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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (2 children)

AI, also known as Assumed Intelligence

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Either it will get incredibly better, or it will just fade out (except in some applications like execution of process based work, and possibly in the creative arts).

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably low-hanging fruit here, but Cybertrucks

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hate to break it to you, but nostalgia will probably make them cool. Nostalgia is the rosiest of tints.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Ugh you're probably right, it's going to be our generation's DMC DeLorean. The vehicle itself will age poorly, but slap it in a BTTF reboot in five years and it'll fit right in

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This. Racism, bigotry, homophobia, xenophobia, etc will never go away, but hopefully it will go back to being something that is shunned instead of promoted

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Trump/MAGA

eighty years later, in Germany is still trying to live down their shame

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

uhh, most of germany yeah.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Maybe. The US would have to first begin to feel actual shame about colonization and slavery though, which hasn't really begun in earnest.

I don't know if the US has the capacity for feeling the weight of its true guilt.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

eighty years later, in Germany is still trying to live down their shame

Yet, it seems many Germans are prepared to go down that same road with the AfD.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

well except all the Nazis in Germany that were brought directly back into:

but other than all of that though!

(And that's not even mentioning the Nazis and collaborators which made up the origins of Radio Free Europe/Liberty, the "Victims of Communism Foundation" which grew out of the fascist-filled anti-Soviet "Captive Nations Lobby" headed by OUN-B Nazis from Ukraine, and all the Operation Aerodynamic, Operation Paperclip, Operation Sunrise, Operation Beladonna, Operation Lynx, etc etc.)

[–] tja 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Half of Germany doesn't think it was that bad and wants to repeat it. Or has at least nothing against a repeat

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

I feel like there's been a trend of people switching from alcohol to cannabis as its become more widely accepted but I know a lot of people who have ended up taking it to excess as well. The idea of being addicted to it still really doesn't come up often and looking back that might be viewed as problematic.

I'm not against people using it or anything but I do feel bad for the people who have gotten to the point where they need to smoke to feel like themselves.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

People don’t think pot is addictive because it’s not chemically addictive, like nicotine or alcohol are. Those things actually change your body chemistry, and your system becomes reliant on them.

Pot doesn’t do that, but it can definitely be psychologically addictive . Virtually anything can be psychologically addictive, like video games or watching TV. If you feel the need to take a few bong hits every hour of every day, or if your desire to get high interferes with your responsibilities, then yeah, you’re probably psychologically addicted. Get help.

Getting wasted every once in a while is probably okay, though. People need to make sure they’re not like one of those idiots I knew in college, who insisted they drove better when high. They didn’t, and neither does anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

100% agree!

As an addition to this I firmly believe medical marijuana is a phase.

Now I've made people angry here's the nuance.

CBD/THC combinations certainly have a role in some patients with chronic pain, especially where it's use can avoid or reduce the use of opioids.

There are clear specific uses such as intractable epilepsy where it is clearly the best treatment. It is effective for glaucoma but there are better treatments available.

I'm highly suspicious of marijuana having any role in mental health and there are, in my opinion, no convincing studies published showing that it is useful at all despite the fact that large studies have been done and presumably file-drawed.

The idea that smoking is an appropriate delivery method for a medication when other methods are available is insane. Very few things are as bad as tobacco smoke but inhaling smoke is bad for you.

My prediction is that in 20 years we will have cannabis derivatives in capsules that fulfil the specific purposes and the idea that any doctor prescribed marijuana to smoke will seem insane to younger doctors.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

At the Cancer institute they offered me CBD pills for nausea. People smoking weed is terrible, like they learned nothing from everyone on oxygen tanks after cigarette smoke destroyed their lungs

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fast fashion. At least I hope it does? It's such a wasteful abomination that we don't need right now.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fast fashion is older that the 2020's

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Ah fair enough. I guess I only learned about it in the 2020s when I read some expose on it and it made me throw up a little bit in my mouth.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Having a truck (I wish..).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Trucks are undeniably useful, but now have become an instrument of ego, and a status symbol, hence the stupidity of modern pickups. Hopefully they close the loophole of "light trucks" so these things don't have to be so recklessly dangerous, same with SUVs.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

One could only hope

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I think climate denial will look pretty funny in hindsight after agriculture has broadly collapsed leading to mass famines, and a bunch of coastal cities are several meters under toxified saltwater.

Like, that thing I just described is the optimistic scenario, where humanity/society survives despite things turning way shittier. It could be much worse.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's really not even close to the optimistic scenario. It's arguably not even in the pessimistic scenario if you're not just in the "make stuff up club."

https://cdn.oceanservice.noaa.gov/oceanserviceprod/hazards/sealevelrise/2.0-Future-Mean-Sea-Level.pdf

We're talking at most half a meter of rise by 2050, at most 2 meters by 2100, at most 4 meters by 2150. The intermediate projection is a third of a meter by 2050. The optimistic projection (which we're not going to hit) is 3/20th of a meter.

Climate change is real. The risk of famine is real. The risk of global conflict is real. The risk of trying storms is real. However, "doomsday everybody dies" is not really on any serious projections. The worst case is "a lot of people in a lot of poor nations die and rich nations have more wars and more immigration."

[–] Noel_Skum 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

3/20th of a metre is a wild measurement to read.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That is someone applying imperial system logic to the metric system. No one in their right mind uses fractions to describe 15cm.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

That is not accurate, and doomerism only helps those who want us too demoralized to put up a fight. If you want to be part of the solution to climate change, I recommend doing some reading on what the range of projections and outcomes actually look like.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Everything, considering we'll be fighting each other over puddles of standing water in about two to three decades. Today's life will seem like paradise in comparison, even for people who are currently suicidal.

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[–] Vertelleus 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope anti-abortion, and government restrictive bodily autonomy legislation.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Everything I like will be praised down the ages and everything I don't like will be seen as irredeemably cringe.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Barbie movie. It is a snapshot in time look at our culture and will make no sense to future generations.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Tbh there's lots of stuff in the Barbie movie that I would consider timeless, especially the feminist aspects of it. What parts of the movie do you think applies to the 2020s but doesn't apply to, say, 1990 or 1960?

EDIT: I may have interpreted this comment too pessimisticly-- this question is about the future, not the past. Maybe, hopefully, societal views on gender will change in the future enough that the Barbie movie will become outdated

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: A lot of things that are aggressively "of their time" end up as iconic period pieces after some twenty years.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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] 14 points 2 months 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)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Moral values. Some of the things I was taught were good in the 80s are now seen as evil and vice versa. I don't think it's the only time that'll happen.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago
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