Honestly, Do we even need the caffeine?

Since quitting caffeine, I've felt a lot better. I used to wake up feeling like shit, drink my caffeine of choice, feel mid until it wears off, drink more, feel more mid, repeat, have trouble falling asleep.

Now I just wake up feeling mid, and go to sleep just fine. Big difference is that I save a bunch of money, and have less anxiety, and irritability, from all the stimulants.

I don’t bother with the stuff either, to be fair. Generally it just stops someone getting more tired, especially if it starts to be more of addiction than anything else.

But I guess it all goes back to the idea I mentioned of people being afraid of the concept of not having 100% energy at all times of day. Instead of trying to find solutions we should instead be asking why executives and fuckers like that demand unsustainable hours from people, especially as study after study shows that a four-day work week with six-hour days is hugely productive compared to what we consider normal.

I have…thoughts.

I would say the drugs is a class thing…drugs are classy if youre rich, trashy if you’re poor.

I’m not USAian, but still.

If only we had an anti-vaccine vaccination. Take away the polio immunity for those troglodyte fucks. Let them suffer their own undoing.

Rather than have the affect their kids.

I'm a white Christian man, and that sounds awful.

I don't understand how people can want to live in that world.

Straight White Christian Men

Straight White "Christian" Men*

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Men

As a Millenial, I can 100% say that I do not miss being young. Granted, the busted lumbar region and cranky guts aren't fun, but the familiarity with my own body and the gained cognitive complexity are worth a helluva lot more to me.

I do miss those contexts and how they made me feel, I miss seeing my friends carefree and jovial, and I miss drum and bass and punk gigs. But I was a moron back then, and the shit I did to myself, I wouldn't wish on anyone else.

No, there is one thing: I miss not needing as much sleep as I do now.

There are a lot of physical things I miss from being young, eyesight, faster recovery from injury and illness, etc. I didn't have money, I had unmanaged depression, I lacked a lot of self esteem. However, I had more friends(or at least acquaintances), more hope in people, much better physical fitness, and in hindsight a lot of my worries weren't that serious.

Aging and youth are both mixed bags. But I'll take being older without a doubt. -A younger millennial

What are the chances you are GenZ / Alpha?

Older generations bitch about "damn kids these days don't respect their elders" ever since at least Socrates.

The young have always bitched about the older generations being stuck in their ways and being too nostalgic about their own youth.

This is the way.

You're not special.

Yup, the 1950s was only better for white people, but there's a reason that white people look back on it with fondness.

But, I'd guess that even for black people it was better than the 1930s. When the economy shinks, they're the first to lose jobs. When it grows they're the last to get them. In the 1950s things were booming so my guess is that black unemployment was low. Still, for working class white males the 1950s may have been a peak, for most other people things have just been getting better every year since then.

Imagine how good it could be if everyone got some of the things working class whites got in the 1950s: strong unions, good labour protections, high tax rates on the ultra rich, etc.

Back in my day, we could drink gasoline right out of the pump. If you were feeling ill, you just head over to the nearby asbestos wall and give it a good lick.

Then you go out and yell racist shit and put women in their place.