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User @rtxn@lemmy.world explains how time works for millennials (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Lemminary@lemmy.world to c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] tyler@programming.dev 67 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don’t understand how this is so accurate.

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Quantum asynchronous superimpositions

[–] Botunda@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] lath@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

They represent the land before time for me.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 16 points 2 weeks 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?

[–] isles@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

I hate that this is correct.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 11 points 2 weeks 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

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

[–] allisonmaybe@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

Jeremy Bearimy

[–] edwardbear@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 7 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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!

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

Well, given that 1970 was 30 years agod, this seems pretty reasonable.

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus this is so accurate it's spooky.

[–] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

Absolutely correct!

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

These jokes got old 10 years ago.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Feels more like the 1930s

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

@rtxn@lemmy.world

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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