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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • He said the grampa was the last to be born in the 1900’s. Not that they had a childhood in the 1900’s. Then they’re ask about the person’s experiences growing up in the 90’s. They’re don’t assert he had any.

    And they wouldn’t. The last person born in the 1900’s was probably someone born a few seconds to midnight. I remember there being several competitions or promotions (on national levels, not global so timezones don’t really come into it in most countries) or some such for the first kid born in the new millenium.

    Nah actually it was on a global level as well, my bad. Here’s an image of the google.com search to see some headlines so you don’t need to bother

    The point being that because a lot of people were aiming for midnight at new years, and you have to start the project 9 months earlier, there’d have been quite a lot of “just a little too early”. Definitely more born in the days 30.12.1999-02.01.2000 than 30.12.1995-02.01.1996, I would wager. (I don’t have the data on that but one would imagine it’s available at least in parts.)





  • Oh they did, yeah. But if you go back a century or two and manage some great political changes to the industrial revolution, we could avoid the worst of capitalism and actually get proper cooperatives, thus actually funding the people instead of large institutions / nations / corporations, which whole claiming to do good, actually ended up doing bad.

    That’s the short and more rational version. My own is just like, go back in time and shoot the fuckers responsible for the drug war and we’d avoid quite a bit of the problems we currently have. I could go into a whole multihour monologue as to how the lack of empathy in today’s world is because we live in much larger societies but also, because I believe prehistoric humans actually had a tendency to do parties with serotonergic substances (shrooms back then, nowadays also lsd and mdma), which are proved to increase empathy and lessen your fear of strangers (this would’ve been necessary for populations as you can’t inbreed with a small hunter-gatherer group, you need to meet other groups and have fresh genetic material), and while that is still going on with a small part of the population, most people aren’t doing it and are stuck treating eveyone outside their family as “others” and that just won’t work in our interconnected world where we need to work together to avoid the only known planet to sustain life from becoming uninhabitable to humans.

    But that’s just a brief version of my 2 cents. And because it’s so short I believe most will perceive it as schizo babble than actual reasoned arguments but as I said, I could write a book on this shit so I understand that a silly short version won’t convince anyone.