cannedtuna to memesEnglish · 4 days agoOnce in a lifetime they said…imagemessage-square266linkfedilinkarrow-up1985arrow-down122
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minus-squarecrashfroglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days ago“Living through Y2K”? What does that even mean?
minus-squaredaddycoollinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoDon’t you remember all the computers bursting into flames and every nuclear bombs going off?
minus-squarecrashfroglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 days agoI specifically remember how that didn’t happen. Because people did a lot of work, sure; but what could it possibly mean to have “lived through” other people doing work and solving problems?
minus-squaref4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on mitigation.
minus-squarecrashfroglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 days agoYeah but what does it mean to “live through” that?
“Living through Y2K”? What does that even mean?
Don’t you remember all the computers bursting into flames and every nuclear bombs going off?
I specifically remember how that didn’t happen. Because people did a lot of work, sure; but what could it possibly mean to have “lived through” other people doing work and solving problems?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem
Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on mitigation.
Yeah but what does it mean to “live through” that?