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Haha well... Apparently Jean Dixon gave this year as the year a “wave of Armageddon would wipe out the planet”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Dixon

I mean, with as many psychics, and mediums, and holy people as have predicted the end of the world, eventually one will get it write.

A million monkeys with a million typewriters and all that.

Also, there's a literal Dixon Effect that's about ignoring all the bad and focusing on just the one or two correct things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...

I've been thinking for a while that this whole millennium has gotten off to a bad start.

Maybe we should regroup and try again.

It's a slight improvement over 1900-1920.

You might be onto something. We've hit the trifecta of health crisis, faltering economies and bars closing their doors except now we've got smartphones and air conditioning.

Turn it off and on again to see if 2020 is a runtime error...