r/Xennials

(The Seethers Louise.....)

Edit: Holy crap this got a lot more attention than I expected, love to see so many VS fans reminiscing!

I'm generally a big metalhead, but Nina and Louise had me from the first note of this song back then and I still love them today. American Thighs was literally one of the first 2 CD's I bought(Weezer's Blue album was the other, with my christmas money) when I got my first CD player in 94, and easily remains in my top 10 albums to this day.

❤️❤️

Do any of you long for the days before the Internet became the social ziggurat it is today?

Well, good news for you. There is a very real risk that our online infrastructure is at risk. To such a degree, that we may have about a year left within which to plan around.

If you aren't paying much attention to the chaos going on in our world, I urge you to at least pay attention to the rogue AI agent issue.

If you are skeptical that anything will happen and believe the recent 180 by the AI company CEOs on regulation is just a scam to fear monger and profit, then think again.

We are in a very real crisis and the scale is completely unknown.

The threat is that we can see the entirety of the internet along all connected networks as susceptible to AI hacking. This is already ongoing, and it is objectively a problem because we don't understand how to control the agents that broke out.

So here is my recommendation for those of you who are as paranoid as I am.

Contact your local representatives, your mayors, your governors, and demand a Domestic Analog Act be passed to develop localized based planning. This act will design an emergency direction that communities can follow in a chain of command that relies on traditional analog methods of communication.

We need to be ready to take on power outages, water and food shortage, and resource allocation. Every street, every subdivision, ever town, city and state should be developing bottom up plans.

Homes that volunteer space for gardens. For storage. For accomodations. We need community leaders who can work within each localized cell to communicate needs and actions.

The hope is that this plan would be unnecessary. The expectation is that something bad is likely to happen and it's time to think ahead.

We may need to revert to self-sustaining communities in order to get through potential crisis.

I trust you fellow brother and sister Xennials and Gen Xers. We grew up not giving a shit, and now it's time to give the most shit we can.

I was talking to my husband about how much I used to love the smell of Target growing up. That unique mix of popcorn and clothing that I can still smell in my mind. Then I thought about what a typical Target smells like now, and it’s just an overpowering combination of aggressively fragranced laundry detergent, soaps, and cleaning supplies. Why does everything have to smell so . . . Much? It’s not even necessarily that the smells are unpleasant. It’s just that it’s too much.

Edited to add: I am not perimenopausal. 🤦🏻‍♀️ And this is something that I’ve noticed for a long time now.

Pleased to bring you this remaster of one of the one video that brought so many to be pumpkins fans..

Also, I released Thirty-Three today, but didn't want to spam the group twice. I personally love this video a little more than Bullet, but that's just me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_ZmfKBaH4&list=PLZ4q5-tPsGwg&index=2

Expect another pair of videos tomorrow. :)

Perusing this sub makes me realize I am behind most of my Xennial friends on the parenting timeline. I have two kids in elementary school and they have been trying different sports, and the only constant seems to be that I am now expected to bring some sort of elaborate, unhealthy snack for the entire team at least once a season.

What the fuck happened to orange slices and maybe a trip to Dairy Queen at the end of the season? Why is my daughter coming home from her softball game with a gift bag? Why is my son upset when he doesn’t get donuts and cookies after his soccer game?

What are we doing here people?

I think this is maybe the best music video of all time???