I feel like I’m a really good judge of character; I can tell if I’m not going to get along with someone or how they will treat me in the future. When it comes to high profile celebrity figures, i can get a sense of their character through very minimal data. This is why I predict Andrew Tate (toxic manosphere influencer) will pivot into becoming an alien conspiracy influence. But I have no evidence for it, thus the prediction is baseless.
Anyone have any similar beliefs/predictions?
- Microsoft will unironically release their own Linux distro
Already happened in 2020.
Azure Linux is a Microsoft-maintained, open-source Linux distribution built for Azure. It provides a lightweight, security-hardened operating system for virtual machines (VMs), containers, and Kubernetes clusters running on Azure infrastructure.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-linux/azure-linux-overview
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WSL already exists, I think you have a baseline for this
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.
Smart move on his part is to die as close to inauguration day as possible, but not beyond it.
gop WILL trying to bury his role in all this, and try to “move on”
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I’ll allow it, but only in prison.
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 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
My spidey senses tell me that will be coming shortly.
Yeah, I wonder if China is trying to figure out how to short the markets without the other hedge fund bros figuring out what’s gonna happen. Because the second chip shipments cease is the second this ai circlejerk house of cards musical chairs pass the iou game comes to an end. And then we see the k shaped economy turn into the greatest depression.
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We’ve gotten really comfortable at being 11 seconds to midnight. Anything pushes us past 12am
Spoiler alert from a shipping and oil guy: it ain’t over yet, not by a long shot.
At least that’s what the people with real money are betting.
We’re already in WW3
If we’re already in a world war, it should really be called world war 4 or 5. This has the global reach comparable to Vietnam or the Russia/Afghanistan conflict.
Water?
More likely the way one politician limply holds their wrist while pouring water for another politician; or some equally arcane “power move”.
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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…god dam it i can see that coming too
Yes, they will dam it
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Welcome to third world life.
they just end up charging people more for gas/electric and water instead of charging the datacenter owners.
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).
It doesn’t help that DeSantis’s anti-Disney push was around the time that Disney was in the process of moving more corporate jobs from California to Florida, which Disney stopped doing after the fiasco.
However, what will likely cause a collapse is that Florida has gotten into hurricane home insurance. If there is a bad year for Florida, Florida might not be able to cover the payouts for insurance claims. Combined with its current housing price slump already, and Florida may have major issues down the road.
i heard people are paying double/triple the premiums for home insurance. plus all the snowbirds/retirement folks going there are rethinking thier plans.
I know someone in Florida who pays about 40% more than me in home owners insurance, despite my mid-Atlantic house being worth ~2.5x as much.
a lot of people that retire there tend to be rich people, canadians too. and they likely arnt buying the ones close to the coast?
disney, and HOME insurance is one of the things besides disney keeping it afloat. nobody wants to risk insuring a disaster prone state.
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.
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.
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To me, AI is most impactful in ways it was originally created for: combing through large data sets to make connections, even if that data set is a picture, or fifty of them. E.g., an ai was used to look at pictures taken with a microscope and it was able to pick out different structures/organisms without staining. Similar systems were also used to find discrete hints of far off galaxies than astronomers would struggle to detect without making their data quite noisy.
The big companies had nothing to do with these afaik, especially since the researchers that wrote the papers used machine learning in there methodology instead of the colloquial “AI”, which I will always see as a misnomer until such time an AI is generally accepted to be someone, which I don’t believe will happen anytime soon with our level of technology and failing biosphere.
And I think it will come from AI. It’s either that or aliens, and only one of those two actually exist.
Eh, maybe AI adjacent, and certainly not from the big ai companies.
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.
It’d really be cool to see Venus colonized following some greenhouse gas cleanup like that.
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.
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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.
What are the unsolvable problems with autonomous cars? Also I agree it is a bad thing for pedestrian rights and cities in general.
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The AI bubble will burst sometime in 2027/early 2028.
Trump will use the financial collapse as an excuse to suspend elections.
The majority will be too busy scrambling to survive to complain.
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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.
Oligarchs, frustrated with dealing with their political sockpuppets, start just buying countries.
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
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One stratagem is to buy up the territory and then be mindful of the needs of those who are already on it.
The problem is, when we’re rich and powerful, it’s just way to easy to indulge our racist and classist proclivities, and then do a genocide.
Seriously, we humans just haven’t evolved past the bush tribes we were fifty thousand years ago.
The united stated purchased a bunch of territory.
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Have you seen Elysium?
Yeah…pretty much that. In some form or another. It won’t necessarily be the wealthy people blasting off to a space station, more likely just hiding away on luxury islands while the rest of the world continues to go to shit.
I’ve heard New Zealand is a popular place for that.
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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
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Which sequel trilogy? 1-3, or 7-9?
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They could also remake the prequels and get some real writers on them and make them good.
Looking at Disney’s MCU ouvre, it’s a blend of hits and misses, so I don’t fully trust the company to not mess it up.
DIsney ruined the MCU with streaming, they were just producing slop post-endgame. apparently they are being fickle with DOCTOR who as well form BBC.
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I think the earth is going to metaphorically say enough is enough and step in to fix climate change because humans are too selfish and greedy to do it ourselves. I think this is going to come by way of a massive volcanic eruption that causes short term global cooling while killing a good chunk of the population across a large geographical area both from the immediate disaster and the resulting long term damage from widespread ash/famine that could result.
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
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Stargates
My country will pivot to the far left the economy will get even worse then we will aggressively swing to the far right and things will get even worse then we will get dragged into a stupid war by a stupid right wing ghoul.
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Trump dead ,and having street parties over the world.
Ebola 3.0 and bird flu attack on the humans
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.
