I feel like I’m a really good judge of character; I can tell if I’m not going to get along with someone or how they will treat me in the future. When it comes to high profile celebrity figures, i can get a sense of their character through very minimal data. This is why I predict Andrew Tate (toxic manosphere influencer) will pivot into becoming an alien conspiracy influence. But I have no evidence for it, thus the prediction is baseless.
Anyone have any similar beliefs/predictions?
Trump will live to be 102 just because life isn’t fair
The longer he lives, the more time he has to live with the consequences that catch up to him.
gop WILL trying to bury his role in all this, and try to “move on”
Smart move on his part is to die as close to inauguration day as possible, but not beyond it.
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.
I’ll allow it, but only in prison.
- Microsoft will unironically release their own Linux distro
Already happened in 2020.
Azure Linux is a Microsoft-maintained, open-source Linux distribution built for Azure. It provides a lightweight, security-hardened operating system for virtual machines (VMs), containers, and Kubernetes clusters running on Azure infrastructure.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-linux/azure-linux-overview
We will see WWIII in my life time (next 50 years, if I’m lucky).
It will be started over something that will seem incredibly silly, in hindsight.
I think historians will likely be deciding if we are already in ww3 or not. Although I’m quite surprised China hasn’t moved on Taiwan
My spidey senses tell me that will be coming shortly.
Yeah, I wonder if China is trying to figure out how to short the markets without the other hedge fund bros figuring out what’s gonna happen. Because the second chip shipments cease is the second this ai circlejerk house of cards musical chairs pass the iou game comes to an end. And then we see the k shaped economy turn into the greatest depression.
We’re already in WW3
If we’re already in a world war, it should really be called world war 4 or 5. This has the global reach comparable to Vietnam or the Russia/Afghanistan conflict.
I totally agree. If recent Iran conflict war had gone much further or had successfully roped in the USA’s NATO allies, it would have fit all those criterias.
It shows that we teeter on a precipice above the pit of wartime
Spoiler alert from a shipping and oil guy: it ain’t over yet, not by a long shot.
At least that’s what the people with real money are betting.
We’ve gotten really comfortable at being 11 seconds to midnight. Anything pushes us past 12am
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.
I’ve heard New Zealand is a popular place for that.
With so many AI data centres needing so much power and none seeming to use solar power etc, we’ll start seeing “grid rationing” where suburbs will get “time zones” where there will be power and no power.
Instead of people rising up or pushing back, they will get distracted by arguing that certain/richer suburbs get prioitised more than lower class suburbs.
Welcome to third world life.
Plus water supply rationing, like in Cuba
…god dam it i can see that coming too
Yes, they will dam it
Not completely baseless, but Florida is going to go bankrupt one year and cause a major political problem for the US.
How does Disney factor into this prediction? I’ve never been there, but it seems like an oasis in the middle of a shit desert (speaking mostly about its ability to manage itself and just generally function).
It doesn’t help that DeSantis’s anti-Disney push was around the time that Disney was in the process of moving more corporate jobs from California to Florida, which Disney stopped doing after the fiasco.
However, what will likely cause a collapse is that Florida has gotten into hurricane home insurance. If there is a bad year for Florida, Florida might not be able to cover the payouts for insurance claims. Combined with its current housing price slump already, and Florida may have major issues down the road.
i heard people are paying double/triple the premiums for home insurance. plus all the snowbirds/retirement folks going there are rethinking thier plans.
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.
Pretty sure I’m going to find myself in some kind of mass migration by highway, get identified at a checkpoint as politically unacceptable in some way, then get moved to a large empty sports stadium with about 1-2 hundred other people, then get marched out onto the field and shot. I saw it very vividly in a dream that did not fade after waking up.
I think there will be some crazy scientific breakthrough that will change everything.
Totally baseless, and it’s mostly the idiot optimist inside me that believes it, but I kind of have to believe it else I’ll go bananaser then I already am.
AI has honestly changed a lot about my life/intended life plan. Especially when it was released, it basically rolled out as i graduated high school.
I actually started out in a creative/arts based degree but quit it early on, so i think to a lot of people it looked like i was scared of AI stealing my job. I wasn’t back then, but i now kind of am concerned that scummy employers will lay-off a lot of people and try to have AI do their work in that field.
Anyway not to say AI fits your description, as it doesn’t really, but it indicates to me that sense of tumultuous change. Likewise, covid. That changed everything too. I don’t think these things come in pairs but in waves, kike the chsnge of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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.
And I think it will come from AI. It’s either that or aliens, and only one of those two actually exist.
I think AI desktop apps like claude desktop will replace the web browser.
AI at scale will flop, but will return later as open source small businessess tool.
I believe Elon Musk will be installed as the president of Russia.
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I’m so sorry to hear that dude, and let’s take a moment to be celebrste the fact you’re still alive - because whether it’s dumb-luck or down to you taking good care of yourself, it’s still worth being joyous about.
As for being failed by social welfare, you’re in good company because a lot of people on the fediverse are also struggling to thrive in modern “1st world” countries despite being smart and articulate people. Some have the same story as you. I think you will get a lot out of fediverse as a social media, i know i have and i’ve only been here ~ 7 months. It’s heakthy because it’s more like old fashioned forums. (Old fashioned in terms of the internet’s lifespan)
Oligarchs, frustrated with dealing with their political sockpuppets, start just buying countries.
Taiwan, brought to you by Nvidia
We will go to war with the EU/NATO with Russia.
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.
