I said “Sortie” out loud for the first time the other day, and even though it was pronounced correctly I still interrupted my own story to repeat it with a look of disgust, thinking “Surely not!”

I spent over a decade thinking “God this sucks, but at least things will get better once the boomers die off.” The worst political blow of my life was realizing that the younger generation also lacked critical thinking skills.

My brother got minecraft to play with my niece and there are two versions now, from what I can tell one that’s like what I was playing a decade ago but updated, and one that has microtransactions. The old one lets you download skins and mods for free. It seemed like a no brainer but he went with the microtransaction one, and now my niece keeps asking for cosmetics.

There must be a reason to yoke yourself to the pay-for-skins version, but I’m really not sure.

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Every time I watch one of his videos I develop a new strong opinion. I have enough opinions, damnit.

I’d be terrible at discovering new species because I would assume anything I found was already discovered and exhaust myself looking for it in databases.

Thankfully I made it through the first season of the Office, which is now a favorite show. If I can make it through that when every episode gave me psychic damage, I can make it through anything.

I was legit like 20 before I realized I could say I didn’t like something and avoid it being cooked for me in the first place.

Some real TIL gems in this thread.

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“Sun shower” or “The devil is beating his wife”

Studying to ace an IQ test shows you’re not debilitatingly mentally challenged, though. I think that’s all the test is really good for.

Similar experience in junior high, took an in-person IQ test and scored highly but instead I thought “this will make people feel envious, I’ll keep it to myself.” When I found out how stupid being proud of IQ results was, I was so glad junior high me lucked his way through cringe-inducing-memory-free.

Also I watched an hour long documentary about “the man with the highest IQ in the world” with my mom and thought “this guy is insufferable, must be related to high intelligence.” But no, it was trash reality TV disguised as a documentary. I think the guy believed he was an unparalleled genius, though.