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Nothing beats late-night churros coated in chocolate after a night of drinking and dancing at the local clubs or partying at Mad Cool Festival (2024 dates are July 10-13). And while that might sound like a fun rarity on American soil, dancing + churros are like… an average Wednesday in Madrid. A lowkey night, TBH.

As anyone who has been there knows — and Uproxx goes a lot — the energy in Madrid truly can’t be beat. In a city full of exciting nightlife, incredible paella, interesting shops, and more, Spain’s capital is the ideal location if you’re looking to experience… it all. The city really offers so much for travelers. Especially travelers who like to party — as the streets of Madrid are busy well into the night, with locals heading to meet their friends for late dinners, travelers exploring the markets, and people looking to experience the city’s hedonistic side.

From restaurants and nightclubs to markets, art, and (after a whole lot of late nights) where to stay, here are some of the best things to do and see while you’re in Madrid.

PART I — Where To Stay

Hotel Montera Madrid

When it comes to choosing the right place to stay in Madrid, location is a huge factor. Of course, you’ll want a nice hotel with proper amenities, but a great location makes it super convenient to explore the city on foot and can save you a fortune on Ubers or Bolt rides.

The Hotel Montera in Madrid dates back to the 1920s, tying a little history into the boutique hotel. Although it was built nearly a century ago, it’s filled with all of the modern amenities you crave while traveling like strong Wi-Fi, plenty of plugs and charging stations, and a comfortable bed. It’s within walking distance from plenty of cute neighborhoods and things to do, including some local boutique shops, seasonal markets, restaurants, cafés, and more.

In the suites, guests get a nice view of the city and a clawfoot soaking tub, perfect for warming up after a night of exploring. The fridge is even stocked with high-quality jamon and caviar in case you’re feeling boujee AF…because macadamia nuts and mini cans of Pringles won’t cut it.

KEY AMENITIES:

• Soaking tub in suites
• Free wifi
• Outdoor pool
• Fitness center
• Beautiful city views

ROOM RATE: Generally $300-500 per night

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Only YOU Boutique Hotel Madrid

If you’re looking for something a little more local, this 19th-century mansion turned-boutique hotel is set in a beautiful area of Madrid called Salesas. Their design stuck out to me big time with colorful walls, bold design choices, carefully selected art, and a lot of character. No shocker here — the property won big in the design category at the 5th annual World Boutique Hotel Awards. They have your everyday amenities, as well as some unique ones like the Thai Wellness Room, where they offer wellness treatments from around the world with inspiration from Bali, India, Thailand, and more.

If you splurge for a suite, some of the rooms have giant soaking tubs, which is such a bonus in my opinion that it makes the expense well worth it. There’s nothing quite like soaking in a tub with some bubbles at the end of a long day.

KEY AMENITIES:

• Thai Wellness Room
• 24 hour à la carte breakfast
• Room service
• Fitness center

ROOM RATE: Generally $200-600 per night

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PART II — Where To Eat

La Braserí

Admittedly, I’m not always a fan of the hotel bars and restaurants. Sometimes they can just be really basic, and you end up with a room-temperature burger and soggy fries. La Braserí delivers delicious food like tenderloin, perfectly cooked and topped with foie gras and tuna belly. They have an extensive list of local wines (I’d suggest the Navaherreros Garnacha de Bernabeleva 2021) and cocktails, like a negroni or an old fashioned, to pair with your meal, too.

It’s a great option, especially if you’re just flying in and looking for something both convenient and tasty.

Chocolatería San Ginés

For breakfast or even a late-night snack, head over to San Ginés for an order of their chocolate and churros. They’ve been around since the 1890s, serving some of the best in Madrid. Their perfectly crisp churros dunked in rich chocolate are a real treat.

San Miguel Market

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If you like variety, the San Miguel Market is a great spot to taste a selection of tapas. The market has been around since the early 1900s, dishing out everything from freshly made mozzarella and burrata, to seafood tapas and pickled goodies. To drink, you’ll find a stocked spritz bar (La Spritzeria), Estrella Damm (a famous lager around since the 1870s), and countless Spanish wines.

Street Food & Shop Fare

While visiting Madrid, there are plenty of places to experience the local cuisine. If you’re a fan of calamari, don’t leave without trying the bocadillo de calamares (essentially a calamari sandwich). Lhardy Restaurante is the ideal place to try the city’s famous Madrileño stew loaded with beans, veggies, and plenty of meat like sausage and Iberian bacon.

Of course, the local wines are always a great choice (ask your server for suggested pairings), but they also have cocktails like their famous whiskey sour or a gin fizz. If you’re looking for good paella, Casa de Valencia has a delicious seafood option, definitely big enough for two.

PART III — What To Do

City Center

Explore the city center on your own or with a guide. I highly recommend getting a private guide, especially if you’re interested in history and architecture. If it’s a private tour, it can be tailored to your interests and preferences. Stroll through the city center to see the Royal Theater and Palace, centenary shops, and various neighborhoods.

Street Art in Madrid

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Throughout the city, Madrid has a lot of beautiful street art (including lots of work by the famous Boa Mistura crew, which has been covered often on Uproxx). Not only are there murals covering buildings in different areas like the Malasaña neighborhood, but there’s art in the vintage street signs and even the plaques for the centenary shops.

PART IV — Nightlife

Medias Puri

If you’re looking for something unique, Medias Puri is a different kind of experience. It looks like a basic haberdashery, but at night it turns into a raging nightclub full of dancing and a party atmosphere, with cocktails flowing.

Panthera

Both a restaurant and a club, Panthera has a bit of a Japanese twist and plenty of incredible cocktails. After a couple of drinks, you can spend the night dancing to anything from modern hits to cultural music.

Teatro Barcelo

Teatro Barcelo has been popular since the 80s and is known for their packed calendar of events and concerts. They offer a late-night dance club and often host concerts and rock shows within the venue for guests to dance to.

Gunilla

Gunilla is on the newer side in Madrid, compared to some of the other nightclubs that have been around for a while now. It has a cool vibe with towering ceilings and unique light fixtures, giving the ambiance a touch of elegance. Spend all night dancing to house music and sipping on drinks, or splurge for VIP access if you want to ball out. You’re worth it.

Amazónico Jazz Club/The Jungle Jazz Club

If you’re looking to go out, but you’re not feeling a club environment tonight, the Jungle Jazz Club is a great option. Not only are they known for their good drinks and food, but they usually have live music like soul, flamenco, and more.

PinkPantheress recently kicked off The Capable Of Love Tour, performing the first show at Dublin, Ireland’s 3Olympia Theatre on Tuesday, February 20. Tomorrow night, she’s set to continue the European leg of her tour in Manchester, England before eventually heading to London, Amsterdam, Paris, and more.

For those who have tickets to see PinkPantheress at an upcoming performance, there might be questions about which songs one can expect to see performed. According to Setlist.FM, most of the setlist from her Dublin show were selections from her recent album, Heaven Knows. (Yes, “Boy’s A Liar Pt. 2” does get played.)

Fans familiar with her earlier work are also in luck, as she included tracks like “Break It Off” and more from her 2022 record, To Hell With It.

More information about getting tickets can be found on her website. Continue scrolling to view her setlist from opening night.

PinkPantheress’ The Capable Of Love Tour 2024 Setlist

1. “Break It Off”
2. “I Must Apologise”
3. “Mosquito”
4. “Pain”
5. “Passion”
6. “Just For Me”
7. “Where You Are”
8. “Capable Of Love”
9. “The Aisle”
10. “Take Me Home”
11. “Attracted To You”
12. “Bury Me”
13. “Feel Complete”
14. “Angel”
15. “Another Life”
16. “True Romance”
17. “Reason”
18. “Blue”
19. “Picture In My Mind”
20. “Boy’s A Liar Pt. 2”
21. “Internet Baby (Interlude)”
22. “Nice To Meet You”

PinkPantheress is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

New York City may be the greatest metropolis in America, but to some it recently did a bad bad thing. On Friday, a Manhattan judge ordered Donald Trump to pay the whopping sum of $354.8 million (plus interest) after being found liable of fraud. There’s already been talk of a backlash by truckers who’d refuse to delivery goods to Trump’s hometown (though so far that one hasn’t materialized). Now it seems like — dry your eyes — Fox News could be driven down south.

On Wednesday’s episode of The Five, Greg Gutfeld went off on a semi-comprehensible rant against state Attorney General Letitia James, who said the money would be “paid to New Yorkers.” “What does she mean by that?” he scoffed, which fair enough. (Though presumably she meant that would go into the city’s budget, which could help those school programs and libraries whose budgets were slashed by Mayor Eric Adams.)

There was more in Gutfeld’s soliloquy, but the most sense he made was when he threatened to skip town:

“This is why we all need to move to Florida, Fox, because I never thought that my politics and political choices would affect my privacy, my speech, and my livelihood, but that’s how it is these days. They’re gonna do what they did to Trump, they’re gonna do to you and me, and how soon before I get arrested for public indecency? And this time, I will be innocent.”

This is a common line about Trump’s various alleged crimes, this “if they can do it to him, they can do it to me” canard. As always, the only response is: What are you talking about? Almost none of Trump’s supporters have done anything like what he’s done, in this case lying about his fortunes to get better loans. Or mishandling classified government documents. Or helping foment a failed insurrection. Not even Fox News’ late night comedy king has done any of these things, so he’s fine.

During his monologue, Gutfeld also claimed Trump was “below the law,” not “above” it, as his detractors keep reminding us. Not sure what that one means. Ditto the claim that Trump is “100% innocent in this,” which apparently not.

So, New Yorkers, make sure you enjoy Fox News HQ on Sixth Avenue while they’re there. Should they pack up and leave for a permanent home at Mar-a-Lago, they’ll leave behind so many memories, like that time someone torched their Christmas tree.

(Via Mediaite)

You can’t turn back the hands of time and so it’s impossible to avoid being labeled “old” by younger generations, no matter how hard you try. For many of us, our names are tied to the times when we were born and can start to sound really dated, no matter how fashionable they were at one point.

TikTokker Amber Cimotti found this out the hard way when her daughter noted that she has an “old” person’s name.

“My daughter told me the name Ashley or Amanda — or my name is Amber — are like old people names and I never thought about it this way,” Amber explained in a video with over 3 million views.

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“She’s like, ‘Yeah, my teacher’s names are like Miss Erica, Miss Samantha, there’s Amandas and Ashleys, and she’s like, ‘Those are just old people’s names.’ Whereas young people names like my daughter is Scarlett, there’s Charlotte, there’s Olivia, there’s Penelopes, there’s Isabellas, there’s Bellas, there’s Ellas, those are young people names,” she continued.

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The mom realized what was once young and hip is now just a big red flag that screams “Millenial” to the younger kids.

“So basically, ‘Ashley’ is always going to be my friend from elementary, so it just seems like a kid name to me but it’s not. Ashley, Amanda, Amber — all of these names are like basically the new Margaret or Barbara,” she continued.

“If you got a shout-out in Mambo Number 5, congrats you now have a granny name lol,” Christina commented, making a reference that most Gen Zers will never get, but Millenials and Gen Xers know instinctively.

Sorry, Ashleys, but the facts don’t lie, according to Mama Natural, Ashley was the 3rd most popular name for American babies between 1991 and 1996. In 2021, it was ranked 154.

You always hear about a “bad dog,” giving the furry goofballs a reputation for getting into mischief, but what about bad cats. Not all cats are angels just lounging around the house until someone gives them food while fanning them with a giant palm leaf. Some cats have a sketchy “catigree” and every once in a while they let that wild streak show. When that happens, what is a cat owner to do?

A cat mom that goes by the user name Lambo Licia on Instagram posted a video showing exactly how she gets her cat in line when he’s misbehaving. No, it’s not with a spray bottle. She shows him what life is like in “the trenches.” You know, the area of town where homeless cats roam and cat burglars have real whiskers and thumbs that don’t work, leaving a strange fish smell wherever they lurk.

If Scared Straight: Cat Edition was an actual thing, Mega, the orange tabby would be the first to turn his life around. He looks absolutely petrified from all of the unruly cat behavior he sees out the window and his mom’s commentary.

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“You be in the kitchen begging me for food. You see those cats over there? They ain’t eat at all, they ain’t eat at all. There’s cats out here struggling and you stressing me at home like I don’t feed you,” Licia pretends to cry to the cat. Commenters can’t get enough of Mega being shown the bad side of cat town and share their own ungrateful cat stories.

“I take pictures of the less fortunate cats to show mine how good she really has it. Another cat got in our house and played in her toy bin and she was pissed! I told her some cats don’t have toys and she needs to share idc if the neighborhood cat came over. She’s been an indoor cat since,” one cat mom writes.

“Scared Straight: Cat Edition!!! I’m here for it. You is a Cat of God in a black household… you know better. Now stop this foolishness and be great. My speech to my orange tabby, Toby Jawan Walker,” someone else laughs.

“Cat: Wait, they really out here living like this!!! Oh no, take me home now,” another commenter jokes.

One thing is for sure, Mega will never forget his ride to the wrong side of town and hopefully will start having a more grateful attitude. Watch the entire video below:

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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it buried entire cities in volcanic materials. While Pompeii is the most famous site affected by the natural disaster, the nearby villa of Herculaneum was also laid to waste—including over 800 precious scrolls found inside Herculaneum’s library, which were carbonized by the heat, making them impossible to open and recover their contents.

Which brings us to the Vesuvius challenge, started by computer scientist Brent Seales and entrepreneurs Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in March 2023. The contest would award $1 million in prizes to whoever could use machine learning to successfully read from the scrolls without damaging them.

On February 5, the prize-winning team was announced.

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The team consisted of three savvy college students— Youssef Nader in Germany, Luke Farritor in the US, and Julian Schilliger in Switzerland—working with each other from across the globe.

Each student had a prior individual accomplishment in the challenge before teaming up. Farritor first deciphered a word from the scroll ((ΠΟΡΦΥΡΑϹ, or “porphyras,” which means “purple” in ancient Greek), after which Nader was able to read multiple column from the scroll, in addition to Julian Schilliger creating 3D map renderings of the papyrus.

Nader, Farritor and Schillinger eventually combined their talents to train machine-learning algorithms to decipher more than 2,000 characters. Contest organizers estimated a less than 30% success rate for even less characters.

So, what exactly did the scrolls say? Turns out, the ancient cultures were just as curious about what makes us truly happy in life as we are today.

The translated text, thought to be written by Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, appears to be a philosophical discussion on pleasure, and how it’s affected by things like music and food. And quite possibly “throwing shade” as stoicism by calling it “an incomplete philosophy because it has ‘nothing to say about pleasure.”

“We can’t escape the feeling that the first text we’ve uncovered is a 2,000-year-old blog post about how to enjoy life,” the Vesuvius Challenge website writes.

The first Vesuvius Challenge resulted in 5% of one scroll being read. For 2024, the goalpost has been moved to being able to read 90% of all four scrolls currently scanned, and to lay the foundation to read all 800 scrolls, and possibly other texts found at the Herculaneum library.

“Some of these texts could completely rewrite the history of key periods of the ancient world,” Robert Fowler, a classicist and the chair of the Herculaneum Society, told Bloomberg. “This is the society from which the modern Western world is descended.”

Using artificial intelligence to create a future has been a prime topic of conversation as of late, but this story is a great example of how AI can give us rare glimpses into the past as well. It’s pretty incredible to think about how many ancient mysteries could be solved as technology continues to advance in the years to come.

But no matter how much knowledge we gain, it feels safe to say that pleasure might always an enigma.

Fame comes with a lot of challenges, but it also comes with some pretty obvious perks. There’s the money that frequently follows fame, of course, but there’s also the special treatment people automatically offer you.

Some famous folks might revel in that special treatment and some might even express gratitude for it. But occasionally, you find a celebrity who refuses it altogether.

Take basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, for instance.

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Shaq has been known to share his wealth with the average Joe without any expectation, just out of the goodness of his heart. He also has a refreshingly down-to-earth attitude about his own importance compared to other people, which he shared in an interview.

Not only does Shaq give generous tips to McDonald’s workers out of appreciation for their service, but he said he can’t even bring himself to skip to the front of the line when he knows he could—a fact that always blows the mind of people he goes to restaurants with.

“I know I’m ‘the Shaq’ and I can eat free, I just can’t i can’t do it. Because remember, these people right here make this world go around, not me. But it’s my job to entertain them, and then when they pay, that’s how I get paid. So it’s all a certain ecosystem that can never be broken. A lot of people break it…but you got to protect the people that make you who you are.”

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It’s a refreshingly humble attitude from someone who could easily take advantage of his fame, and people in the comments love to see it.

“A true gentleman,” wrote one person. “The more I see of him..the more I respect him.. Thank you for being a great person!!”

“Shaq is the kind of man who should be one’s role model,” shared another.

“‘You gotta protect the people who made you who you are’ that’s why this man is respected by all,” offered another.

“This is why Shaq is my fav! He never let the fame kill the goodness in his heart. He stayed pure,” wrote another.”

Some people shared their own personal encounters with Shaq as further examples that he genuinely is as he describes himself—no entourage, no perks expected or accepted, generous to the people serving him.

“I saw Shaq at a ice cream shop in a Boston suburb and he was alone and didn’t expect any special treatment and was very personable to everyone. His humility was incredible! He’s someone that kids should look up to! He’s a true gentleman!”

“I can personally vouch that Shaq is 100% correct here. I met him at a Subway in Florida. Shaq got in line waited while people was taking pictures of him and I started a conversation with him. He ordered his food and tip both workers $100 each. Very humble guy.”

Humility is a quality that people who aren’t in the spotlight don’t always develop, much less people who are showered with attention and accolades all the time. Many people said Shaq’s parents raised him right, but whether it’s a result of nurture or nature or both, his attitude is one we can all take inspiration from.

In the late 2000s there was an explosion of mommy bloggers, suddenly moms who cared for their children full time were able to have an outlet sharing relatable content about their motherhood. The bonus to this was brands wanted to give them money to promote things they were likely already using or wanting to try anyway. Nobody really knew what would come of it so more people jumped on board before the phase fizzled out.

This was still in the early days of the internet, when social media wasn’t really popular yet and no one really understood the implications of exposing your children’s details online. As social media sites picked up interest and people were becoming millionaires from YouTube, mommy bloggers morphed into “mommy vlogs,” “family vlogs” and “momfluencers.”

There was money to be made by sharing relatable content and amassing large followings. But kids don’t stay kids forever and some of those very first mommy blogger kids have a lot of opinions on having their information online without their consent.

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That’s not all, technology is changing. Parents are becoming more cognizant of not only possibly violating their children’s trust and privacy, but their safety as well. While many influencers, mom or not, attempt to be careful with details that they post, people’s internet savvy has surpassed what it was in the early days.

Locations can be found from information pulled from pictures and videos posted online. One influencer had a fan show up after giving a fun apartment tour. Another influencer in Japan was located through the reflection of her address in her eyes. For fun, one influencer likes to try to figure out where people got their delicious looking food from so he can try it, all from looking at their videos and publicly available information.

Given the deeper understanding of how the internet works along with privacy and safety concerns, some parents are opting to just avoid sharing images of their children online. The content is still the same, just minus the visual of the child you hear in the background.

A few mom content creators talked to PBS about their decision to either stop showing their children online opening up a conversation about the risks of doing so.

“I was getting a lot of interaction under my videos that were just specifically pertaining to my daughter,” Deja Smith tells PBS. “I always wanted to base my content around me. That’s my whole point of it’s centered around me, you know? So when people are starting to center it around my daughter, that’s when it got uncomfortable for me.”

Brittany Balyn explained to the broadcasting station, “One thing that really kind of triggered something was meeting another mother at a kids class and her, instead of coming to me first, meeting my daughter, saying her name, knowing things about her. And there was no ill intent from the mother. It just made me realize in the wrong hands, this information can be used in a very sinister fashion.”

Even influencers with extremely large followings like Elyse Meyers are opting out of showing their children’s faces. But parents who share images of their children online outside of their close friends and family may have other, more concerning things to worry about.

AI is prompting concern as images of child sexual assault material (CSAM) has been generated using the new technology. Taylor Swift is the most famous example of the use of AI for deep fake inappropriate images and according to Recon, middle school students from a small town in Alabama have also fallen victim. Thankfully, the law is moving much faster on keeping up with this side of AI technology as the protection of children from sexual exploitation is a solidly bipartisan issue.

The DEFIANCE Act was introduced in January 2024 by Senators Dick Drubin (D-IL), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Josh Hawley (R-MO). The name of the act stands for Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act of 2024 and is “legislation that would hold accountable those responsible for the proliferation of nonconsensual, sexually-explicit “deepfake” images and videos,” according to the press release.

So while the “momfluencers” who are now choosing not to show images of their children may still be in the minority, it seems as more parents become aware of the potential dangers, that may soon be changing. Technology is almost always several steps ahead of the average person so being vigilant and taking extra precaution to protect your children may not be a bad idea.

“Generation X” got its name in the early ’90s from an article turned book by Canadian writer Douglas Coupland. And ever since, they’ve been fighting or embracing labels like “slacker” and “cynic.” That is, until Millennials came of age and all that “you kids today” energy from older generations started to get heaped on them. Slowly, Gen X found they were no longer being called slackers… they weren’t even being mentioned at all. And that suits them just fine.

Here are 17 memes that will resonate with just about anyone born between 1965 and 1980.

Gen X basically invented “Whatever.”

SOURCE: TWITTER

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Until recently, Generation X has been sitting back and watching as Millennials and Boomers eat each other with an amused, non-confrontational attitude. But recently, Millennials and Gen Z became aware of their presence, and dubbed them “The Karen generation.”

They seem to be embracing the Karen thing.

While I”m pretty sure the “Karen” thing is not complimentary — as BuzzFeed puts it, it’s meant to communicate someone who is “the middle-aged white mom who is always asking for the manager and wondering why kids are so obsessed with their identities,” lots of people landed on a different Karen to represent the generation: the martini-guzzling, wise-cracking Karen Walker.

Get it right!

Well [expletive] me gently with a chainsaw, she’s right. The 1980s cult classic starring Winona Ryder and Shannen Doherty really is the Mean Girls of the ’80s and a much better term than Karen

The disdain is mutual…

Most of my Gen X friends have Gen Z kids and they are intergenerationally very chill with each other. However, Gen X is the generation most likely to have Boomer parents and younger millennial kids, and this meme seems to be resonating a bunch with Xers of a certain age.

A lot of Xers are enjoying the “OK boomer” squabble.

The media tends to ignore Generation X as a whole — as a few tweets coming up demonstrate — and this pleases Gen X just fine. After all, they’re used to it. They were latchkey kids whose parents both worked long hours, so they’re used to being somewhat neglected.

A whole mood.

Gen X: “Look, don’t pull us into this. You’ll make me spill my beer.”

Gen X: Get used to it.

Perhaps Gen X’s blasé attitude to the generation wars has something to do with being called “Slackers” for a full decade.

Pass the popcorn.

Aside from this whole “Karen generation” blip, Gen X continues to be largely overlooked, and that fact — as well as their silent delight in it — is possibly one of the most Generation X things to happen to the class of 1965 to 1980.

Pay no attention to the man behind the venetian blinds.

Back in the ’90s, Gen X bore the same kind of criticism Boomers tend to heap on Millennials and Gen Z now. It’s not necessarily that they want to watch a cage match. It’s just they’re so relieved it’s someone else being called slackers and downers for a change.

See?

Although this chart doesn’t list the generation names, the approximate age ranges are all there… except for a big gap between the ages of 34 and 54 where apparently no humans were born? Poor Gen X (and some elder Millennials) apparently don’t have political beliefs worth examining.

Don’t you forget about me…

If Millennials are the “burnout generation,” I guess Gen X is truly the invisible generation. I’m starting to feel inspired to write a science fiction novel where everyone born from 1966 to 1980 inhabits a totally different dimension.

There are perks to being invisible…

Being overlooked can be an advantage when you just want to sit in the corner and be immature. Gen X spent all of the 90s being told they were immature slackers, and in their 40s, a lot of them are really leaning into that description, because what does it matter?

“No one cares what we think anyway…”

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This GIF of Janeane Garofolo mocking her classmates at the high school reunion is basically a whole Gen X mood and definitely captures how a lot of this generation caught in the middle feels about the “OK boomer” wars.

Party on.

Before Brené Brown was telling us all how to dare greatly, Gen X got their inspirational advice from a different kind of TED and his pal Bill, who taught us all how important it is to learn from history and be excellent to each other.

Too late and yet too early.

Romance — or getting lucky — was never easy for Generation X. They were the generation most impacted by the AIDS epidemic when it comes to anxiety about casual sex. Whereas Boomers had the free love of the late ’60s, Gen X was about safe sex, which usually meant less sex. And even when having safe casual sex, singles in the ’90s had to meet people the old-fashioned way or, if they did meet online, they felt shame over it. Now online dating is the norm.

When Gen X replaces the Boomers.

This is probably an optimistic view — because the truth is there are “Boomers” in every generation, and many of them tend to find their way into powerful positions. Let’s call this a best case scenario, though.

The Nihilism Generation

There is no generation more over it than Gen X. They are ready for the apocalypse, but don’t expect them to, like, help or anything!

This article originally appeared on 3.18.20

Over the weekend George Santos added yet another ridiculous item to his CV. This time it was real: He filed a lawsuit against Jimmy Kimmel, just as he’d promised to. The ousted Congressman was none-too-happy late last year when the late night show host pranked him by ordering one of his Cameos, only so he could drag it on his show. He vowed revenge, and on Saturday his vengeance began. But is Kimmel worried? Doesn’t seem like it.

Per HuffPost, the host kicked off Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! by addressing the ridiculous elephant in the room. “I am currently embroiled in what may be the most preposterous lawsuit of all time,” he told the crowd. “George Santos, a man Republicans kicked out of Congress for being a fraud, is suing me for fraud.”

Kimmel said that Santos had “rudely” filed the lawsuit against him, his show, and the Walt Disney Company, even though, he said, they’d “done a nice thing: we supported him by ordering his Cameo videos.”

But Santos, in his filing, claims they deceived him by using a fake name to broadcast a private video over broadcast television. “If there’s one thing George Santos will not stand for it’s using a fake name under false pretenses,” he joked, alluding to such alter egos as Anthony Devolder.

After news of Santos’ lawsuit went live, he posted about it on Twitter/X. “If you don’t stand up for yourself you will always lose!” he wrote. “That’s what I’m doing with this lawsuit. I’m standing my ground and fighting to uphold my legal rights. Jimmy boy thought he could use fraudulent means to violate my copyrights and now he’s going to face the consequences. It’s really that simple. My legal case is unassailable, there’s no question I am in the right.”

So Kimmel might get sued, while all that happened to Santos after lying about his mother dying in the September 11 attacks, being a collegiate volleyball star, and producing one of Broadway’s most notorious flops was he lost his job.

You can watch Kimmel’s opening monologue in the video below.

(Via HuffPost)