No. Have you not been paying attention?
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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The first quarter of this century is over at the end of 2025.
2001 was the first year in this century. 2025 is the 25th year in this century. 2100 will be the 100th - and last - year in this century.
(1 was the first year in the first century, 100 was the 100th - and last - year in the first century. That's why every subsequent century starts on xx1 or xxx1 as well)
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Has anything good even happened?
Yes, definitely. Americans are realizing that their country is shit too and they are not exempt from falling into an Autocracy. Maybe that will teach them a bit more compassion with other people around the world and will stop the arrogance of bringing "democracy" (because it's "clearly the best form of state") to countries who don't want it.
The american system is not a guarantee for the wellbeing of the people, and now that americans finally understand that, we can start actual constructive dialogue based on mutual respect, i hope.
Lol, ok, they totally didn't realize their country used to be good and will vote for anything thatll fix it, or at least, shake the fucking jar.
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Lord of the Rings (movies) came out this century. Let's give credit where credit is due.
My dude, only 24 years have elapsed in this century https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century, the 25th year has only just started. Try again next year.
It feels to me like it all went to shit when Bush stole the election from Gore - using the Supreme Court I might add.
I'm 37 this year and I remember being a kid at a time when we were all more optimistic and well off. When a middle class existed in the west. When we were told the world was our oyster and we just had to study and work hard to get anything we wanted. That piece of advice was valid to a handful of us millenials, diminishing to those born in the 1990s. My husband is 31 and has never been on an overseas holiday - the differences in privilege just being born 6 years later are stark and upsetting. It's only gotten worse for younger generations and the people who did all this are cackling as they push their boots in harder on our throats.
As a pacifist I just don't know what to do anymore other than try to live my life among the damned and hope it resolves itself before something comes for me and mine.
Well, that was a soft coup, so yes.
They literally ignored election results.
Born 1980 remember all the privilege we had before that day. Hell at 19 I lived on my own in one bedroom apartment. I remember working at Walmart in my 20's and still afford to have an apartment of my own. Started to go down hill in 2006. Before then I never needed roommates or someone else help pay bills.
Even at 22 making 6.25 an hour and had a studio apartment. You couldn't do that now on 12 an hour. Not without living in a getto.
So much good stuff has happened (in addition to all the bad stuff that also happened). The US elected its first black president. The ACA although far from perfect is a massive massive improvement over the situation that existed before it. There have been lots of improvements in medicine like rna vaccines, which have been in development for decades, and thankfully all that hard work came to fruition right when the world needed it and it saved millions of lives worldwide.
And tons more good stuff happened. We're talking about 25ish years, so of course tons of good stuff happened in addition to everything else
Let’s see if the the ACA survives or if it’s replaced with concepts of a plan.
Saw this post right below:
“# Steam On Linux Ends 2024 With A Nice Boost To Its Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use At 74%”
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Doom Eternal came out
It's not over until next year.
Lots of good stuff has happened. It's not in the news though. Or on the ticktwits or whatever bullshit they're indoctriniating children with today.
Ok, Boomer.
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I ate a really nice curry in 2014.
I learned how to make a really nice curry.
And that places closed a week later because of health code violations right?
Not according to those who think that the new century only began in 2001 because the Christian calendar has no year 0 or smth.
Yep. That's because there can't be a "0th year after that one geezer was born". It's -1 BC (the last year before) and then immediately 1 AD (the first year after).
(I know they did the calculations wrong and it should actually be somewhere around -6 to -4. That doesn't change the fact that there is no year 0.)
Of course there can be an 0th year.
Kids don't start at 1 because they can't be 0, you start counting by days weeks and months and then years. This wasn't even a problem though, because in the 0th year people weren't walking around referencing dates according to whatever calendar we use.
If no years have elapsed then it's the 0th year.
It sounds to me as though some idiot named the 0th year "1", which just happens to be a numeral.
Kids start at 0 because they're not yet 1 year old. They're only 1 year old after their first birthday and during the second year of their life. Jesus wasn't 1 year old during year 1, it was just year number 1 after his (supposed) birth.
Edit: I just remembered: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
How 'bout we don't give a fuck and use a sensible system instead?
What did I do to you...? I was just explaining what the reasoning for "there's no year 0" is. I don't agree or disagree with it. What would be a more sensible system exactly? One based on anything other than the birth of a mythological figure? Sure. Got any suggestions that are implementable without exorbitant effort?
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So in the year 2000 it wasn't a new century? Seems pretty stupid
Have you read about the first quarter of the prior century?
ikr this time last century we had just finished the most deadly war in history and one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
Robber barons and spiraling inequality:
- 1920s ✓
- 2020s ✓
Ooh! The dust bowl of the 30's and the, I'm sure, many many ecological and natural disasters heading our way will have nice synergy on your list as well.
The US will be playing the role of the Weimar Republic this time around, BTW.
World war already started we just haven't accepted it yet.
At least we handled the pandemic much better... Boomers are still around hmmm