13 .. 14 .. 15 .. 16 .. 17 .. 18 .. 19
Pretty sure that you're a teenager for seven years, not five.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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But after 19 teenage pregnancy drops to Zero!
I wonder how it is in countries that doesn't have the "teen" in the numbers.
Most other languages count that group as "youths" and in general you are one from 12-18.
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.
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.)
All the dogs in the world have been replaced in the 33 years since I was born
:(
😰With what??
I wasn't ready to realize this
Most human artistic output isn't about or geared towards dogs tho (sadly).
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.
changes every six-seven years then...
That is certainly the logic that porn sites use.
Chronological sure..
You would not believe the number of worthless fucks there are who are teenagers who just grew old..
As someone who has been thirty years old for the past five years, I resent your disqualifying tone.
"That's what I like about these high school kids, man. I get older and they stay the same age. 😎"
I heard last night hes gonna run against Abbott in Texas. I did not double check.
The amount of people younger than you is ever growing, and the amount of people older than you is shrinking.
We're all constantly falling to our deaths through the fourth dimension
🤯
OP, get a couple more brain cells and learn how to count
The teenagers of Theseus
In 120 years the earth will be all new people. That scares my kids. Makes me hopeful.
And machines will stay the same. That's why they are superior.
I challenge you to find a 120yo machine near you that is in working condition.
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.
Or we crack the code to repair damage caused by aging.
There is just about zero chance that those changes would filter down to the masses, so hopefully that doesn't happen. I don't want billionaires to live forever, that would be some real life vampire shit.
Actually it's debunked that only rich would benefit. Any sane country would prefer paying less to keep people healthy than more for health care, and the treatments are in theory not costly by themselves.
Maybe at the start rich people will try out treatments before economy of scale have hit, a bit like mobile telephones (at the start they were super expensive and worked not well). Except they are now the guinea pigs.
How could you possibly know that the treatments to reverse againg aren't going to be costly?
Any sane country
Have you seen how things have been going lately? Billionaires are literally destroying our planet for profit, and judging by the politics they support their endgame seems to be total control over the population, not any kind of longterm development of national wealth.
Downvote all you want but being irrational doesn't help you out here.
Billionaires has nothing to do with geriatric research for what I know, and every country isn't the USA.
Medication is expensive to invent but cheap to produce. Don't you think like everyone won't synthesise it themselves if it rejuvenates you? And that's like the worst thing that would happen. Most research is directed from Europe, and we don't have the tendency to kill people for profit as our friends the Americans do.
I didn't downvote you, it's probably a good idea to not make assumptions like that.
Billionaires has nothing to do with geriatric research for what I know, and every country isn’t the USA.
I'm not from the US - again, don't assume. That said, billionaires in other countries aren't any different, they just aren't quite as far yet on their road to neo-feudalism or whatever else fucked up system is their endgame. They sure aren't throwing their weight behind anti-fascist endeavors.
Most research is directed from Europe, and we don’t have the tendency to kill people for profit as our friends the Americans do.
Oh, my sweet summer child ...
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.