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by mr90210 4y ago
Here we…
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoMillennials gonna be hit with their fourth "once in a lifetime" event so far.
- thelittleone 4y agoAn unprecedented number of unprecedented, once in a lifetime events.
- baal80spam 4y agoThat's the beauty (?) of statistics for you!
- joshuahedlund 4y agoNot likely. The 60’s had riots, Vietnam, political assassinations, Cuban missile crisis and ongoing Cold War MAD fears. The 1910-1940’s were jam packed with world wars, the Great Depression, Spanish flu, and more. And before that a quarter of all children died young. Every generation ever. What’s actually unprecedented is having a few years between crises where things are actually pretty ok!
- lamontcg 4y agoShhhhh, you're harshing the millennial vibe. Remember that due to their constant suffering the millennials are the most empathetic generation ever and everyone else are the narcissists.
- arcanemachiner 4y agoWhich one was the second one? I'm assuming the first and third are the Great Recession and Covid.
- rubicon33 4y agomaybe 9/11 + Iraq war, not sure... losing count at this point
- yamtaddle 4y agoProbably 9/11. The resulting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were largely fought by Millennials (with some gen-z nearer to the end, I think—but the initial invasions heavily involved "elder millennials" [EDIT: and x/y "cuspers", especially for Afghanistan], with younger millennials involved in the long middle period). Though Vietnam (among other wars, but it seems most-comparable) was easily within living memory at the time, so I'm not so sure about "once in a lifetime" for the wars. That kind of wildly-successful attack on the US, though—that part might more-or-less qualify.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoMillennial bingo: 2008 financial crisis 2020 pandemic (& Brexit) 2022 war start + highest winter temperatures ever recorded 2023 economic downturn and layoffs Who knows what the future holds.
- hammock 4y agoWhat is 2022 war? The US did not enter a new armed conflict in 2022. And you forgot 2001 dot com crash
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- favsq 4y ago>The US did not enter a new armed conflict in 2022. It didn't?
- andersentobias 4y agoUS looks rather involved in the 2022 Ukraine-Russia war from my peasant POV. Russia is not fighting the US military, but they are fighting US military vehicles etc
- bktkech 4y agoIt's like when I got bored playing SimCity and would just trigger all of the disasters.
- ipaddr 4y agoCalifornia hasn't fallen into the sea as many predicted so we have still more to look forward to
- taspeotis 4y agoI used to live in Brisbane which had two "one in 100 year" floods in relatively quick succession: 2011 and 2022. When the second one came there was some talk about communicating the risk more effectively. Instead of saying "one in 100 year" it would be better to say there is like, a 0.2% chance of major flooding every year.
- OJFord 4y agoIn what sense is 'one in 100 year' equivalent to '0.2% every year'? With the latter you'd expect 0.2 of them in 100 years? (Totally agree the phrasing is misleading to the layman though, which is really the only reason for it to exist anyway, in an attempt to be more relatable.)
- taspeotis 4y agoSorry I was picking a hand-wavey number out of thin air.
- dotancohen 4y agoLifetimes are getting longer.
- tiedieconderoga 4y agoEh, put it on the tab. Millennials have never known stability anyways, they'd probably get uncomfortable if their lives stopped staggering from one externally-imposed crisis to another.
- HWR_14 4y agoFourth?
- Dalewyn 4y ago*CJ noises intensify*