We had arkanoid on our first PC and none of my peers remember it. I know it was an arcade game first (and a derivative of pong/ space invaders) but I recall booting it in DOS.

We were one of the only families I know who had a PC though, back in ~1993

I’m no expert on the technology but God I love our battery powered lawn mower. Our lawn, front and back is mostly temporally embarrassed grass (weeds) but keeping it down is critical in Australian snake season. Plan is to get rid of most of it and do the native plants and minimal grass thing.

In the meantime, no fumes, no refueling, the dog isn’t scared of the noise, and it works a treat. The batteries and how to recycle them in the future is certainly something to worry about, but in the meantime it’s vastly superior to our old stinky, do a rotator cuff turning it on, 2 stroke option.

Our phones are such amazing pieces of mobile, personal technology. We’re using them for all the most mundane details though and they’re detracting from some of the better things we could be doing with our time and intellects.

I feel it’s a problem for all of us but as an elder millennial at least I have experienced a world without them. I feel for the younger generations - they’re all consuming for them.

When I noticed it encroached on something I enjoy - trying to guess or remember a bit of trivia - my partner and I now have a rule that we must spend at least 5 minutes trying to guess who that actor is from, or who sings this song before we look it up. The technology was robbing us of imagination and rifling through the mental files.

I don’t disagree with you at all though - we’re using star trek tech and it’s fucking cool.

I’m starting to think this guy wasn’t very nice!

I’m asking you what you meant, not taking it as advice.

I’ve dropped people for the former and similar drama. The latter would be… Gross

What’s the threshold here - on and off again with their ex type rough times, or ongoing cancer battle

Eat cat food until I feel sick and go to sleep before the cat fights start.

I heard that, at least in countries where we read left to right, we also look for things left to right. And if you reverse this and look from right to left that you’re more likely to notice something you otherwise missed. So I do that. But I have no data to confirm if it works…

Karma’s a made up wish upon a star, or like believing in a horoscope.

The reality is, you’re a very nasty minded little creature.

Such a yucky little personality.

OP never mentioned men. Bit of a slip on your part.

You’re so…icky

Elder millennial

It’s so hard to say because the allergy has been present my whole life - many exposures. The same thing goes for the taste of peanuts/peanut butter - I couldn’t actually describe how it tastes because I’m about 30s from throwing up.

My responses to him are always prefaced with a big sigh. Because whatever I’m about to tell him is negative. And he often concludes with ‘so how can you care about this/why do you give a shit if it’s pointless’ and I’m finding it harder and harder to answer that question.

Ignorance truly is bliss

In Australia I can’t tell you how frustrating this is. People are so fucking selfish.

Imagine using the word simp

My partner lacked political engagement until his 30s for reasons so he occasionally has these hot takes. But he expresses them to me and I do feel bad because he’s not coming at it from an arrogant perspective. It’s ignorance, some naivete and also exasperation at a whole lot of shit things.

I have to gently explain to him why XYZ isn’t that simple or black and white, or why his idea doesn’t work - and the answer to that, 9 times out of 10, is ‘because money/rich people/greed/lobbyists/nimbyism’.

I’m just slowly chipping away at his innocence and it feels bad.

This is the best way of describing it. Assertive statements with very naive foundations. I can recognise some of my own thought patterns from when I was young in some of the things they say.

I know far too many people in their 40s who do this.

The way I try to reinforce the difference with people is this mnemonic device:

You don’t want a loose noose - or you might lose the extra ‘o’.