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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by subsection1h on Monday June 21, 2021 @08:33PM (#27586482)
I thought everyone in the future would spend their free time reading science journals, which I discovered via Usenet (because no one in my physical environment read them). Two decades later we elected a president who has said that climate change is a Chinese hoax and wind turbines cause cancer.
Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by notsureaboutpg on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:05AM (#27591087)
I mean, no amount of reading science journals convinced us to leave Iraq and Afghanistan until after we sunk multiple trillions of dollars into it and all we got out was an anti-American, pro-Iranian government in Iraq and the Taliban de facto ruling Afghanistan...