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Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech (2026-10-13 22:51:16)
we should be approaching more problems in the way we did for the ozone layer hole and the year-2000 problem, and less problems in the way we did for cigarettes and cars
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Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech (2026-10-13 22:53:40)
if you don't know what "the ozone layer hole" was, or you're thinking "but the year-2000 problem was a lot of hubbub about nothing"...

yes, exactly, that's because the problem was actually addressed before it broke the world

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 aetios is @ BornHack@aetios@sns.minovsky.space (2026-10-13 22:55:49)
@joepie91 i used to think the y2k problem was just a big fad but I learned relatively recently that banks would have crashed and even some nuclear power plants would have lost time synchronisation in possiby dangerous ways.