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Aimless - Crying on a Dwi arrest because there is a kid in the car is a sign of some underlying mental health issues.
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Aimless - Crying on a Dwi arrest because there is a kid in the car is a sign of some underlying mental health issues.
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Originally Posted By Canoeguy: I’ll likely die? Same, but think broader. DSA takeover? Yellowstone eruption? Nuclear winter? |
Aimless - The police academy ain't med school
Aimless - Crying on a Dwi arrest because there is a kid in the car is a sign of some underlying mental health issues.
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Aimless - Crying on a Dwi arrest because there is a kid in the car is a sign of some underlying mental health issues.
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Decadence is no longer morally acceptable.
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Too many variables to calculate. But there’s the general vibe that all the really important things are going in the wrong direction. And no amount of high level financial scams are going to bootstrap us out of it. Personally I think there’s 2 things that keep us from widespread chaos. One is that people can still afford food, the other is that whenever any 3 people get together to effect any kind of change beyond that of the most pointless and tepid varieties. 2 Of those people are either corporate shills or police informants or more and more often both. To say nothing at all of the fact that AI powered surveillance cameras are everywhere. So for the time being the only real variable in the deck is lone nuts and over the last few years the lone nuts have had a particularly embarrassing track record of utterly pointless and often hilarious failures. |
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Originally Posted By Positronic: Enshittification, plus as stated above- continued Idiocracy. Idiocracy is presented as a failure of Darwinism, the corollary there is a simple question. How much no holds barred, hardcore, inescapable Darwinism on a National or global scale would it take to undo this? Or is it inescapable? That it’s going to be like that until humanity goes away? |
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My projections: Boomers die off Evangelical Christians become less of an influence in America, thankfully, since they have been duped around the Israel issue We make a pivot to a real America First policy We divorce ourselves from Israel and the middle east We focus on the western hemisphere Ukraine might exist, it might not, it's not really consequential for America Computer RAM becomes more expensive in the near term, because of AI Nvidia remains dominant for compute America leaves the middle east Sand people to do Sand people things We pivot to the China problem, embrace Japan, and Taiwan since they are actually real allies that like us The western hemisphere policy becomes priority, along with Asianic politics American domination continues Assuming we get spending, entitlements, and the US treasury bond problem under control, which means a lot less spending on the middle east and Israel All will be well if the above happens |
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Most don't understand 20 years, or 2046, is like asking someone in 1860 what 1960 would be like. Tech has proven itself to be exponential across most domains and disciplines. What's more important, we are on the right side of the hockey stick curve now. The tech is beginning to go vertical. Tech is coming at us so fast now, it's hard to stay loosely acquainted with the changes. If AGI recursive self-improvement becomes separated from human influence, we'll essentially have Gods controlling us in low single-digit years. |
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Originally Posted By JLAudio: My projections: Boomers die off Evangelical Christians become less of an influence in America, thankfully, since they have been duped around the Israel issue We make a pivot to a real America First policy We divorce ourselves from Israel and the middle east We focus on the western hemisphere Ukraine might exist, it might not, it's not really consequential for America Computer RAM becomes more expensive in the near term, because of AI Nvidia remains dominant for compute America leaves the middle east Sand people to do Sand people things We pivot to the China problem, embrace Japan, and Taiwan since they are actually real allies that like us The western hemisphere policy becomes priority, along with Asianic politics American domination continues Assuming we get spending, entitlements, and the US treasury bond problem under control, which means a lot less spending on the middle east and Israel All will be well if the above happens Uh, huh… there’s a lot I could say about this. But I have to zoom in on one question, when a half a dozen of those sand people do something nasty and our elderly politicians unanimously vote to invade Yemen or Oman or some other Middle Eastern country? Generation X is turning into a bunch of crotchety old farts at a pretty decent clip. No one in a position of power has any reason to back away from the abyss. |
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Originally Posted By Hesperus: Uh, huh… there’s a lot I could say about this. But I have to zoom in on one question, when a half a dozen of those sand people do something nasty and our elderly politicians unanimously vote to invade Yemen or Oman or some other Middle Eastern country? Generation X is turning into a bunch of crotchety old farts at a pretty decent clip. No one in a position of power has any reason to back away from the abyss. Originally Posted By Hesperus: Originally Posted By JLAudio: My projections: Boomers die off Evangelical Christians become less of an influence in America, thankfully, since they have been duped around the Israel issue We make a pivot to a real America First policy We divorce ourselves from Israel and the middle east We focus on the western hemisphere Ukraine might exist, it might not, it's not really consequential for America Computer RAM becomes more expensive in the near term, because of AI Nvidia remains dominant for compute America leaves the middle east Sand people to do Sand people things We pivot to the China problem, embrace Japan, and Taiwan since they are actually real allies that like us The western hemisphere policy becomes priority, along with Asianic politics American domination continues Assuming we get spending, entitlements, and the US treasury bond problem under control, which means a lot less spending on the middle east and Israel All will be well if the above happens Uh, huh… there’s a lot I could say about this. But I have to zoom in on one question, when a half a dozen of those sand people do something nasty and our elderly politicians unanimously vote to invade Yemen or Oman or some other Middle Eastern country? Generation X is turning into a bunch of crotchety old farts at a pretty decent clip. No one in a position of power has any reason to back away from the abyss. Great question. Gen X is malleable from my perspective. They aren't on board with historic boomer and Evangelical politics, many grew up with the internet in their lifetimes and have seen some things. The support for Israel is a key factor on why sand people do nasty things to America. Once that influence reduces from boomers, the threats reduce to our country. America needs to let sand people fight their own sand people wars without American support and influence. It's been happening for 2,000+ years per history. We have bigger problems to focus on, like American priorities, especially in the Asianic theater with real allies like SK and Taiwan. That pivot was attempted under prior administrations for the betterment of Americans, until a supposed key ME ally convinced, or maybe duped, the decision maker into launching a new war and front. Now we are are all suffering from that decision in our wallets. |
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Originally Posted By JLAudio: My projections: Boomers die off Evangelical Christians become less of an influence in America, thankfully, since they have been duped around the Israel issue We make a pivot to a real America First policy We divorce ourselves from Israel and the middle east We focus on the western hemisphere Ukraine might exist, it might not, it's not really consequential for America Computer RAM becomes more expensive in the near term, because of AI Nvidia remains dominant for compute America leaves the middle east Sand people to do Sand people things We pivot to the China problem, embrace Japan, and Taiwan since they are actually real allies that like us The western hemisphere policy becomes priority, along with Asianic politics American domination continues Assuming we get spending, entitlements, and the US treasury bond problem under control, which means a lot less spending on the middle east and Israel All will be well if the above happens Well since the youngest boomers are 62 chances are good that they will pretty much be gone along with all their institutional knowledge. |
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AI is going to “liberate” millions of workers, mostly .gov folks. Unemployment will be at 30-40%. The middle class will be almost entirely eliminated, with multiple generations of families living in the same home. This will be possible only because of combined UBIs for residents that—combined—will cover the most basic of needs, but not in First World style. This may cause a mass movement of the population out of the cities for some folks, who not finding work available in the city anyway, flee the increased violence of an incredibly worsening low-trust society. This pattern will cause rumblings of balkanization to emerge in social-media, but fear of losing UBI from the federal .gov limits such conjecture to mildly passionate, low-attendance protests that achieve nothing, to the relief of many. Muslim influence will be at its highest level in a Western society. Major cities will fall to islamic control, as well as a sizeable portion of congress. At this time, legislation to modify the Constitution to be friendlier to islamic policy will already have been in the works for several years. At this point, many congress members and government public figures haven’t been speaking English for years, because instant translation has been available for a decade—and speaking English is seen by many “newmembers” as a tool of colonialist imperialism anyway. A return of the .gov to democrat control results in two decades of a political malaise characterized by high unemployment, lower availability of consumer products including those considered critical, with a government more concerned with liberal extremist policies than actual beneficial legislation. Government censure of media and information will be accomplished through guided AI “agencies” making what passes for the future internet nothing more than a programming/enforcement tool. “Cell phones” will be wetware equipment: that is to say, available as cybernetic implants. These implants will also allow control of the basic function of most household functions. There will be some high-profile crimes committed with wetware ‘hacking’ that will cause uproar within social circles; the .gov will implement new, cyber monitoring command and control functions under the Protect Individual Bioware Act that effectively allows .gov “protection” of everything seen, heard, viewed, and experienced by net users “in the name of safety”. Major protests in denser cities get the .gov to “stop” monitoring for drug use, which used to make an individual ineligible for UBI, but democrat-inspired legislation kills this requirement…and makes wetware “a human right”. Public schools will be unrecognizable to what we know, serving to mostly “educate” children on how to use their wetware effectively. The divide between wetware-enhanced folks and those afraid of/resistant to the technology will mostly have been eliminated at this point, due to unenhanced people increasingly unable to compete or even function with the wetware enabled. Most employment doesn’t provide “training” to folks, as much as allowing them access to privileged software that allows them to perform work functions while under license. A much-reduced full-time active duty military function is performed—as the need arises—by “newdraft” personnel who are downloaded with required mission software as necessary. Society, in general, will at the same time be more connected than ever, while never being more discordant. AI-powered personal assistants will have replaced human partners for millions, exponentially increasing the inability of a quickly growing majority of society to interact in anything resembling our current time’s social mores. I won’t talk about what this does to population totals. |
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Originally Posted By Hesperus: Idiocracy is presented as a failure of Darwinism, the corollary there is a simple question. How much no holds barred, hardcore, inescapable Darwinism on a National or global scale would it take to undo this? Or is it inescapable? That it’s going to be like that until humanity goes away? Lets look at trends. Considering all of the idiotic shit you probably did as a kid (we all did), did you ever do something as retarded as eat a tide pod to impress your friends? |
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Originally Posted By 6EQUJ5: Lets look at trends. Considering all of the idiotic shit you probably did as a kid (we all did), did you ever do something as retarded as eat a tide pod to impress your friends? When you say ‘your friends’, do you mean your five or six buddies we had back then…or a potential world wide audience that today’s kids can easily access? Because I think it makes a difference. |
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Originally Posted By Sixtigers: When you say 'your friends', do you mean your five or six buddies we had back then or a potential world wide audience that today's kids can easily access? Because I think it makes a difference. |
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Originally Posted By JLAudio: My projections: Boomers die off Evangelical Christians become less of an influence in America, thankfully, since they have been duped around the Israel issue We make a pivot to a real America First policy People vastly overestimate the influence that evangelical Christians have on foreign policy regarding Israel. Yes, Evangelical Christian fundamentalists do believe that Israel is "the chosen people", but it doesn't really influence their voting. It isn't even a top ten issue for most of them Also, it's the conservative fundamentalist Christians who are growing the fastest out of all Christian stripes, so that's not going to die off any time soon. |
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U.S. Debt Servicing Projections (Next 20 Years) The U.S. government's net interest costs on the national debt are projected to surge from roughly $1.0 trillion in 2026 to over $2.1 trillion annually by 2036, and climb even faster toward the 2040s as debt-to-GDP ratios approach 140% 150%+. Net interest is already consuming roughly 18% of total federal revenue eclipsing annual defense spending. 10-to-20-Year Cost Trajectory2026 Baseline: Net interest costs sit at ~$1.0 trillion (~3.4% of GDP). 2036 Projection: Net interest climbs to ~$2.1 trillion (~5% to 6.7% of GDP) per the Congressional Budget Office. 2046 2048 Outlook: Extrapolating current primary deficits and rising debt levels (projected past 140% of GDP), annual debt-service costs risk scaling toward $3.5 trillion to $4+ trillion per year under standard macroeconomic assumptions. |
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I think more DSA democrats with be elected because the younger crowd has been fully indoctrinated by public education system and think warm and fuzzy thoughts about socialism. They'll be obedient little idiots. 20 years from now... think of Cuba. |
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Think Hunger Games. Not as extreme, but really crappy. Expect the political class to live further and further from their constituents in every way. Partying and living on the finest of everything while we toil. |
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Originally Posted By Soybomb: The standard of living for most goes down a bit and it gets a bit harder to get ahead. It gets a little more like Idiocracy, somehow. Somewhere between this, and total collapse. |
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Originally Posted By markl32: There will be no USA in 20 years. It will be the opposite. The USA will not only be here, but will be bigger. It's all the other smaller countries that are going to go away and no longer exist as they are. Let's take a quick look at Cuba. Just like Cuba lots of countries are going to be turned over in revolution and war then renamed into a new country when the USA focusing on it's Northern Hemisphere Doctrine and the rest of the world gets devoured by Chinese, Islam, and communisms. People around the world will beg the USA to come back, but we will be too bus fixing our own problems to help and the UN will do what the UN does, and that is rape what ever resources it can because they are communists too. |