One inevitability of getting older is starting to ruminate over the state of kids these days and how they just don’t do the same things that we used to do. Ever since the teenager became an accepted cultural category, people have worried about children growing up too fast—but since social media has been a thing, …
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Woman Walking Her Dog on the Beach Stumbles Upon a Washed Up Wallet, Turns Out It’s the Wallet She Dropped Overboard Last Year
Sometimes the universe gives you a break—maybe it’s a year later—but right when you’re about to give up, you see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Weekly Internet Roundup: Will Smith’s AI Spaghetti, Breakdancing Dads, and 50 Part TikTok Dramas
Also, chocolate-covered strawberries take over TikTok.
‘A part time orphanage is crazy’: Mom drops 6-year-old daughter at 24 hour daycare, sparks debate about childcare
Parenting is no walk in the park, especially in this day and age. Most moms and dads get to a point where they want a break. Also, if they have to work they often have no choice but to try and navigate the confusing and expensive territory of childcare. Usually, this service is confined to …
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‘He just left 4 kids to do that’: Daughter tells story of father abandoning family to become a break dancer, faces cringey clapback from dad himself
Rare is the individual who doesn’t have some kind of issue related to their parents. Even those who can boast a respectable relationship with their mom and dad usually have something that could easily be hashed out in therapy, so spare a thought for those kids who have to be raised (or not) by straight-up …
Seguir leyendo ‘He just left 4 kids to do that’: Daughter tells story of father abandoning family to become a break dancer, faces cringey clapback from dad himself
‘What if rocks are soft but tense up when we touch them?’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (February 20, 2024)
In some ways, TikTok was never as much of a revolution as it was made out to be. People had been doing ridiculous, embarrassing, and overly candid things on the internet for years at this point. The main difference is that it made all of this seem a lot more accessible, and normal. Even more …
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‘I’m not even 100% sure what I do for work’: Friend group explain their jobs to each other with PowerPoint presentations
I can’t stay silent any longer: I am the friend whose job everybody is kind of confused about. To me, the series of silly little tasks I log on and complete every day are quite pedestrian, but as far as anybody outside of work is concerned my job is just ‘memes’. I suppose that is …
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‘I’d literally never leave’: Woman boasts about not talking to anyone for 72 hours, internet extols virtues of living alone
It’s no secret that modern society has a loneliness problem. Commentators will blame everything from the disintegration of the ‘traditional’ family unit to the loss of third spaces for the fact that many people seem to be less engaged with the wider world than ever. While it isn’t a pleasant thing to think about, not …
Seguir leyendo ‘I’d literally never leave’: Woman boasts about not talking to anyone for 72 hours, internet extols virtues of living alone
‘Never felt patriotism before I saw this’: Americans trash UK cooking, restart the international food wars
There are various different topics that the internet never seems to get tired of talking about, and one of these is UK vs. US food. The land of beans on toast is no stranger to the slander of its national cuisine, and much of it comes from across the pond. The latest blow to have …
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Company fires employee who relocated for the job after 3 months of working: ‘I uprooted my life to move over here’
Relocation is a tough decision to make. If your entire social network lives in one state or city, leaving in search of an opportunity that may or may not serve you in the long run can feel hazardous. While that’s true, sometimes you get an offer you can’t refuse and choose to uproot your life, …
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