On the older side of millennial, I vaguely remember the opening news broadcasts of the Gulf war.
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Like we can afford to smoke.
FYI, there's going to be another Y2K.
Isn't this one already largely patched including most 32-bit operating systems that were still getting updates like 20 years ago?
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God I hope the AI bubble doesn't stretch all the way until I'm 45.
Two recessions as adults.
Multiple wars + Jan 6
And super el ninos, multiple 21st century wars, and watching technology advanced so fast it devolved.
Think you forgot a couple wars, I mean special operations, or whatever.
Odd not to include the 2008 or COVID crashes.
I just put dogs in my ass. You don't have to think about it, it just happens to you then you bow right into the an other net gone rightly to ir.
As a millennial, these posts are cringe af.
I'm just glad that I wasn't born in 1890. A world war, then the great depression, then another world war.