The teenagers of Theseus
The entire teenage population is different every five years.
Submitted 6 months ago by Preventer79@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 6 months ago
IWW4@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Chronological sure…
You would not believe the number of worthless fucks there are who are teenagers who just grew old…
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 6 months ago
OP, get a couple more brain cells and learn how to count
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 months ago
13 … 14 … 15 … 16 … 17 … 18 … 19
Pretty sure that you’re a teenager for seven years, not five.
Valmond@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But after 19 teenage pregnancy drops to Zero!
I wonder how it is in countries that doesn’t have the “teen” in the numbers.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Most other languages count that group as “youths” and in general you are one from 12-18.
Today@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In 120 years the earth will be all new people. That scares my kids. Makes me hopeful.
vane@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And machines will stay the same. That’s why they are superior.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 months ago
I challenge you to find a 120yo machine near you that is in working condition.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is what makes experienced history so extremely short.
In general, people have a somewhat ok understanding of how their grandparents lived, and they might know a few stories about their great-grandparents, maybe one more generation after that, but that where it ends and where history books with dates and numbers begin.
That’s where you get statements like “In the past people did/believed/were like/… X” from. No, your grandparents did/believed/were like/… X, not all people in the past.
Valmond@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or we crack the code to repair damage caused by aging.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 months ago
There is just about zero chance that those changes would filter down to the masses, so hopefully that doesn’t happen. I don’t want billionaires to live forever, that would be some real life vampire shit.
HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 6 months ago
but also not at once, the youngest are influenced by those older than them, and in tuen influence yet new teens. Its causes an endless shift of culture.
Oka@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
The amount of people younger than you is ever growing, and the amount of people older than you is shrinking.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We’re all constantly falling to our deaths through the fourth dimension
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
🤯
Bgugi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m gonna have to disagree with you here. 18- and 19-year-olds are still teens. say what you will about being adults, but semantically (if nothing else) they are still teens.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 months ago
That is certainly the logic that porn sites use.
Preventer79@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
changes every six-seven years then…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 months ago
“That’s what I like about these high school kids, man. I get older and they stay the same age. 😎”
Breezy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I heard last night hes gonna run against Abbott in Texas. I did not double check.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
All the dogs in the world have been replaced in the 33 years since I was born
pemptago@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
saimen@feddit.org 6 months ago
I wasn’t ready to realize this
quacky@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That is one of those statistics tbat take a long time to fully be cognizant and appreciative of because it is so intense
Preventer79@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Most human artistic output isn’t about or geared towards dogs tho (sadly).
electric@lemmy.world 6 months ago
:(
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Sucks they get executed when they turn 18 though.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Actually, that comes at 30.