For the record, Y2K was not fud. It was very real, in a long list of datetime problems that are to come. Further datetime problems are coming at scheduled dates.

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bigstrat2003 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It was definitely FUD. There was a real problem (date counters would roll over), but the impacts of it were so ridiculously overstated that it eclipsed any sane discussion of the issue. We had people at the time predicting that planes would literally fall out of the sky when Y2k hit, which was never a realistic possibility.

	▲	pixelesque 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> which was never a realistic possibility. Because a lot of work was done to prepare and fix potential issues.
	▲	OutOfHere 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's the problem with deniers. When responsible persons take preemptive action to prevent tragedy, like with Y2K, the diners say it was FUD. When people don't take action, like with climate change, they say it wasn't important considering it's not them who's dead, totally discounting those who have suffered or died as a consequence. In summary, the deniers are so incompetent that they can't be trusted to correctly maintain a car, let alone civilization, considering they would never even the replace the necessary parts at the right schedules in their car.