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Anything else doing?

Oh gosh I've tried Duolingo so many times over the years and never gotten far. I'm impressed with people who keep it up.

Can you tell me more about the games you like? I have lots but I'm pretty bored with most of them.

That's cool. How was your day otherwise?

Already muted compadre

Yeah I think it's the flat, arid looking neighbourhood plus the kids in costume on a mission - it's very similar

Reminds me of ET when they're all in costume

That's one of the ways you can enjoy yourself. There are others but calling them 'better' than that is just ignorant.

Something that only occurred to me just now is that when I was in my 20s and early 30s and still assumed I'd have children (despite that looming self imposed pressure feeling exactly like dread), the parent-child relationship I had imagined in my head was set in the past.

I grew up in the 90s and early 00s. I'm an elder millennial. I think my gen was very lucky in that we got to see and enjoy the rapid emergence of technology before today's capitalistic enshittification but our interpersonal dynamics and everything we did didn't rely on it either. So the 'come home when it gets dark' or 'I'll meet you at 4 at the cinema' mentality was still strong. No social media or inability to switch off the connection to other people.

We also didn't have the existential crises that come with thinking about climate change, the death of truth and the rise of misinformation, and the next pandemic.

So when I was picturing raising a child it was in a dated context that for the most part doesn't exist anymore. Yes there's exceptions to everything - I'm speaking in a very general sense - but I cannot imagine myself growing up in today's world. I had a hard enough time back then, with similar struggles most kids have. How the fuck would I help my own child navigate it???

No thanks.

You could look into some kind of work experience program or even troubled youth programs operating in your area that might be able to make use of your knowledge and your property?

We don't need kids to pass on what we know to the young :)

Can this stay on Reddit? We don't need to copy everything over. It was so overdone over there anyway

I tripped and fell spectacularly walking in a supermarket. I was annoyed that no one helped me up or checked if I was okay (I didn't need help but it made me think less of my fellow man) and that my partner was waiting in the car and didn't witness it, because it was actually really funny.

I left embarrassment in my 20s. Don't have the energy or interest in it now. And I know I'm not the main character - everyone's living their own lives, the impact you make on strangers is minimal. At worst someone said when they got home from the shops 'i saw this chick stack and it was kinda funny'.

Reminding yourself that no one really cares about people that don't know is a helpful way to shut down the negative self talk.