The day my boss, who asked for my help, said “That’s not what GPT said” and promptly ignored my input, wasted 2 days of a customer’s time and $700 of their money (refuses to walk back his time doing what GPT said), then finally allowed me to fix the actual problem using my meat popsicle intelligence’s output, which took 14 minutes.

We’re doomed. He votes.

i am an “old hat” in my fire dept. been here 21 years. know a lot. seen a lot. still learning a lot. trained a lot of the newbs. who are mostly 20-30 now. and definitely a cohort of their own. eager. but also dismissive of some of us old guys sometimes. lately i feel like it’s time. i kinda want to transition to a more academic life too. but am grappling with the fomo when the next big job comes in, though i have been at a lot of local history making fires. just kinda feeling invisible, so maybe it’s time to retire.

Brother I have never once been “with it”, as the kids say, and the rock I live under gets comfier every year so I probably won’t try to change that.

Lol I’m autistic, I’ve never been in touch. I rarely understand what’s going on but I fake it really well!

I’m out of touch?!

I started realizing I was out of touch musically when there were big festival lineups and I didn’t know 95% of the bands.

When some actress died recently and there was like 30 posts on reddit and all I could think is who the hell is this? And to be honest, I realized I didn’t care and it’s time to leave reddit. Then I thought, I’m getting old, I don’t need a virtual obituary and just want to see cat pictures or something funny after work.

I was never under the impression that I was in touch.

Probably always been a bit out of touch. Never really enjoyed pop culture. The first time was probably around 10 when everyone started getting into social media and I was like why the fuck would you ever put your real name and face on the internet.

When I was out of time.

I’m a Millennial and I could kinda follow Gen Z humor for the most part, but then Gen alpha came along with Skibidi Toilet. That broke me, I’m… I’m done.

Whenever there is some viral story about some youtube/ticktock celebrity.

I think when I moved from not liking things younger people enjoyed to simply having no idea what they enjoy at all.

I’ve never been particularly with it on trends and such. When I was younger I knew the trends and rejected them in the spirit of youthful rebellion, aspects of my personality were defined by what and who I wasn’t.

Then I got a little older and rejected the things people slightly younger than me enjoyed. This came naturally, because I was no longer the target audience for these things it was easy to write them off as if I were.

Now I don’t even know enough to reject them. My knowledge of what younger people like seems to be about five years out of date. When something new comes along that seems irritating to me it seems to pass so quickly I don’t really have time to register it, and when I find something new I enjoy there’s apparently whole fandoms about it where (presumably… hopefully…) very young people fight about it, and they’re fighting about things I genuinely don’t have time to decipher. It’s like it all moves too fast for my vision to really gain focus, by the time I’m able to tell what I’m looking at everyone else seems to have already moved on.

Literally never. Not once. I was your nerd at school who’d find joy in a science encyclopedia, and really thought everyone else my age acted like the dumbest people on Earth.

Today’s “67” was yesterday’s something else. And it’s never not made me cringe.