Additionally it's worth noting the pre Y2K spend on replacing and fixing old broken shit played no small part in the late 90s economic boom. Almost like investing in decarbonising our economy might do something similar.
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Replacing all that decades old garbage that wasn't Y2K ready involved serious investment. Weird how there was an economic boom. Probably a coincidence.
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Y2K wasn't a catastrophe. Because a fuck ton of people across the world worked to make sure it wasn't. Some (relatively minor) stuff wasn't fixed in time. But 99% of the oh hell no issues were fixed. No possible way to compare that to the current climate emergency of course.
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We can actually choose to fix the climate emergency. But the folks who profit from fossil fuels act to make sure we won't.
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And the "Y2K was overblown hysteria" is absolutely a climate denier effort.
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Y2K was a serious fucking potential catastrophe. The reason it wasn't a catastrophe was because of a huge effort to fix shit that took years of effort. Again, no possible comparison to anything right now.
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And if you're going to pop into my mentions with "Y2K wasn't so bad" I urge you to both not do that, and to fuck off back to the orange website.
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Handling dates and times with computers is really fucking hard. A bunch of brilliant folks worked hard to adapt NTP to handle leap seconds. It turns out having clocks jump back a single second breaks stuff a lot. Google "ntp leap smear" for the horrible details.
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And that's just one second. Date and time issues are Hard
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But the weird thing is there was so much more effort and preparedness to protect us against Y2k possible horrors than today’s meagre efforts to mitigate CC. This is a much bigger threat.
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That's kinda what I've been saying
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