A lot of us are 40+ but I appreciate your meaning.
We need to include the Cold War and the nuclear crisis to the list.
Does it really count if they were babies?
Gen X has entered the chat
And gen-x has lived through everything listed and more. Boomers even more. Think gen-x gets to retire? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA good one!
Yeah I was going to say, I’m 41 and while I seem more like gen X since I mainly hang around with them and basically grew up around them, I am sadly gen Y.
On a side note, millennial has such a bad connotation around it I prefer to say gen Y. Most people don’t associate their negative feelings about millennials with the term gen Y and it just makes life easier during the rare occasions that it comes up.
It’s missing working 3 jobs to survive and still being called entitled and lazy
What idiot was calling you entitled and lazy?
Pre-MAGAts
Y2K wasn’t that bad compared to the rest
In hindsight. There was some degree of hysteria at the time, which prompted ended at the turn of the millenia when planes did not fall out of the sky and computer systems did not all fail in unison.
Nothing personal, I try to correct this view everywhere I see it.
Y2K didn’t happen because a lot of talented engineers worked their asses off to prevent it from happening. It is the bane of IT people everywhere that the working state of the systems they create and maintain is being taken for granted by the public, with barely a thought givem to those who fight bugs, spam, cyber attacks and pure entropy every day. It is in fact a minor miracle of engineering that we’re even having this conversation.
Thank you. I was on the Y2K team.
Thank you for your service. I mean it.
God(or whatever metaphysical force you subscribe to) guard the engineers. Of all types.
Couldn’t agree more and do not in any way intend to diminish the hard work of those that prevented a widespread systems failure.
Reminds me of this funny bit from Louis C.K. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBdwNP7xk_6/ (profanity)
That’s true, but it is also true that there was a lot of hysteria… A lot of well designed systems were built without the y2k flaw in the first place…
A-men
And A-women too 😁
the Dot Com bubble burst + World Trade Center in 2001 was another animal
There was that one guy who got charged $60k in late fees at blockbuster though.
Y2k was a non event because a lot of time, effort, and money was spent fixing it before the deadline.
The estimated cost of fixing the bug was between 300-850 billion dollars in 2000 - adjusted for inflation that’s about 0.5-1.5 trillion dollars
The estimated worldwide cost of fixing the Y2K bug, according to analysts: Cap Gemini America Inc. — $858 billion; Gartner Group Inc. — $600 billion; International Data Corp. — $300 billion.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/1372100/some-key-facts-and-events-in-y2k-history.html
Comparatively, sure it’s small potatoes.
Y2K wasn’t that bad because a billion engineers saw it coming and prepared accordingly. If everyone hadn’t been freaking out about it for years beforehand things could have gone very differently.
If anything it was a misdirect.
When the world/news goes crazy, it’s probably not actually that bad. Surprise mothetfucker!
Whenever I hear a new term I have to figure out if it’s really that bad, or just made up nonsense.
Bird flu is scheduled before WW3 so plural plagues
We already had bird flu check your records
We’ve had one bird flu, yes, but what about second bird flu?
I don’t have that in my calendar for some reason. Fucking Google.
The dot-com burst was a recession too.
Oh, and you are ignoring the entire thing where every currency except the dollar was destroyed in the 90s.
Also, history ended in 1986. It seems you didn’t get the memo. It would have been typed and nailed into your local clipboard.
Also, history ended in 1986.
Imagine thinking neoliberal Western Democracy was the final and ultimate expression of ideology.
They did though! These idiots thought exactly that.
Downvote away, I’ve been having these conversations for 20+ years. I remember what yall said.
Yeah, but I think we’re going to get a participation trophy. I’ve been raised to believe this is the case, but that we should not be proud of it, because we’re actually garbage.
It iiis what it iiis
Thanks dad.
Well, summer is within spitting distance, so prepare for a new record. :)
Don’t forget the 2012, possibly the biggest threat to humanity in our lifet … I can’t finish this with a straight face :D
After Covid-19 I am convinced that they mixed up the number of 2021
And climate change
3 or more possible WW3’s
It is not unfair to clock the first bit. But you can’t count hypothetical WW3s. That’s like Boomers saying they lived through Hypothetical Nuclear Winter.
Also, if we’re counting recessions as millennials, you can’t neglect the '87 crash and the '01 dot-com bubble. If we’re counting plagues, you can’t leave out AIDS.
Not hypothetical as much as possible, near misses
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Up to end of Soviet Union '91
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US-North Korea-China
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NATO-Ukraine-Russia
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US-China-Taiwan (upcoming)
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US-Israel-Iran (upcoming)
Not hypothetical as much as very real possibilities
Definitely can’t leave out AIDS or drug epidemics, mass shootings, living under threat of terrorism
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I’m pretty sure there a lot of worse stuff that’s happened in the past 100 years, you just know how that ended.
We know, we learned the details about WW2. Our grandparents and great grandparents actually lived through that, and told us the stories.
All the adults told us it would be better for us than for them. While they fucked everything up and then blame us.
All the adults told us it would be better for us than for them.
All the adults told us that it was our responsibility to do better than they’d done things. Some of the adults tried to help out along the way, while other adults knee-capped us and robbed us and threw us in jail for the crime of becoming poor.
And there’s a real selection bias along the way. A friend of mine was six years old when her dad shoved her out of the way of a speeding car. He died. She and the driver lived. She got to grow up in a world without a father willing to give everything to protect her. But the guy who killed her dad kept on ticking.
As we carve out more and more space for reckless, heartless people, we lose the honest and selfless ones along the way. In the end, a generation that selects for selfish people is going to be dominated by the most ruthless.
My guy, my life isn’t even halfway over yet. It’s been incredibly rough so far, certain things which my life never truly recovered from… And much worse can possibly still happen in the decades to come.
Hey! Hey now! I might hit 40 before world war 3. Let’s stay optimistic about this.
See, I turn 39 this year so if Trump’s attempt to further shit all over what my grandfather fought for could just wait till the actual end of his term I’ll have made it to 40 before the world turns to complete shit.
Yes I’m just feeling peachy. Just perfectly peachy.
Disaster speedrun.
