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  • There were a few minor predictions in the 80s, mostly surrounding Jesus coming back or nuclear war just starting. I was more afraid of nuclear war because everyone was talking about it all the time.

    The first major one I remember clearly was 1990. For some reason everyone thought the calendar turning over to a new decade meant the end.

    The next one after that was the year 2000 .... everyone thought for sure we were all gone.

    After 2000, I was cured of all these stupid predictions.

    • My brother and I hid in the basement on New Year's eve 1999 lol (we were 6 and 8 respectively)
      We brought sleeping bags, snacks, a little radio to listen to the news, flashlights and extra batteries... we were SET for survival after everyone else died.

  • I love to counter the argument with... IT ALREADY HAPPENED ONCE

    The apocalypse happed in the Americas already. Will it happen again? Maybe but it wont take the world away and it won't be the end of life. This old lady has a lot of time left to keep on ticking and humans can only fuck it up so bad before they are removed and nature reverts to a simpler time to start anew.

  • What I really hate about Wikipedia, is that they always show the dates in chronological order (starting with old, ending with new), instead of reversed order (starting with the latest). Especially in this case, I don’t want to wade through an entire list of old entries, I’d like to know what is what, so that I can prepare myself appropriately.

    • @notsosure@sh.itjust.works @Plum@lemmy.world

      While Wikipedia tables often have a sorting button, yeah, there's no such option for all tables within this article specifically...

      However, in this article, all tables are arranged by a section for each century and the Table of contents (although visible only through the desktop version) allows for accessing the 21st century directly, as in the screenshot.

      Also, there are Wikipedia front-end apps out there implementing the sorting button even for tables that don't natively have it. I'm lacking examples to mention, though (the one I have installed on phone, wikireader, doesn't have such a feature, but I remember using other front-end apps and websites for reading Wikipedia articles beyond the Wikipedia website itself).