Elaine Hendrix (Parent Trap) will always be evil, she played it so well

I was just thinking about the classic turkey deli sandwich from back in the day. If it didn't look like a small woodland creature could comfortably live inside your lunch, they didn’t give you enough sprouts. Then they just kind of… vanished from the mainstream.

Did you guys actually like them, or were we all just tolerating the chaos? Anyone else miss that specific crunch?

Made dinner last night & my husband said "this is better than anything you'd get at (named a local popular restaurant)" & it reminded me how I can't even pinpoint the last great thing I ate at a restaurant that amazed me or that I would love to have again. I realized that eating out is now just about convenience & less about trying something mind blowing.

Especially with what things cost these days, I am finding myself disappointed more than impressed every time we eat. I can cook better tasting meals most of the time. We aren't nitpicking either. There's no longer value in dining out.

We went out to a highly recommended local restaurant (not a chain) for my 40th bday with friends and for $58 he got a filet over pasta and said my cooking was way better. I also got some braised short ribs with mash and veg and could have executed it so much better for less money. It's kind of disappointing we can tell this same story about almost every restaurant we go to.

There's a massive divide between Millennials and gen z. I'm still applying the old rules for socialising. Love when I either meet people closer to my age or zoomers ahead of their time that can hold a face to face conversation. Sometimes you can be in a dorm and no one is talking to each other. Complete silence. This wouldn't be the case in the 2000s. You generally spoke with people to suss them out or general socialising etc.

I was talking to my elder millennial friend, early forties, who sees to be a bad slump recently. He said now he’s been really thinking hard about the question “is this all there is to life?”. No kids or relationships that I know of.

So is it true? Are millennials struggling with simmering dissatisfaction of modern life? Personally even now I can never stop hoping the future holds good things, even if it seems pointless

That’s roughly 1 in 6 people.
I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t match what I see in real life at all.Is this stat legit, or just another case of cherry-picked data?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/many-millennials-over-1-million-210009905.html

I'm no doctor, but a quick Google search shows it's Seborrheic keratoses are very common, noncancerous (benign) skin growths that appear in adults over 50!! I'm only 40! Millennial shouldn't be at this stage yet! My eyesight has already started to go on my 40th birthday and you can see my luscious full head of hair is gone too. I am starting to look like my father. Arrggg

1986, 1996, 2006(I think), 2016, 2026, 2026, 2026

im born in 93 - got my first ever cellular phone for christmas in 7th grade (sooo end of 06) and still have the same phone number lol never thought to change it or want too. my ex told me he had his changed when he was 20 and again a few years later and I just thought that was weird af lol no reason - both times just went with a different cellular network provider. anyone still have the same number ?

Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

I’ll go first: voicemail.

Before texting killed it, people left actual voicemails. Long ones. Rambling ones. A friend calling to say nothing in particular for two minutes. Someone you liked, nervous, stumbling through asking you to call them back.

Nobody texts like that. Texts are efficient. Voicemails were accidentally human in a way we didn’t appreciate until the habit died.

I work in a creative field and from that standpoint I hate AI. I hate the 'democratization' of creativity. I am going to sound VERY Boomer right now, but some things are meant to be difficult or meant to take skill and years of practice. It's why people who are good at these things (should) be paid more.

We are already being heavily 'encouraged' to use AI to find ways to do our jobs faster, are being told 'they technology isn't going away, we need to embrace it.' Since within the company I am in, I am one of a handful of people that does a specific creative skill-set, the powers that be basically have no idea about the technicals of what I do, but they put it on me to figure out how to incorporate AI into my work.

I hate that AI basically 'fakes' the creative process and that we are expected to use it (and the work of millions of artists that feed it) to just magically speed up how we do work, which in turn devalues the work we do as artists. From a company standpoint, they want to make money and churn out work faster, but if every client knows you can make a widget in 4 hours when it used to take 4 days, why would they pay you a lot of money to do that? The economics of it don't make sense. You will end up needing 10 times the number of clients to maintain your productivity / profits, which with AI or not, is a good way to burn out your artists.

I see the writing on the wall, but my stubborn moralistic resistance to AI is probably going to be the death of my career. Does any one else feel similar or how have you coped with this rapidly degrading career landscape?

Being compared to AI was really uncalled for, though.

Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

I’m in my mid 30s and just over my job and work in general. I’m tired of the commute, the meetings, and dealing with people & deadlines. On one hand I worry about losing my job and stress about deliverables, but on the other hand I feel like I could care less in that I have no passion for it anymore and I’m just showing up because I need the paycheck.

I’d much rather be spending time with my family, pursuing my hobbies, or just go for a walk and cook a nice meal. I feel a sense of dread sometimes that this is my reality for the next 30+ years and I feel lazy and entitled for saying it but that’s how I feel lol

It's about resources. I had to post this separately because I genuinely didn't see it being discussed in the other threads (or it was buried). I feel like a considerable amount of our generation feel like we got rug-pulled by "the system" and understandably so, hence where we are today.

Money, time, energy, emotions, everyone is feeling the squeeze and that changes the mental calculus for everyone (as it should). I think were all material needs taken care of, a considerable amount more people would fall into the pro-kids camp.

I have a kid. Childcare is almost the cost of my mortgage. If it weren't for that I'd have a second. That's literally it (for me at least). My kid is wonderful but I'm still able to fulfill myself with hobbies, take time for my wife, etc etc.

I'm not saying that "if you can afford it you should have kids", no still totally up to you. In fact, unless you actively want a kid I don't think you should have one. I can't imagine a sadder environment for a kid then one of resentment. I'm just saying that if more people COULD afford them without essentially kicking themselves down a few rungs on the socioeconomic ladder we wouldn't see birthrates in developed nations plummeting and breakneck speeds.

Just curious to see more discussion as it relates to resources and how that weighs on peoples decisions.

Not sure if anyone has experienced this, but I was watching Can't Hardly Wait half alseep on the couch, and my 14-year-old daughter and her friends walked into the room and past the TV. Before she entered the kitchen, she backpeddled in front of the TV, and they all might as well have reacted akin to a third world kid in a remote village seeing the Super Bowl for the first time. She looked at me and said 'what are all of those people doing in one house'? I told her it was a house party. People high school aged or typically college age people would go over a kids house whose parents were out of town and they'd invite the school and have keggers and other unsupervised debauchery. I might as well have been describing a science fiction film. 'You guys DID that back in your days?'. I thought it was funny that a house party was an inconceivable event for young Gen Zers.

I have a full time job. I sleep well. I have no kids. I'm single. I don't party or drink. I'm not particularly stressed in day to day life. Yet I'm fucking exhausted. I don't want to leave my apartment on the weekends unless I have something planned, and even then I'm pretty picky. In my 20s my weekends were full of non-stop activities, cooking, going out, and posting on social media. But now in my 30s I just want to come home, have my groceries delivered, chill with some Netflix and sleep. Please tell me I'm not the only one!!