That we're able to dodge the incoming wave of fascism and peacefully skim board into progressive politics.
The US Government will remove their heads from their asses and work on fixing things before it's too late.
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.
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.
Everyone moving to open protocols and companies like Reddit, Twitter, Meta going bankrupt
The people in power actually taking climate change seriously, and not just in a tragedy of the commons type of way. I mean actually working together to slow it down or reverse it.
Proof for extraterrestrial life. It doesn’t have to be aliens in spaceships or even a transmission. I would be fine with microscopic organisms on Ganymede or Europa.
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.
Same, on waiting on NASA to bring back the water samples from mars, hoping for life to be found on mars
the pentagon declassified some ufo a few ago
its one step closer to aliens
Universal basic income. Everywhere.
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.
For my life to have worth.
I don’t know you or your situation, stranger, but it can happen as soon as you’re ready.
I'm ready but I've also been waiting.
life's what you make it
That's a part of what I mean. Why make it one thing as opposed to another thing? Not everyone is blessed to not have indecision.
About three fiddy.
Or fitty sint
At least I'm higher than the gas prices then.
Samesies
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.
Thank you for acknowledging that comment is inappropriate for a hope thread, regardless of how correct it may be.
I'm just tired of seeing it when people say "we need fusion!" "OH RLY? HAVE YOU LOOKED UP LATELY"
It's stale and adds nothing
At this point, every day above ground is a good day.
Yeah but someone's gotta mine that coal
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
It's gonna be locked down. Everyone wants a holodeck, but imagine there are so many rules and regs on what you can and can't do in one that it's not even worth it?
Imagine playing GTA, but:
you can't hijack a train full of people
buildings don't take any damage when you fly helicopters into them
people's limbs don't detach when you sever them
you can't make idle small talk with random NPCs without it escalating into violence
Would that be a GTA you would actually play?
One must walk before they can run. Probably. I dunno the future.
a easy and stress free retirement
Star Trek, minus the teleporters.
If anyone ever invents a synthesizer somehow capitalism will fina way to ruin it. It would be lovely to live in a post scarcity society though
Maybe just teleporters that don't work with living tissue.
Finally winning the lottery!!
Just remember: 99% of gamblers quit just before they win big!
A decline in my cynicism that is caused by factual occurrences in reality.
Liberty and justice for all.
And soft lavatory paper.
Elon Musk has an interview and just...explodes.
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.
Ending world hunger and finding a cure for cancer and other currently uncurable diseases.
Transition from toilet paper to the Three Seashells.
Gotta save the trees for carbon dioxide conversion!
Yeah, so when the world finally burn, the fire would spread faster 🤞😁
Mopeds become popular in the UK so the likely hood of mine getting stolen is lessened
Loud hot rods and motorcycles become quiet as a whisper. Guns disappear. Religion disappears.
Loud engines aren't a technological or engineering problem; they're a self-esteem problem. Universal healthcare that includes mental health support and a strong working class economy will go a long way towards addressing those with low self-esteem, but they'll never go away entirely.
That first wish is coming true with EV <3
I wish I could buy an electric motorcycle already, but they're soo overpriced. Anyway, I expect them to become available at affordable prices within 10 years.
Quantum computing becoming practical for ordinary people.
well IBM does have cloud accessible quantum computers that they don't charge to use
I used those to teach myself some stuff about quantum information science
Link?
An asteroid
Oblivion. The one prediction I'm confident will happen.
Dude that came out like 15 years ago
You... I've seen you... you are the one from my dreams
Then the stars were right. This is the day.
ES sucks.
Competent, honest leadership everywhere.
Vert skating in the Olympics
The American Government dying
Do you have a license for that edge?
Maybe start with the death of the two-party system?
in sha' allah
AGI singularity would be cool
Less people.
It could become true soon (by the end of the century).
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
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.
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
Or hide the parts we want to forget and breathe normally for a few days.
Human extinction. Thankfully, climate change exists, and will very likely be the end of us if we don't blow ourselves up sooner.
Okay, you first /s
Human's have done some impressive things. We're unravelling the mysteries of the universe and building some amazing tech. Yes, a powerful few of us have done some horrific things, to ourselves and to the creatures we share our home with, but I don't think it was all for nothing if that's what you're getting at.
To see my enemies crushed. To see them driven before me. And to see more hybrid and electric vehicles on the road.
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
Out where I live that would be a LOT of walking.
Well, you could always close your eyes
We also would have accepted the lamentations of their women.
Genghis, we've talked about this before: you can't snap arrows and push EV's at the same time -- there needs to be a transition period.
That we're able to dodge the incoming wave of fascism and peacefully skim board into progressive politics.
The US Government will remove their heads from their asses and work on fixing things before it's too late.
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.
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.
Everyone moving to open protocols and companies like Reddit, Twitter, Meta going bankrupt
The people in power actually taking climate change seriously, and not just in a tragedy of the commons type of way. I mean actually working together to slow it down or reverse it.
Proof for extraterrestrial life. It doesn’t have to be aliens in spaceships or even a transmission. I would be fine with microscopic organisms on Ganymede or Europa.
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.
Same, on waiting on NASA to bring back the water samples from mars, hoping for life to be found on mars
the pentagon declassified some ufo a few ago
its one step closer to aliens
Universal basic income. Everywhere.
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.
For my life to have worth.
I don’t know you or your situation, stranger, but it can happen as soon as you’re ready.
I'm ready but I've also been waiting.
life's what you make it
That's a part of what I mean. Why make it one thing as opposed to another thing? Not everyone is blessed to not have indecision.
About three fiddy.
Or fitty sint
At least I'm higher than the gas prices then.
Samesies
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.
Thank you for acknowledging that comment is inappropriate for a hope thread, regardless of how correct it may be.
I'm just tired of seeing it when people say "we need fusion!" "OH RLY? HAVE YOU LOOKED UP LATELY"
It's stale and adds nothing
At this point, every day above ground is a good day.
Yeah but someone's gotta mine that coal
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
It's gonna be locked down. Everyone wants a holodeck, but imagine there are so many rules and regs on what you can and can't do in one that it's not even worth it?
Imagine playing GTA, but:
Would that be a GTA you would actually play?
One must walk before they can run. Probably. I dunno the future.
a easy and stress free retirement
Star Trek, minus the teleporters.
If anyone ever invents a synthesizer somehow capitalism will fina way to ruin it. It would be lovely to live in a post scarcity society though
Maybe just teleporters that don't work with living tissue.
Finally winning the lottery!!
Just remember: 99% of gamblers quit just before they win big!
Required reading: www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_won_a_656_million_dollar_lottery_what_do/chba4bf
Trump die
Edit: Oh shi-
Industrial use of oil and coal goes poof
Not dying in a food riot.
A decline in my cynicism that is caused by factual occurrences in reality.
Liberty and justice for all.
And soft lavatory paper.
Elon Musk has an interview and just...explodes.
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.
Ending world hunger and finding a cure for cancer and other currently uncurable diseases.
Transition from toilet paper to the Three Seashells.
Gotta save the trees for carbon dioxide conversion!
Yeah, so when the world finally burn, the fire would spread faster 🤞😁
Mopeds become popular in the UK so the likely hood of mine getting stolen is lessened
Loud hot rods and motorcycles become quiet as a whisper. Guns disappear. Religion disappears.
Loud engines aren't a technological or engineering problem; they're a self-esteem problem. Universal healthcare that includes mental health support and a strong working class economy will go a long way towards addressing those with low self-esteem, but they'll never go away entirely.
That first wish is coming true with EV <3
I wish I could buy an electric motorcycle already, but they're soo overpriced. Anyway, I expect them to become available at affordable prices within 10 years.
Quantum computing becoming practical for ordinary people.
well IBM does have cloud accessible quantum computers that they don't charge to use
I used those to teach myself some stuff about quantum information science
Link?
An asteroid
Oblivion. The one prediction I'm confident will happen.
Dude that came out like 15 years ago
You... I've seen you... you are the one from my dreams
Then the stars were right. This is the day.
ES sucks.
Competent, honest leadership everywhere.
Vert skating in the Olympics
The American Government dying
Do you have a license for that edge?
Maybe start with the death of the two-party system?
in sha' allah
AGI singularity would be cool
Less people.
It could become true soon (by the end of the century).
https://www.livescience.com/worlds-population-could-plummet-to-six-billion-by-the-end-of-the-century-new-study-suggests
Looking forward to it
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
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.
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
Or hide the parts we want to forget and breathe normally for a few days.
Human extinction. Thankfully, climate change exists, and will very likely be the end of us if we don't blow ourselves up sooner.
Okay, you first /s
Human's have done some impressive things. We're unravelling the mysteries of the universe and building some amazing tech. Yes, a powerful few of us have done some horrific things, to ourselves and to the creatures we share our home with, but I don't think it was all for nothing if that's what you're getting at.
The deaths of certain people.
Bitcoin reach 200k