2021 had GME meme stonks and was the start of NFTs. Also COVID vax started coming out.
I liked lock down. It made me feel normal and accepted for being a shut-in for once. Now, I'm just a loser again.
I enjoyed the empty roads going to and from work.
I liked lockdown at first. I became severely chronically ill during lockdown, so I'm basically still in lockdown due to low mobility and it has gone from an introvert's dream to a nightmare. I haven't made any new close IRL connections in years and I can barely ever see my existing friends other than online. It feels like it's been simultaneously an eternity and only a few months since lockdown started and my mind is deteriorating.
Yes, it literally was a continuation of 2020. That's how years work
Jan 6th
Vaccines!
Party all summer. Oh wait, variants.
I personally got my PhD and moved states to start at my new job. So it was a busy year for me.
If you worked in healthcare, there was a pretty clear delineation. We got vaccines and people stopped fucking dying so much.
I opened 2021 to one of our chronic dialysis patients getting admitted for Covid, so severely short of breath they needed to go to the critical care stepdown unit, and I thought "this is it " By the time I was able to arrive at the hospital to run their dialysis, this person was already off oxygen and up walking around their room.
Come to find out, they had been vaccinated. I'm told that was one of the first people in the State of Massachusetts who got Covid after being vaccinated, and the difference in severity was so dramatic I'll never forget it.
That and movie theaters reopening are the only reasons I remember 2021. It was just a lot less scary even though I was still working like crazy.
It still blows my mind that so many people thought (and in many cases still do) that the vaccine had some nefarious purpose.
I remember 2021 mainly for arguing with morons online about it.
A guy I worked with refused to wear the mask and get the vaccine. He called me diaperface. He got the virus and afterwards was incontinent. I am a nice guy so I never once pointed out that he was the one wearing the diaper now, but I was so so tempted.
Hopefully they're a bit more humble these days then. I won't lie, it makes me happy to know some people like that got what was coming to them. A bitter prick I might be but after watching my wife teeter on the brink of collapse working on the wards I have no sympathy for anyone who's chosen to believe anything but the overwhelming scientific consensus.
If you need to believe that EVERYTHING the government does is wrong then you're as bad as people who believe that everything they do is good. Unfortunately the pandemic seemed to create swathes of people like that who reduce an argument all the way down to absurdity.
I think in your position I wouldn't be able to help myself, maybe I wouldn't directly make fun of his incontinence but I'd probably ask if he remembers when he used to call me diaperface or something like that, just a sly reminder to him what a cunt he was.
Log4j is hard to forget if you're involved in IT
Geez, that was already 2 years ago??
It's going to be 2024 in a month and a half. So it was almost 3 years ago.
Well no since it was December 2021 that shit hit the fan.
But like, did you actually have any network intrusions? Because I recall the hoopla and pushing scripts, but never once actually heard of anyone being actively exploited other than a few big players
Nope, none of our customers had, because the application wasn't webfacing at all but good luck explaining that to a scared shitless CTO/CIO in their late 50s...
True. The hype around it was nuts. So many of our vendors sent out multiple emails about it
Why are you expecting me to remember something that much weed ago?
Seriously.... That's over 100 grams of THC ago.....
Shit, that's like a pound or two ago for me...
I don't smoke flower very often. I just get grams of 90+% pure THC vape cartridges. Takes me 8-9 days to run one dry
Well, that's like every year for me. My memory sucks.
You had long COVID before it was trendy
I really have this. It's like I've lost a whole year of my life.
I remember it, but I cheated by getting cancer that year.
Oof, glad you're still here. How are you doing now?
I'm really glad to hear that. It's amazing how far cancer treatment has come in the last couple of decades. I hope you remain healthy!
Any more lifehacks to share?
Pandemic was the best time of my life. Everyone I know(except for one guy) hated it. Me and my buddy enjoyed the shit out of it.
Didn't have to commute.
Saved money on home cooking.
Meetings started on time and you didn't have to walk to and from them.
If I needed to take delivery of something, no problem, my home is my office.
Got a 5 minute break? Great, filled the washing machine up and got some laundry done.
All communication was in email or on chats, making everything said super easy to track.
Didn't have to meet people. By far the best thing for me.
I lost my job, got paid redundancy, and got double unemployment payments. It was dope.
Oh man we saved SO much money not eating out, even still doing curbside pickup once in a while we saved thousands
Same I loved it, but that was because it let me skip the last year and a half of highschool essentially.
There was that ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal, and Squid Game.
both of those things feel like they are from 2016 or 2018
Y'all remember the early days if covid when we were buying toilet paper and accepting imminent death?
I most vividly remember the Italian experience where some guys sister died of covid at home, and they were just like "wrap the body with a sheet and leave it somewhere safe, we'll come get it in a week if youre still alive then."
I remember the early reports of covid surviving for 5 days on surfaces, and thats when I was like "Whelp, we're fucked."
Fortunately I had accepted imminent death decades ago so while everyone around me was having existential breakdowns I could wander around, hand out hot water bottles, tea, and fuzzy blankets, and see how many times in a row it can be Taco Tuesday before they start to question their sanity.
Yeah, Italy had a fun time in February and March of 2020.
Yeps. My kids were home and my wife was a nurse going into one of the hardest hit areas of US each day. I ended up working from home the first few months until enough stuff broke that I had to come in. I lost about one person I knew per month for the first four months.
Wasn't 2021 the year in which Meta announced the Metaverse?
Best year of my life, got over my ex of 20 years leaving me, GME happened, met my now fiancé, got paid for not doing any work for a few months then quit my job.
Honestly? I couldn't remember anything either. But then I looked at my camera roll and had a fun trip down memory lane! Lots of discord DnD and TableTop Simulator, outdoors adventures, and memes. It was a good year for memes.
It's the year the love of my life destroyed me. I'll never forget 2021. I still love her. I lost my soulmate.
It's okay to feel that way, even if you manage to turn down the intensity. You're still whole and deserving of love, friend.
Intensity has dropped but even as recent as last night cried again. It's a complex situation that includes us still being friends.
My grandma and Betty White died
ABBA. That's the single most important thing of 2021. Their new album. Remember
My main memories of 2021 are Sealab exploding.
Damn Pod 6!
Was in a deep depression hole and was very isolated. I'm very glad I managed to overcome that.
I just remember that somewhere in the balkans some sort of police office day counter broke and started adding days to december like 45 of dec 2020... maybe it was edited but it felt funny.
I remember one thing about 2021.
The iMac finally got its colors back.
Wait, you guys remember 2020? That's when it all went downhill for me.
Do I remember 2020? Let me tell you. On my birthday that year, I discovered my wife cheated on me. Yeah, I remember 2020 quite well.
Sorry to hear that man. Hopefully things improved for you in the subsequent years.
I forget if it was 2021 or 2022, but didn’t we have a ton of headlines saying we would be entering WW3?
Oh right! Fall of '83. How could I forget?!
Believe you're thinking of Spring '20
Worst year of my life.
2021 was vaccine and mask year for me, as a healthcare student. I remember it because I started my internship period, and the human contact got me out of my 2019 depression. I got a pretty good order of rotations and didn't get COVID so I can't complain.
Remember the first round of vaccination? This like 22 year old gave me mine and while we were chatting he told me how he was in med school. Hey real world experience
God those years are all a blur. It feels like I've had a chunk of my life stolen from me
I remember my parent's divorce and some vague stuff.
I think I had major surgery then
Unfortunately it's burned into my memory one way or another, yet it still blends into the surrounding years.
One of my best friends moved out of state and we went to Colorado to send him off, I got back and my dad was sick (not COVID at least), he passed away exactly a week before my birthday. The next month I went on a trip to Vegas through work (I was encouraged to keep the plan despite the circumstances... Ultimately it was a positive experience overall).
A remarkable year personally in good ways and bad, but another stone in the stream of upheavals in recent years overall.
Can someone please explain the bottomright one?
Think it's just a dude looking like he's going through shit, kind of in the same vein as Keanu on a bench.
No.
Time has really been flying since the pandemic
I broke 6 figures for the first time in 2021. My income gains over the pandemic were word and unexpected.
Anyone feeling this way was traumatized by the crap the Democrats and Fauci did in 2020 and 2021. "Rules for thee, but not for me."
This is why half the country votes Republican, and I can see where they are coming from. Anyone who experiences this "pandemic skip" and still thinks their politicians handled it correctly has Stockholm syndrome.
God damn those Democrats for the lock downs that happened under a republican government. The international pandemic was all the doing of the lousy Democrats. Grrr
The lockdowns were on a state and local level, enacted by Democrat governors, mayors, and legislation, and you know it. And of course the Democrats didn't cause covid. The idea that the government can dictate what's essential and what isn't sounds like fascism to me. Especially when you've got a bunch of these "science believers" vacationing in Florida and Texas so they don't have to abide by the covid restrictions they pushed for in their own cities and states.
Both Republicans and Democrats are different breeds of fascism and stupidity at this point, and if you can't criticize your own side, you're in cult.
Completely Republican states that had lockdowns:
Alabama
Arizona
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
West Virginia
lol, SCIENCE BELIEVERS like it's a huge insult
Sarcasm. Hence the quotation marks. They clearly don't believe in science if they ignored their own rules.
it's been a long week.
Or, you know, from any of the many countries in the world that are not the USA
A lot of countries were far worse. I still can't get over what happened in Australia, and I feel terrible for North Korean citizens.
Fuck you. You are brainwashed by a stupid cult. Donald Trump is a weak loser conman and you are inherently worse than that for falling for Q nonsense. You don't even know who was president in 2020.
Ah yes, the old tired argument that anybody who criticizes Democrats (including governors, mayors, and legislators who did indeed push for covid lockdowns) means that they must be a Trump bootlicker.
How cute. Almost as if you are in a cult who can't handle criticism.
You can kiss my ass you stupid motherfucker. Your troll tactic is weak and pathetic. By responding to something that bares no resemblance to anything I said you are attempting to avoid playing defense like a cowardly weakling. Boring and tired alt-right playbook 101. Yet you are so stupid and weak you don't realize that this isn't even a debate.... it can't be a debate because you've already lost: You got sucked into a stupid person authoritarian cult. YOU LOSE.
And yes I mean literal cult, literal medical clinically diagnosable cult. Q is LARP, a cult within a cult. If you think Trump is honest you are at least in the outer cult. It's really that simple. If you whatabout to something I didn't say instead of admitting that Trump is a pathological liar conman who is now fully embracing Nazi rhetoric on his journey to authoritarian dictatorship, then you are either fully brainwashed in or you're an evil fascist fucker who is pretending to have fallen for it. Either way you MAGA disgust me. Schooling has failed you. You could have learned some fucking media literacy. or a tiny ounce of critical literacy. Either would have told you what we all in the majority see so plainly. You are in a cult.
I have no interest in waking you up because if I did this would be the absolute worst way to go about it. But I don't care, because you weak losers are so pathetic I no longer want you to wake up. Trump is going to prison and you are going to cry. I won't get the pleasure of you crying if you wake up first.
Surprise! I hate Trump too!
Who did you vote for in 2016 and 2020?
I backed Clinton and Sanders. If it's fucking Biden and Trump in the next election, I don't know what I'm gonna do because they both suck. I don't know who I'm going to vote for in the next primary yet, but it sure ain't gonna be either Trump or Biden.
ahahaha I love when trolls can't help but be carefully honest... you "backed" Clinton and Sanders aka you didn't vote for Sanders and then Biden and suddenly get redpilled by a Brandon Straka hoax campaign, you didn't vote for anyone at all! How's the weather there in Olgino?
I voted for Clinton and Sanders. I hate Biden and Trump. You're reading way too much into this and trying to play gotcha.
How dumb do you have to be to not understand that hating particular candidates on one side doesn't mean I'm licking the boots of the other side? Funny how you're incapable of thinking outside of the binary.
Well look man technically that's true for everyone working a job then, it's just what degree of acceptable and at what point is it visibly disturbing not for others but also to your own mind so to speak
I remember some dumasses tried to overthrow the government in the US
They are all in jail though or executed now though right?
ughh
I think you meant Executive'd. They are running for government roles now.
Proud Boys and stuff
2021 had GME meme stonks and was the start of NFTs. Also COVID vax started coming out.
I liked lock down. It made me feel normal and accepted for being a shut-in for once. Now, I'm just a loser again.
I enjoyed the empty roads going to and from work.
I liked lockdown at first. I became severely chronically ill during lockdown, so I'm basically still in lockdown due to low mobility and it has gone from an introvert's dream to a nightmare. I haven't made any new close IRL connections in years and I can barely ever see my existing friends other than online. It feels like it's been simultaneously an eternity and only a few months since lockdown started and my mind is deteriorating.
Yes, it literally was a continuation of 2020. That's how years work
Jan 6th
Vaccines!
Party all summer. Oh wait, variants.
I personally got my PhD and moved states to start at my new job. So it was a busy year for me.
If you worked in healthcare, there was a pretty clear delineation. We got vaccines and people stopped fucking dying so much.
I opened 2021 to one of our chronic dialysis patients getting admitted for Covid, so severely short of breath they needed to go to the critical care stepdown unit, and I thought "this is it " By the time I was able to arrive at the hospital to run their dialysis, this person was already off oxygen and up walking around their room.
Come to find out, they had been vaccinated. I'm told that was one of the first people in the State of Massachusetts who got Covid after being vaccinated, and the difference in severity was so dramatic I'll never forget it.
That and movie theaters reopening are the only reasons I remember 2021. It was just a lot less scary even though I was still working like crazy.
It still blows my mind that so many people thought (and in many cases still do) that the vaccine had some nefarious purpose.
I remember 2021 mainly for arguing with morons online about it.
A guy I worked with refused to wear the mask and get the vaccine. He called me diaperface. He got the virus and afterwards was incontinent. I am a nice guy so I never once pointed out that he was the one wearing the diaper now, but I was so so tempted.
Hopefully they're a bit more humble these days then. I won't lie, it makes me happy to know some people like that got what was coming to them. A bitter prick I might be but after watching my wife teeter on the brink of collapse working on the wards I have no sympathy for anyone who's chosen to believe anything but the overwhelming scientific consensus.
If you need to believe that EVERYTHING the government does is wrong then you're as bad as people who believe that everything they do is good. Unfortunately the pandemic seemed to create swathes of people like that who reduce an argument all the way down to absurdity.
I think in your position I wouldn't be able to help myself, maybe I wouldn't directly make fun of his incontinence but I'd probably ask if he remembers when he used to call me diaperface or something like that, just a sly reminder to him what a cunt he was.
Log4j is hard to forget if you're involved in IT
Geez, that was already 2 years ago??
It's going to be 2024 in a month and a half. So it was almost 3 years ago.
Well no since it was December 2021 that shit hit the fan.
But like, did you actually have any network intrusions? Because I recall the hoopla and pushing scripts, but never once actually heard of anyone being actively exploited other than a few big players
Nope, none of our customers had, because the application wasn't webfacing at all but good luck explaining that to a scared shitless CTO/CIO in their late 50s...
True. The hype around it was nuts. So many of our vendors sent out multiple emails about it
Why are you expecting me to remember something that much weed ago?
Seriously.... That's over 100 grams of THC ago.....
Shit, that's like a pound or two ago for me...
I don't smoke flower very often. I just get grams of 90+% pure THC vape cartridges. Takes me 8-9 days to run one dry
Well, that's like every year for me. My memory sucks.
You had long COVID before it was trendy
I really have this. It's like I've lost a whole year of my life.
I remember it, but I cheated by getting cancer that year.
Oof, glad you're still here. How are you doing now?
I've been in complete remission for over a year. All it took was reprogramming my immune system to kill cancer.
I'm really glad to hear that. It's amazing how far cancer treatment has come in the last couple of decades. I hope you remain healthy!
Any more lifehacks to share?
Pandemic was the best time of my life. Everyone I know(except for one guy) hated it. Me and my buddy enjoyed the shit out of it.
I lost my job, got paid redundancy, and got double unemployment payments. It was dope.
Oh man we saved SO much money not eating out, even still doing curbside pickup once in a while we saved thousands
Same I loved it, but that was because it let me skip the last year and a half of highschool essentially.
There was that ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal, and Squid Game.
both of those things feel like they are from 2016 or 2018
Y'all remember the early days if covid when we were buying toilet paper and accepting imminent death?
I most vividly remember the Italian experience where some guys sister died of covid at home, and they were just like "wrap the body with a sheet and leave it somewhere safe, we'll come get it in a week if youre still alive then."
I remember the early reports of covid surviving for 5 days on surfaces, and thats when I was like "Whelp, we're fucked."
Fortunately I had accepted imminent death decades ago so while everyone around me was having existential breakdowns I could wander around, hand out hot water bottles, tea, and fuzzy blankets, and see how many times in a row it can be Taco Tuesday before they start to question their sanity.
Yeah, Italy had a fun time in February and March of 2020.
Yeps. My kids were home and my wife was a nurse going into one of the hardest hit areas of US each day. I ended up working from home the first few months until enough stuff broke that I had to come in. I lost about one person I knew per month for the first four months.
"it's called a motor race, ok? We went car racing."
No Michael. This is so not right!
I'm using a mood app, and apparently 2021 was one of my best years ever. Isolation, taking hikes, cycling a lot and less social obligations.
I personally loved the lockdowns
As a parent, our experiences are diametrical opposites haha
I remember diamond handing some stocks and missing out on some serious gains.
It's still 2020, change my mind.
I bet in 3 years we're gonna say the same thing
In fact, it is 1083/12/2023
My entire memory of 2021 is just vtubers
I remember catching Covid 3 times. Hooray for being "essential" in a place full of assholes.
Only reason I remember anything about ‘21 is cause I went to rehab, and the Jan 6th insurrection happened
Outside of that, I couldn’t tell you a single notable event
Hope your doing well now :)
Ye, I’m doing good. Appreciate it :)
Wasn't 2021 the year in which Meta announced the Metaverse?
Best year of my life, got over my ex of 20 years leaving me, GME happened, met my now fiancé, got paid for not doing any work for a few months then quit my job.
Honestly? I couldn't remember anything either. But then I looked at my camera roll and had a fun trip down memory lane! Lots of discord DnD and TableTop Simulator, outdoors adventures, and memes. It was a good year for memes.
It's the year the love of my life destroyed me. I'll never forget 2021. I still love her. I lost my soulmate.
It's okay to feel that way, even if you manage to turn down the intensity. You're still whole and deserving of love, friend.
Intensity has dropped but even as recent as last night cried again. It's a complex situation that includes us still being friends.
My grandma and Betty White died
ABBA. That's the single most important thing of 2021. Their new album. Remember
My main memories of 2021 are Sealab exploding.
Damn Pod 6!
Was in a deep depression hole and was very isolated. I'm very glad I managed to overcome that.
I just remember that somewhere in the balkans some sort of police office day counter broke and started adding days to december like 45 of dec 2020... maybe it was edited but it felt funny.
I remember one thing about 2021.
The iMac finally got its colors back.
Wait, you guys remember 2020? That's when it all went downhill for me.
Do I remember 2020? Let me tell you. On my birthday that year, I discovered my wife cheated on me. Yeah, I remember 2020 quite well.
Sorry to hear that man. Hopefully things improved for you in the subsequent years.
I forget if it was 2021 or 2022, but didn’t we have a ton of headlines saying we would be entering WW3?
Oh right! Fall of '83. How could I forget?!
Believe you're thinking of Spring '20
Worst year of my life.
2021 was vaccine and mask year for me, as a healthcare student. I remember it because I started my internship period, and the human contact got me out of my 2019 depression. I got a pretty good order of rotations and didn't get COVID so I can't complain.
Remember the first round of vaccination? This like 22 year old gave me mine and while we were chatting he told me how he was in med school. Hey real world experience
God those years are all a blur. It feels like I've had a chunk of my life stolen from me
I remember my parent's divorce and some vague stuff.
I think I had major surgery then
Unfortunately it's burned into my memory one way or another, yet it still blends into the surrounding years.
One of my best friends moved out of state and we went to Colorado to send him off, I got back and my dad was sick (not COVID at least), he passed away exactly a week before my birthday. The next month I went on a trip to Vegas through work (I was encouraged to keep the plan despite the circumstances... Ultimately it was a positive experience overall).
A remarkable year personally in good ways and bad, but another stone in the stream of upheavals in recent years overall.
Can someone please explain the bottomright one?
Think it's just a dude looking like he's going through shit, kind of in the same vein as Keanu on a bench.
No.
Time has really been flying since the pandemic
I broke 6 figures for the first time in 2021. My income gains over the pandemic were word and unexpected.
Anyone feeling this way was traumatized by the crap the Democrats and Fauci did in 2020 and 2021. "Rules for thee, but not for me."
This is why half the country votes Republican, and I can see where they are coming from. Anyone who experiences this "pandemic skip" and still thinks their politicians handled it correctly has Stockholm syndrome.
God damn those Democrats for the lock downs that happened under a republican government. The international pandemic was all the doing of the lousy Democrats. Grrr
The lockdowns were on a state and local level, enacted by Democrat governors, mayors, and legislation, and you know it. And of course the Democrats didn't cause covid. The idea that the government can dictate what's essential and what isn't sounds like fascism to me. Especially when you've got a bunch of these "science believers" vacationing in Florida and Texas so they don't have to abide by the covid restrictions they pushed for in their own cities and states.
Both Republicans and Democrats are different breeds of fascism and stupidity at this point, and if you can't criticize your own side, you're in cult.
Completely Republican states that had lockdowns: Alabama Arizona Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Mississippi Missouri Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas West Virginia
lol, SCIENCE BELIEVERS like it's a huge insult
Sarcasm. Hence the quotation marks. They clearly don't believe in science if they ignored their own rules.
it's been a long week.
Or, you know, from any of the many countries in the world that are not the USA
A lot of countries were far worse. I still can't get over what happened in Australia, and I feel terrible for North Korean citizens.
Fuck you. You are brainwashed by a stupid cult. Donald Trump is a weak loser conman and you are inherently worse than that for falling for Q nonsense. You don't even know who was president in 2020.
Ah yes, the old tired argument that anybody who criticizes Democrats (including governors, mayors, and legislators who did indeed push for covid lockdowns) means that they must be a Trump bootlicker.
How cute. Almost as if you are in a cult who can't handle criticism.
You can kiss my ass you stupid motherfucker. Your troll tactic is weak and pathetic. By responding to something that bares no resemblance to anything I said you are attempting to avoid playing defense like a cowardly weakling. Boring and tired alt-right playbook 101. Yet you are so stupid and weak you don't realize that this isn't even a debate.... it can't be a debate because you've already lost: You got sucked into a stupid person authoritarian cult. YOU LOSE.
And yes I mean literal cult, literal medical clinically diagnosable cult. Q is LARP, a cult within a cult. If you think Trump is honest you are at least in the outer cult. It's really that simple. If you whatabout to something I didn't say instead of admitting that Trump is a pathological liar conman who is now fully embracing Nazi rhetoric on his journey to authoritarian dictatorship, then you are either fully brainwashed in or you're an evil fascist fucker who is pretending to have fallen for it. Either way you MAGA disgust me. Schooling has failed you. You could have learned some fucking media literacy. or a tiny ounce of critical literacy. Either would have told you what we all in the majority see so plainly. You are in a cult.
I have no interest in waking you up because if I did this would be the absolute worst way to go about it. But I don't care, because you weak losers are so pathetic I no longer want you to wake up. Trump is going to prison and you are going to cry. I won't get the pleasure of you crying if you wake up first.
Surprise! I hate Trump too!
Who did you vote for in 2016 and 2020?
I backed Clinton and Sanders. If it's fucking Biden and Trump in the next election, I don't know what I'm gonna do because they both suck. I don't know who I'm going to vote for in the next primary yet, but it sure ain't gonna be either Trump or Biden.
ahahaha I love when trolls can't help but be carefully honest... you "backed" Clinton and Sanders aka you didn't vote for Sanders and then Biden and suddenly get redpilled by a Brandon Straka hoax campaign, you didn't vote for anyone at all! How's the weather there in Olgino?
I voted for Clinton and Sanders. I hate Biden and Trump. You're reading way too much into this and trying to play gotcha.
How dumb do you have to be to not understand that hating particular candidates on one side doesn't mean I'm licking the boots of the other side? Funny how you're incapable of thinking outside of the binary.
Well look man technically that's true for everyone working a job then, it's just what degree of acceptable and at what point is it visibly disturbing not for others but also to your own mind so to speak