General Discussion

Brexit went Leave (I am a US, UK, and Swedish citizen) on the vote almost exactly 4 months before I turned 20, and around 2 weeks after I did turn 20, Trump was elected, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Plus Covid and all that. It also would have been nice to have had 2 teenage years before 9/11 too, and basically all of them (plus up until around I was 26, 27 or so) before social media went all supernova pear shaped, which started to happen around 2012/13.

Finally, it would have been nice, as a mixed-raced black person, to be able to cast 2 votes for Obama (although my first POTUS vote, 2 weeks after I turned 18 (if it was 10 years earlier to the exact day that I was born in 1986 v 1996) would have been 2004, when Bush squeaked out the win over Kerry due to Ohio).

Oh well, at least it was not the other way (and I was born 10 years LATER, in 2006). Anyone born late 2009 and after will not even have had any of their teenage years without AI truly starting to fuck things up as well.