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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Crypto whatever (coin, token, nft)

Social media

Internet as a whole (you can always dig a hole further down)

"You are not a worker, you are an entrepreneurial partner!" Type of corporate bullshit

Electric vehicles (mostly due to faulty batteries, but also because they don't fix the problem of shitty car focused city design)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Even in a future where we fix car dependency, electric vehicles will still exist as busses, trains, emergency vehicles, ebikes etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

EVs are fine, but there will be a wake up call when the cheap, Chinese BMSes on them start failing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think a lot of the therapy speak we use in casual conversation is going to be embarrassing in hindsight. A lot of it is already verifiably inaccurate, but even the stuff based on real psychology can potentially be disproven as understanding and research methods improve. And people will quietly cringe remembering how they used junk science to justify being a dick in 2024.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I have memories of different therapy words that my divorced parent and others used to disparage their exes in the 1990s. It's an awful circle. Nobody can just have normal conflict.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump definitely will.

He is a symbol for a large part of America where people will look at and wonder '...why?' even if they understood. Trump is just a symbol of everything wrong with America contained.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Like a sort of Liteβ„’-Hitler edition? With less mass-killing (ignoring the middle east thing for now in regards to the US) and same railing up the voters

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The 2020s iteration of Twitter with Space Karen at the helm, and the sharp rise in antivax beliefs with the advent of the COVID vaccine. It's quite amazing to me how people that even get every other routine vaccine have completely false beliefs about it and don't get that one. Weaponized disinformation is a terrible thing.

My coworker told me two weeks ago that she was not getting any more COVID vaccines "because they're pushing it on us", and yet went and told Public Health that she has multiple sex partners so she could get the monkeypox vaccine. My head is spun over that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was gonna say superhero movies but that's more a thing of the 2010s.

Regardless, i think the current phase of Hollywood won't go down in history, all these remakes being unceremoniously shoved into streaming services to be forgotten forever will leave a black hole where 2020's culture should be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The return of mustaches.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Pretty much everything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any sort of jokes about hoarding toilet paper or anything else ridiculous during the pandemic. I've always thought they were already cringe to begin with, but I assume that if society doesn't completely collapse before the 2030s that people will hopefully look back and call those cringe.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

I don't get it, what's cringe about making a joke out of people's selfish and exaggerated behaviour?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

The haircuts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The American mass murders around the world.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

AI programming. I feel like it will get to the point where AI will start writing code that works but nobody can understand or maintain including AI.

If you are able to explain the requirements to an AI so fully that the AI can do it correctly it would have taken shorter time to program by yourself.

AI powered code completion is another story though and I'm looking forward to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I feel like it will get to the point where AI will start writing code that works but nobody can understand or maintain including AI

Already there, and have been for awhile. In my work we often don't understand how the AI itself works. We independently test for accuracy. Then we begin trusting results without verification. But, at no time do we really understand the logic of how the AI gets from input to output.

If you are able to explain the requirements to an AI so fully that the AI can do it correctly it would have taken shorter time to program by yourself.

This makes sense for a one-time job. But, it doesn't make sense when there's a hundred jobs with only minor differences. For example, the AI writes a hundred AI's. We kill all but the three to five best models.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

More than 0 people being anti-mask, anti-vaccine, covid deniers, or covid minimizers.

Turns out people don't even need a selfish reason to stab their neighbor in the back, they'll do it just for kicks, and then stab themselves in the face for no benefit whatsoever.

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