u/timb1223

Think about it, today's supercentenarians lived through depression and war during their prime years. Once the Boomers get to that age there'll be a lot more people who have been taking obsessive care of themselves for decades. It just feels weird because we'll all be old by then too.

Having recently seen the movie, it got me thinking. The Backrooms are full of half-remembered things. Slight imperfections. Almost but not quite right. Civil engineering is the physical embodiment of that in the real world.

It's fitting that many Backrooms images contain pieces of human infrastructure. As civil engineers we attempt to impose order on reality. We make the plans and specs, we tell the contractor how to build it, but it's never perfect. It always has to be field-adapted. Sometimes weird stuff gets built. Over time it gets even weirder - retrofits, utility work, redevelopment. Eventually you wind up with bizarre objects that sort of make sense but not quite, and nobody knows how they got there.

The lesson in the film is that "Backrooms" are not just an internet meme - they're the liminal half-forgotten spaces we drift through all the time, whether in the physical world, the internet, the imagination. It's all Backrooms. Civil engineering is literally The Backrooms.

Just turned 60 but I guess I still got it. This young dude kept pulling up reddit on his phone every 20 seconds. He left to buy drinks and I swooped in. Later I saw him talking to this kinda fat chick.

Overnight, all potable water on Earth becomes vaguely cloudy, greasy, and faintly meaty tasting. Bottled water, filtered water, mountain springs, desalinated water, all of it.

No one can figure out why and no one can reverse it. Filtration and treatment don't work. The water is still technically safe to drink.

Every beverage and food made with water is now subtly beef-tinged forever.

What’s your long-term adaptation plan?