1w ago

20s are roaring

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This is all joke and fun until you realize we are heading towards the 30s
- and we totally passed up girls wearing flapper dresses...
  
  You're just not hanging out with the right women.
  
  probably 😭
  being middle aged and married, i need that shit to be in the open!
  
  I'm 52, married and up until a few years ago I did dance nights regularly. Charleston, swing, salsa, tango, etc with women half my age was a regular thing. It doesn't have to be weird if you don't make it weird. They were lovely and we had a blast.
  PS: Dancing (Ballroom, hip hop, etc) is a great way to make sure you don't lose mobility with age. Once you hit ~45 keeping, your mobility starts to be an constant effort.
  
  sadly I have two left feet... I hear you though. I love to people watch and attractive young ladies are attractive but I'm not asking for anything other than enjoying that moment
  
  Go take dance classes. All it takes is practice
  
  Seriously. I found our local vocational school has an evening program for adults including dance classes. Good exercise, nice way to spend an hour and meet a few folks. If you're new, just take a beginner class! If you aren't ready to move up from there by the time it's done, take it again next semester. Lessons usually are not that expensive and everyone is there to learn--it's ok to have 2 left feet, you're just trying to get a little more control/comfort using em 🙂
- Now with climate change!
  
  But didn't we have climate change back then? The Dust Bowl..?
  Oh yes, it's going to be just like that, except much worse!
  
  The decade metaphor might fail here but let me tell you it's five past twelve
  
  i'd personally say it's at least ten past twelve but whatever
- Yeah, but shit was so bad we elected FDR who put in motion the things we coasted off of up till about the 80s when we forgot what it was like without that stuff.
  Like, trump might be making things happen faster than scheduled. But I'd rather have AOC in 2029 than 2033....
  It doesn't matter if we think accelerationism was the dumbest gamble in history, it's already happened.
- World War 3 to begin in 2039
  
  sooner. this play-through is a speedrun
  
  Exactly. Planes were relatively new last time. Now drones are relatively new. Communication is so fast now—it’s a world record speed run for sure
  
  Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Think about that one.
  
  i'm worried that might be awfully on-spot.
  The "limits of growth" study has the following diagram:
  after having thought about it for a few months, i do definitely see population rates declining in the future due to low birth rates and a worsening economic situation (lower wages, widespread unemployment, ...) but i don't think a war would be a necessary consequence. it could be just barely avoided if wisdom prevails.
- Yeah but this time we're doing a faster and ahead of schedule.
  Let's just hope there's a new FDR to come with it. Sure would love to see that one.
  
  Well, AOC is often only referred to by her initials
  
  I wish AOC could be the new FDR
  
  Every head in the room turns to watch the monkey's paw curl
  
  Oh no, does that mean shes going to intern Japanese people and be extremely racist?
  
  Yeah but this time we're doing a faster and ahead of schedule.
  Efficiency!
  
  Considering FDR threw 100,000 American citizens into concentration camps because of their race, I think we've already got one
- We might get there early
- Don't worry, those of us left are going to see marvelous things once we hit the 60s.
- Its like before but this time with robots
  
  It's like before but this time you have to subscribe.
  
  And adds. "Your neighbourhood's destruction, sponsored by General Concrete inc!"
- but that also means we will live to see the 40s, and the current nazis hanging upside down.
  
  Unless we're on the Star Trek timeline in which case WW3 starts next year and runs for 30 years.
- At least we skipped a world war 1 part deux.

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