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Yeah, Y2K has to be the biggest calamity-that-never-was EVER.
Y'all 'member the build-up? How much money was spent to make certain everything wouldn't grind to a halt? How some people were huddling in their basements with canned food and weapons?
It was all such...nothing. It was really NOTHING. Not even any inconvenience, much less Armageddon, and global catastrophe.
Funny now, but at the time, I remember well NSA getting prepped to 'go off the grid', and standing by with all manner of contingency plans.
Fizzle. All hype. No problem.
Next time some 'expert' wants to tell you how bad things REALLY are (or will get), just remember that people have been predicting The End for @ a jillion years now, and we just keep strokin' along, waiting for the big asteroid that really WILL do us all in.
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve in the possibility of victory."
- George Orwell
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