this is a good article. the section talking about the declining birth rate fails to mention climate change, which is (at least among me and my 20/30something friends) the #1 reason why nobody wants to procreate. i kinda wish they'd at least mentioned it.

tbh i had no trouble with lotr as a preteen but would probably find it unreadable now.

books i hate those nerds read them

This is a book reader: 🤓

I thought it was pretty good clickbait

I understand what this list is trying to do but I just find it kinda basic lmao.

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lol it's good <3

i predictably like several of these >.> like fuck my dude if i and millions of other nerds had no trouble reading LOTR as preteens and you find it unreadable maybe the problem is not the book dearest editors of gq

like i mean god of course a bunch of them are problematic or written by dickheads but like idk you can read and enjoy them and acknowledge that

sorry i'm old and i grumble :p fckn performative thinkpiece bs

I like the part making fun of books

i thought you dind't read books?

Did the author insert an Overwatch Play of the Game in the middle of his article?

I mean, clearly he did, I guess I just don't understand why I live in this universe.

what a horrifying nightmare, i love it.

The text actually really doesn't go into the title question but I couldn't be arsed to substitute my own either. It's not what you'd think it is though.

I'm not gonna read this but it's because conservativism is completely reactionary and morally bankrupt

lol i wasn't but i guess i should have been

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oh yea definitely! i don't mean to say you're in the wrong or anything.

It was definitely an interesting and worthwhile read and a good post!

While a lot what I post here is whimsical, I thought that the domain washingtonpost.com and the board /f/general was enough to suggest that this was a serious piece about an absurd thing. I suppose I should have rewritten the title to make it more clear.

I'm not usually into stories about crime, but I thought this was particularly interesting as how contemporary it all was, like:

1. dating app on a phone launching jealousy
2. boyfriend being a huge gamer and a self-defined "ethlete" up to 13 hours a day
3. katana (the commercialization of them perhaps more than recognizing them as a thing you use for crime)

It's a very modern spin on an age old ill. This is a bit utopistic at the moment given how abstinence only education is gaining more steam under the present administration, but ideally I'd like to see infidelity treated with more depth in schools since it's so common. Not just a superficial "nu-uh it's bad".

this reminds me of ai weiwei's sunflower seeds exhibition, millions of individually painted and crafted seeds, none of them really unique but still singular

I was only tangentially aware of the work, but I thought that they were just ordinary sunflower seeds this whole time! Let's just say that back then I wondered what the deal was, exactly.

same

just train a neural network on my posts and simulate me on the internet after i die

I understand this brand

i want to be an android

lol, I think it's great out of context but I should probably specify that it's a parody of promo videos for the brand ACRONYM. They make jackets and bags with fancy pockets for stuff like electronics and knives, and have extra feature for getting stuff out easily and taking them off and carrying them around and stuff. Here's an example and honestly they're almost as funny. They're supposed to make you feel like an android and cost like a thousand dollars lol.

All that said I think they're actually pretty cool, You might have heard of em cause they designed clothes for the last two Deus Ex games.

This is really funny? But also serious? The fact that I don't know how to feel about it or interpret it probably means it's good art I suppose

I love this story, added a content warning tho.