New Year? In this economy?

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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    now with double the surveillance fascism!

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In America, someone like me would’ve been casually get called a “chink” in 1995 (I’m Chinese American)

  don’t even think the 1995 America would’ve elected a Black Man… that’s how racist society used to be

  fuck that era, fuck the past.

  The past isn’t as pretty as you think.

  Sorry, don’t wanna bring up race, but like… I feel like this is a very white-centric viewpoint.

  January 1, 2026 will be the beginning of a new tomorrow, for NYC, and soon, the rest of America. They can throw money all they want, but as NYC has show us, we can defeat big money. Choose hope, not despair.

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  • m4xie@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a trans women, this too

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    • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even gay folks had a much harder time in the 90s, it’s hard to even imagine now but its like night and day.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Idk i could go for another 2015

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  • Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve seen you multiple times now and I have a question: The transcription of your name in Latin letters is the Japanese reading of the hanzi/kanji, isn’t it? Or is the Chinese reading really so similar?

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The romanization is how it’s read in Japanese.

      Chinese sounds different (each variant or “dialect”, sounds distinct from each other, but all uses the same Kanji characters (Japanese Kanji originated from the same origins as Chinese Hanzi; Kanji literally means Hanzi (漢字))

      When I was a kid and I watched Detective Conan in the Mandarin dub, I they just pronounce the Kanji in Mandarin and that’s their official translated name.

      Hypothetically, if Japanese didn’t make modifications their written script, they would probably be all using Kanji and it would just feel like another “dialect” of Chinese, it would be much easier to learn, since you’re just substituting sounds and not leaning it from scratch. (Which means, hypothetically, I could watch Anime without subtitles lol)

      Chinese variants are kinda interesting. I haven’t spoken Mandarin for like 15 years, but because I speak Cantonese at home, I kinda “maintained” the overall language, so I could still form a Mandarin sentence by simply imagining the Chinese characters (or rather, the concept of the characters), then substituting the sounds with Mandarin sounds (I still kinda remember the pronounciations)

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• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This? In my That?

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• tourist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995

  idk I’m not sure

  tbf I took a quick glance through some other years and they all had major tragedies

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  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey, it’s a used year! You’re going to have issues. Save a bit and just expect it. But remember that used years are reliable and parts easy to find.

    But if you get the First Gen 2026, it’s untested! If you have issues, who are you going to ask? The guys on the 2026Repairs Forums? What if there’s a recall and you have to get a rental 2020 in the mean time?

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    • tourist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      you make a good point

      where do I sign

      I have a really bad credit score

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2009 didn’t seem so bad, relatively.

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There may be some rose tinted glasses there bud

      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 😁

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• mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would KILL for another 1995.

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  • folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Heck yeah…Just in time to make a push to finish my CS degree right at the height of the .com boom and Y2K cleanup. The world is my oyster. If I can reuse my current knowledge, maybe go join some startup that actually makes it.

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  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agreed. FWIW, for me personally, it was a really good year. The only close contenders so far were 2001 and 2006.
    Don’t know about the world outside my bubble, though.

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    • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For me the most important thing in that year was Chrono Trigger.

      Been chasing that high for 30 years.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Could I just buy a brand new 1995 Camry (at 1995 prices, ofc)?

  Then I’d be sooooo happy.

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never buy a used year, they sound good until you find the society has moved on and everyone else is living in a new 2026 model you don’t want to restart society from scratch do you?

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you don’t want to restart society from scratch do you?

    looks around at everything

    Yes. Yes, I do!

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• toeblast96@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  im going for a 5000 BCE, i miss good old cereal farming

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s never been a new year by the time you enter the work force, it’s more of a used year but if you’re lucky you get reconditioned year.

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• DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would love to have another 1997. Man I loved that year. A 1998 would be cool too.

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• Balldowern@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll take 2002 with a pinch of salt please. Thank you.

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  • SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve got a 2001 I can get you with a steep discount.

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  hell, I’ll even take a 1978 in poor condition at this point.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2006 yellowcard would be nice.

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• Aeri@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can I get a nice 2005-2012 year please?

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• affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=weGYilwd1YI

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