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Yeah, an ex-girlfriend of mine and her family was a big Y2K prepper. They absolutely believed civilization was going to collapse. I remember being relieved that we’d broken up.
The federal government did a ton of work on its systems. Private companies did a ton of work. It was a great success all around.
Yeah I know some folks who paid for vacation homes with the OT they got from going over old code and fixing it- if you were someone who knew older coding languages like fortran or cobol you could more or less name your price. There werent a lot of people who were experts in those languages even when they fresh.
This is correct. Not saying people didn’t overhype it, mostly for their own financial benefit like the doomsday preppers, but when nothing happened people immediately started going on about how everyone was worrying for no reason. They didn’t seem to grasp that that was because the Clinton administration got ahead of…
20 years later, and he is STILL selling those dumb doomsday buckets to suckers.
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I remember the Y2K anxiety leading to the rise of doomsday preppers. It had existed before but Y2K “legitimized” it and now it’s a pretty big industry especially with religious groups.
Spot on. Having worked with ReedPop in the past via my job, they’re usually pretty on the ball about the events within their cons. I imagine it was just overlooked until someone who know more about these guys reached out to those with some power and they shut it down.
It’s so odd because ReedPop also does both SD and…
I don’t even think this is proper pedantry though since he’s making a bullshit argument that has the benefit of sounding factual while actually meaning nothing.
I feel like a bit of a cult of personality enveloped him, and it went to his head.
It’s really incredible, honestly. He had this meteoric rise (no pun intended) as that cool “liberal” scientist guy. But that meteor is burning out in the atmosphere now.
Moriarty is the leader in missing the irony in things and in making himself the victim. If I had to guess, his invitation was pulled because his fan base is more toxic than most. Either they would have started something or Moriarty would’ve said something vaguely racist or sexist, and a bunch of bad publicity is…
I’m looking over that list of YouTube videos and just...man, I dunno how people find the energy to stay *this* mad at so many things all the time.
Hey, that’s not fair, Manny.
Yeah, with how dangerous cars can be, you’d think we’d make people register them, and get licenses to operate them, and prove they are competent to operate them, and even in a lot of states require inspections to ensure the cars are safe to be on the road.
Looks like we can add empathy along w/ consent to the list of things Tyson doesn’t understand.
Yeah, he was the tool who framed the mass effect 3 controversy as gamer entitlement.
But part of the issue is that we take steps to prevent those other kind of deaths. Meanwhile, we do fuck all about guns.
His apology tweet that he sent out was pretty garbage as well. Basically a ‘hey, if you fucks read better, this wouldn’t be that freaky to you. You just don’t get my nuance. Sorry you get so offended.’