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lemmy.world

Having passed our teenage years atop mt. stupid, we're firmly in the valley of despair.

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Next you're going to tell me that the quote in the OP wasn't actually said by the pictured Opossums.

Will the illusions never end?

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C'est ne pas une pipe.

I know what you mean, they never put any graph remotely like that in their paper. But couldn't not do the reference.

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It's weird, I'm the same age as old people but I don't feel old... Except when I try and get up or down, I feel that 😕

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Not only do i understand nothing, but at least when i was younger i was ignorant to that.
You could argue i understand even less now.

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Stupid people are confident they know everything, while smart people understand that they know hardly anything.

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"You just think you know it all because you're so young."

No no, I'm still just as cocky of a motherfucker and I'm approaching 40.

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You now understand that they were lying when they said that, to seem smart, and get you to shut up.

Tada!

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I'm older but all I understand is that things just keep getting worse and that I'm way too stupid to be smarter than this many people.

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That's because they refused to explain it. There's no secret knowledge that activates when you hit 13*, someone has to teach it to you.

*) Well... Except for that, of course.

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I'm older and I understand that my optimism for the world, our species, and my assumption that people are basically good were all total bullshit.

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You reached the end

Wisdom in age | Spyke