Yes, that is a thing I also experienced, but hopefully that will change again also for you.

E.g. for me, with our kids being out of the worst by now I have found the time and energy again to pursue new hobbies, as well as resurrecting some old ones, like PC gaming, which I had abandoned for nearly twenty years because “growing up”.

Well, the fact that sub-20-year-olds don’t give a shit when you tell them they seem older than they are, means that anyone complaining about being called old, is old per definition.

Soooo… basically you just identified yourself as old.

That’s just the process of getting older, the “pasts” you lived at some point become more numerous than your present state.

No reason to worry.

The things you are doing now have grown on that rich field of experience and maybe don’t seem so ( massively nostalgia-tinged) spectacular as what you did in the past, but they are valid nonetheless.

Do you mean 27,5’‘?
But those are a reasonably well stocked tire size… So really 27’'?
If true, what kind of bikes use these?

As someone living in a country with an increasing overaging problem (current birthrate per woman: 1,35 children…), I see this happening in realtime, and I can tell you it is really not a good thing.

Vimes boots theory

TIL Terry Pratchet coined the name of an economic theory.
Thanks for the info!

Most people you know are not “millennials”

Where did I say that?

I only stated that the Millennials I know are of the pre-1990 type, and these totally exist.
(Hello, my beloved Millennial-wife, if you happen to read this! :-) )

Yes, especially wars also tend to seriously disturb family planning.

My grandparents all were around 30 on my fathers side and even older on my mothers side when they became parents.
Reason for that: WWII happened…

Before and after the wars, numbers were significantly different. My mother was nineteen when I was born in the mid 70s. But that also was around the time when that started to change in our country, triggered by the more widespread availability of contraceptives and an increase of women’s education level.

I am now working at a place in our company that is prime starting point for a lot of university graduates. Most of them were born around 2000 and are now in their mid- to end twenties.
So correct, I also know a couple of people born slightly before 2000, did some slight rounding there.

I have 4 years left before 40.

Plenty of time, you are mid 30s still. No reason to panic. ;-)

Na, I just tip the break pedal for a second to light the break-lights, which reliably will convert my tailgater to the problem again.

Yeah no turns out the premium shit does feel great and rolls better.

On top of that, it lasts three times as long (speaking for the Continental premium tires vs. their cheap basic stuff) making it kind of a no-brainer which to get for someone cycling regularly.

Upgrading your tires is still the cheapest and most effective performance tuning you can do.

That’s just the bloating in your stomach.
When you turn 30, you develop this incredibly urge to start eating lots of beans, commonly marking the transition to being an old man with the obligatory old man habits.

Not the first time, they seem to do that like once a year in my experience.
On my (Android) device, the recent blocking is already gone again, having lasted about two weeks.

It is a common strategy: first fix them on, then make life inconvenient for them to push for the next stage (be it app installation, more screen time or paying for stuff).

Seems like Reddit has moved on to the next “fixing on” stage again.

Eyes the size of a large pizza

Which sounds less impressive as it used to, with shrinkflation taking its toll also on Italian food craftsmanship.

As Gen-X, I can confirm that 30 is far more traumatic than 40.

I totally agree.

When turning 40, I had much to much going on (family stuff really taking up speed, buying own flat,…) that I didn’t give a shit.

30 on the other hand, with me still without a long-term partnership and just continuing living my old student bachelor’s life, felt like a huge thing, triggering profound eleventh-hour-panic.

I think that the dates have shifted as typical family foundation has moved from the late teens or early twenties to around 30.
This also means that 50 might be the new 40 (A fact that I can confirm by now), marking a new phase in life as 40 maybe did in former times.

Drill, baby, drill!
Nothing better than a healthy dose of prehistoric heavy metals and climate active trace gases!
And if you omit the costly filters, sulphuric acid from the rain might even corrode some those nasty windmills and photovoltaics!

Most of the Millenials I know have even already the scary 50 approaching from behind.

But that’s some kind of observation bias, as I am GenX and interestingly know almost no people born between 1990 and 2000.

But I know a bunch of GenZ again who currently look like deer with big, wide open eyes at the approaching headlights of the “30” truck, which imho is much worse than the 40…

While I am not that pessimistic, I guess you have a point (Looking at the Skyblivion release, that has been delayed…)
But meanwhile I am playing some Tamriel Rebuild content and feel slightly more optimistic again ;-)

Anyone else think porting a 25 year old game to a 15 year old game engine is kinda funny?

I’m not quite sure I would call it “funny”.

“Surprising” or “confusing” perhaps.

And when you know a a bit more, a little “sad” might also come to the mix.
There are reason after all, those people don’t have switched their attention to newer games by now…