• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
    1·
    55 minutes ago

    Yeah, as a fresh 44 year old, I’d really love to have a boring decade where nothing much happens. Just a bit of a breather before the inevitable climate wars. I’ve lived through so many ‘once in a lifetime’ events, it’s not even funny.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 hours ago

    I was rippin’ Rust a few years ago, especially after reading Stephen Markley’s The Deluge and having a bit of a breakdown. Then I was

    Then the anxiety counter got to 999,999 and ticked back over to 000,000 and broke, so now I’m just sorta

    getting more weird and whimsy instead of more anxious.

    I don’t have any kids of my own. I feel sorry for the other people’s kids but I wish them all the best in the cannibal wars to come.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Gen X had Reagan and LA Riots and the .com bubble burst and Gulf War and Waco and Columbine in addition.

    We are ready to die, thank you I must be going. Sorry

  • mHtt@lemmy.ca
    321·
    7 hours ago

    dont forget:

    • housing crisis

    • fentanyl crisis

    • destruction of unions

    • Billionaires purchasing all MSM

    • Destruction of the internet

    • Citizens united

    • Trickle down economics

    • 2 failed invasions in Iraq, Afghanistan

    • militarization of police

    • normalization of genocide

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Don’t forget all the climate stuff happening exactly as predicted like twenty years ago.

    • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      6 hours ago

      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)