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User @[email protected] explains how time works for millennials (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don’t understand how this is so accurate.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

we all warped to the shittiest timelines, multiple times.....together....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Quantum asynchronous superimpositions

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The 70s and 80s were both 30yrs ago in my head

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

They represent the land before time for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Even after spending all this time in this thread and the original, I read your comment and literally thought, "but it is".. then I did the math. And I died.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This isn't all millennial exclusive. I thought we all collectively agreed 2020-2022 didn't count. Right? I'm not actually three years older than I think I am. Right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I’m not actually three years older than I think I am.

No, probably not. You might be biologically older than that!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Right?

Right. All of 2020-2028, in fact. Or however long that took.

And I heard we split the difference and we're calling it 2025, now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gen X here.

Can confirm relative time concepts. All the films/TV series I love were made in the 1980s or 90s regardless of when they were actually produced.

Watched Ultimate Force (UK TV series) yesterday, made in the nineties but references 11 September 2001 and other events then in the future etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All the films/TV series I love were made in the 1980s or 90s regardless of when they were actually produced.

Finally someone gets it. All I'm saying is that Burn Notice was ahead of its time! Regardless of what actual time has to say about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

😁

I still don't get how they knew about 11 September. Answers on a postcard.

Personal hypothesis based on reality that everything I have experienced this century has been completely fucked!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Jeremy Bearimy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

I hate that this is correct.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Minor correction - i believe the consensus on 2020 is that it was a decade, and the longest decade ever at that.

Otherwise yep checks out

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

My dad was born 1948. That’s 40 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Feels more like the 1930s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Jesus this is so accurate it's spooky.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Absolutely correct!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

These jokes got old 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

@[email protected]

Yer a hall of famer, 'Arry. Twice, to be precise. Well done!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

But in the 1940s FDR had recovery projects which employed people and built infrastructure.