Ah yes, the 20th century, well known for not having serious problems...
Actually so far 2000 to 2026 is looking much better than 1900 to 1926.
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I'm reserving my judgment until after 2038. But yes, everything looks much better this century.
2038, or 2028? If 2028 doesn’t go right, getting to 2038 is going to be rough.
IIRC 2038 is when 32-bit integer Unix time will hit the limit and overflow, so anything that isn't updated to use 64bit time will break in some ways, same story as Y2K.
Think yourself lucky. I was born too late for the sexual revolution/hippies fucking everywhere, and just in time for the AIDS panic, where people didn't know enough about HIV, and it was this mysterious thing that would kill you if you dared have sex.
I was born during the NATO bombing of my country, and then had another when I was 4.
Literally born right after the country's best days were over, to find out for all the fuck around I never did.
I don't care about sex.
I think there is a constant fractal looping of "fuck around - find out"
Find out times create hard people. Hard people create fuck around times. Fuck around times create entitled people. Entitled people create find out times.
More like there are a few lucky people who think it's their right to fuck around, and that it's the duty of everyone else to find out.
And all the people who fucked around, aren't gonna have to be the ones to find out. We are suffering generational neglect.
Is it so much generational neglect or "corporations hide their disastrous impact on the planet and society from the public for as long as they can, and after the effects become impossible to ignore they gaslight everyone blame the society as a whole to burdern them with their crimes" ?
They built and empowered those corporations.
Can you blame workers for participating in a machine that provides for them?
Also just because an evil CEO was from the baby boomer generation, doesn't make them all collectively guilty
When they have options and still choose the worst? Yes.
"Fuck you I got mine" but over the generations.
Oh trust me, we might be in the Find Out century, but it is also still the Fuck Around century.
the find out century is where new futures are forged, im at the bottom so i cant get any lower, im ready and waiting
You're nowhere near the bottom on a global scale.
an i don't intend to go lower.
Millennium, Find Out Millennium.
This the Willenium, and the rest of us are just living in it.
As a Millennial, I thought this was my generation... Then shit just kept getting worse and worse... Fun times.
We're not the ones that fucked around so even if it gets even worse for newer generations I'd say we still qualify the most for what's described in the post.
I mean, a lot of people did Find Out in the 20th century. That is a significant thing that happened.
Twitter post from 1914.