• oppy1984
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    196 days ago

    41 years old and I’ve lived through 4 once in a lifetime economic events, one impending societal collapse (Y2K), a global pandemic, and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. I vote Giant Meteor 2025, just get it over with already.

    • @Snowclone@lemmy.world
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      46 days ago

      There’s a few genocides in there too. Also I sleep in an abandoned house for like 6mo after the housing bubble burst. Whole neighborhoods where a light never turned on. All speculation market.

      • oppy1984
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        26 days ago

        Honestly I could have written a novel worth of things, but I wanted to keep it short.

    • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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      46 days ago

      I thought it was the dotcom crash and great recession, in addition to the ones you mentioned war on “terror” and pandemic.

      • oppy1984
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        46 days ago

        2000 dot com crash, 2008 housing bubble, 2020 COVID recession, 2025 tariff downturn and looming crash. (That’s not including the recessions from the 80’s and 90’s)

        I count Afghanistan and Iraq separately, they were two very different wars and fought for different reasons. Afghanistan was because of 9/11, Iraq was oil and regime change.