oh wow look at me I'm a human! when do I live? now, clearly. Everyone older than me lived in these descriptive periods of history that define the je ne sais quoi of the everything. I'm gonna tell everyone in the future that I'm living in the "now" time! wowwww, fuck you dickhead, real fucking selfless ain'cha. now we have to deal with the mass confusion every time someone distinguishes between modern[^1] and contemporary.[^2] i want your incorporeal form toyed with by forces unknown to me because you've slightly inconvenienced literally everyone in the modern day. jackass

[^1]: kinda not now technically, depending on context [^2]: definitively now

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago (15 children)

It's fine, future historians will just label this the Late Iron Age or the Steel Age or the Silicon Age.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We should do a bad job of record keeping so they call it the second dark age.

[–] sentient@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

with how easily digital records decay i've seen it argued that this could be the case

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