Being born in the early 80's... we've seen a lot.
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I still remember when crackpots thought the world was gonna end in 2012. When that time came. I just looked at my cat and said 'hey kitty, we're still here!'
I'm pretty sure we did all died that day. We're clearly in hell at this point.
I love these "millenial" memes because you can always tell about how old the meme maker is.
There are millenials that are in their mid 40s, and there are zoomers that are almost 30. Assuming they were just going for a round number, the creator could have said 50, 45 or 40. But no, they chose 35, presumably because they are around 35.
The same group of Americans all worried about the anti-Christ found the one guy who matches the profile and decided to make him President. Twice.
Accelerationists and bigots make up a large chunk of that bloc, and “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” make up the rest.
(The oligarchs that bought him don’t count in the same group as the plebeians.)
Religious accelerationists are beyond my understanding. Provoke God into action? And how exactly do you plan to avoid God's judgement? I mean religious extremists often give impression like they think their God is stupid and you just need to find a loophole in the rules.
God is omnipotent. He doesn't need our help to sound the trumpets and bring about Revelation.
It's like they started at Genesis, got bored in Leviticus, and skipped to the end of Revelation without bothering to read about that pesky Jesus fella in the middle.
Bold of you to assume they even opened a bible to start with
It's a mental illness, it doesn't make sense, and its no use trying to make sense of it.
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There are a lot of us who've been paying close attention, though, and are doing all we can.
I was 17 when 9/11 happened and I've been watching and learning. Now is the time to move
You may be able to survive the shakeup. Maybe a loved one doesn't end up in Lubbock or Alcatraz or CECOT. Maybe your neighborhood looks like it always did.
Maybe your state plays nice with the feds. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe shit gets hairy. The people pulling Trump's strings want Christian Nationalism and they'll get it, at least here in the South. We fought em before and we'll fight em again. We may lose, though.
The time for action is here.
Meanwhile mid-40s walking through world ending pollution:
This place is so much better without all the cigarette smoke!
I also appreciate the restoration of our ozone layer. I remember there was a time (when above a certain latitude at least) my skin would fucking burn in less than 5 minutes under direct sun, it's a lot better now but it seems weird we all just kind of collectively forgot about that time when we all nearly ended the world to such a degree that we could feel it outside, then we all reversed course and fixed it mostly.
I wonder if we would be more motivated to fix our current issues if they caused skin burns.
This is a great point on how regulation can work and how we, as a society, need to do better celebrating our accomplishments.
The weird thing is that it worked too well. Like Y2K, it was fixed so it became a nothing burger. Now everyone thinks it was an overreaction and don’t want to keep fixing things.
I remember people talking about not curing covid as fast because then people wouldn’t take the next pandemic as seriously.
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Both can be true.
I'm tired of living through "interesting times".
"Shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times" -Tav, Baldur's Gate 3
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As a millennial born in the Balkans: economic collapse, hyperinflation, dictatorship, economic collapse, war, revolution, y2k, global economic crisis, end of the mayan calendar, semi-dictatorship, (self-imposed) exile, brexit, covid, war v3, climate crisis getting real, revolution again? (idk I don't live in my home country anymore), whatever the hell is happening now
Interesting times indeed
economic collapse, hyperinflation, dictatorship, economic collapse, war, revolution, y2k, global economic crisis, end of the mayan calendar, semi-dictatorship, (self-imposed) exile, brexit, covid, war v3, climate crisis getting real, revolution again?
We didn't start the fire.
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Its getting uncomfortably accurate
Something something meme seized by the state for redistribution
The world ended like sixty times already this decade.
The screaming twenties just have no brakes.
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I was working in Tech when the Tech Crash in 99 happened, working in the only large Investment bank that went bankrupt in the 2008 Crash and living in Britain when Brexit won the Leave Referendum.
Seen it all happen from a "safe" distance. Damn you're unlucky in a way.
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41 years old and I've lived through 4 once in a lifetime economic events, one impending societal collapse (Y2K), a global pandemic, and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. I vote Giant Meteor 2025, just get it over with already.
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Everytime I see this I think "Gen-X would like a word."
I mean, yes millenials, but we were alive for all that plus more, most notably a childhood filled with "the russians might nuke us tomorrow."
And frankly the boomers get to throw in JFK assassination, etc along with all the Genx stuff.
We're just an unfortunately stupid and murderous race, and plus also the universe is very happy to snuff us out if we let it. Not a good combo for a stable boring life.
GenX here.... first time?
I mean... per the meme, very much not our first time.
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The goofy part about this type of generational cock contest meme is that we all live through it together. Every generation alive has gone through horrific shit and every generation has gone through periods of peace. Some for longer than others.
I'm a millennial and I have been pretty lucky if I may say so myself. Compared to what young people and kids go through today, us older generations had it good.
Yes, our times of youth also brought on wars and economic struggles and what not, but they came in intervals.
Nowadays it is all happening at the same time and at lightening speed.
And us peeps, boomers, Gen X and millennials sit here all smug about it, like we went through ANYTHING comparable to what young people go through today.
We had it good. We are lucky to all be in our 30s and up during this stretch of history. I feel for the youths of today. They are the ones going through some shit in their formative years.
The 2020s are happening to all of us, but the kids of today have way more worries thrust upon them than any of us old fucks ever did.
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If I had a dollar every time some looney came up to me saying it's the apocalypse in X day... I dunno like 12 dollars?
Still better than what most of the people before us lived through. It's just that our parents were especially lucky with the time period they lived in.
And squandered the shit out of it.
The idea that people before us lived worse lives is one often used to obscure the clinical nature of standards we attribute to quality of life such as lifespan, infant mortality, food security, and housing. This is because it allows corporations to trivialize the impact of doubling the workload by normalizing the 40 hour work week and housework and child care, what used to be two people's worth of work, into one.
Are we living 'better' lives? On paper, sure. Are we living happier lives? That's hard to say.
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Correct. When I was living in Reno there was a doomsday DATE people decided on. It was a huge thing. A bunch of people just bought in. People euthanizing their pets, just madness. Day came. Nothing happened. It's amazing what people fall for. It's very sad.
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- "Oh no everything will crash at the end of 1999 !"
- "Wait nothing happened... but that because it will definitely happen in fact at the end of 2000 ! Because there's no year 0, we start at year 1, you see"
It was difficult to deal with the disappointment after all the hype 😢
Millions of man-hours were put in to keep Y2K from happening. In their coverage of New Year's Eve 1999, ABC cut to the Y2K control room where people were amazed nothing was happening.
The only recognition all of those folks got for all of their work to keep the lights on and the planes in the air was the movie Office Space, and people who were disappointed they didn't fail.
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What if the world has ended multiple times before but since this is a simulation, we just have no memory of the actual cataclysm because the operators of the simulation restored the server using backups so all memories of the event were purged? 🤔
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