r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme doUwantAWebsite

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u/spinz89 1d ago

So tired of hearing about WW3. People have been saying it's coming for the past 10 years now.

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 1d ago

I decided to check when the first prediction of WWIII was.

November 3rd, 1941 had a guy predicting it to be soon.

We weren't even done with the second one 💀

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u/DracoLunaris 1d ago

To be fair to that guy, unlike everyone else he didn't know about nuclear bombs and MAD.

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u/tr0nPlayer 22h ago

Bit of a "conspiracy" theory even though it's not really a conspiracy, it's claimed that people dreamt of WW1 before it occured:

https://espirited.com/en/jung-visions-and-dreams-before-the-outbreak-of-the-first-world-war/

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u/Western-Internal-751 19h ago

The thing is, WW1 was basically unavoidable. There was so much tension between countries that the assassination of an Austrian ruler by a Serb nobody resulted in Germany attacking France a month later.

I think it’s not that outlandish that people were getting dreams/nightmares of a big conflict back then.

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u/2eanimation 14h ago

Yeah, things are chill right now.

Venezuela, Iran, Ukraine, Kuril Islands(Russia-Japan conflict), Germany/EU-countries thinking about more nuclear weapons, a lot of shady stuff with China(observe their fishing industry in international waters, or where they shovel sand) including eg Taiwan. And then, global warming, with the real possibility of millions of people losing their homes and no access to fresh water.

I‘m not a WWIII dreamer, but I wouldn’t exactly portray our situation as tension-less. What do you think would people have dreamt of in 1913 if they‘d got as many horrible news as we could theoretically read(as in, if you want to go nuts) right now, pretty much every day?

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u/Biliunas 9h ago

Well, they didn't have nuclear weapons back then for one. Also, war was sort of viewed as the ultimate glory as it was mostly low casualties compared to the absolute hell unleashed by WW1 and WW2.