Your parents were plugged in bro 🤣 I was glued to that thing. Never a big star trek guy for some strange reason

🤣 I did in part too, along with all the nick classics like kenan and kel. had us all in a chokehold

Super insidious, I remember a lot of my classmates wanted to have a similar kind of dgaf vibe and attitude. Eminem in the charts at the time didn't help either

Millennial programming was crack in the early 2000s. The CIA didn't quite have it down yet with Gen Xers and Boomers, and Gen Z for the most part grew up in a more decentralised media landscape. The programming wss there but they could just as well watch some rando Minecraft streamer. We millennials had to contend with the absolute monopoly that is MTV Gangsta Rap American Pie hook up programming. The school disco playing filthy songs, kids copying Britney Spears Jennifer Lopez gyrations. Normalised animalistic pursuits for their own sake. Fascinating to look back at tbh. I used to look back fondly at the noughties and the quirky shows I thought were 'niche' because of the backyard style production quality of shows like Jackass. Shit wasn't niche at all, it was a highly effective monkey see monkey do situation, with no accessible counter measures possible. Key takeaway from this: essential to lay out your own curriculum for future generations. 'It takes a village' is void when the village idiot is a communal title now.

I can see it being really effective, weaponised FOMO! Sort of like how being a Marxist socialist is a college right of way for a lot of people, a fad to rally around. Difference would be the longer someone's a Marxist, the more disillusioned they get. Stacking sats will reward people's idealism rather than make them stick out like a sore thumb

I'm understanding it as a kind of inviting elitism that playfully beckons you to become ONE OF US. same kind of thing words like 'normie' 'npc' do, a lovingly condescending remindrr that as long as you dont take the leap, youre one of the sheep. And we look after sheep dont we

What if you genuinely needed a new dust filter for a Hoover Max Extract Pressure Pro Model 60 and accidentally end up with a new identity working a lyca mobile stand in Peterborough

Bungee gum possesses the qualities of both rubber and gum

I learned about the existence of breast cheese and what shocked me is that the French didn't incorporate it into a dish somehow

🤣 facts I'll consider it a pleasant side effect for now

Initially I joined nostr to punish pro genocide big tech. Now I'm doing it to protect myself from disorienting algo-slop. Growf