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[-] archonet@lemy.lol 15 points 1 month ago

what I'm hearing, here, is that society peaked at the end of the 1990s.

[-] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 month ago

... the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is, of course, what this is all about.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would say the big turning point would be around 2001.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Feel like there's a reason for that, almost like I'm forgetting something...

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

But they told us we could never forget

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Two big turning points

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So y2k actually was a problem. It wasn't the date crisis, but it does seem to be digital (i.e. SM seems to normalize larger body sizes).

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago

Isn't that a major plot point of Matrix?

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Minor.

Just that that was the time was where society peaked.

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

At a Limp Bizkit concert, possibly

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