Millennium, Find Out Millennium.

I was 29 on 9/11. It has been a shit show since.

The hard part is watching everything that was pretty cool (not perfect, mind you) just fuck right on off. I'm certain there's a PTSD carried by most Gen X'rs that have watched the degradation one catastrophe at a time juxtaposed to the relatively peaceful upbringing we had.

Oldest sibling owns a house, I will die working while probably renting with roommates as my body fails me too much to do the employment that keeps me in solo housing. That gap of 12 years changed a lot...

Ah yes, the 20th century, well known for not having serious problems...

Actually so far 2000 to 2026 is looking much better than 1900 to 1926.

I'm reserving my judgment until after 2038. But yes, everything looks much better this century.

I mean, a lot of people did Find Out in the 20th century. That is a significant thing that happened.

Sorry you had to deal with that at such a time. My two youngest were sophomore and senior during the COVID pandemic and I got to watch them navigate that scenario without having any wisdom to offer. Shitty hand to be dealt at what should be a positive and transformative moment in their lives.

Imagine having a dem president for 8 years without having the economy collapse right before.

Dems aren't perfect. The 90s weren't perfect. Wealth inequality was a problem then too. They could be significantly more progressive. I'd like to see us use our wealth and power for bigger things than the Dems have gone for since JFK.

But they're so much fucking better than the Republicans, even the old 1990s Republicans. So much better.

Oh trust me, we might be in the Find Out century, but it is also still the Fuck Around century.

I think there is a constant fractal looping of "fuck around - find out"

Twitter post from 1914.

Think yourself lucky. I was born too late for the sexual revolution/hippies fucking everywhere, and just in time for the AIDS panic, where people didn't know enough about HIV, and it was this mysterious thing that would kill you if you dared have sex.

the find out century is where new futures are forged, im at the bottom so i cant get any lower, im ready and waiting

You're nowhere near the bottom on a global scale.

Find out times create hard people. Hard people create fuck around times. Fuck around times create entitled people. Entitled people create find out times.

Do some reading on Clinton, especially his crime bill and what he did to welfare. He undid a lot of FDR's New Deal.

2038, or 2028? If 2028 doesn’t go right, getting to 2038 is going to be rough.

This the Willenium, and the rest of us are just living in it.

an i don't intend to go lower.

NAFTA was also pretty shit.

And all the people who fucked around, aren't gonna have to be the ones to find out. We are suffering generational neglect.

"Fuck you I got mine" but over the generations.

Is it so much generational neglect or "corporations hide their disastrous impact on the planet and society from the public for as long as they can, and after the effects become impossible to ignore they gaslight everyone blame the society as a whole to burdern them with their crimes" ?

More like there are a few lucky people who think it's their right to fuck around, and that it's the duty of everyone else to find out.

I was born during the NATO bombing of my country, and then had another when I was 4.

Literally born right after the country's best days were over, to find out for all the fuck around I never did.

I don't care about sex.

As a Millennial, I thought this was my generation... Then shit just kept getting worse and worse... Fun times.

They built and empowered those corporations.

Can you blame workers for participating in a machine that provides for them?

Also just because an evil CEO was from the baby boomer generation, doesn't make them all collectively guilty

When they have options and still choose the worst? Yes.

IIRC 2038 is when 32-bit integer Unix time will hit the limit and overflow, so anything that isn't updated to use 64bit time will break in some ways, same story as Y2K.

We're not the ones that fucked around so even if it gets even worse for newer generations I'd say we still qualify the most for what's described in the post.