Meme source: 2009 movie, Race to Witch Mountain.

To me, who saw the original Escape to Witch Mountain in the theater in 1975, this meme is fresh.

You’re trying to communicate. I can feel it.

Gen-X here. I showed my Gen-Z kid how to build a gaming PC, and then he showed his friend how to do it. So, now, they’re the “IT” guys for the group.

The kid has been sitting in front of a computer since he was four. It occurs to me just now that I didn’t really teach him anything about file management, drives, etc. He learned the same way I did, I suppose. By wanting to, and searching for answers. He was the first one to switch to Linux a couple of years ago. I don’t know his motivation for doing it, but it prompted me to make the switch soon after.

I was in a similar situation, till about eight years ago. So, what happens as more and more of us Gen-Xs retire?

Is AI going to fill the gap? I sincerely doubt it.

I mean, they’re close to illiterate, and can’t focus on reading anything longer than two paragraphs, according to what I’ve read on /r/teachers. Phones don’t have apparent file management, so they don’t know about it.

Idiocracy indeed.

Conservatives ordering at the drive through now getting scammed on drinks because theyre too scared to ask for no ice.

Every day I lose more ability to spot satire. I seriously can’t tell in this case. It could be true. It really could.

I managed to come up with a clever and innovative solution to the problem though; I gave up and worked on something else.

There ya go.

Psychopaths don’t enjoy music like we do.

This does NOT mean that people who don’t “get chills” from music are all psychopaths. I’d just like that to be clear.

But, then you need to have looked into insane conspiracy theories, somewhat. Do you mean making fun of flat earthers, or the people who actually believe birds aren’t real, or listening intently to “UFOologists”?

No, ICE is what cops would be if cops had fewer constraints. It might seem like cops have no constraints, but they do.

I don’t understand the politics. .ml, hexbear, etc. It’s like going to Christmas dinner with your girlfriend’s family for the first time.

I don’t understand the broader structure, something about Mastodon being part of all this? How everything interconnects, etc.

I’m happy enough here, I read, I make comments, I move on. Just like I did on Reddit. It’s a bit empty, so many of the communities are ghost towns. I get that I’m supposed to help with that, but I’m not much of a poster.

Learning recently that apparently anyone can track my upvote/downvote stats was offputting. I’m going to stop upvoting and downvoting now, I don’t want people making inferences from that, but I’m fine with what I write, because there I always say what I mean.

We need protection from them, they don’t need protection from us.

All politicians become corrupt in short time, or are sidelined. If the few good ones could be kicked out, they would be, but since they’re elected, they just get neutralized. We watched that real-time with Bernie’s Presidential runs.

All billionaires are bad, money/power will corrupt anyone in the worst way. Yes, Bill Gates is bad, which hopefully, finally is accepted by most people. But, also Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott. ABAB

I missed Screaming Trees, never heard of them, and didn’t think long enough about Pearl Jam.

So, dumping it into an open container is a way to remove bubbles from the line? You wait for the water to come out without bubbles, and that means the line is full? How do you connect the pump without introducing bubbles? Is it submerged in the open container? Then you pull the line down into the water as it’s running and connect it?

It’s not that I refuse, it’s that I’ve tried many times and failed.

It’s a comfort food my mom made when I was a kid, she called it simply beans and hamburger, but it was far from simple. By the time I thought to ask her how she made it, Alzheimer’s had taken her memory. I tried scores of times over the years, and never got it right, so I finally gave up and made my own version that was purposely different so as not to remind me of my failure.

Way ahead on this one.

Whenever any one of these assholes opens their yap in public, the only response they should hear back is, “You need us. We don’t need you. Shut the fuck up.”

We “peasants” are the only reason the filthy rich have what they have, including food, and clean water to drink. They need us, we don’t need them.

Fuck these useless leeches. Billionaires should not exist.

My not-a-good joke that I’ll say anyway is, when someone asks my age, I’ll say something obviously too young, like 25. They’ll smirk or roll their eyes, and I’ll continue, “I am twenty-five years old, but I’m also sixty.”

No one has ever laughed. And, that’s why I keep saying it. Someday, someone will laugh, I just know it!