ben shapiro seriously saying “you’re stupid and poor. but i can wear lifts” to a bot made to call him short is so fucking funny

me a few days later, every single month without fail: oh

🐭

Breathe!

Parents: Well, when I was your age, I already had 5 jobs and was supporting my family

Parents: Well, of course you did, this is the expectation, not a celebration.

Like, everyone likes feeling appreciated. Everyone likes being complimented and having their efforts be noticed. Another coworker (who was a mother of teenage children), hated that I did this, and said they were too old to be rewarded with stickers, but like… it wasn’t about the stickers. The stickers were just a symbol that their effort was noticed and appreciated. I was just lucky that I learned this at a time when I was still young enough to remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was only 2 years out of highschool at that point and highschool is fucking hard. People forget this as they get older, but ask anyone and almost no one would ever want to go back and do it again, but they expect kids to suck it up because they’re young so they should be able to do school full time, plus homework, and work, and maintain a healthy social life, and sleep, and spend time with family, and do chores and help out at home, and worry about college and relationships and everything else, and then just get shit on all the time and treated like they’re lazy and entitled. And then they wonder why teenagers are apathetic.

the unexpected joy of the worst summer of our lives by christine mi for vox