Just… no. Memory before 1998 is a terrible litmus test for a birth year cutoff at 1996. Perhaps you had too much lead exposure.

What are you even talking about? My point is that’s not a good measure of the generational transition from Millennial to Gen Z. It’s the wrong timing.

I was 5 when Pokemon came to the US, so I don’t think it’s fair to say I remember a world before Pokemon. I have memories from before 5 sure, but nothing that counts as knowing what the world was like. And that’s not even counting hearing about Pokemon from my Japanese cousins before it came here.

I also don’t think it’s fair to say I can’t understand how amazing Pokemon are when those games dominated my whole childhood.

I disagree, that puts the last few years of Millennials into Gen Z though. That puts me into Gen Z and I’m a few years before the cutoff.

That’s almost a litmus test for the Millennial/Gen Z border (for the US at least). Usually remembering 9/11 means you’re more on the Millennial side. Though generations are fuzzy and ill-defined.

You inserted yourself in a conversation about the Democrats. Not about the goddamn article. My ire against Trump is that the pedo rapist isn’t rotting in prison for the rest of his life, and this entire conversation was started by someone insinuating Kamala would have done something about it. You jumped in and took their side in this argument, so you don’t get to back off now. For someone who goes on and on about insulting people for not reading context, it’s amazing that you can’t grasp that I was responding to a comment and not the article.

The Democrats, particularly the executive leader for 4 years, did nothing with this evidence to root out the pedo rapist ring. My ire against Biden and the Democrats is that they were the only thing that could stand in the way of the fascist takeover they helped facilitate back in 2016 (Trump was Hillary’s pied piper). So am I mad at the Republicans and Trump? Of course, they’re pure evil. But I’m not ideologically aligned with them in the slightest. The Democrats claim to be ideologically aligned with me but never act on it, taking away my only sector of representation in our government. So yeah, I direct my ire at the group that is supposed to be doing something about this and chooses not to.

In the meantime, any semblance of criticism against the Democrats is always met with assholes like you who can’t stand anyone calling out the ineffective controlled opposition.

What facts have I pulled out of my ass? You think a few missing files that the article is talking about excuse the lack of action on the entire case?

I’m not talking about these specific files, I’m talking about the whole thing. Which we can all see with our own eyes right now. You don’t need to trust me on anything, if you assert that the Biden administration did its job on this case, you need to prove that.

Heed what dates? The ones that place the evidence firmly in existence for the entirety of Biden’s term?

Are you saying Trump took the files away and brought them back with him in his second term? Why would his admin bring them back at all?

Even if this insane world you’re pitching is true, that makes Biden’s lack of investigation even more egregious since it should be obvious if this key evidence was missing.

Even funnier that you’re claiming to only care about facts when you’re the one spinning some wild accusations to go out of your way to clear Biden’s DOJ of basic responsibility.

Ah sure you got me. Your names are similar at a glance. Doesn’t change the fact that you’re reply is just apologist bullshit.

Yep, I’m looking. Starts with your snide comment that says:

I’m sure Kamala’s DOJ would have covered this up, too, amirite?

That’s not even close to an answer. You’re the one who started this trying to say the Democrats would do better to address this pedophile ring. By your own comment you understand that this was a highly active case already by the time Biden took over. Why was nothing done from January 20, 2021 through January 20, 2025?

Why did Biden’s DOJ do nothing on this? And why do you think Kamala’s would have acted any differently?

I guarantee my MAGA grandparents would believe all hardships they’re experiencing are solely the fault of Democrats, even if I gave them sources about how Trump and the Republicans did whatever is causing that hardship. Their heads are so far in the sand it’s not even worth trying anymore, and there’s plenty of other Fox News brainwashed folk like them.

Yep, 99% of dogs beat 99.99999% of people. And 99% of cats do the same.

Yeah, our struggles definitely pale in comparison to marginalized groups. And no worries! I didn’t think you were, I just know how much my brother-in-law struggled with dyslexia, though he didn’t have a very supportive family so he didn’t even get diagnosed until he was an adult.

They think my nephew is showing early signs of it too, but hopefully his experience will be closer to yours since he’ll get support early on.

Auditory processing disorder is such a weird one. In a lot of contexts I actually like it, it’s like having earmuffs without wearing anything. I just wish I could turn it on and off intentionally. Sometimes I need it because the unfiltered background noise is too much but it won’t turn on. Sometimes I’m trying to take in audio and don’t realize it’s turned on and I missed a bunch.

I’ve also realized that I actually read lips a lot to compensate for background noise, so I’ve been trying to hone that skill more intentionally. Another thing that’s maybe a benefit of the disorder.

Damn that sounds rough. I’ve got some dyslexic family members and I can’t imagine combining their struggles with auditory processing disorder.

Other conditions exist. I have auditory processing disorder and one part of it is an involuntary disabling of my audio processing when my brain is trying to focus on something, particularly anything else to do with language like note-taking. My ears will “hear” but my brain won’t.

It wasn’t completely debilitating, but it made certain kinds of classes inordinately difficult for me. Discussion based classes were a nightmare for me, and no amount of practice could change how my brain works. So instead I pursued STEM where the notes are math and I could work ahead and tune in if I got stuck.

That being said, handwritten notes are still definitely the way to go in math!

It is a bit jarring, but your context is more than enough. Sorry you have to deal with that, no need to apologize to anyone for trying to keep your own world accessible to you.

Sie sind das Essen und ich bin der Cortez!

(Sorry to German speakers, I don’t speak it)