‘Keeping batteries in the fridge’: 20+ Weird habits our parents had that are definitely not normal anymore

Behaviors and customs, like anything, change with time. As technology changes and history continues to unfold, we change right along with it. We don’t use chamber pots and wear petticoats anymore, do we? But what are the changes that have happened over our lifetimes, or our parents’ lifetimes?  Time and technology move and change in …
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Educated adults worry that ‘reading and writing on a normal level’ is becoming a thing of the past for Gen Alpha: ‘The literacy level has dropped so much in last ten years’

The whole goal of school is to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. The bare bones of knowledge. But now, according to some pundits on Twitter, some of that is starting to disappear. We all know that social media is dwindling our attention spans and the proliferation of user-friendly AI has made it easier to cheat, …
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‘Why are teens so dang loud’: Gen Z shares their most Boomer sounding complaints about the modern world

What’s that saying… you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become your parents? Something like that. It’s a cliche, but it’s almost inevitable. When you’re a kid, you can swear every which way that you’re going to do things differently than your folks. It’s an honest gesture, and you might …
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‘Trillionaires coming into existence’: 20+ Predictions for the next 50 years that will 100% happen

Nobody has a crystal ball, but we can all dream. It’s so fun to think about what might come to pass in the next couple of decades. Personally, I’m hoping for a dream recording machine. I feel like we can’t be that far away from it, what with AI image generation and all. We just …
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’45 year mortgages’: 20+ Wild predictions for the future that sound pretty plausible

Nobody has a crystal ball (except maybe the creators of The Simpsons). But it sure is fun to make guesses about what might come to pass. I remember doing that a lot when I was graduating high school- trying to guess what would become of myself and my classmates. Would Josh grow up to be …
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‘Definitely asking for trouble’: Guy ‘works from home’ on VR headset on NYC subway, New Yorkers threaten to rob him

New technology is so goofy. Remember when AirPods first came out and everyone was clowning them for looking, well, stupid? Now everybody wears them, and nobody bats an eye. That was only a couple of years ago. In this instance, though, I sincerely hope that this doesn’t become normal. Not to sound like a boomer …
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Funniest Sci-Fi Memes for Futurist Nerds (January 27, 2023)

The Great Unknown is always going to inspire a lot of art. Whether it relates to space, the future, wild technological advancements, or some insane combination of the three, our only limits are our imaginations.  While fantasy might deal with anything and everything that we consider to be completely implausible, the beauty of sci fi …
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Funny Tweets About ChatGPT, the New and Advanced AI Chatbot

Everywhere we look these days, it seems like artificial intelligence is creeping up on us. Anybody with an unhealthy amount of screentime has tried feeding prompts to an AI art generator these days, and people have even been using them to paint their portraits.  In the past week, things have only got more impressive/terrifying with …
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Funniest Tarot Memes That Look Into Your Future

Tarot reading has been trending online for quite a while now. Almost anyone with a deck sells their services on Instagram and Etsy, and TikTok is notorious for encouraging crystal-clutching ‘intuitive readers’ to pump out videos where they claim that your ex really is coming back, and for good this time. Even those who are …
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Dumb & Awkward Things That Aged Terribly

Most of us aren’t fortune tellers. One thing we have to come to accept over time is that we won’t always have the right answer to everything, and a decision that seemed like a good idea back then may well come back to haunt us with the cringe in the here and now.  It’s human …
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