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I was born at the tail end of Gen X but we were definitely getting up to some crazy stuff.

It was a normal afternoon to take our bikes off the highest jumps we could build in the middle of the road, constructed from the neighborhood wood pile. When a car came speeding through we'd yell out "car" and quickly move our stuff to the side. We used skateboards on vertical ramps built from whatever, and roller skates on shoddy pavement. Our playgrounds were made of reflective metal hotter than lava attached to towers that seemed to reach 20 ft above the ground.

We built dangerous tree houses with rusty scrap in the ravine behind the neighborhood, next to place where the neighborhood's older kids were surely taking all the drugs and hiding from their D.A.R.E. officers.

I used to load my sisters in the back of a red radio flyer wagon and we'd all ride down the neighborhood's steepest hill, occasionally tipping at high speed and then sliding the rest of the way down likely removing several layers of skin and rolls of gauze from my mom's medical kit in the process.

In primary school, I don't think there was ever a moment without at least one kid on crutches or with a limb in a cast.

While it did harden us up, and provided some amazing memories, just about everyone I know who was a kid at that time knows of some kid who died while digging a tunnel, or got hit by a car, or spent half of his early teenage years in a cast, or who always seemed to have a finger splint.

Somehow through all of this we moved from thinking this is normal childhood stuff to blaming anyone and everyone by way of lawsuits.

There was nothing "safe" about that time. The debate seems to hinge on whether a dangerous childhood results in better adapted adults, perhaps by culling a few unlucky kids who hadn't learned their own limits, and who know how to be creative in the absence of almost any artificial or algorithmic stimuli.

survivorship bias...

we hate boomers more than you do

this is the first meme i’ve seen mention gen x at all and no, we are not like boomers, they all said that “we used to drink out of a hose” bullshit to us too… helmet and seatbelt laws started with x

seriously fuck you, and fuck boomers.

you know why congress is all geriatric? that’s because they know how bad gen x wants to burn everything down and they won’t let them take the wheel….

now zoomers are all voting for trump and becoming nazis. Lump zoomers and boomers together but not us.

Exactly. Back in my day we culled people with lead and asbestos. Nowadays any old random can stay alive and the world is crumbling!!! /s

I wish he would iron his shirt while hes wearing it

Im supposed to be mad about it? Or are you mad about it? Is that you in the picture? I’m confused. Did I do it wrong?

Some things, yes. Others... nah, thats the nanny state in full effect. Telling people that theres danger, and trying to take away personal freedoms arent the same thing. If someone wants to drink, smoke, eat fatty foods, let them. All you we should be doing is saying "yo, that shits bad for you.". And leave it up to personal choice. This is how it should be for drugs as well.

Seatbelts, why isnt this a personal choice? If you want to fly through the windshield at 70mph, you should be allowed to. Wearing helmets on a bike. If you want to end up with brain damage after a nasty fall, that too should be your choice.

We spend all our time trying to keep dumb people alive. And these are the people who dont rubber up. The more of them who reproduce and you get... well, take a look around...

What safety precautions is this about? Is it about warning labels on plastic bags or not letting your kids play outside because they will get kidnapped?

Get out of here with that Gen X shit. I jumped my bike and skateboard off so much shit as a kid. I still huck my meat off cliffs on my snowboard. Gen X is def not Boomer.

Some days I interact with some people that make me bemoan all of the safety guides that have allowed the idiots to breed enough that I now have the misfortune to interact with them.

Then there are other days where a safety rule/guide/regulation has stopped me from doing something monumentally stupid and fatal that reminds me that those safety regulations are written in blood and that sometimes I'll be that idiot in someone else's mind. It's humbling and comforting in an absurdist way.

Mhm, yeah no. "Don't use electric stove to cut vegetables on it" is not a safety precaution, it is a sign of bullshit happening. But I may be thinking of something different from what author meant

I'd say it's more because of bullshit lawsuits. 90,% of the warning labels we have should not be necessary. We used to just accept that if you did stupid shit you might lose a couple fingers or die. Now it runs businesses into the ground and we have created a massive leech of an industry that is insurance. Insurance and lawyers are to blame for all of this.