• BigBenis@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    From what I remember about 2012, our greatest worry was the Mayan calendar ending and speculation that they had predicted the end of the world. What a simpler time.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    If we’re playing this game, let’s go back to 1984. Ironically enough, it was a pretty good year… at least comparatively speaking.

    “But, there was no internet!”

    You’d like it, trust me.

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          Yes, but because the Internet’s power was so concentrated in one place, any hacker that accessed it was granted superpowers like having code projected onto your face, being digitized into an actual computer, or global annihilation.

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      On one hand, in 2009 I had hope my life would eventually improve and I would have a chance to be happy someday.

      On the other hand, I was still a teenager and stuck living with my parents. I would rather be hopeless and paying half my income in rent than live with my abusive mother again.

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      Ok, but would you put 2009 above or below your predictions did 2026? Frankly I’d take another 2020 at this rate, at least then I could afford food.