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List stupid things that didn't come true

posted 3 months ago by 123Guy (6197)
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I'll start.

The world didn't end in 2012

The government didn't come door to door and take our guns

Nibiru didn't crash into earth for the 40th time

5G didn't reactivate covid last October

Fema death camps didn't kill 1/3 of American population

Jade helm didn't take over Texas

Internet freedom didn't stop after those internet laws were created and removed

What other sensationalist stuff didn't happen that the masses claimed it would?

[–] CreosoteXmp37 (291) 3 months ago

I remember some from some CT people:

The whole "one world government" scare.

The replacement of the dollar with the 'Amero', a merged currency of US and Mexico

[–] 123Guy (6197) 3 months ago

Yeah one world government fiction has been around forever. Since the Bible maybe?

When was that usa Mexico money thing?

[–] CreosoteXmp37 (291) 3 months ago

in the early 2000s. There were some conspiracy theorists who claimed there was going to be a merging of all North American countries.

My guess is they cooked this up not long after the formation of the EU.

[–] samoanjoes (51126) 3 months ago

Kowalski's attempt to be human.

[–] jacotodd47 (1033) 3 months ago

My first thought is all the end of the world scares. Let's see, in my lifetime....

1988 - A meteor was supposed to hit and end the world.

2000 - Y2K

2006 - June 6th specifically - supposedly it being a 666 day meant the world would end.

2012 - The end of the Mayan calendar.

My next thought is The Metric System. It was supposed to take over as our system of measurement in the US. Well, still waiting on that one.

The push for self preservation with energy by President Jimmy Carter (solar panels, etc). Although a good idea - very few ended up doing it.

[–] 123Guy (6197) 3 months ago

There's a Wikipedia list of end of world predictions. Amazingly long, and still incorrect.

[–] jacotodd47 (1033) 3 months ago

Well, if we get into reality - is the world going to end? It certainly is. In about 5 billion years the Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun. And of course life itself could always end on Earth. A nuclear war could do it. A worldwide epidemic. A asteroid hitting us similar to the one that destroyed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

However, I don't think it's anything to lose any sleep over.

I think what we, the current residents of Earth, should be most concerned with are global warming (climate change) and The Malthusian principle.

[–] diezman (1823) 3 months ago

I know its been mentioned but the whole Y2K scare. Everybody was freaking out.

[–] 123Guy (6197) 3 months ago

I worked inside computer industry during that. It was a huge question mark, but we knew planes would not fall out of the sky.

[–] diezman (1823) 3 months ago

I was working at a radio station and listeners thought the world was going to end😂 I'll never forget the lunacy.

[–] Kowalski (58941) 3 months ago

YOU WORKED AT CIRCUIT CITY.

[–] RoboReCop (2730) 3 months ago

I remember there were some issues, nothing critical and very isolated that I know of, but were resolved quickly.

Do you think that all the work/race to update systems in time caused the Y2k scares and predictions to fall apart? This is what I presumed happened, but idk.

Or was there no real threat to being with?

[–] 123Guy (6197) 3 months ago

The largest issue was the 2 digit dates back then, instead of 4 digits. Not knowing how finacial tracking would deal with going from year 99 to year 00. Would all the ledgers subtract themselves and similar. But even that was just a numbers thing. Not elevators dropping, medical machines stopping, planes dropping... most phsyical things would continue on as usual.
It totally helped avert a numbers bigger mess by racing to fix it.
And, of course, the "Sky is falling" media was all over it.
I'm sure there were some outlier machines dependant on computers that hiccupped, but mostly it was just a big unknown to everyone, so they jumped in and fixed as much as possible.
But, non-computer folk wouldn't understand, and that was anticipated. There was a lot of comforting PR rolling out "Your money is fine. We have backed up records" which was all true. Nearly everything is backed up for protection.
Even an EMP is not going to erase your bank record, regardless of what fiction says.

[–] RoboReCop (2730) 3 months ago

Thank you for explaining!

[–] 123Guy (6197) 3 months ago

Now, when Nibiru planet slams the Earth... again.... there won't be any backups from that. Or any more Earth for that matter. :D

[–] [deleted] 3 months ago

Global warming which now they call climate change.

In 1988 an "expert" climate change scientist went on a british daytime show and claimed that if things stayed on the same path that by 2020 the british isles in WINTER would have the same type of climate as the baleric island in SUMMER which is roughly 75 degrees. they said polar bears would vanish, they said massive floods would hit when they haven't, the experts and their spokepeople have made claim after claim and it's been proven false everytime. greta said the world would end in 2023 if policy on fossil fuels didn't change...

it's scary that these so called experts have faced zero responsibity for getting it wrong and it's even scarier the level of people who in order to keep this savior complex going will deny reality and ignore how wrong their gods have been.

[–] roger_dat (1088) 3 months ago

Donald Trump wasn't literally Hitler

[–] Kowalski (58941) 3 months ago

THIS ONE IS STILL UNVERIFIED AS MR TRUMP REFUSED TO GROW THE LITTLE MUSTACHE REQUIRED FOR FACIAL ANALYSIS.