What's your 'old person' trait?
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I'd usually agree with this but SMS is pretty insecure, so I mainly use Signal instead for the end-to-end encryption in a responsible manner (no leaking war plans like a certain SecDef).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware
Do we really think ICE are the only ones? This also made me wonder if this is why DoD was using an unofficial version.
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Most of my friends don’t even have my phone number, let alone a messaging service. We do postal mail or just go to each other’s houses. I mail out about twenty letters a week and get that much back, on nice stationery.
It’s good to feel loved.
Postage stamps, in this economy?
Joke aside I think that's pretty cool.
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I upgraded from a normal electric range to an induction range... OMG the difference!
That requires new cookware?
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The streak of white in my beard?
The fact that 75% of my media consumption is things I've already seen before?
I can maintain eye contact in a conversation and at no point do I want to fuck/fight the other person nor do I believe they want to fuck/fight me?
I can maintain friendships with people who do not share all of my views on things, with a select view even having opposing views?
Comfort wins over style every time, with zero exceptions?
I'm turning 50 soon, and almost all of this hits close to home. Almost all. My media consumption is as it's always been: new books all the time. But also no TV, and I know all about a given movie from reading a few reviews, not actually watching it.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
My biggest decision of the day is usually whether I get to have alcohol or pain meds that day. Pain meds usually win.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I most likely haven't seen over 1 hour of TikTok IN MY LIFETIME. And believe me, this is certainly not common in my age range.
I would have everything backed up in USB pens if I could, and I despise anything that markets as “AI” — I am aware it reduces critical thinking, something which I somewhat lack. I do not listen to music from nowadays (2020s on), only 1960s to mid-2010s music.Furthermore, I do watch some old shows, e.g., Perry Mason.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I've started noticing birds, and worse, I've started recognizing them.
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Most of my friends don’t even have my phone number, let alone a messaging service. We do postal mail or just go to each other’s houses. I mail out about twenty letters a week and get that much back, on nice stationery.
It’s good to feel loved.
Last time I ever wrote letters was while I was in the service. Kept every single letter.
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Dude or dudess, if true, f*cking awesome. And i envy you
There is absolutely nothing stopping you from doing the same thing.
Make a friend’s day, give them mail that’s not bills or ads or packages.
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Postage stamps, in this economy?
Joke aside I think that's pretty cool.
Postage is expensive, but I look forward to checking my mail. Mixed in with the ads is real human sentiment!
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Last time I ever wrote letters was while I was in the service. Kept every single letter.
Paper mail is so underrated.
I need to get a wax sealing kit.
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I've started noticing birds, and worse, I've started recognizing them.
If you haven't tried Cornell's "Merlin" app, I highly recommend it.
Bird watching is peaceful. I love it.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
The noises I make when I sit down and stand up lol
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If you can stick a magnet to your current cookware, no.
Mine is all cast iron so I'm good, but aluminum or copper pans won't work.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I always get printed boarding passes for domestic flights.
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I've started noticing birds, and worse, I've started recognizing them.
I volunteered over the summer to track birds at a plot of local conservation land. Went out there at the crack of dawn with binoculars and everything. That's when I knew I was really getting old.
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If you can stick a magnet to your current cookware, no.
Mine is all cast iron so I'm good, but aluminum or copper pans won't work.
Well I have cast iron, stainless, and glass, so...
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I cannot correctly say my kids' names when I'm stressed out in a hurry. I just end up saying both of their names. Eventually I will be right.
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My biggest decision of the day is usually whether I get to have alcohol or pain meds that day. Pain meds usually win.
Blood pressure meds have relieved me of that choice.
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Paper mail is so underrated.
I need to get a wax sealing kit.
And a fountain pen. Or six.
