We all age and die. What matters is what we do with our lives.
I typed up a complete rant about how i wasted away so much time to work, trying to obtain an income that’s capable of getting me a house.
But now is the time to focus on what IS positive at the moment, like how i’m still happily together with the wife.
If i let the negavtives of the past take control, i’ll just stumble down a deep hole again and i don’t want that.
I’m fine with dying, eventually. It’s aging I don’t want to go through.
I’m pretty sure it’s the dying you dont want to go through, unless it’s rather quick.
I used part of my life to read this comment, then write a response to it, and I’m not happy about it.
I used it to make a meme.
The alternative is worse you know.
Maybe I should have a child or buy a house by 40. Idk.
If you say so
oh god oh fuck
Did an AI try to recreate this image?
I think you’re right. Aside from screenshots showing it looks wrong, here’s the actual scene: https://youtu.be/yZszK_M_9_Y
It’s not there, unless I’m missing it.
A couple of comments are suggesting that, but I remember this scene and just assumed it was a weird still from the movie.
I’m confused why someone would’ve recreated it, or modified part of it with AI, but it’s possible.
Turned 40 last month and to be honest I’m kinda struggling with depression right now
This is going to sound stupid, but during college, I took a lot of different types of math and history classes.
As humans, we invented years, and ages. Then we made milestones for what they represented. We said, there are 7 days in the week. We said, there are 52 weeks in a year. Some other BS happen and then culturally we said things like by age 30, you should be married. By age 40, you should have a family.
But imagine if we actually made a week 10 days? Or there’s 30 weeks in a year? Suddenly, this is all BS numbers. Back to culturally, why is 30 a specific number? Or 40? Or any of these numbers?
For me, 40 is just a made-up number. It means nothing. The expectations around the number, bullshit. My friend is 55, and we went bar hopping. I hung out with a 70 and played Frisbee. I pitched go-karts and dressing up like Mario Kart to my 60yo neighbors.
Just made up numbers.
Of course, don’t get weird and and try to shoehorn underage relationships. That’s not the intent here.
At 38, 2 walks a day is helping, but I’m bouncing between anxiety and depressive symptoms. It beats drinking or meds!
Working out is also helping, but not as much as the sunshine. Good luck, fellow old fart :).
You age a day everyday, how you choose to group those ~14600 is up to you.
Have you considered eating an entire large pizza and drinking a case of beer about it?
That just sounds like a Tuesday
Time for a mid life crisis then
Wish I could afford a midlife crisis
You can always pick up excessive running, just because you get a midlife crisis doesn’t mean it has to involve a Porsche.
I’m ready.
Shut up
Doesn’t scare me, cancer does.
Fuck you OP. I still have 2.5 years. Don’t remind me
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
As someone who died at 28, spent six months in ICU fighting my way, I’m SO excited for 40! Growing old is a privilege, not everyone gets to
I doubt you’ll live to be 40!, but good luck all the same.
Yeah I never expected to even reach thirty with my self-destructing body and ever worsening mental health. Every year towards fourty is quite the achievement
That’s how I’m trying to see it… age is a gift not everyone gets
Born in 1989. Whenever an older person says, “never get old!” I always say, “it’s better than the alternative!”
Well la dee da lease on life, some of us have joint problems and it’s going to get worse
joint problems?
Why would someone make this using AI when a still from the actual movie would have worked just fine?
I was wondering why it looked off. The skin has this “plastic wrap” sheen to it that every AI-generated human seems to have, and the raptor looks like a giant plastic toy.
It’s a useful way to dodge automated copyright flagging systems if you’re trying to churn out meme page content and crosspost it on many platforms.
So you’re saying AI image generation is encouraged by the copyright system?
Paradoxal!
Because using AI for even the most trivial tasks to accomplish the same thing quicker and far worse quality is the latest thing.
I think it took like 10 minutes, 5 of which was loading the movie up and finding the right shot. How quickly does AI do it?
It depends on the service, but it’s usually within a few seconds to a minute.
Funny how everybody supports freedom of choice - but only for the right choices.
Also wouldn’t posting a still from the movie without permission be “stealing”? Moral purity is so complicated now.
Freedom of choice does not preclude you from being called out for making shitty choices dumb dumb.
Posting a photo is not stealing, what dumb takes you have friend. Look up ‘fair use’ and that should help you understand that.
Also, just, idk, what even is this argument? Choices can’t be made in a vacuum and choices can’t be forced on people are not antithetical to shitty choices being shitty choices.
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Morons: “I think using AI for this is lazy, and the result is ugly.”
You (a genius): “This is exactly like fascism.”
There’s gotta be a name for the disorder of treating real life and real people like memes. You’re doing it now.
There’s gotta be a name for quadrupling down on a bad take. I think it’s called Reddit brain.
Freedom of choice does not mean freedom from consequences.
You’ve absolutely lost the plot, I didn’t know that Lemmy had bots now.
I think it means freedom from harassment - calling it “consequences” doesn’t change what it is.
Not only are you doing the very same thing right now, you’re also precluding the solution to the paradox of tolerance.
In other words, get bent
You can’t actually be this daft, can you?
As an 80s kid, hitting 40 was the best thing that ever happened to me. Shit that used to matter suddenly doesn’t, like you flipped a lightswitch. You get new superpowers, and they’re all bitchy. I recommend it to everyone.
I remember a survey done years ago that people say 30s and 40s are the best years of their lives.
that was probably years ago
It wasn’t that long ago. The survey was conducted 3-5 years ago iirc.
Seriously, I’m 41 and over the last year I’ve slowed slipped into fuck it mode. Don’t get me wrong, I still have plenty of things I care about, but so many little things I’ve just stopped caring about and my life is so much more relaxed because of it. It’s amazing what hitting 40 can do to your mindset.
Do you have examples of things you don’t pay as much mind to anymore? I am having a hard time picturing that from just the two comments.
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Girl, yes!!
Too late
