Do you have any baseless predictions for the future that you nonetheless expect to occur?

Oligarchs, frustrated with dealing with their political sockpuppets, start just buying countries.

Trump dead ,and having street parties over the world.

Ebola 3.0 and bird flu attack on the humans

Okay now it's weird how many people are citing things i've also thought about!

I expect him to be a quite significant figure in history textbooks, hopefully as an example of how not to lead, as the USA's version of King Henry VIII of England, and the reason why the constitution and electoral system was changed. A rare example of president->prison pieline taking place in the USA.

However. It just feels like he has some unholy power to prolong our suffering and tank any blows to his career or even his life. I fuoly expect that he'll stay alive as long as possible which wiol prevent americans talking so candidly bout him.

Or maybe it'll allow trump to see every last member of his cult turn on him. Maga voters will finally admit that whoever comes after trump is better, they haven't seen lasting change or security following his regime, and it wasn't at all worth the humiliation they subjected themselves to. They're like a really toxic F-ed up college fraternity.

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.

Here in Japan lots of people wear these while working, it looks like a great solution for mild summer temps of 28c, but sincerely is mostly unusable in the wet heat of other regions.

Venezuela, a prod member of ExxonMobil Conoco-Phillips

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.

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.

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.

disney, and HOME insurance is one of the things besides disney keeping it afloat. nobody wants to risk insuring a disaster prone state.

i heard people are paying double/triple the premiums for home insurance. plus all the snowbirds/retirement folks going there are rethinking thier plans.

gop WILL trying to bury his role in all this, and try to "move on"

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.

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.

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