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   Adam Conover (adamconover@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 14:58:06 JST Adam Conover

   Random late night thought, does anyone feel like people got overall cooler in the last 20 years? I feel like when I look around media / social media I see so many creative well-dressed funny cool-ass interesting people, where as when I look at photos from 2006 I’m like “god we were all such DORKS”.

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     ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 14:58:58 JST ocdtrekkie

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     @adamconover Being nerdy is just so much cooler now.

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     Adam Conover (adamconover@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 14:59:04 JST Adam Conover

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     And for the record I did NOT feel this way in 2006 so I don’t think it’s a “you always feel like the present is cool” phenomenon, I feel like it’s GROWN over time

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     Siobhan ?️‍⚧️ (dragonshardz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 15:12:52 JST Siobhan ?️‍⚧️

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     @adamconover pretty sure it's because queer people are cool and in 2006 we all had to hide because 2006 sucked to be queer in

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     Adam Conover (adamconover@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 15:19:37 JST Adam Conover

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     • Siobhan ?️‍⚧️

     @dragonshardz Honestly, I think you nailed it precisely. That's exactly what it is. Thank you!

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     jtrofe (jtrofe@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 21:34:35 JST jtrofe

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     @adamconover we have access to way more cool people now and the algorithm wants to show them to you