- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 12•2 days ago
Crypto whatever (coin, token, nft)
Social media
Internet as a whole (you can always dig a hole further down)
“You are not a worker, you are an entrepreneurial partner!” Type of corporate bullshit
Electric vehicles (mostly due to faulty batteries, but also because they don’t fix the problem of shitty car focused city design)
- saigot ( @saigot@lemmy.ca ) 3•24 hours ago
Even in a future where we fix car dependency, electric vehicles will still exist as busses, trains, emergency vehicles, ebikes etc.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 9•2 days ago
I think a lot of the therapy speak we use in casual conversation is going to be embarrassing in hindsight. A lot of it is already verifiably inaccurate, but even the stuff based on real psychology can potentially be disproven as understanding and research methods improve. And people will quietly cringe remembering how they used junk science to justify being a dick in 2024.
- sentientity ( @sentientity@lemm.ee ) English2•1 day ago
I have memories of different therapy words that my divorced parent and others used to disparage their exes in the 1990s. It’s an awful circle. Nobody can just have normal conflict.
- Nytefyre ( @Nytefyre@kbin.melroy.org ) 7•2 days ago
Trump definitely will.
He is a symbol for a large part of America where people will look at and wonder ‘…why?’ even if they understood. Trump is just a symbol of everything wrong with America contained.
- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•2 days ago
Like a sort of Lite™-Hitler edition? With less mass-killing (ignoring the middle east thing for now in regards to the US) and same railing up the voters
- Onno (VK6FLAB) ( @vk6flab@lemmy.radio ) 55•3 days ago
AI, also known as Assumed Intelligence
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@slrpnk.net ) 4•3 days ago
[Samuel Butler liked this]
- finley ( @finley@lemm.ee ) English47•3 days ago
Trump/MAGA
eighty years later, in Germany is still trying to live down their shame
- GiddyGap ( @GiddyGap@lemm.ee ) 16•2 days ago
eighty years later, in Germany is still trying to live down their shame
Yet, it seems many Germans are prepared to go down that same road with the AfD.
- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•2 days ago
:|
- anarcho_blinkenist ( @anarcho_blinkenist@lemmy.ml ) English13•10 hours ago
well except all the Nazis in Germany that were brought directly back into:
- Official posts within the federal government and its ministerial cabinets
- into the upper judiciary and magistrates
- into local governance
- elevated and hired into immense wealth in industry and finance, or just kept where they already were in industry and finance
- hired into forming the Nazi core of the West German intelligence and secret police agencies (which would become today’s German agencies) under the protective auspices of the OSS/CIA; who made extensive use of their networks of executioners and collaborators to prop up US-backed dictatorships and cartels and use as anti-communist stay-behind guerilla terrorists by the CIA and NATO (and brought into the CIA and FBI themselves, and into MI6 and Mossad)
- into German academia and universities as faculty and professors,
- to write western history books at the behest and with support of the US Army and OSS/CIA to sanitize themselves
- all those hired into NATO and into the EU
- into positions of power in West Germany (and all the NATO countries, helping in and helped by Gladio violently purging the communists) in such saturation and such impunity that it caused the formation of left wing militant groups that would assassinate and kidnap them.
but other than all of that though!
(And that’s not even mentioning the Nazis and collaborators which made up the origins of Radio Free Europe/Liberty, the “Victims of Communism Foundation” which grew out of the fascist-filled anti-Soviet “Captive Nations Lobby” headed by OUN-B Nazis from Ukraine, and all the Operation Aerodynamic, Operation Paperclip, Operation Sunrise, Operation Beladonna, Operation Lynx, etc etc.)
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 22•3 days ago
uhh, most of germany yeah.
- Corroded ( @CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ) English41•3 days ago
I feel like there’s been a trend of people switching from alcohol to cannabis as its become more widely accepted but I know a lot of people who have ended up taking it to excess as well. The idea of being addicted to it still really doesn’t come up often and looking back that might be viewed as problematic.
I’m not against people using it or anything but I do feel bad for the people who have gotten to the point where they need to smoke to feel like themselves.
- magnetosphere ( @magnetosphere@fedia.io ) 28•3 days ago
People don’t think pot is addictive because it’s not chemically addictive, like nicotine or alcohol are. Those things actually change your body chemistry, and your system becomes reliant on them.
Pot doesn’t do that, but it can definitely be psychologically addictive . Virtually anything can be psychologically addictive, like video games or watching TV. If you feel the need to take a few bong hits every hour of every day, or if your desire to get high interferes with your responsibilities, then yeah, you’re probably psychologically addicted. Get help.
Getting wasted every once in a while is probably okay, though. People need to make sure they’re not like one of those idiots I knew in college, who insisted they drove better when high. They didn’t, and neither does anyone else.
- Joshi ( @Joshi@aussie.zone ) 15•3 days ago
100% agree!
As an addition to this I firmly believe medical marijuana is a phase.
Now I’ve made people angry here’s the nuance.
CBD/THC combinations certainly have a role in some patients with chronic pain, especially where it’s use can avoid or reduce the use of opioids.
There are clear specific uses such as intractable epilepsy where it is clearly the best treatment. It is effective for glaucoma but there are better treatments available.
I’m highly suspicious of marijuana having any role in mental health and there are, in my opinion, no convincing studies published showing that it is useful at all despite the fact that large studies have been done and presumably file-drawed.
The idea that smoking is an appropriate delivery method for a medication when other methods are available is insane. Very few things are as bad as tobacco smoke but inhaling smoke is bad for you.
My prediction is that in 20 years we will have cannabis derivatives in capsules that fulfil the specific purposes and the idea that any doctor prescribed marijuana to smoke will seem insane to younger doctors.
- Pup Biru ( @pupbiru@aussie.zone ) English2•2 days ago
there are plenty of other delivery methods. our studies in australia are using CBD oil, THC oil, or you can choose to smoke it etc if you’d like… but afaik there are specific studies around using the oils and i can’t imagine if they’re found to be as effective they’d allow smoking - for the obvious reason that smoking being bad for your health, and the less obvious reason that smoking is, by the nature of having repetitive action, addictive
CBD and THC oil has definitely been good for me. it helps me sleep far far better! 0.1ml occasionally if i’m feeling like my brain just isn’t slowing down - maybe once per week on average, sometimes 2-3x if there’s a lot of stressful things going on
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 6•3 days ago
At the Cancer institute they offered me CBD pills for nausea. People smoking weed is terrible, like they learned nothing from everyone on oxygen tanks after cigarette smoke destroyed their lungs
- Dark Arc ( @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ) English6•3 days ago
Yeah… Even as a third party, I definitely have not been enjoying the smell when I’ve bumped into it. I don’t think it should be a criminal offense, but I hope we can move past “I need to light a thing on fire and just screw up the air for everyone in my vicinity.”
- Count Regal Inkwell ( @VinesNFluff@pawb.social ) 24•3 days ago
I think climate denial will look pretty funny in hindsight after agriculture has broadly collapsed leading to mass famines, and a bunch of coastal cities are several meters under toxified saltwater.
Like, that thing I just described is the optimistic scenario, where humanity/society survives despite things turning way shittier. It could be much worse.
That is not accurate, and doomerism only helps those who want us too demoralized to put up a fight. If you want to be part of the solution to climate change, I recommend doing some reading on what the range of projections and outcomes actually look like.
- Dark Arc ( @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ) English18•3 days ago
That’s really not even close to the optimistic scenario. It’s arguably not even in the pessimistic scenario if you’re not just in the “make stuff up club.”
We’re talking at most half a meter of rise by 2050, at most 2 meters by 2100, at most 4 meters by 2150. The intermediate projection is a third of a meter by 2050. The optimistic projection (which we’re not going to hit) is 3/20th of a meter.
Climate change is real. The risk of famine is real. The risk of global conflict is real. The risk of trying storms is real. However, “doomsday everybody dies” is not really on any serious projections. The worst case is “a lot of people in a lot of poor nations die and rich nations have more wars and more immigration.”
- Dizzy Devil Ducky ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English9•2 days ago
Any sort of jokes about hoarding toilet paper or anything else ridiculous during the pandemic. I’ve always thought they were already cringe to begin with, but I assume that if society doesn’t completely collapse before the 2030s that people will hopefully look back and call those cringe.
- el_abuelo ( @el_abuelo@programming.dev ) 10•2 days ago
I don’t get it, what’s cringe about making a joke out of people’s selfish and exaggerated behaviour?
- JimmyBigSausage ( @JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee ) 46•3 days ago
MAGA
- tunetardis ( @tunetardis@lemmy.ca ) English40•3 days ago
Fast fashion. At least I hope it does? It’s such a wasteful abomination that we don’t need right now.
- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) 23•3 days ago
Fast fashion is older that the 2020’s
- tunetardis ( @tunetardis@lemmy.ca ) English12•3 days ago
Ah fair enough. I guess I only learned about it in the 2020s when I read some expose on it and it made me throw up a little bit in my mouth.
- Hello_there ( @Hello_there@fedia.io ) 34•3 days ago
Chat gpt
- anarcho_blinkenist ( @anarcho_blinkenist@lemmy.ml ) English9•2 days ago
- “lesser evilism” and voting for the Democrats
- thinking liberal bourgeois ‘democracy’ is a solution against fascism
(as if fascism is a person and can be “voted out,” as if all of the things Democrats are supposed to “save us from” wrt Trump aren’t still happening with no resistance, as if the Democrats aren’t outflanking the Republicans on the right of issues like immigration, and as if they aren’t just as genocidal and barely even bothering to play empty-rhetoric games to pretend otherwise, and as if both parties aren’t part of, financed by, and working for the capitalist class and petty bourgeois who historically back fascism anyway, when economic crises create threats against their system and status for which fascism is the system’s immune response against the rise of socialism. “first they came for the communists…”)
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 7•2 days ago
The haircuts
- lnxtx ( @lnxtx@feddit.nl ) English26•3 days ago
Having a truck (I wish…).
- nis ( @nis@feddit.dk ) 15•3 days ago
Milk.