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.
The reason Y2K wasn’t a big deal was through the efforts of software developers and the only recognition they got was the movie Office Space.
It cost like half a trillion dollars to avert the issues of Y2K. A lot of people don’t realize how much of an issue it was.
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!”
Literally already done with the hole in the ozone layer
Are you ready to go through it again soon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038, Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse) is a time formatting bug in computer systems that represent times after the time 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
The problem exists in systems which measure Unix time – the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970) – and store it in a signed 32-bit integer. The data type is only capable of representing integers between −(231) and 231 − 1, meaning the latest time that can be properly encoded is 231 − 1 seconds after epoch (03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038). Attempting to increment to the following second (03:14:08) will cause the integer to overflow, setting its value to −(231) which systems will interpret as 231 seconds before epoch (20:45:52 UTC on 13 December 1901). The problem is similar in nature to the year 2000 problem.
A lot of old PC hardware simply couldn’t scale to modern needs. On the plus side, things like virtualization and 64-bit architecture are helping solve issues like this.
Ukrainian 90s babies living through the collapse of the USSR, decade of banditry and poverty, 2 revolutions, a plague, and the largest war since WW2 before they hit 30:
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
- Forest fires that turn the sky red
- Record rainfall and flooding
- Once in a millennium heatwaves
It depends on where you live of course
More like 80s babies, since we were actually old enough to remember those first two things
I mean, ever since the second world war. We have always been at risk of a third.
Some say we won’t be rid of the threat of World War III until after the next world war.
Has there actually been a better century in terms of comfort and stability for most people
Historically there would be many because the poor countries have the most people
I don’t think I get your argument. Poor countries are much more prone to war, unrest, famines and all sorts of things contrary to “comfort and stability”.
I am saying that they are less stable now than before colonization
Yeah, but that is the exact opposite of what you were saying in your OP.
Did you get me confused?
My argument is that this isn’t the best century for humans
Take China for example. A middle class person in China today lives like an upper class person compared to the 1700s. A poor person on average anywhere is doing way better than ever before…
Yes spending most of the day in a factory or a mine and rarely seeing sunlight is definitively like living as a blacksmith 300 years ago (I said blacksmith because it’s under upper class and I assume by middle class you mean office worker not middle income)
Being a farmer is much easier as well now because machines make the work 100x easier and you only have to do 1000x the amount.
Africa has certainly never had stability and the Inca/Mayans/Aztecs certainly had it worse than the rural folk of Central and South America
Remember all those old paintings of kids going through garbage to find things to sell? That’s certainly not a modern phenomenon
What about the people in winter climates that for a large portion couldn’t work in the winter? Yes they still did stuff but it wasn’t 40 hour weeks
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.
Go hate gay people somewhere else
I don’t hate gays. You’re just brainwashed.
The conservatives where I live absolutely hate gay and trans people. I see it almost daily. Until conservatives can get their head on straight over basic things like this, they are fighting an uphill battle to get me to take them seriously about anything else.
Where exactly in Europe are the left in power for decades?
The fact that you don’t realize that is evidence of how delusional you are. What country would you like? Let’s pick Germany, the strongest country in Europe economically.
The only right-wing party there and the one that’s vocal is the AfD. It took the price of electricity doubling and the AfD is at 20%, and the current government is launching all kinds of efforts trying to delegitimize them. And I don’t believe that 20% means anything. It’s just the usual cucks trying to “make a point”.
The government in Germany has been CDU forever and now SPD. Both parties are extreme left in everything. CDU is only conservative by name. Every single policy they followed is left wing, including socialism, open borders, trans nonsense, carbon nonsense, etc.
Now explain to me exactly when in Germany was the politics primarily right wing in the last 20 years.
You guys are pathetic! You’re so delusional it feels good to see you suffer. I mean… you wouldn’t even acknowledge that the mainstream has been leftist for decades? Amazing!
Keep voting left. Maybe the collapse will teach you a lesson or two.
Suffer! I love it!
You are so full of shit, calling CDU and SPD left is fucking delusional to a point where it shows arguing with you doesn’t really make sense.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Yes, CDU and SPD pushing big government, carbon taxes, fossil fuels nonsense, gender pronouns, higher taxes… yeah, that’s all right-wing in the heart. Go fuck yourself. I don’t want to talk to you. Keep voting for them and call them right-wing all you want. The collapse will teach you and make me laugh.
How about you decompose first.
