• smeenz@lemmy.nz
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    15 hours ago

    Just wait until you’re 87 and stupid. Then you can join the US congress and halt all progress

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    14 hours ago

    Tbh I had the opposite, was way too worried about myself being stupid, and not worried enough about how stupid everyone else is

  • shartgargle@lemmy.zip
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    22 hours ago

    God I wish I was stupid. I mean I am in some ways. But I wish I was fundamentally stupid. Being able to enjoy little things as the world burns, that’s the dream. Anybody still doing lobotomies?

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      18 hours ago

      Being smart and being able to enjoy little things are to unrelated things. Maybe you are just smart and depressed?

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        17 hours ago

        Probably. But I have a hard time believing that you can be smart without being depressed in this day and age.

        Edit: I mean there are moments. It’s not all doom and gloom all the time. But overall? I have a kid. What chances does he have? Should he want a family, what are the odds he doesn’t figure it out and feel just as bad as I do? It’s going to get worse and worse, and we know this. Every generation will have it worse. I don’t want that for him. And I don’t want his generational guilt that I have for him.

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          15 hours ago

          So it is time for our generation to revert the course. I am not saying you should go and do this or that, just that at the moment I feel that for things to become better we need whole generations of better people

        • lauha@lemmy.world
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          16 hours ago

          I’m worried for the world and the climate and at the same time I do enjoy a lot of little things. Maybe I am dumb though.

  • Swemg@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Me at 35: I don’t give a shit what they think about me, I’m not paid enough anyway

  • untorquer@quokk.au
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    23 hours ago

    Just wait until you get to “They’re all just as stupid as I am, and too insecure about it to stop me!”

  • DrPop@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Me at 35: Who cares if they think I’m stupid. Im still better at my job than a vast majority of the others. (I finish my task as soon as possible and just sit around the majority of the day).

  • kepix@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    17: man, everyone is smarter than me 37: girl has 2 diplomas, but i could bet one of my balls she cant even read. noone at the office is capable to print to a pdf.