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[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Oof, that boy is about to have few rough decades.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 9 points 22 hours ago

I wonder if history will look back on contemporary kid pics like this.

"Born just in time for the bottom to fall out of the Western economy, get a worthless degree, and hold three jobs to survive under the rule of a pedophile cabal that started WW3"

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

But late enough to miss WWI so could have been worse.

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

The Netherlands were neutral in WW1 if I remember correctly. But - like all of Europe - they suffered massive food shortages.