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Yes I'm just feeling peachy. Just perfectly peachy.
I’m pretty sure there a lot of worse stuff that’s happened in the past 100 years, you just know how that ended.
My guy, my life isn't even halfway over yet. It's been incredibly rough so far, certain things which my life never truly recovered from... And much worse can possibly still happen in the decades to come.
Yeah, but I think we're going to get a participation trophy. I've been raised to believe this is the case, but that we should not be proud of it, because we're actually garbage.
A lot of us are 40+ but I appreciate your meaning.
Yeah I was going to say, I'm 41 and while I seem more like gen X since I mainly hang around with them and basically grew up around them, I am sadly gen Y.
On a side note, millennial has such a bad connotation around it I prefer to say gen Y. Most people don't associate their negative feelings about millennials with the term gen Y and it just makes life easier during the rare occasions that it comes up.
And gen-x has lived through everything listed and more. Boomers even more. Think gen-x gets to retire? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA good one!
We need to include the Cold War and the nuclear crisis to the list.
Does it really count if they were babies?
Gen X has entered the chat
It's missing working 3 jobs to survive and still being called entitled and lazy
What idiot was calling you entitled and lazy?
Pre-MAGAts
The dot-com burst was a recession too.
Oh, and you are ignoring the entire thing where every currency except the dollar was destroyed in the 90s.
Also, history ended in 1986. It seems you didn't get the memo. It would have been typed and nailed into your local clipboard.
Also, history ended in 1986.
Imagine thinking neoliberal Western Democracy was the final and ultimate expression of ideology.
They did though! These idiots thought exactly that.
Y2K wasn't that bad compared to the rest
Y2K wasn't that bad because a billion engineers saw it coming and prepared accordingly. If everyone hadn't been freaking out about it for years beforehand things could have gone very differently.
In hindsight. There was some degree of hysteria at the time, which prompted ended at the turn of the millenia when planes did not fall out of the sky and computer systems did not all fail in unison.
Y2k was a non event because a lot of time, effort, and money was spent fixing it before the deadline.
The estimated cost of fixing the bug was between 300-850 billion dollars in 2000 - adjusted for inflation that's about 0.5-1.5 trillion dollars
The estimated worldwide cost of fixing the Y2K bug, according to analysts: Cap Gemini America Inc. — $858 billion; Gartner Group Inc. — $600 billion; International Data Corp. — $300 billion.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/1372100/some-key-facts-and-events-in-y2k-history.html
Nothing personal, I try to correct this view everywhere I see it.
Y2K didn't happen because a lot of talented engineers worked their asses off to prevent it from happening. It is the bane of IT people everywhere that the working state of the systems they create and maintain is being taken for granted by the public, with barely a thought givem to those who fight bugs, spam, cyber attacks and pure entropy every day. It is in fact a minor miracle of engineering that we're even having this conversation.
Thank you. I was on the Y2K team.
Couldn't agree more and do not in any way intend to diminish the hard work of those that prevented a widespread systems failure.
God(or whatever metaphysical force you subscribe to) guard the engineers. Of all types.
Reminds me of this funny bit from Louis C.K. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBdwNP7xk_6/ (profanity)
A-men
the Dot Com bubble burst + World Trade Center in 2001 was another animal
There was that one guy who got charged $60k in late fees at blockbuster though.
Comparatively, sure it's small potatoes.
If anything it was a misdirect.
When the world/news goes crazy, it's probably not actually that bad. Surprise mothetfucker!
Whenever I hear a new term I have to figure out if it's really that bad, or just made up nonsense.
Disaster speedrun.
Don't forget the 2012, possibly the biggest threat to humanity in our lifet .... I can't finish this with a straight face :D
After Covid-19 I am convinced that they mixed up the number of 2021
It iiis what it iiis
Thanks dad.
Bird flu is scheduled before WW3 so plural plagues
We already had bird flu check your records
We've had one bird flu, yes, but what about second bird flu?
I don't have that in my calendar for some reason. Fucking Google.
Well, summer is within spitting distance, so prepare for a new record. :)
Hey! Hey now! I might hit 40 before world war 3. Let's stay optimistic about this.
See, I turn 39 this year so if Trump's attempt to further shit all over what my grandfather fought for could just wait till the actual end of his term I'll have made it to 40 before the world turns to complete shit.