But I am le tired.

Disclaimer since people can't read: This is NOT a "omg we look like teenagers post"

I'm still convinced that people age a lot more less harshly than they used to (again for the 100th time, NOT saying we look like teenagers but people don't seem to age as harshly as 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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This felt extremely nostalgic, a bit cringe, and just made me feel old.

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It's an older code, sir, but it checks out.

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.

EDIT: I am blown away by the number of people that have shared cool stories, pictures and vibes!!

Music really is the universal language!!

This has warmed my Rockin' Millennial Heart and honestly it's made my night!!

Rock on dudes & dudettes!!! 🖤🤘🏽

I WISH I was 35 again 😭

You'd be mid 20s for WW1, late 20s for the Spanish flu pandemic, 39 for the 1929 stock market crash, with the great depression in your 40s, WW2 in your early 50s. And if you made it through all that, you might have lived to see the moon landing.

Oh yeah, and Everest College turned out to be a huge scam.

As the election draws near for the U.S. midterms, it’s a good time to remind everyone that this sub was one of the most bottled subs on the platform! Stay safe and not stressed!

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

Additionally, Microsoft plans to offer buyouts to about 60,000 workers as part of the company's efforts to trim costs and retool its workforce as it invests heavily in AI. that amounts to just over a quarter of its total staff.

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?

I was doom scrolling through YouTube just now and came across a short that the final members of Gen Y (the original designation of Millennials) are either 30 or turning 30 by the end of the year. I’m on the other end of the generation (mid 40s) and find it both interesting and humbling that there’s people whom would’ve had their 10 year high school reunion at the same time as others having their 25 year reunion and still be in the same generation.

ETA: I was born in ‘83 and was part of the last class to graduate high school before 9/11 and old enough to have been affected by the financial collapse in ‘08 had I gone to college/university

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.

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.