Not far enough back, 2019 was also bad. Let's go back to 2015.
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Not far enough back, 2019 was also bad. Let's go back to 2015.
2015 wasn't a bad year. That's when my province had its first change of government in 44 years. If I could tell Rachel Notley what happened later, maybe she'd still be the premier.
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Maybe the world really did end in 2012 and we're all in a slowly-declining hell.
I don't read the Onion, so I don't know which headline you mean.
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I know it feels like everything is in decline, but I think rather everything is accelerating. just thinking back to what you said about consumer electronics. everything has a shorter lifespan, breaks incredibly fast, has to be rebought instead of repaired, everything is circulated at intense speed through the internet, be that viral memes or opinions or cat videos. or viruses, thourough globalization and highspeed intercontinental movement, bigger cities, exploding populations. images are getting glossier, media has to be bit(e) sized, easily digestable, more intense and more rapid, economies need constant growth and produce faster and more efficiently every day, but also consume more ressources every day.
in completely unrelated news: netflix was just experimenting with a feature that let's you watch movies and series at 1,5x speed
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So this decline into hell is going to keep accelerating. Nice.
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Small rant: A bug fell in the water and drowned while I was taking a bath. 
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No, I wanna go back to the year 2008.
Let's see... 2008. We still had Stephen Harper as PM, and my dad was stuck in a nursing home in a town I couldn't get to, though we were allowed the occasional phone call. I was being pressured to move out of the house and into an apartment in the part of town where they put the newly-housed ex-homeless, recovering drug addicts, and minus my cats and books. Somehow this was supposed to be beneficial for me.
My dad's cat died in February of 2008. I hadn't realized he'd sneaked out of the house, and found him frozen outside the next day. Trying to get my mother to give me a lift to the vet's so I could get him cremated was difficult, as she didn't want him to come in contact with her car (seriously, did she think I wouldn't wrap him up?), and just this once, couldn't I just put his body in the garbage? I said no, that Sammy was family, and you don't put family in the garbage. I wouldn't do that to any cat, whether mine or not.
I hated 2008.
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They published a photograph of Donald Trump announcing that he was a US presidential nominee and ran that headline: ‘We give up’. That was the entire article.
Thunderbird? You'll have to be more specific. The Ford car? The Native American legendary creature? The USAF acrobatic flying team? The Monzilla email program? The Japanese train? The cheap-assed wine?
GenMarshall
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I was kind of looking at it from my end before my life has gone to crap in 2009 when I was laid off in December of that year and only saw my life going down a never ending hole.
Though I would have gone back to 2003ish and chosen a different major in college. Though that's a given that I have the hindsight now of having a useless degree now
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I reverted to 60.9.1 because half of my extensions got screwed up by the new updates. And they removed the complete themes.
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https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/ if you'd like to revert. Be careful though as I had problems with it trying to auto-update immediately after I reverted.
Being 14 again is going to have to be a no from me, dawg
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