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It’s 2 pandemies. People like to forget H1N1… & at least 4 recessions since the 90s… & the rise of Neo-Faschism should definetly be there as well.
Don’t forget the current climate apocalypse. That will literally end everything
Yeah, Y2K was really tough man. Just don’t know how I made it.
Y2K was a nightmare for us GenX. Months of overtime and late nights with lots of contractors coding 24/7. I hope I never have to go through that again.
I also hope I don’t live to see the year 10,000.
I changed jobs in late 99, so I got to go through all the Y2K bullshit in one job, then do it again in the new one.
One dude at my old job had his panties in a bunch because he said all the U.S. Navy ships were vulnerable and he said WW3 was going to start, but he was generally an idiot anyway, so that was par for the course.
In the new job I had to certify that DEC impact printers were Y2K certified. Which way basically me putting stickers on all of them saying they were certified because they weren’t smart enough to care what the date was.
My boss at the new job required us to be onsite on January 1st, which was kind of a drag, but that’s the way it goes. There was nothing for us to do. He stopped at a deli on the way in and picked up an absolutely fantastic pile of food for us, so it just became a casual brunch and we just kind of hung around eating and chatting until he was satisfied that nothing was going to go wrong.
I’d kill to know what the deli was. I was too young and stupid to save the name.
Even as a teenager I was pretty crystal-clear on the fact that anybody who knew anything about how a computer worked also knew that Y2K was not the cataclysmic society-ending event that the fucking braindead news media were making it out to be at the time.
It wasn’t because everybody worked and put in what was required to fix it.
Any company with old code was in danger. Every Bank everything had to work their asses off to get all these changes made and test it. Still some things failed but it could have been much much worse if people didn’t panic and put in the time to fix it
Don’t forget all the forever wars.
You just triggered me. ToT
Like we can afford to smoke.
Still easier than people born 100 years ago.
I was rippin’ Rust a few years ago, especially after reading Stephen Markley’s The Deluge and having a bit of a breakdown. Then I was
Then the anxiety counter got to 999,999 and ticked back over to 000,000 and broke, so now I’m just sorta
getting more weird and whimsy instead of more anxious.
I don’t have any kids of my own. I feel sorry for the other people’s kids but I wish them all the best in the cannibal wars to come.
Lol @ Y2K being mentioned on par with all this other shit. Never in life have I experienced such a huge nothing burger.
There was an immense effort to rectify the issue, same with the ozone crisis. Cant say the same for current issues, most news has to both-sides everything and there are much more (or atleast more prominent) contrarians like the anti-vaxers. Never again will we see a unified front against a global issue because someone will always benifit personally if failure is on the table.
It was nothing because of the HUGE work that went into avoiding the problem.
It was a huge amount of work that paid extraordinarily well. One could argue that Y2K was a kind-of Keynesian program for software developers, spawning an entire generation of 90s upper-income schlubs and mini-millionaire bosses.
Everyone from Marc Andressen to Mark Cuban owe their personal fortunes to the enormous infusion of cash into the IT sector created by the Y2K business boom. Incidentally, the bottom fell out of the tech market in… 2001.
Sure, but millenials didn’t do that work. Most of us were like 10 when Y2K happened
Yes, but it’s being mentioned alongside things that widely and tangibly affected the (American) populace. Y2K did not have many actual effects for the average person, just a couple of knock-on effects created more from people’s fear of Y2K.
FYI, there’s going to be another Y2K.
Can we please just handle thing one y at a time.
Yeah, as a fresh 44 year old, I’d really love to have a boring decade where nothing much happens. Just a bit of a breather before the inevitable climate wars. I’ve lived through so many ‘once in a lifetime’ events, it’s not even funny.
God I hope the AI bubble doesn’t stretch all the way until I’m 45.
Soon it will be 3 financial recessions…
Add next year’s “biggest il niño in 500-1000” years to the list
Can’t be. He’s smoking.
They took that away from us too.
So, when do we get… A break? Like did Karma get really high and forgot to help us out or? Do we get that peaceful life yet? Or are we doomed to forever being the witnesses and victims to this horrible time line?
The AMOC is collapsing, we get nothing and like it…
