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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • Maybe that’s what makes millennials different. So many of the big scares ended up being big nothings.

    AIDS was going to kill everyone… except it’s a STI, and now can be almost fully managed with drugs.

    Weed was going to kill everyone and make everyone else go crazy… except it’s arguably less harmful than even caffeine, let alone tobacco or alcohol.

    Y2K was going to end the world… except people put significant money and effort into solving it.

    The hole in the ozone layer is growing… except we put regulations in place to stop it from growing and saved ourselves.

    We managed to save ourselves, as a species, from all of these things. It wasn’t until 9/11 when we didn’t really know what to do and never really recovered from it as a society.

    It makes sense that that’s often where people say the 90s really ended. And it’s a decent cut-off for when someone is Gen Z. If you don’t really remember 9/11 (and especially nothing before it), you’re not a millennial.