Do 90s babies really remember Y2K and 9/11?
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I was Born '83 and remember chernobyl. Not that i would have known anything about it. But my parents ran out, hauled me inside and said no more playing outside. In retrospective that was quite disturbing it seems.
Remember when Y2K was going to potentially end the world, but it didn't thanks to experts working 'round the clock?
Remember when corporations turned around and got pissy because Y2K was successfully avoided, claiming that it was all a big hoax?
Remember how it's now taught in some places that Y2K was a hoax and you can't trust experts?
No wonder the world struggled with COVID.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I can see the same thing happening with climate change; say we successfully avert it, you'll have all the lunatics on saying, "see?? There was nothing to worry about, we stressed and struggled for nothing!!1!"
Damn we made the air breathable, the rivers clean and the animals happy for no reason
More like 80s babies, since we were actually old enough to remember those first two things
I was born in 1992 and remember it all.
I can imagine the hysteria you were going through as an 7/8 year old experiencing Y2K. Glad you made it through
If 9/11 made you hysteric, you have bigger problems. Downvote if you're a big american baby.
In the US**. Mostly.
All over the globe, I am German and the right wing gets stronger, I hate it....
Everywhere is getting really fascist, really quickly. It’s terrifying. At least last time, other countries stopped Germany. Who would stop an afd/cdu coalition now? Not the Trump, le pen, xi, Putin, modi, or literally any British option. We’re going to have to bet on the finns.
We’re going to have to bet on the finns.
Please don't, for the sake of us all, it's the same over here unfortunately.
All of the shit is everywhere already. Fighting this shit is going to have to be a worldwide effort the same way bigots, fascists, nazis etc. are uniting worldwide. There is no place on Earth immune to idiocy, because most people are just idiots and/or fucking suck.
Perkele.
To be fair, you should always bet on the Finns.
Oh, there’s a reason there’s a chance, but it’ll be tight.
I love how the teenagers here think that right wing ideology is the cause of the world's problems, even though the left has been in power for like decades, literally in Europe and in the US conservatives are shifting with the overton window and becoming more to the left.
Keep voting left, and then when your countries fall, I'll be laughing.
Suffer more, and feed my joy. You deserve every bit of it. You voted for it. You want it, and I love watching it.
How about you decompose first.
You forgot -
- Housing crisis which makes house impossible to afford.
- Rent crisis which makes event renting harder and gives owners freehand to increase rent however they like
- Global job scarcity
- Stagnation of income in sight of exploding inflation
True, but it has to be readable.
Don't forget about the mass extinctions
True...
Has there actually been a better century in terms of comfort and stability for most people
I don't think though.... but quantity improved.
GenX here ..... did all that while supporting my family, no biggie.
Good job!