don’t get to that point again. I really thought for most of my adult life that the USA’s deep trade ties to the rest of the world along with other super-powers would ensure some level of stability and peace. And it did.
Past tense.
The important thing is to follow in the footsteps of our elders and obliviously cast shade on the next generation(s) (should they be so lucky to exist).
Yeah there’s definitely some rose tint looking back to the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. Crime was ridiculous compared to the levels these days, just for a start. But it was just ‘normal’. We’ve made a lot of progress there. Which is about to be undone as people get increasingly desperate.
There were several energy crisiss that kneecapped a lot of the 70s and 80. Nixon, the Vietnamese war, the fall of the USSR. All those things were monumental moments in history and we survived. The world isn’t over yet, but Trump is really trying to make everyone jump to the end game
I missed seeing Russia collapse, but I live in hope it will happen again in my lifetime.
Don’t forget to stop buying those fancy Starbucks coffees.
“Clearly it’s the phones fault! The phones are to blame, not us voting in fascists and ignoring the incoming climate holocaust!”
Yeah. I’m gonna get fired for being room temperature one day.
I’m tired, boss
Stop crying, geez.
(You’ll need those tears for your forties)I turned 40 in February. 😭
Im only slightly older, I got to experience life in the dotcom kaboom. My entire adult life’s been: this is a once in a lifetime thing every 5 years. I’m guessing this is what the 1870s were like with all the finance stuff and overall turmoil. Bit numb to it by now.
Welcome to the club, friend.
The booze is in the back.Wow, you got booze!?
I’m about to hit 50 and I’m still not done crying.
To be faaaair, i never said when it ends
sob I know sob
The cyclical boom bust cycle is on purpose. Can’t make billionaire’s richer if stock prices don’t go down.
I’m tired, boss
I’m an “elder” millennial… I’m 40+.
Pretty much everything went to shit right after I got to the workforce. It was somewhat subtle at first, but it’s only gotten far worse and far more obvious as time has gone on.
Kids? Nah bro. Have you seen the world? I don’t want to live here, why would I subject someone that I care about to a life, living in this hellscape? Like all parents, I’m sure I would love my children if they existed and even though they don’t exist, I still love them enough to not subject them to gestures at everything this.
I haven’t gotten a meaningful raise since starting work. I was originally hired at basically minimum wage, a bit better than it in my area (ironically, my starting wage in my career is now below what minimum is now), and the only time I went up in salary is when I changed jobs.
With more than half a dozen years of experience (this is a while back) I was fighting for anything over $60k/yr (it gets worse), while housing in my area was skyrocketing above $400k for a modest home…
After the usual expenses of food and rent, I’ve been robbed blind by being given no choice but to buy things “as a service” and own fucking nothing. I’ve pushed back against it as much as possible and after years, I paid off my vehicle and absolutely, positively, 100% own this now 13 year-old car. Whoopee…
I’ve lived through everything from 9/11, to Trump… Twice… And nothing has ever quantifiably gotten “better” without getting worse in some other way.
Better, faster, more capable computers? You’re obligated to run software that spies on you. Better cars with fancy tech that makes them basically drive themselves? Only if you subscribe to activate the seat warmers for a nominal yearly fee… Phones are more capable, better, faster, more connected and overall significantly improved? These are now devices used by companies to harvest every meaningful ounce of information from you, selling it to the highest bidders (multiple times, I might add), and giving you nothing for your contribution. Congratulations, someone has monetized your existence via an app on your phone.
Everything is worse. You never have time off work anymore. Even if you take vacation, the expectation is that if they call you, you’ll answer, then you’re working for free. But if you don’t answer, then your job is at risk.
Fuck everything. This world sucks. I’m fucking sick of all of this shit and I’m mad as hell about it.
Same position and age as you, except I got diagnosed autistic and ADHD at 33. Haven’t been able to work in the one field I have any training in for decades, as that now basically means call centre work which triggers migraines (now known to be sensory overload).
Can’t afford to retrain, can’t get disability to help with costs because of UKGov cycling disability claimants through tribunals to massage the statistics. I lose the disability, I lose my funding. I get the disability back plus back pay, but am still booted from university for not being able to pay in the mean time.
G fucking G. I guess I just wait around until I die or get angry enough to commit an act of political violence that leaves a mark.
I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years back… Just shortly before I turned 40.
I’m lucky that seems to be the only thing my brain struggles with. After about a year and a half, I found a combination of drugs that works for me, and I’ve been doing ok, as far as my ability to think, concentrate, or focus at work goes…
I’m in Canada, so we have similar issues with our social support programs. I know this because, while I got off light in my diagnosis, my brother has far more severe ADHD symptoms, and he has other medical complications that make treatments difficult at best. I won’t go into his medical issues since that’s not my story to tell, but from a high level, most of the problems root in the fact that he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in his mid-teens…
He’s actually registered in the disability system and I’ve helped, or at least tried to help him navigate it and get to a point where he can do anything and get any support at all. Needless to say, I get it. Our system isn’t super different from the UK system. Personally I think it’s shameful that we give such a hard time to people with diagnosed disabilities, it’s not like those disabilities are going to… Idk, stop being a thing? It’s kind of a life long problem.
I’m lucky in the fact that if I continue taking the meds, I’m more or less “normal”. I have a steady job and I help my brother as I am able.
None of this is to detract, compare or “one-up” your challenges. The purpose to saying all of this is that I get it, I emphasize with your situation. I hope you are doing better and that the UK disability system stops fucking up your coverage so you can get back to living your life.
All the best, from across the ocean.
Still “experimenting” via my GP with various meds. Perhaps one day we’ll stumble onto something that works.
Glad to hear you’ve found a regimen that works for you though, and that it enables/better places you to help your brother.
Ultimately, helping each other survive existence with the minimum of anguish is the best any of us can be.
As for UKGov (or CanGov for that matter) getting their collective heads out of arses and not using disabled folk as easy marks, I suspect much worse is to come before it gets better. This place is like a microcosm of the US in a lot of ways.
I appreciate your well wishes all the same 💛
I agree, helping eachother is the best any of us can be. I’ve dedicated my life to helping others.
My dayjob is IT support, and I am often holding certification in first aid (I currently need to renew this), and I have a lot of skills that I’ve developed specifically to assist others. I have, know how to operate, and actively use radio technology as a qualified amateur and regularly volunteer for events to help communication and coordination between medical teams, security, supplies and other services at public events.
I even carry a car battery boost device in my vehicles trunk for the odd time I come across someone who’s car won’t start, and I have a set of booster cables in case the battery in the pack is flat… As an example. I usually have a first aid kit in there too. Just in case.
There’s a lot we could, and probably should be doing to help ourselves and others; I firmly believe that basic emergency first aid and CPR should be a part of the highschool curriculum, and we should learn how to access social services like disability services, welfare, unemployment, and other government services, in highschool as well. Instead we take classes on English in countries where that’s the native language, yet people still don’t know how to articulate themselves in a comprehendable way, and we take several years of maths classes, including algebra, geometry, and so much more, that most people never even see similar problems again ever… Instead of teaching algebra, how about a class on how to file your taxes?
I have a lot of strong feelings about it and bluntly, nobody with any possibility of enacting change, cares.
I strongly feel like highschool failed me, and most of the people in society, and it could be so much better, and there’s simply no evolution or evaluation of what’s being taught and what’s actually relevant for people to know.
In any case, I hope I can continue to help others and that’s the biggest reason why I’m still alive. I’m trying to make this place a bit more livable for the people that are here.
We share a lot of traits and opinions it would seem.
It’s uplifting to come across someone who reminds you that there are still at least a few worth fighting for, that not everyone is a self-absorbed asshat with an axe to grind or agenda to push.
School in general in the UK is a bit of a shit show, slowly getting more and more privatised with each successive government. “Privatisation isn’t working… Maybe we’re not doing it hard enough…”
Perhaps the things your economy relies on should not be placed in the hands of organisations whose very raison d’être is to extract the maximum possible profit possible for themselves…? Energy, transport, education, healthcare, food supply; all privately owned and decreasing in quality while costing more, and, to rub salt into the wound, the entities responsible then dodge as much tax as is possible.
Our supposed “Labour” party is captured by self-serving neoliberal corporate puppets that are beholden to the extremists running the US right now.
They’ve recently announced that they’re going to make it even harder to claim disability benefits, and those that still make it will be paid less than currently. In almost the same breath, they were excited to let everyone know that they’re going to either cut or get rid of the new Digital Services Tax designed to ensure Amazon, Google et al actually pay tax to speak of. Because, y’know, Bezos needs another new yacht.
Honestly, it seems we’re long overdue to remind the politicians who they’re actually supposed to work for. If that means a few heads have to come off to get the message across loud and clear, I’m certainly not upset about it. I don’t see things getting better until that level of event occurs, to be frank.
One word for you. Antidepressants
Here’s one for you: Empathy.
Ha. I’m on them. The meds I take for ADHD are classifiably also anti depressants.
What now, Poindexter?
Millennial about to turn 41.
I’m tired.
I’m not particularly fond of my fellow Americans anymore.
And I don’t have an ounce of patriotism left.
This country can go ahead and fuck itself. Which it appears to be doing pretty thoroughly. Dumbest fucking country in the history of the world if you take into account its wealth and influence compared to its quality of life and happiness index.
Weighing how much effort/money it would take to get Canadian citizenship and whether I have that kind of energy left in me.
Hey, you can always move to EU. Decent healthcare and stuff. It’s not perfect by any means, especially now but it’s so much better than the shit I see happening around. Makes me feel happy I was born here.
very true but i don’t want to put the burden on y’all, I want to bring the EU to my part of America and tell the federal government to fuck itself
If I had money I would move. But if I had money, most of the issues would be solved in the first place.
At this point I think if anyone loves America they’ve bought into Republican brainwashing. I don’t think I could love this country. Anything good has been stripped away.
The best parts are the natural wonders and some of my best friends. My friends can come from anywhere and aren’t beholden to their birthplace. The wonders are only wonders thanks to conservation, and Republicans want to strip mine Yosemite for oil and coal.
I’m an ‘84 baby like you and recently I’ve been trying to remember when the last time I actually felt national pride.
I keep thinking maybe in the general upswell of national pride post 9/11 but that was probably mostly mob mentality and juvenile ignorance.
I am proud to be a Minnesotan though! When I’m abroad in the country the other Americans I meet seem generally decent but it just doesn’t feel like home if I’m outside of my state.
'81 baby here. My parents told me I’d jam along to Reagan’s “Born in the USA” ads in my underoos with a tiny plastic guitar. I think that’s the last time I felt national pride.
Man, I felt this so hard. Every word of it.
My only two cents beyond that, I fear Canada is too close.
33? You’re a baby
Average male lifespan being 72, 36 is the average halfway done with life point
I know. I just meant to say they’re still pretty young, I don’t understand why all the downvoting. Haters gonna hate I guess
It’s Lemmy. This is the kind of people that can’t comment to each other without going ballistic over the slightest thing
The way you expressed that thought came off extremely condescending, that’s why you’re getting down votes.
I wish I was 35.
Also, “crises.”
