I like your perspective. You’re going to do well.

I think awareness of the Pepe meme depends on ones social circles. My wife, who works in IT and has been on the internet since back when it was viewed as a threat to dial up bulletin board systems had exactly no idea. I would suspect that few of my similarly aged peers (50s) are aware, either.

Fair enough. Thanks for your note.

Great actress. But when she’s on screen, I can’t stop staring at those lips she had installed.

I was pointing out the convenience of those behaviors, actually. It’s easy to not do something to assuage our conscience, whether it’s not going somewhere to buy a burger or not voting.

Boycotts really don’t have much effect on a business, except that the boycotter feels better about themselves. Same for lots of “I didn’t vote” people, who over the next four years may realize some kind of insight about the effect of their actions (or lack thereof).

I had an account back 7 or 8 years ago, but it’s pretty clear that it’s mostly a noise generator and echo chamber.

Thank you. Getting older really doesn’t have to suck. When you get to your late 50s, it’s pretty freeing. I read an article in The Atlantic a couple years ago about happiness over the course of your life. It was spot on in its assessment, IMHO.

Here’s an important one: Give yourself some credit.

When I was really young, “teenager” was the name given to boomers. They grew out of it after a while, but that was how the boomers were referred to, for the most part.

There’s an old song called “I’ve Done All the Dumb Things” that was popular when I was in my early 20s in the late 70s. I try to keep other people from doing the stupid things I’ve done, though I’m rarely successful. This may be driving your co-worker. It’s the nature of each generation to ignore the preceding ones…

It’s pretty OK. At this point, I’m allowed to not give a shit about having a career, which makes me able to do pretty much whatever I want. I got my review at work last year and they asked me, “where do you see yourself in ten years.”

As someone at the tail end of the baby boomers, let me recommend that you get used to being blindly marketed to by a bunch of folks that are a generation ahead of you in age. You’re the largest economic group in the country now, you’re just getting going in your careers/families/etc., so you’re now The Target Market…

I have a 1999 F150 V6 I’ve owned since new. It’s been bulletproof. I have, at this point, no doubt that this truck will still be hauling crap around the county long after I’m dead.

LOL. I bought a 36mm socket when I was 18 and rebuilding my VW Bug’s motor. It sat in my toolbox forever without being used. But now I use it ever time I have to change a tire on my Ducati. I also used it on the fork caps on my R100. You never know when you’ll need it again. I think I paid like $10 in 1976 for…

In addition to my ongoing airhead addiction, I also have a thing for CBs. DOHC 750s, to be exact. It’s not easy, but the good part is that if you have tools for one, you have tools for the other, barring specialty tools like alternator pullers and other weirdness.

Youtube is your friend. Bread is awesome and pretty easy to make well.

We never had kids. You’ll only have a few more years of those questions before it becomes obvious that kids just aren’t part of the plan. Turning 40 usually quiets those questions and menopause pretty well exterminates them.

I have a friend that insists on sticking with the old points/condenser ignition in his 60s Ford. I don’t think he’s quite discovered the joys of installing new points by the side of the road yet when:

You know it. How can anyone adopt that level of helplessness as their default state?