Old Man Yells at Cloud 

SmarterEveryDay *sigh, me too. But what really hurt at time was walking around RU-vid Australia and trying to ignore the reality of Creators and Community people all being young enough to be my kids. Still had a great time, but got a few confused looks LOL

SmarterEveryDay , hah yeah, I get that feeling.. but on the other hand, if you look at it from another perspective, it's also quite impressive! Overall an experienced, wise sage, is more impressive and respectable than an enthusiastic but inexperienced youth.. I do myself enjoy the allure and feeling of wide-eyed youth and freedom.. but it also saddens me when people and society in general seems to forget the values of wisdom and experience that come with age and instead devalue and discard "being old" as undesirable in comparison to being youthful and pretty.. of course I acknowledge the preferable physical benefits of better health and energy in youth versus old age.. BUT if you're taking about a "career", which is more related to mental knowledge and experience, then I'd say the "older" it is the better! So appreciate your "teenage career!' ^_^ (Btw, love your videos!)

I've been working towards my education for so long that it is becoming a teenager. That's... really... really.. odd. Whatever.

Hmm, not sure how to feel about it, given that my current JOB (as in not career but specific employment position) will be old enough to buy booze next year...

I am so old my career is middle aged. So there.

I don't think it's going to take me forty years, to be honest. :) -John

I’d like to think that even though he does indeed live off the land and is indeed a total recluse he will still somehow be able to get videos onto RU-vid.

John is Luke Skywalker confirmed

I'm thinking more like he'll be the Garrison Keillor of this generation...

John is going to be Tom Bombadil?

YES! Yes please! Oh, please!!

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cool avatar pic

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Sam!

Not checking: Checked

Omg samm!

Don't forget to regularly check that you're not an obsessive checking machine

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I grow spinach! It's VERY good, so I'd agree :)

Lawrence Calablaster oh man. yes, agreed.

My mother is the pickiest eater in our house, and when she has a girls' night with her friends my dad and I will have an "everything mom hates but we love" dinner. So liver, wilted spinach, and roast new potatoes, among other things. I'd literally eat spinach on anything savory, it is the magical ingredient that makes everything better.

Spinach is great I don't get why it has become famous in TV shows as the leafy vegetable no one likes

And mine does! Two spinach plants and many yet-to-sprout spinach seeds! -John

Yesss

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I really like that you acknowledge both the gains and the losses you've experienced. Very interesting! -John

This has largely been my experience as well. I will occasionally go social media free (typically by blocking all my typical time wasting websites while I gear up for finals). Every time I am amazed at how much more productive I am with other things. I also really love taking a break from the more stupid aspects of social media--there is always someone posting annoying things or selling something or sharing stories that aren't true or getting into worthless arguments. But I do miss being able to sort of keep up with what's happening in the lives of friends who live far away or whose schedules don't mesh with mine, and I also miss the ease of sharing news in my own life with a large number of people all in one go. The cons have had me on the cusp of quitting facebook, but the pros keep pulling me back in.

My twitter got banned. For "behaving too roboticaly"

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oooh this is good. yes.

Thanks ;) -John

The Hard Problem best comment!

Dead Girl Walking - It is planting season...

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The video was so good there was a moment of silence I dedicated for it, and then I saw this comment and I laughed so hard.

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thank you, my English needs improvement

Thank you for changing. 🤗

that was my favorite part of the video

Now I really want a garden tour!

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I'm hoping for a garden tour as well :D

CulpFiction i disagree. When you are realy old you have 0 responsability and you can get away with everything.

I guess I completely disagree with that. To me, the older you get, the _more_ responsibility you have. Supporting a family, being a model citizen, using the powers you've gained and learned from the years to create good, meaningful, and responsible change to the world, and so on. When you're young, you can afford to be selfish and carefree because nobody necessarily depends on you. But the older you get, the more people do.

I'm 36. Talking to a 22-year-old yesterday, who was all: "I'm old, I remember when we had a VCR!". To which I replied: "I remember _before_ VCRs." xD

“The older I get, the more I question the idea that wisdom comes with age” - HL Mencken

Or Candide?

that's just rain

Awkwar d in Russia, cloud yells at you

Really does

Well there is the Glow Cloud from Welcome to Nightvale, but I don't know if that's what you were talking about.

Awkwar d Sounds like thunder.

Thanks! Making it involved many tons of wood chips and compost, but I am pleased with the results so far! -John

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A fair question

the dark web.....

OOOOOoooooh.... The facetious side of me burns to respond, "HOW ABOUT IRL?!?" The ass would retort (or add?), "But... that's where the good, calm, rational people are already having discourse." The troll says, "There are no good, calm, or rational people left. Everyone lost their minds on that social media crap." ;o)

Maybe that's what has already happened? Eh? Maybe the belief that more discourse is better for the world isn't true, and even if it is, maybe it's not so much better that effective people need to spend their time doing it.

plants i think, not sure though.

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Levi Hildebrand the f are u talking about

Not sure what you mean?

Levi Hildebrand My take is that they are belittling your observation that while John is stepping back from the social internet, you're leaning into it. An astute observation from you, Levi. Best of luck to you

Yeah that does seem like what it might be eh? Thanks for the clarification and the kind words :D

I don't undestand Snapchat because I never want to understand Snapchat. ;)

Wisdom, I think.

Lots of stuff--from peppers to spinach to collard greens to onions to carrots. And many tomato plants! -John

I hope that you will instill into Henry and Alice a deep, undying affection for mid-summer eating cherry tomatoes straight off of the vine. Waking up at noon because there's no school, heading outside in my pajamas and popping like 20 cherry tomatoes in my mouth for breakfast was one of my favorite things to do when I was little

From the look of the mounds, he's using people as fertilizer. Things should grow quite well.

Is it right next to the fields of expertise?

you made an edit to this comment and still misspelt writers?

Brent Shuter I normally wouldn't point this out, but since your comment corrected someone else: *misspelled.

Brent Shuter Maybe JeDe Ryn wanted to compliment John's noted ship building skills.

Mudblood Princess Both are correct, actually. One is British English and the other is American English. www.superdream.com/news-blog/misspelt-or-misspelled-7-differences-between-british-and-american-english

thatjillgirl oh! Thanks! I didn't know that.

Given it looks like a series of graves the 'something else' option worries me.

Not sure what your current living situation is, but you could probably do the basil now if you want to grow it in a pot. I grew a basil plant in a pot out on my apartment patio/balcony. Mine grew big enough that when I harvested the plant at the end of the season, I filled three gallon-sized freezer bags with basil leaves! As long as you have somewhere sunny you can set it, basil will do just fine in a pot.

thatjillgirl I'm afraid it'll get too much direct light outside where I am because my 2 doors have nothing obstructing the sun either sunrise to noon or noon to sunset. And I have no appropriate ledges or tables inside. I'll probably start basil when we eventually have a new apartment. Tomatoes thrive in pots in my area too. Both my dad and cousin are growing from seed this year. One has heirlooms, the other has grape tomatoes.

Madi probably

I read that as “colour shirt international” and my brain struggled for a second.

It was! -John

vlogbrothers wonderful! Love the care you put into all aspects of your videos 💖

Science with Katie No the problem is trying to convince him to eat strawberries at all. I've encountered a few kids like this, mostly my young cousins, they pick a food and don't want to eat anything else or they don't want to eat anything of certain textures, etc. It can be a challenge then to get them to eat foods they previously loved.

When I was about that old there were a couple of things I refused to eat but since I ate everything else, my parents were never really bothered by it.

As I've entered young adulthood I've found it helpful to remember that maturity and responsibility do not have to be mutually exclusive with the good parts of childishness. We don't have to pretend that fun things aren't fun just because adults are "supposed to be" serious. And naturally, the vlogbrothers have been constant examples to me that silliness and wisdom can coexist and often complement one another.

laurachel I agree! I think another important thing for me has been embracing how some new things may be fun. I don’t think my idea of fun has stayed the same even in the last 5 years, so learning to accept that change with open arms and not begrudgingly is a good thing.

Speaking from the point of view of someone who is well past the precipice of adulthood, I feel I can say with authority that you can't help growing up but you can help growing old. When I was 18 or so I hated the idea of getting older because I thought that with responsibility I would have to never have fun or laugh again and my whole life would be about working and paying bills and cleaning the house. Turns out, that just like the rest of your life you have experienced so far, it is what you want it to be. If you like the childish parts of yourself, keep them. I like to think I have kept mine :) :) ''Adulthood' ( beyond what is biological) and ''what is expected of adults'' is very heavily influence by our society and culture. This means, it's what ppl think it should be, not necessarily what happens..... Just be yourself, you'll be an adult doing it no matter what. You've been doing it for a few years already, biologically speaking....

Sandra Turk thank you! Some very sage advice. It can seem daunting now but I do think it will work itself out in time.

Nate and Noah Try Life it will. Just remember you don't have to do everything at once or solve all your problems at once. Goodness knows no one else has.

Never have bunny ears around a word been more appropriate!

I don't have notifications on, but I do obsessively check for new vlogbrothers videos, so it's kinda the same

It matters little, if at all. Being first is actually very anticlimactic in any situation.

i am fox Does it? Probably not. Should it? That's upon us :)

No, no