I hope to see my own financial stability in the future. I hope things change for the better and there are lots and lots of job openings for people, no more recessions.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
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If we could harness fusion power in the near future that would be neat.
I'm here to make a flippant sarcastic comment about us already having fusion, and that all we need is enough solar panels to capture it. I thank you for your time, and yes I will go eff myself.
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the ability to scan one's brain to unlock all the memories that i hope are still stored in there, uses would be things like knowing exactly how many times you've sneezed, how many sandwinches you've eaten, how many total minutes spent hiccuping, and you take the information and compare your stats with friends
Here's the thing. You are all trillion of your features, but you are mostly an informative subset of maybe a million. You drop a verse of shakespeare from your memory and you'd essentially be the same person.
Your memories don't encode every single thing that has happened to you, they encode blurry snapshots of fast-decaying events and flatten them over time depending on importance, filling in the blanks with other parts of your mind (made with other blurry decaying events).
If you thought AI was bad at hallucinating events, be glad you cannot ask your brain direct questions
That would be horrible. Law entforcement would have a field day (not with the fart statistics tho). Our brain is the last frontier of privacy.
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Human extinction. Thankfully, climate change exists, and will very likely be the end of us if we don't blow ourselves up sooner.
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Proof for extraterrestrial life. It doesnβt have to be aliens in spaceships or even a transmission. I would be fine with microscopic organisms on Ganymede or Europa.
the pentagon declassified some ufo a few ago
its one step closer to aliens
As long as it's not on Phoebe...
If this is a reference, I do not understand it. Sorry.
Without giving too much away, in the book/tv series The Expanse, signs of alien life are found on Phoebe. The books are most excellent and reportedly the tv series is as well, but I'm only on season 2.
Ah. I know that show. I just forgot it was on Phoebe.
No one remembers Phoebe, because Chandler always stole the show.
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Everyone moving to open protocols and companies like Reddit, Twitter, Meta going bankrupt
Vert skating in the Olympics
Oblivion. The one prediction I'm confident will happen.
The Star Trek timeline, I just want a holodeck, but they just keep hawking this VR/AR crap :(
If you knew what came next in the ST timeline, you would not wish for it
One must walk before they can run. Probably. I dunno the future.
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Finally winning the lottery!!
Just remember: 99% of gamblers quit just before they win big!
At this point, every day above ground is a good day.
Yeah but someone's gotta mine that coal
The US Government will remove their heads from their asses and work on fixing things before it's too late.
There are entrenched entities heavily invested, literally and figuratively, in aligning the government with their interests, and against the interests of the majority. Their primary methods are propagandizing the gullible to vote for the representatives they have invested in, and fomenting apathy in those they cannot propagandize.
The solution is two-fold: supporting candidates aligned with your interests throughout their career from local elections up to more powerful ones, and voting in every election for the front-runner who is less detrimental to those interests.
If you think the current government has their heads in their asses, it's a good bet that this two-fold solution takes the form of voting for progressives in local elections and greater primaries, and showing up to vote for whichever of the front-runner candidates is comparatively more progressive.
Voting for a candidate that is progressive but vastly unlikely to win is counterproductive. Not voting because none of the likely candidates is sufficiently progressive is counterproductive.
If everyone understood this, and showed up to vote, within a few election cycles we'd have a government composed of un-assed heads.
Ideally by regulating the shit out of corporations, and dismantling fraudulent 501(c)(3)s like the Heritage Foundation.
Just having better options for the next presidential election would be a step in the right direction.
Hopefully more states start to heavily push the Alternative or Ranked Choice voting systems.
I hope I have a heart attack in my late 40s or early 50s so I don't have to experience much of the future.
To see my enemies crushed. To see them driven before me. And to see more hybrid and electric vehicles on the road.
We also would have accepted the lamentations of their women.
I want to see less vehicles on roads.
More walkability / bikability and public transit would be great!
Bring on the lamentations of the fossil fuel executives
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Well, you could always close your eyes
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The American Government dying
Maybe start with the death of the two-party system?
Do you have a license for that edge?
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a easy and stress free retirement