To those saying "If it can happen to trump, it can happen to anyone.", yes you are correct.

If trump can be held accountable for his crimes, that means everyone can be held accountable for their crimes.

This isn't a flaw or a mistake, it's literally how the law is supposed to work.

The hardest part about refuting Y2K disinfo is how many problems were fixed quietly, in part to mitigate risk of ligitation (negligence, etc.). People have stories they can't tell.

At this point, I think enough years have passed that a formal amnesty - to encourage companies to disclose just how bad some of the problems were - would be in our historical best interest.

@robertatcara As someone who personally discovered and fixed Y2K bugs that would have had significant real world impact, it is disturbing to hear someone propagate this myth [that it was a "big fuss about nothing"]. And it is a myth.

This is what really happened:
https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/

The testing methodology insured that these impacts were not hypothetical. At my company, the testing was performed by actually rolling the clock forward to test systems to see what would happen. For example, I discovered that every ATM in the state of Alaska operated by my company would have locked up until a PROM chip was swapped. Someone had to fly all over the state to proactively swap the chip beforehand, to avoid significant customer impact.

And that was just one story. I personally oversaw investigation and fixes for other hardware and software at that company that would have failed.

And that was just my company. I spoke with others in IT at that time with similar stories. And that was just the people I knew.

So no, it wasn't "a big fuss about nothing" - and saying so is both dangerously revisionist, and disrespectful of the work it took to prevent real impacts.

#Y2K

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Donald Trump’s excuse for quoting Mein Kampf is “I never read ‘Mein Kampf.’”

I don’t know that “I came up with the same ideas and language as Hitler did all on my own” is really the strong defense he thinks it is.

Ukrainians fight in the cold wet trenches.
Ukrainians load the artillery guns with frost biting in their fingers.
Ukrainians carry dead bodies of their fallen friends off the battlefield.

All we have to do in the EU is pay EUR 0.81 per citizen per day.
All we have to do in the US is pay USD 0.59 per citizen per day.
While we sit in our warm, secure homes watching Netflix.

The next time you see a western politician complaining about OUR part of the job, tell them to wake the fuck up.

#ukraine