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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Competent, honest leadership everywhere.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Trump die

Edit: Oh shi-

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

A decline in my cynicism that is caused by factual occurrences in reality.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Liberty and justice for all.

And soft lavatory paper.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Not dying in a food riot.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Mopeds become popular in the UK so the likely hood of mine getting stolen is lessened

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Star Trek, minus the teleporters.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If anyone ever invents a synthesizer somehow capitalism will fina way to ruin it. It would be lovely to live in a post scarcity society though

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe just teleporters that don't work with living tissue.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

The deaths of certain people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Transition from toilet paper to the Three Seashells.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gotta save the trees for carbon dioxide conversion!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah, so when the world finally burn, the fire would spread faster ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Industrial use of oil and coal goes poof

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Ending world hunger and finding a cure for cancer and other currently uncurable diseases.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Quantum computing becoming practical for ordinary people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

well IBM does have cloud accessible quantum computers that they don't charge to use

I used those to teach myself some stuff about quantum information science

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Elon Musk has an interview and just...explodes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

An asteroid

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Universal basic income. Everywhere.

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

That we're able to dodge the incoming wave of fascism and peacefully skim board into progressive politics.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

AGI singularity would be cool

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Loud hot rods and motorcycles become quiet as a whisper. Guns disappear. Religion disappears.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Loud engines aren't a technological or engineering problem; they're a self-esteem problem. Universal healthcare that includes mental health support and a strong working class economy will go a long way towards addressing those with low self-esteem, but they'll never go away entirely.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That first wish is coming true with EV <3

I wish I could buy an electric motorcycle already, but they're soo overpriced. Anyway, I expect them to become available at affordable prices within 10 years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

The people in power actually taking climate change seriously, and not just in a tragedy of the commons type of way. I mean actually working together to slow it down or reverse it.

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