Purely as an excuse to post this video, Fascism never really went away.... https://youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0

Every 100 years there will be a rise of facist, and only the Avatar can stop them.

There seems to be no opting out...

Oxycontin crisis, satanic panic, Columbine and the proliferation of the modern school shooting crisis, all the tobacco execs lying to congress about nicotine being addictive and facing no consequences, and the open and acknowledged deployment of weapons of war in space thus opening us up to a brand new version of the Cuban missile crisis... In Space (space space space)

My biggest tinfoil hat take is that the fent was put there on purpose to punish drug culture, as the public discovered that many drugs that are scheduled aren't really as harmful or addictive as we're told when done in moderation, and they hated that they were losing control of the narrative that the police state is for your own protection.

So they decided to poison dissenters so they could say "See? Told you so." I don't think they quite realized how many opioid soccer moms were trying to cope at that point, but I wouldn't expect much competence from a government that was willing to purge their own citizens for the crime of "going to a rave occasionally".

And we need to start calling it, sucking up economics.

Also to add to your list.

• Patriot act, establishment of the surveillance state.
• Obama betrayal to the Oligarchs.
• You will own nothing and be happy.
• 2008 recession and ongoing housing capture
• America exiting the rules based international order.
• Climate denial turning into climate-"fuck off, we are a death cult"
• Growing wealth chasm.

I think it's millennial specific though is the point. I would've been too young to get what was going on in the 90s

The dot com bubble was awesome for everyone that got out before the crash, and for most of the economy really. There's a reason no one gave a shit about Clinton getting a blowjob.

I remember in '99 the radio DJs loved talking about how there was a chance the world would end on new years, so there was a degree of anxiety, especially to dumb kids like myself

Y2K was a nightmare for us GenX. Months of overtime and late nights with lots of contractors coding 24/7. I hope I never have to go through that again.

I changed jobs in late 99, so I got to go through all the Y2K bullshit in one job, then do it again in the new one.

One dude at my old job had his panties in a bunch because he said all the U.S. Navy ships were vulnerable and he said WW3 was going to start, but he was generally an idiot anyway, so that was par for the course.

In the new job I had to certify that DEC impact printers were Y2K certified. Which way basically me putting stickers on all of them saying they were certified because they weren't smart enough to care what the date was.

My boss at the new job required us to be onsite on January 1st, which was kind of a drag, but that's the way it goes. There was nothing for us to do. He stopped at a deli on the way in and picked up an absolutely fantastic pile of food for us, so it just became a casual brunch and we just kind of hung around eating and chatting until he was satisfied that nothing was going to go wrong.

I'd kill to know what the deli was. I was too young and stupid to save the name.

Even as a teenager I was pretty crystal-clear on the fact that anybody who knew anything about how a computer worked also knew that Y2K was not the cataclysmic society-ending event that the fucking braindead news media were making it out to be at the time.

Every generation deals with a lotta shit.

Thank you.

Yeah, generations get amnesia when they don't listen to their elders.

ain’t no war but class war.

Y2K also didn't really result in anything because it was a fixable problem that got acted upon. Most of us would have been in school around that time too.

Also don't really see the problem with 9/11, surely the vast majority of people wouldn't have been involved in any way or known anyone who was? Of course its a bigger issue for those that were, but it seems odd to stick it in as a generational experience. I didn't even hear about it until a day or two later when it happened to be on the news before school.

Yep. We went from the cold war to more hopeful times just to fall into despair even worse than before.

This version gives me Christopher Lee vibes, and we all know how much Saruman loves floods.

You just triggered me. ToT

Isn't this one already largely patched including most 32-bit operating systems that were still getting updates like 20 years ago?

Why would you use a signed int to represent system time...

Can we please just handle thing one y at a time.

Yep, things looked positive for a short while after the end of the cold war and the Internet became widespread when we entered the workforce. The advancement of the human race only seemed a matter of time.

But our Boomer parents weren't willing to let anyone else have a bright future, keeping us away from any real power while driving exploitation of nature and people to the max to fill their bank accounts. If you look at the US, this is thill the case, with a gerontocratic political caste that fights tooth and claw to prevent the next generations from enacting change - somewhat like fucking elder vampires.

'88 here. 9/11 sits at such a clear demarcation line for us. Happened in 8th grade where you're still straddling the fence that's childhood, while still capable of grasping the enormity of what was unfolding.

Though I also grew up in the rust belt, so there was always the sense that you were riding a wave that had long since crested.

Living through, not working through.

There was constant reports about how disastrous it was going to be if it wasn’t fixed. That puts some strain on people. I remember thinking that it didn’t matter what I did for a job if everything collapses.

I still remember the hype about it, and wondering if something would actually happen. I was 12 and sleeping over at my friends house on NYE. We were all a bit excited to see what midnight would bring.

I know that it is one of the most senselessly self destructive acts that one can commit, and that many people think it smells bad, and that it is a representation of class struggle and poor education, but I miss when all of the Cool people that didn't give a fuck hung out outside of a workplace swapping stories whilst killing themselves at similar rates.

I guess people could stand around and look at their phone for fifteen minutes part way through their shift, but it doesn't hold the gravity of wincing against a sheet of sleet and recalling the harrowing tale of the Nor' Easter of '95. Or that one time Sheila kicked you out of the apartment for No Reason during the Nor' Easter of '95.

If I see someone out on a 15 they have their headphones on because they have their reality so bespokely edited that their world is filled with carefully selected music or bantering friends they will never meet.

The shrooms are wearing off, so I should stop yelling at clouds soon.

The AMOC is collapsing, we get nothing and like it...