I-35 Virtual

It cannot be overstated how culturally significant Anakin poasting is. I dont think you could engineer a better anti-progressive memetic virus in lab if you tried.

Making the popular culture of your childhood/teens a core part of your identity as an adult just causes one to feel prematurely “old and out of touch”. I think that the broader American obsession with “generations” and age cohorts is unhealthy in general.

being 30/being a zillennial is really starting to fuck with me recently i keep finding myself saying "that was 15/18 years ago" in conversation, and i keep meeting people who weren't even alive or were in diapers during my childhood and our cultural bases are so fundamentally different a guy told me he'd never seen pokemon, digimon or yugioh because they were before his time i found out that someone i knew when they were like 5 is having kids now i keep hearing about all these youtubers from 2013-2017 as being fundamental parts of peoples childhoods and i have no idea who they are its very unsettling...

“…Midwest™ X Dot Com accounts partnering with seed corn companies to create image grid posts that get 26 likes…”

Imagine it: The 4th Annual Chamber of Commerce “Trunk or Treat” held in a sunny parking lot on an unseasonably hot mid October day. All of Your Favorite Local Businesses are there. The ethanol plant is handing out grain bin squishies, “…a favorite for kiddos AND grown-ups!”

I can tell this will become an annual lament for me: the “trunk and treat” is a degraded, uncivilized, atomized replacement for actually going around to your neighbors’ houses and interacting with them on Halloween. Horrible development in American life.

Front page of the Sunday @StarTribune, with the headline mistakenly covered by an ad graphic. This is what comes from moving the printing plant to Iowa, where people can't read.