• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    As a millennial born in the Balkans: economic collapse, hyperinflation, dictatorship, economic collapse, war, revolution, y2k, global economic crisis, end of the mayan calendar, semi-dictatorship, (self-imposed) exile, brexit, covid, war v3, climate crisis getting real, revolution again? (idk I don’t live in my home country anymore), whatever the hell is happening now

    Interesting times indeed

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      economic collapse, hyperinflation, dictatorship, economic collapse, war, revolution, y2k, global economic crisis, end of the mayan calendar, semi-dictatorship, (self-imposed) exile, brexit, covid, war v3, climate crisis getting real, revolution again?

      We didn’t start the fire.

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      End of mayan calendar ? Now that would be interesting…

      Was it really still an official calendar system? In what country?

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          It was a really dumb one, though, all based on a misunderstanding of what that calendar represented. We basically reached the end of an era in the Mayan system. Like, we don’t usually think rolling over from 1999 to 2000 would cause the world to actually end (as long as our computer systems aren’t all l abbreviating dates).

          Like, they ran out of rock, so they stopped their calendar there instead of continuing.