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

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.

Thanks for sharing the experience, sounds like it can be executed in other places with some success then.

More likely the way one politician limply holds their wrist while pouring water for another politician; or some equally arcane "power move".

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.

The world order will collapse when brainrot GenZ will take the reins

the decision making problem is the obvious one. there are an infinite number of possible edge cases to deal with when it comes to driving a car on roads with humans. current strategies require a bespoke solution to pretty much all of them, meaning tons of common edge cases arent covered and the vehicles will take potentially wildly inappropriate actions in unhandled cases, without even considering false positive or false negative detection of handled edge cases. this problem will never go away, and if you could make a computer that could do it as reliably as a human it would basically be agi. its a sisyphian problem that isnt going to be solved before we remember how great trains and streets without cars are.

I don't want to think about it but probably. I, as a GenZ, see them as very similar to boomers but with a kind of restlessness they will apply to inappropriate contexts. Boomers for all their faults are good at only tapping into their blood pressure dysregulation to kill people or advocate for war or racism, GenZ is just in a transient state between chaotic or tranquilised, so i could see a GenZ world leader firing a nuke for fun or something. But hey.

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Congratulations and welcome back, Nostradamus

I'm in favour of leaving the prequels as they are, but it wouldn't upset me if they remade any of the movies. As long as it's an actual remake and not minute cgi changes or dumping CGI assets into the OT films (they did this).

Like, Disney could have and probably should have just done animated versions of the original trilogy, seeing as they chose to rehash the general shell of the story and pass it off as a sequel trilogy. I would not have cared if they did that - i would have avoided watching just to save money but i think that would be the logical first step for disney, childrens' animation producer, to do with Star Wars, beloved franchise, and it would have helped to draw in a new generation of fans.

If they'd even rehashed the story a bit, e.g "fixed the prequels," added more female protags in the OT, made it more sparkly and disney-esque, then that's fine. Loads of Sci-Fi franchises have had reboots like that, and fans are capable of seperating original from new wave interpretation (Stargate and I think Star Trek are some examples of this.)

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.

Nah. Gen Z is going to end up like Gen X. It is Gen Alpha which is going to kill us all if the Boomers don't already do it.

Imagine people progressively got soo dumb that one day we just forgot how to keep the technology working and went back to being cavemen.

One non-USA country will institute a program encouraging the elderly to die early as a way to reduce retirement spending.

I've heard New Zealand is a popular place for that.