Do you have any baseless predictions for the future that you nonetheless expect to occur?

Already happened in 2020.

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WSL already exists, I think you have a baseline for this

The longer he lives, the more time he has to live with the consequences that catch up to him.

Okay now it's weird how many people are citing things i've also thought about!

I expect him to be a quite significant figure in history textbooks, hopefully as an example of how not to lead, as the USA's version of King Henry VIII of England, and the reason why the constitution and electoral system was changed. A rare example of president->prison pieline taking place in the USA.

However. It just feels like he has some unholy power to prolong our suffering and tank any blows to his career or even his life. I fuoly expect that he'll stay alive as long as possible which wiol prevent americans talking so candidly bout him.

Or maybe it'll allow trump to see every last member of his cult turn on him. Maga voters will finally admit that whoever comes after trump is better, they haven't seen lasting change or security following his regime, and it wasn't at all worth the humiliation they subjected themselves to. They're like a really toxic F-ed up college fraternity.

I'll allow it, but only in prison.

I think historians will likely be deciding if we are already in ww3 or not. Although I'm quite surprised China hasn't moved on Taiwan

I totally agree. If recent Iran conflict war had gone much further or had successfully roped in the USA's NATO allies, it would have fit all those criterias.

It shows that we teeter on a precipice above the pit of wartime

We're already in WW3

Water?

Welcome to third world life.

they just end up charging people more for gas/electric and water instead of charging the datacenter owners.

How does Disney factor into this prediction? I've never been there, but it seems like an oasis in the middle of a shit desert (speaking mostly about its ability to manage itself and just generally function).

If they move on with removing taxes on property the political and operational shot show of cities and counties without cash turning to special assessments and creating fees for school police and public services, essentially taxes that can raise without being voted, and with less supervision, that will make the "no step on snake" crowd revolt because gvmnt services without payment seems to be their thing.

AI has honestly changed a lot about my life/intended life plan. Especially when it was released, it basically rolled out as i graduated high school.

I actually started out in a creative/arts based degree but quit it early on, so i think to a lot of people it looked like i was scared of AI stealing my job. I wasn't back then, but i now kind of am concerned that scummy employers will lay-off a lot of people and try to have AI do their work in that field.

Anyway not to say AI fits your description, as it doesn't really, but it indicates to me that sense of tumultuous change. Likewise, covid. That changed everything too. I don't think these things come in pairs but in waves, kike the chsnge of the 19th and 20th centuries.

And I think it will come from AI. It's either that or aliens, and only one of those two actually exist.

Any idea if mass carbon capture could undo runaway venus-like greenhouse effects? I have no hope that humanity will put up with even minor inconveniences until lead starts melting at room temperature at the equator. It would give me hope if there was a way to undo runaway greenhouse processes.

countries dont seem interested in combatting climate change at all. plus there is one country that solely funds anti-climate change as thier economy depends on it, combined with the rest of the oil-gas industry. trying to get funding for research about climate change is a little dicey too.

that saves humanity but will arrive too late to prevent some harrowing effects.

One harrowing thing i expect is for there to be mass migration attributed to climate change - after all, we already see mass migration for smaller reasons, so even if they don't strictly speaking need to move north (or south), i think new media and scientists will just attribute any migration that occurs as being climate-influenced driven.

Arguably a good thing, if it raises peoples' concerns for climate change. I think this is why a lot of RWers dismiss climate change as a hoax though, because of its connection to mass exodus from the "globsl south". Two things can be true.

I expect we will lose some entire settlements, coastal ones. I think Egypt will get messed uo because of their weird relationship with water, and major cities with major sea defence projects are ones to look out for - they're ramping up sea defences in New York right now, making me think something is coming (next 20 years or so)

Couldn't disagree more with either of those takes. Self driving cars won't be safer even theoretically given unsolvable problems and will almost certainly lead to even worse pedestrian rights and make our cities so much worse. That solution to climate change isn't realistic of feasible at all we need if we are going to solve it massive systematic change and an end to capitalism.

Same to first statement, i actually forgot trump would be around by 27 and 28 (because i'm not american), and that theory all lines up

he needs to keep the epstein files from being discussed, Dems dont seem to keen on trying to release it, they are just stringing it along, despite them "claiming they will do it.

Venezuela, a prod member of ExxonMobil Conoco-Phillips

Taiwan, brought to you by Nvidia

argentina, most of them will likely flee there, not russia, since putin will likely find a window for you and steal your assets down the line.

it's not called Republic of Samsung for nothing

Seems very plausible.

As a kid i always wondered why countries didn't buy up parts of other countries to avoid bloodshed for territory.

::: spoiler I still figure it could work really well for wealthy governments like Switzerland but i now realise that:

A) A country's proper area is very important to it, especially an "ancient" country like Switzerland's neighbours,

B) Citizens do cause a fuss about having their leaders change undemocratically or suddenly - it could make taxes or travel different - and they tend to revolt at sudden unconsented change like that, even if it's only surface level. :::

I see this being most likely to occur for places like middle eastern oil states, so Oligarchs is definitely the right conditionality. Or big empires like the USA and China

I've heard New Zealand is a popular place for that.

Regarding North Korea, it seems like it is a national decision instead of an international decision. There have been cases where trade was allowed to occur with North Korea and it was North Korea which chose to close the program.

Even now, North Korea could theoretically force a more open travel system with Russia and North Korea chooses not to. Hell, North Korea probably could get a peace treaty out of Trump and chooses not to.

I really doubt we're the only sentient life but we'll never meet any is my bet. The observable universe is mind bogglingly huge. The unobservable is so much bigger. So many stars, so many planets.

I have also had the thought that aliens might be offended by all the media humans have made about aliens

Which sequel trilogy? 1-3, or 7-9?

The earth has been through many many climate changes, this isn't the first, it isn't the last

The earth don't care, it keeps chugging along, no it's us that won't survive

Yeah i think that too! Great example, fits with the "no evidence" aspect

flu is easy to become pandemic. several things can happen, antigenic shift, genetic drift, and the most popular is recombination. the h5n1/h1n1 flus can just recombine with pig and human flus to make it person to person.

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Nah. Gen Z is going to end up like Gen X. It is Gen Alpha which is going to kill us all if the Boomers don't already do it.

Imagine people progressively got soo dumb that one day we just forgot how to keep the technology working and went back to being cavemen.

I don't want to think about it but probably. I, as a GenZ, see them as very similar to boomers but with a kind of restlessness they will apply to inappropriate contexts. Boomers for all their faults are good at only tapping into their blood pressure dysregulation to kill people or advocate for war or racism, GenZ is just in a transient state between chaotic or tranquilised, so i could see a GenZ world leader firing a nuke for fun or something. But hey.

Here in Japan lots of people wear these while working, it looks like a great solution for mild summer temps of 28c, but sincerely is mostly unusable in the wet heat of other regions.

You mean I'll finally be cool again? I need to pre-order one of these.

They have a light switch in their house and they don't know what it's for. They just flip it every so often.

Little did they know it's was actually a peace and war switch

Once at a dinner party, one alien was showing the switch to another and they flipped it back and fourth a bunch of times and started WW1

Couple years later, another party and BAM WWII

Seems to be a popular theory from 4channers actually, i think i read a bunch of /x/ greentexts proposing theories like that.

Interesting. Is that why he stole all of our sensitive data?

That's actually very interesting and somewhat plausible. We know how easy to influence he is - if someone tells him to run (for office in russia), he runs. Or if enough of his twitter followers do so.

The digital immortality you want: living forever in a virtual paradise.

The digital immortality you get: you are recorded doing something stupid that ends any career or relationship potential and is never able to be removed from the internet.

In another aspect, what does uploading ones self look like and when is the upload taken? Do they kill the original body after taking the upload or is there a you living out their days stuck in the mortal husk while another you (possibly not the one you are) is off living it up in an immortal body or virtual paradise?

Reminds me of San Junipero

Honestly all i can say is thst i hope it never happens. I expect it will be possible given that some people are so hell bent on pursuing it, but my cope theory is thst "hell bent" is the right term, because it would be a living hell.

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Or a superior civilisstion will want to make way for our planet to build an interstellar bypass

The sun will explode, but the process will take about a billion years.

There's more people talking from the Epstein list than the big foot list. And you know what they say about big foot, even if it's just one.

And that's why they call him "big foot," huh?

I'm so sorry to hear that dude, and let's take a moment to be celebrste the fact you're still alive - because whether it's dumb-luck or down to you taking good care of yourself, it's still worth being joyous about.

As for being failed by social welfare, you're in good company because a lot of people on the fediverse are also struggling to thrive in modern "1st world" countries despite being smart and articulate people. Some have the same story as you. I think you will get a lot out of fediverse as a social media, i know i have and i've only been here ~ 7 months. It's heakthy because it's more like old fashioned forums. (Old fashioned in terms of the internet's lifespan)

They said 'baseless'