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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's missing working 3 jobs to survive and still being called entitled and lazy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What idiot was calling you entitled and lazy?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Y2K wasn't that bad compared to the rest

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

The public should take it for granted, it's corpo culture that shouldn't. If IT people had the freedom and option to do the right things early there's so many situations that would never happen, but oh no profits must increase by 10% yoy or else CEO is replaced.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you. I was on the Y2K team.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Couldn't agree more and do not in any way intend to diminish the hard work of those that prevented a widespread systems failure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

God(or whatever metaphysical force you subscribe to) guard the engineers. Of all types.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Reminds me of this funny bit from Louis C.K. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBdwNP7xk_6/ (profanity)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

And A-women too 😁

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

the Dot Com bubble burst + World Trade Center in 2001 was another animal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

There was that one guy who got charged $60k in late fees at blockbuster though.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Comparatively, sure it's small potatoes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

I’m pretty sure there a lot of worse stuff that’s happened in the past 100 years, you just know how that ended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Also, history ended in 1986.

Imagine thinking neoliberal Western Democracy was the final and ultimate expression of ideology.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

They did though! These idiots thought exactly that.

Downvote away, I've been having these conversations for 20+ years. I remember what yall said.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Bird flu is scheduled before WW3 so plural plagues

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

We already had bird flu check your records

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

We've had one bird flu, yes, but what about second bird flu?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I don't have that in my calendar for some reason. Fucking Google.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Thanks dad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Yes I'm just feeling peachy. Just perfectly peachy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't forget the 2012, possibly the biggest threat to humanity in our lifet .... I can't finish this with a straight face :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

After Covid-19 I am convinced that they mixed up the number of 2021

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Well, summer is within spitting distance, so prepare for a new record. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Hey! Hey now! I might hit 40 before world war 3. Let's stay optimistic about this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Disaster speedrun.

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