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minus-square𝓜𝓲𝓪@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·20 days agoPeople born before 2000 were also around before 2000.
minus-squareDomeGuy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·20 days agoYou need to be at least 35 if not 40 to remember the USSR. Humans forget the first few years of our lives.
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·20 days agoBut so was 27 years ago. As such before 2000 is not equivalent to seeing the fall of the USSR.
minus-square𝓜𝓲𝓪@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·20 days agoSeeing the fall of nations, does not mean seeing the fall of all nations. It is perfectly valid that many of us born before 2000 saw an event in 1993. Why people argued against this is weird.
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 days agoI may have read it wrong. I suppose it is ambiguous whether all or merely a subset of people born before 2000 are meant, though the correct statement is obviously more plausible if you weren’t looking at mathematical formulae 30 seconds prior 😅
minus-squareflandish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·19 days agowas born in the 1970’s. can confirm I remember the USSR. 😂
The USSR
The USSR fell before 2000.
People born before 2000 were also around before 2000.
You need to be at least 35 if not 40 to remember the USSR.
Humans forget the first few years of our lives.
Yup 35-40 years ago was before 2000.
I did the math, it checks out
But so was 27 years ago. As such before 2000 is not equivalent to seeing the fall of the USSR.
Seeing the fall of nations, does not mean seeing the fall of all nations.
It is perfectly valid that many of us born before 2000 saw an event in 1993. Why people argued against this is weird.
I may have read it wrong. I suppose it is ambiguous whether all or merely a subset of people born before 2000 are meant, though the correct statement is obviously more plausible if you weren’t looking at mathematical formulae 30 seconds prior 😅
was born in the 1970’s. can confirm I remember the USSR. 😂