• UnderpantsWeevil
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    1 month ago

    Boomers lived through plenty of horrors. Vietnam, deindustrialization, the Volcker Shock, leaded gasoline/paint, AIDS…

    The 1970s was a fucked decade.

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      The 20th century in general is kind of unfathomably different from most of the rest of history. It was a wild time to be alive.

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        1 month ago

        You could say, humanity learned how to REALLY fuck around.

        We are now REALLY finding out.

        Thanks, grampa

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          We have made absolutely massive technological strides in fucking around.

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            Thankfully, we will be dead from the last centuries fucking around and won’t get the chance to use most of it.

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          You’re saying that as if we haven’t been adding even more ways to fuck around since 2000.

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            1 month ago

            The rate certainly increased post Industrial Revolution.

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      Sure they get a pass for that, then they squandered it with their epic entitlement.