This week, I saw a tweet that perfectly encapsulates warning sign discourse. A millennial reposted a boomer meme that said the following: “If you think you are smarter than the previous generation…50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.” In response to this take, the millennia l captioned the meme with this. “Counter point: it only says that because the previous generation kept drinking the content…

Ever since I was in high school, I've been obsessed with weird signs. My school had countless weird posters on the wall that were intended to motivate us, but all we did was make fun of them. The most iconic of them read this: 30 years from now, it won’t matter what shoes you wore, how your hair looked, or the jeans you bought. What will matter is what you learned and how you used it.