• IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    Chronological sure…

    You would not believe the number of worthless fucks there are who are teenagers who just grew old…

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      4 hours ago

      As someone who has been thirty years old for the past five years, I resent your disqualifying tone.

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      8 hours 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.

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          In Germany you can actually still count as “youth” until you are 27. i know youth organisations that allow members up to 27. And if you committed a crime you can still be tried as a youth, pending a psychological review.

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            There’s two terms: “Jugendlicher” and “Jugend-”. “Jugend-” can be used as a prefix for all sorts of things with all sorts of age limits (for example the SPÖ Jugendorganisation goes up to age 45 for some crazy reason). “Jugendlicher” on the other hand is really just used as a term for people until they reach the age of legal adulthood.

            (Also, terms are not always used correctly in all circumstances. For example, I local all-you-can-eat restaurant that we often go to has two price tiers for children, one from age 4-7 and another from 8-12. To differentiate both of them by name, they call the older group “Kinder” (children) and the younger group “Kleinkinder” (toddler), even though in any other context a “Kleinkind” is maybe up to age 3-4. So it’s not really an evidence of the meaning of a word that it is misused in some contexts.

            Being “tried as a youth” doesn’t make you any more of a youth than being “tried as an adult” turns a child into an adult.)

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    13 hours 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.

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    13 hours ago

    The amount of people younger than you is ever growing, and the amount of people older than you is shrinking.

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    12 hours ago

    In 120 years the earth will be all new people. That scares my kids. Makes me hopeful.

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      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.

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    13 hours 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.