Adulting in Middle Age. Oh man, this essay is so spot on about Millennials, especially all the urban-smart denizens that often post on Reddit and Imgur. There are so many excellent quotes from the article. Here are just a few (emphases are mine):
Childhood is the only carefree time millennials can remember, so they regress into an obnoxious, cringeworthy parody of youth. To become a Disney adult is to throw a kind of tantrum, clinging to the last time they were truly hopeful, like a cranky baby with a raggedy blankie.
This is the generation now entering middle age in America, and while they have thoroughly memed the apparently insurmountable daily task of “adulting,” they’re the ones who are reading Teen Vogue. They collect toys. They go to Disney World, unaccompanied by a minor, often alone, and on purpose. Troemel also notes that art galleries are morphing into adult playgrounds, where swing sets and ball pits are billed as “installation pieces.” They read young adult fiction (rebranded as NA, or “new adult,” to maintain some semblance of plausible deniability), watch YA movies and TV, and are dutiful completists of every all-ages franchise they’re sold, from Pixar to Marvel. They need a nap, and a treat, and time to scroll through a million instructional “adulting” videos that teach them how to poach an egg or fold their clothes, not to mention the ’90s kids nostalgia memes and posts to remind them of a past they may very well remember fondly — even a bit wistfully — but should have long outgrown.
What is new about millennial generational warfare is the strong current of wealth envy, and since Occupy Wall Street and the two Bernie Sanders campaigns brought class politics back, we’re just as stuck to the idea of “capital” as a metonym for Hunter S. Thompson’s “forces of Old and Evil.” To be old is to be evil; to be young is to be good. The very invocation of youth is tantamount to endorsing the future, rather than a barbaric past, an inverse of the right-wing “kids today!” that proudly proclaims, “I, too, am baby.”
Faced with the highly unrealistic task of having and raising children capable of reproducing the class position of the parents of millennials, one that most millennials never reached, it doesn’t even feel like a responsible decision to consciously start a family, compared to previous generations. Often we turn instead to crafts and the upbringing of an Instagrammable array of houseplants. (Allegedly low-maintenance succulents are still quite popular, though many listless gardeners quickly find them surprisingly easy to kill.) If we can manage something with as many needs as a pet, they are our “fur babies.”
If you’re approaching middle age right now, adulting is harder than it has been for generations. You can’t do your taxes because they’re intentionally byzantine, so you doomscroll and rage post about Taylor Swift. You enjoy the most juvenile and lowest effort entertainment because you don’t have the brain or the stomach for anything with teeth, and you take your little naps because you’re exhausted, anxious, and depressed (which is also why you can’t get out of your pajamas, cook a whole meal, or clean your room).
Yep. This sums up college-aged kids today. So true, so true.
––– 凄い –––Insulin delivery without needles? That would be wonderful. Many insulin users develop knots of skin thickening, collagen and amyloid deposition when they don't rotate injection sites. This would eliminate that.
––– 凄い –––This is why many people don't trust telehealth.
Health apps (even used by Teladoc) have had privacy breaches. This is one condition that you don't want a privacy breach.
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––– 凄い –––It's harder to be spy these days. Because it's easier to rat someone out. Good then.
––– 凄い –––Three Former Presidents Start NGO to Import Illegal Aliens into the U.S. There really never was a difference between Democrats and Republicans, until Trump came along. That's why they want to get rid of him. He's not playing along with the game.
––– 良くない –––Is Apple Maps better than Google Maps? This guy thinks so.
––– 凄い –––We have the right, we have the duty to alter abolish or throw off such government. This is the natural right of self-defense. Of nullification. It is a founding principle. The nullification deniers reject these founding principles. They have reverted to the authoritarian German model, where people are the subjects of the state and must obey the state and that the ultimate authority in this country is five judges on the Supreme Court.
In Federalist paper number 33, at the fifth paragraph: "If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed that's the constitution, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the constitution, as the existency may suggest and prudence justify."
Did you hear what Hamilton said when the federal government usurps powers? We are the judge as to whether there is a violation and we decide what we are going to do about it.
Our framers saw that before nullification is proper, the act of the government must be unconstitutional – a usurpation of a power not delegated, or a violation of the Constitution. Nullification takes various forms, depending on the circumstances, from refusal to obey it, to otherwise obstructing impeding or thwarting its enforcement.
Fighting words. And like what they are doing to the southern border, Texas should NOT comply.
––– 良くない –––OHSU is losing money. But what's worse is that "In a ranking done by Vizient, a health care consulting company,
OHSU
dropped to 56th place overall in quality and accountability out of 116
academic medical centers, down from 15th the year before. OHSU ranked
near the bottom—105th—in terms of safety, Vizient said.
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