• MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      It says literally nothing about it being a hoax. It says it was a panic, and that’s accurate

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        4 months ago

        That may be true, but most of the other examples are hoaxes. It woupd be like if I said “famous crimes: murder, genocide, jaywalking”. It’s a false equivalence by expectation of similarity.

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      It was kinda a hoax. Not the problem itself, it did exist, but everything in 1999 was “y2k compliant”. Especially things that couldn’t be affected by the issue (like toasters and what have you).

      It was not a hoax, but it was hoax adjacent.