- Microsoft will unironically release their own Linux distro
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Trump will live to be 102 just because life isn't fair
The longer he lives, the more time he has to live with the consequences that catch up to him.
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I'll allow it, but only in prison.
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We will see WWIII in my life time (next 50 years, if I'm lucky).
It will be started over something that will seem incredibly silly, in hindsight.
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
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With so many AI data centres needing so much power and none seeming to use solar power etc, we'll start seeing "grid rationing" where suburbs will get "time zones" where there will be power and no power.
Instead of people rising up or pushing back, they will get distracted by arguing that certain/richer suburbs get prioitised more than lower class suburbs.
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Not completely baseless, but Florida is going to go bankrupt one year and cause a major political problem for the US.
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).
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I think there will be some crazy scientific breakthrough that will change everything.
Totally baseless, and it's mostly the idiot optimist inside me that believes it, but I kind of have to believe it else I'll go bananaser then I already am.
And I think it will come from AI. It's either that or aliens, and only one of those two actually exist.
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Geoengineering to combat climate change by mass carbon capture will be the solution that saves humanity but will arrive too late to prevent some harrowing effects.
Self-driving vehicles will become good enough to technically be safer for passengers than human drivers soon, but the stigma around them will continue for a long time after they are road legal and their uptake will be very slow.
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.
It seems kind of unlikely. It could be part of an array of solutions. Right now it captures something like 0.1%. That means it would take 1000 times the current infrastructure to support it, including carbon-neutral energy to cover the additional energy costs. All that is assuming 100% carbon capture is even viable. Even then, that doesn't solve the problem of the carbon that's already in the environment, which will continue to warm the earth for centuries.
There's an interesting emergency option: Stratospheric aerosol injection.
If we got to the point where the runaway effect was unavoidable, it might be possible to use this before civilization starts to collapse. It would probably have a lot of nasty side effects, but it might be able to buy enough time for CO2 levels to come back down. At least civilization could survive in some form.
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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.
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Some other ones:
- I think North Korea will be accepted back into the fold of the international community - this could occur through any of these 3 mechanisms: 1) "rehabilitated" to be more like other nations, 2) eventually proves its system to be successful, or 3) simply the US gives up on its shunning of the country. All evidence and past performance shows that it won't, but i still expect it to happen some time before 2075.
- I don't think sentient aliens exist. Okay so there's the goldilocks nature of Earth's position which evidences in favour of my stance, but even without that, i just feel like we're alone
- bonus showerthought: imagine if aliens in the future try to "cancel" humanity for basically committing intergalactic blackface by making things like Star Wars and Star Trek. That's my baseless prediction if aliens exist
- I think the star wars sequel trilogy will be retconned out of canon
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 have also had the thought that aliens might be offended by all the media humans have made about aliens
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Which sequel trilogy? 1-3, or 7-9?
7-9, i call 1-3 the Prequels. I think in a way retconning 7-9 is the most profitable thing disney can do with it, there have been a few silly rumours they might do it too.
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Stargates
I think humanity will achieve digital immortality and might achieve a form of physical immortality by uploading themselves into artificial bodies.
And I'll 100% sign up for it if it becomes possible.
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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Big foot is real, lots of people have encountered it, and no one talks about it bc it rapes them
And that's why they call him "big foot," huh?
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