• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Was this posted in 2020…? Because by that time I already felt the world was going onto a steep downward spiral. Already before 2019 we had people saying “this has to be the worst year”, only for the next year to out-do it, and in 2019 it got so bad memes started circulating the Web that joked about 2020 being 2019 2: The Sequel Reboot.

    Then COVID-19 happened…

    And we sort of just stopped counting how many consecutive “worst year ever” we had… People became numb as it became the norm…

    So… No… No 2020 was not a more hopeful and innocent time.

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      11 days ago

      The joke is that is was posted long before.

      As to “worst year”? I quit counting “warmest winter” several years ago. And that’s anecdotal, just my experience in NW Florida. Yet no one around here notices.