Comment on New Year? In this economy?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Maybe 2009:
Dubya was out of the White House and Obama still hadn’t evolved into his final Centrist form, making it theoretically still possible to influence him towards governing more like the 2008 campaign Obama
Facebook was still barely bigger than MySpace, Twitter was still pretty good rather than a fascist safe space, Google had yet to ruin YouTube, and enshittification was generally the exception rather than the rule
An Inconvenient Truth was still relevant and most countries at least did a halfway decent job of PRETENDING to care about the future livability of the planet
Still early enough to pump and dump Bitcoin to death, preventing cryptocurrency from becoming the go-to money laundering tool of rich crooks everywhere including the current president
Windows 7, the best ever and last good Windows is released
The first international Trans Day of Visibility is celebrated with few if any fascists trying to murder anybody present
Plus a bunch of bad things, but next to nothing compared to every single subsequent year.
InputZero@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
There may be some rose tinted glasses there bud. 2009 was also the peak year for people losing their homes and unemployment from the 2008 financial crisis. The wars in the middle east were in full swing. Plus way more people who thought the world would end in 2012 than you would think which was so annoying.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 minutes ago
More like picking a year almost at random and then seeing how the better than recent years it sounds, but you’re right about the rest 😁