in wisdom you become old

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     - therefore, if you ever find yourself writing an essay about just how wrong someone is, think to yourself: am I *really* understanding what's going on in this discussion?
     and if not - maybe just shut up and let the rest of the idiots fan the flames instead.
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+- :page: in wisdom you become old
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+    + this is kind of weird, but recently I have noticed I no longer keep up with slang
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+        - the fuck is a skibidi??
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+    - maybe this is because I no longer browse memes.
+    not on our friend circle's private Discord, not on Reddit, pretty much nowhere
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+        - memes largely arrive to me directly from specific people.
+        I don't go out to kill boredom with memes anymore.
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+        - at some point I realized browsing memes adds nothing to my life, and I just stopped doing it.
+        obviously something had to take their place in killing time, and that became... reading [Lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs).
+        I think that's a net positive since you can genuinely learn a lot from people's writing about computing, but getting time for that required abandoning memes.
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+    - the realization that I gain nothing by browsing memes is probably what one could call a piece of _wisdom_; life knowledge, stuff that shapes your worldview.
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+        + but by gaining more wisdom, I have lost knowledge of popculture
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+            - not that you can define _popculture_ in today's society that well anyways.
+            there are so many little corners of culture that it's hard to tell what's popular anymore
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+    - ...don't tell anyone, but I like it that way.
+    I can focus on my art and making it unique.
+    no need to chase trends.
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+        - even if it means being called an old fart at some point.
+        timeless > trendy