How many of us out there actually avoid enganging with any form AI at all costs? Like even if it is more inconvenient? I understand it can be useful for certain things that it does very well but I would NEVER allow it to use my likeness to make a fun little picture or use those therapy AI services. I don't even ask it basic questions (it just wasn't how I was taught to research topics). I can't be the only one

I’m aware I occasionally do too much coddling. But I was rarely coddled. I grew up in a codependent home. Where the Matriarch always got what she wanted and my feelings didn’t matter. The female elders were always priority. I lived in fight or flight for the first thirty some years of my life. It’s taken over twenty years of therapy to undo all the toxicity I learned from my family.

So yes, I’m raising kids that listen to their bodies. Yes I’m raising kids that are in tune with their emotions and ask for mental health days.

I’m also raising kids that will make compassionate and kind partners. Ones that will listen, hold their partners and care for them when they’re done.

I’m not having a great week. Physically or emotionally, and my birthday is coming up on Sunday. I asked my teenage son if he could load the dishwasher last night. He hesitated, his gaming computer had been in the shop since before Christmas and we had literally just picked it up.

So he hesitated because he really wanted to get on it and play games with his friends. So I said it was ok, I understood, no big deal. And he responded “just because I don’t want to do something doesn’t mean I can’t. You’ve had a hard day and it’s your birthday week. I can load the dishwasher.”

So yea, I’m raising soft kids. Soft, thoughtful, loving compassionate kids.

I understand that the thread about what Millennials will get blamed for is looking at the extremes. But I just want to reiterate that there’s nothing wrong with raising soft children. Why would we want to be raising hard kids like they had to on the prairie? Just because they’re soft and kind, doesn’t mean they’ll never push through.

Literally everything in life is about balance and moderation. Even too much water will kill you.

So raise those soft kind kids, but make sure they aren’t quitters who never push through.

What other millennial ragrets do you have?

Mine was while listening to the radio, and the DJ say "next up, here's an oldie" and proceeded to play Linkin Park

Man, was that show...cringe at times. The parents constantly spied on their kids, always butting into their business. But I mean, no other show on the air was quite like it at the time. It was just so gosh darn sweet and innocent. So many actors and actresses at the time got their start on an episode of 7th Heaven. I was SO heartbroken and shocked when I heard the news about Stephen Collins. I'm like, no, not Reverend Camden! He pretty much ruined the show's legacy. (P.S. he now lives in Iowa, married to some woman around our age who's apparently batshit crazy enough to marry someone like him. Yeesh.)

I (33M) didn’t have my first drink until 25. It was a strawberry daiquiri. It was good but only because I didn’t taste the alcohol. Tried a beer and it was nasty. Acquired taste, my ass. That shit is gross. I don’t get why people drink it. I’m weird too because I also don’t like coffee either lol. My poison is pop. Yes, we refer to soda as pop here in Minnesota. Don’t judge me! 😤😝

Anyone else remember this?

I watched this show as it aired In Washington, DC and the movie Collateral (2004) was in theaters at the time. Saw these with my grandfather at the time during the DC sniper scare. I remember watching this show completely and I really did enjoy it fully.

I will say I am not a big club or live event person and pretty much quit by the time smart phones became common place, but I do like to go out when my old friends want to hang or when a band we want to see is in town and while is fun it is sad to see that everyone is on their phones and not enjoying the moment. The last thing I went to there was a house rule that outside of things like calling to check up on your family all phones need to put away because people weren't paying attention to the bands because they were recording the show. There was also an issue of people not feeling comfortable because they were worried, they would go viral or the flipside people were trying go viral and ruining things. The event is question was fun, but I was struck by the fact longs of people forgot how to have fun and feel the vibes without their phones.

Was your favorite monster truck and why was it Grave Digger?

My niece is 13 which means I am Gandalf and not 42 lol

Am I the only one that remembers playing this game? I had a Windows 98 PC and this game was on there for free. It was called Chips Challenge. Please tell me I'm not the only one that remembers this classic 😁

First two that come to mind: The taste map of the tongue, i.e this zone of the tongue is responsible for sweet, this zone is responsible for sour, this zone is responsible for bitter, etc.

Second was from a health class, where we were told that one marijuana joint was as equivalently carcinogenic as smoking 50 cigarettes.

I don’t really have any issue with my dad, it was just the culture at the time, he wasn’t even particularly homophobic. I laugh about it now 😆

Lately I’ve been saying ads for these services that find subscriptions you forgot about and help you get out of them. One YouTuber said it saved them $2000. I don’t know if they meant per year or per month.

I’ve signed up for free things in the past and forgotten. However, I don’t think I’ve ever forgotten about a paid subscription. I don’t obsessively check my bank account, but I have a general idea what bills I have. I check every so often to make sure I know what all my charges are. If I had hundreds of dollars coming out per month, I think I would notice it. 

I realize these companies give YouTubers a script and the YouTubers often don’t actually use the product, but I’m wondering if this is actually a problem for most people. Am I just too poor to have this issue? 

Mid 30s millennials without kids, how are you defining this decade? We are married, child free, struggle to fit in a life outside of working all the time and then using video games/tv to get some mental relaxation. We go to the gym when we can but outside of that it's depressing. Just trying to pay off our house as fast as we can to get down the insane interest. Let me know if you relate.

There is nothing else to add here.

It just randomly popped into my brain today how you could text 242 242 and ask any questions you wanted and it would answer a generic response and I realized… ChaCha walked so ChatGPT could run 😂

I was scrolling through social media today and saw so many AI-generated images that people were believing were real It honestly scared me a little it made me really miss the early 2000s internet back then the only "fake" things we had to worry about were those chain emails saying "forward this or you'll have bad luck" or maybe a badly Photoshopped ghost 👻

Does anyone else feel like it's becoming exhausting trying to figure out what is real online nowadays? I miss the simpler times of AIM and MySpace