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As a millennial born in the Balkans: economic collapse, hyperinflation, dictatorship, economic collapse, war, revolution, y2k, global economic crisis, end of the mayan calendar, semi-dictatorship, (self-imposed) exile, brexit, covid, war v3, climate crisis getting real, revolution again? (idk I don't live in my home country anymore), whatever the hell is happening now
Interesting times indeed
We didn't start the fire.
End of mayan calendar ? Now that would be interesting...
Was it really still an official calendar system? In what country?
The big end of the world in December 2012 was based on the Mayan calendar.
Among all the apocalypses in the last 30ish years, 2012 was the best one so far. Mystical end-of-the-world prophecies have really lost popularity since.
It was a really dumb one, though, all based on a misunderstanding of what that calendar represented. We basically reached the end of an era in the Mayan system. Like, we don't usually think rolling over from 1999 to 2000 would cause the world to actually end (as long as our computer systems aren't all l abbreviating dates).
Like, they ran out of rock, so they stopped their calendar there instead of continuing.
At this point, atomic hellfire sounds like a nice escape.