Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by triceratops 565 days ago
> what being an adult really means is that most of your time is taken up by an ever-growing list of compulsory maintenance tasks that constitute the meager amount of contol you exert over your own life

Truer words have never been said. It's absurd how much bureaucracy adults have to engage with just to exist.

1 comments

This is pretty cynical. It might ring true, but I don’t think truer words have never been spoken.
You understand hyperbole, yes? It's a throwaway comment on a silly article about Pavlovian self-conditioning using an Internet-connected dog feeder.
What do you think are the truest words ever spoken? Maybe just something out of the top ten.