Basically the same except we’re gonna generally agree that aliens are real and not just somewhere in the abyss of space. Feel free to disagree, but that’s where I’m at after the last few months - most specifically with Schumer’s UAP Disclosure Act. Won’t be mad if I’m wrong, but it sure as hell feels like it’s coming and quick.
If it turns out that the American government managed to hide the existence for aliens and then randomly just told everyone because somebody forced them to that will be amazing.
If they’re prepared to talk about it that almost certainly means that they’re not aliens.
The US military can more or less just do whatever they want they could totally ignore demands to release information, they could just say oh that was just a classified aircraft test our pilots weren’t told about because it’s above their pay grade, and we cannot release this information for national security reasons.
I think you’re pretty close. I think it is aliens (of some kind) but if not, it also means that either my government is lying to me (par for the course) or there’s some real crazy people high up that need to go.
So, even if it’s not something beyond our current belief about life or there’s some real fuckery that needs to be dealt with swiftly.
Based on the UAP Disclosure Act, I’m feeling pretty confident it is aliens of some kind. But at the very least, it sure looks like we’re gonna get a lot more than “yes, there are things in the sky our government cannot identify”.
Either way, the last few months have been a wild ride and ive enjoyed every moment of it. But, if it’s fuckery, my congresspeople and senator are gonna be hearing a lot more from me than they already have. Personally, I’m done with being lied to about shit like Iraq and funding the war machine and it’s time to focus on the real issues at hand. I just think one of those is gonna be ayylmaos.
I think if aliens are real and on earth, our perception of reality had been fed to us and nothing is real or to be believed. Particularly science and physics. Every position of power must be held by an Android ior simulated human and we are part of some experiment. Possibly or most likely fake stimuli being fed direct into our brains.
Regardless of what has or hasn’t happened… I really want to know what the hell congress were on about when talking of “crashed UAP’s with “biologics”” - what fucking biologics? Human test pilots? Funky new biological components? Aliens?!
I hate that it’s all cloak and dagger… Just fucking spill the beans about what the hell you’re on about damn it!
Read Schumer’s bill if you want even more “are you being serious?” Moments like that
This could have a transformative effect. So many people have no idea what’s been going on with this lately.
I think we will be more focused on making sure the planet is livable instead of giving a shit about space aliens tbh
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So interesting to me when I see this opinion. May I ask, are you American?
I am American and feel as though I’ve seen an uptick of people feeling this way.
Yep. Grusch coming out was the moment I started thinking “hmmm” then Schumer’s amendment to the NDAA was a “Wait, you’re being serious…” moment. So, I’m pretty convinced now. Totally cool with being wrong, but I’m getting real close to falling off the fence until proven otherwise.
The developed world will run out of charity.
We’ve spent the last 300 years essentially looting resources and labor from poorer parts of the world. And when they finally decide that enough is enough, that they want a piece of the pie, they won’t be able to get it.
Climate refugees will be killed at closely guarded border crossings. Fishing boats will be torpedoed. Encampments will be burned.
In “rich” countries, the poor will be gradually cut off. Their labor value will decrease even further, and there won’t be anything left for them. In some places, public housing and healthcare will allow them to limp on, until many are killed by the next pandemic.
The wealthy will enjoy what they have, their lives barely interrupted. The world will not look very different to them.
AI will make immense progress and all jobs that require a computer will be handed over to AI and robots. There will be hardly any middle managers left. People will do manual or personal stuff that robots cannot do.
Depending on who owns the AI, the distribution of wealth decides which jobs are available. I would bet on a small group of people who are going to decide what humanity will do.
The problem is that AI requires energy. At one point, the decision has to be made whether energy is used for bricks or bytes. Bytes will be prefered so most people will live in tiny rooms.
Since there is not much work to be done, and energy is expensive, people will spent most of their time doing something energy-efficient. Cities will be built for walking distances.
Aspiring artists will find work correcting the fingers and toes in AI illustrations.
This is the ultimate failure of capitalism, an autonomous Workforce should mean that we are all free to live our lives. Instead it just means that we won’t be able to eat.
That depends on you. The ones who create the future decide who will be able to eat.
The funny part is that the free humans already take all the resources and create all the scarcity. Why should that change when AI allows people to be more free? AI won’t solve any social problems.
2033 will finally be the year of linux desktop
Hopefully 😂
Xorg will finally be put to rest at least. The wayland compositor is still a huge, monumental development, the excuses for using proprietary OSs will thin out.
I can’t wait for the day when Windows 12 releases and we get to bully windows users even harder.
The year that most people start using Linux is the year that it will find some way to sell out. *I know that it’s not a monolothic thing, GPL, etc. but people ruin everything… enshittification, uh, finds a way
And you’re right. 2032 is the last year that Win 10 gets updates.
Same, but slightly more on fire.
I watched a documentary about this recently. The franchise wars should be coming up soon that allows all restaurants to become Taco Bell.
I think I watched the same one. I think the three seashells will revolutionise the bathroom experience.
I still can’t figure out how those goddamn things work.
uhh huhuuhhhuhh Hey guys, get this. This guys doesn’t know how the three sea shells work!
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Strange… I watched a similar documentary, but it was Pizza Hut that prevailed.
I hope not, I wouldn’t be able to afford pizza anymore T,T
Ten years is really a pretty small jump. It’s not like things are wildly different today than in 2013.
2013 was just before the start of Russia’s invasion and illegal annexation of a part of Ukraine. Things were very different.
Also, it was before massive social media, Trump and the woke thing, so USA resembled a sane place.
Social media was already massive, it was just primarily Facebook and Twitter (Arab Spring heavily involved social media). The US tea party movement had been around for a few years, some people were still very jazzed up about Affordable Care Act, only part of the defense of marriage act had been overturned and lawsuits would continue for a few more years. Conservatives hated Obama and were already talking about taking their country back.
Most everything in the US is just extrapolation plus some pandemic fuel.
In 10 years we went through a huge jump. Mass use of smart phones, new PoS systems, the internet has become overly censored, forest fires like we have never seen before, covid, powerful handhelds, AI… Things are exponential right now
Still a matter of degrees. Smart phones were 57% of the market in 2013. Not sure what point of sale system advancements in the last decade you’re talking about that are very revolutionary - we’ve certainly had online connected credit cards systems for decades. Really, all those things are pretty evolutionary in the span we’re taking about, with AI poised to be the most impactful for hasn’t been in the period.
Smart phones were already huge. The first Pixel came out in 2013, replacing the Nexus, the iPhone was on the 5 and 5s, and the Galaxy S4 was released.
Covid, AI, larger fires are the main things out of your examples that have changed dramatically, but I don’t think any of them have been exponential changes. For most people, covid is probably the largest, and if they did not lose anybody and are healthy themselves, the main thing that changed is potential wfh options and everything being more expensive.
Thank you. I feel like I’m talking crazy pills reading this thread.
The world wasn’t a terribly different place ten years ago. Sure, some things are more messed up now, and we have some neat new widgets. But i seriously doubt Apple Pay, the steam deck, and
fancy autocorrectI mean chatGPT, have really shifted the world that much.More people having smart phones has lead to a societal change where they’re becoming more and more necessary for everyday life, but I could still love my life without one just fine, and many of my older family members are doing just that. I think I’ve used Apple Pay like once in my life when I forgot my wallet at home, and chatGPT reminds me of talking to a dementia patient more than Skynet.
Now if the question was what the year 2053 would be like, that would be way more interesting. Back in 1993, I don’t think anyone would have accurately guessed what was going on now. Being able to browse the internet on your phone would have seemed nearly pointless and infinitely painful. The internet and internet advertising being a deciding factor in national elections would sound crazy. Electric cars being somewhat affordable and practical would sound like we live in the jetsons.
I think 2053 is gonna be wild. Hopefully I don’t die of dehydration or catastrophic weather before we get there.
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Climate change is worse, US politics more polarized, phones are bigger, computers are faster, etc. But if someone went to sleep in 2013 and woke up in 2023, it might take them a little bit to notice the changes.
Heat dome wasn’t a word in 2013. Fire weather meant a dry day, not a tornado forming inside of a wild fire.
Yeah, it’s worse now. But it’s not super dramatic.
You’re like the Black Knight from Holy Grail
It did in parts of Canada. America just wasn’t paying attention.
Heat dome and heat island have been used for a couple decades in Arizona.
Honestly like the biggest change since 2013 is probably twitter starting to rot
We’re already in a dystopia, it’s been that way for a while now, it’ll just get even more dystopian.
yeah pretty much. Eventually somethings gotta give, but its a matter of if we live to see it or not. I don’t think it will for me, but that’s what Lenin said in January 1917 so, you know. Never know!
I have a personal preference
Same as it does now, just with slightly less effective money.
Maybe a little sweatier and thirsty.
Begin homeless will be an actually standard in Europe and USA.
More climate refugees, more crop failures due to worsening climate change, more deaths due to climate change
1984
1984 is wayyy too exaggerated. We don’t need to force people to have a “telescreen” if everyone just voluntarily spend their own resources to obtain them. (Eg: Smart Home Assistants) We don’t need to have a “ministry of truth” when people voluntarily believe in lies spread on news and social media. (Eg: Various Facebook groups, “QAnon”, Fox News)
This is something that I feel like Brave New World got a lot more right. In that book, people’s pleasures are their prisons.
“This year for sure” :^)
More Linux users is really a coin flip in my mind. It feels like Linux had more users in 2016 than now. Linux had more games natively support it than today and proton for be had been really hit or miss. We’ll see if steam os ever comes to the desktop because I could see that being a major benefit to the Linux market but I don’t see it significantly growing before then on desktops.
You can install Proton (the game compatibility layer) on desktop Linux now, can’t you?
Yes, you always could. That’s not my point at all. Linux in general has been less stable through updates than Windows in my expense and in a lot of people’s experience. Steam os preserves root and wipes all packages that aren’t supported in the base install every update. So it forces stability. This is the length Valve has gone to in order to make Linux stable. Android is also stable in that same way. By making root fs essentially read only.
To make Linux more stable you have to reduce user choice and a lot of users are okay with this.
Bernie Sanders will be announcing his bid for presidency
I could get behind a mobile suit Sanders.
build more philons
We’re definitely going to see jobs affected by ChatGPT and the like. It’s an open question of “Can LLMs do things as well as humans?” across the board, but when have you seen a company turn down a deal like “slightly shittier, but costs pennies on the dollar and doesn’t have any pesky ‘rights’”?
Still waiting for that VR quantum blockchain technology to affect jobs
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