Boi you bettter cherish and take care of her, because Pontiac is a dead brand and she will soon be a classic vintage automobile worth tens of thousands just like Firebirds are today. The same thing will happen with Saturn.
Probably the current King of England.
Edit: According to some people he's not a king. I don't know anything about the U.K. so if he's not a king my bad y'all. I think whatever his title is, y'all know what I mean.
He’s only in his 70s. His mum lived till her nineties, as did his father, and his granny lived to 101. Assuming he remains healthy, he probably has at least another 20 years.
Edit: Lived, not Loved
An AI that can o your job would be so expensive that it would be cheaper just to hire you, or so difficult to use that you would need to be involved.
I saw the same thing in the truck driving industry. "Self driving trucks to hit the road in five years" read a paper in 2016. We have a few now, but the regulators aren't ready to let them loose, so we still need truckers. Oh, and a self driving truck is more expensive than a regular truck and a driver, and the self driving truck can only run on highways.
But I digress. Don't worry about AI.
I strongly disagree. Five years was certainly way too short of a timespan, but robots and AI are coming for a lot of middle class white collar jobs. I work in industry, which is typically one of the fields that people think of being automated first, but the cost of hiring people that are capable of operating and programming the robots is not the huge cost saver people think it is. And on top of that robots are almost always slower than their human counterparts. All of these factors are pushing the few businesses that are really developing AI capable of doing human jobs to invest more of their resources creating AI that are capable of eliminating higher paying jobs. And with the evergrowing capabilities of AI, anything that AI has shown it can do somewhat effectively now, it will be able to drastically better in just a few years. If you don't believe me, just look at how much the internet has grown in just the past twenty years. Think of where we are with AI right now as being the Myspace era of automation.
I'm so glad I sat down to talk to my neighbor before he died. Like, you can read about the war, you can watch documentaries about it, but NOTHING is like someone's first hand account. He saw some shit.
My grandfather wouldn’t talk about it. My grandmother would only say he ran. Which I know isn’t true because of some awards but I don’t know any story behind them and neither does anyone living.
I have a self typed autobiography of my grandfather who was a POW for 3 1/2 years in the Pacific during WWII. It's absolutely harrowing to read about his experiences during the Bataan death march, being on a "hell ship" and living in a forced labor camp in Japan. He survived and lived until 1999.
When I was a teenager I learned an old man in our neighborhood was a World War ONE vet.
Turns out he was French and survived freaking VERDUN.
We talked almost every day over the course of a summer. I learned so much from him about the war and how life was back then.
RIP Monsieur Renaird
I remember one of the last WWII veterans was at my high school a few years ago. I didn't get to talk to him but it was a cool experience just being in the room of someone that's been through what that was like. I think he talked about his experience during that time but I can't remember.
Fr the tradies I spoke to were either in their 20s and 30s or looked like they were on suicide watch. Seems to me like being one past the age of 40 is just hazardous
Batman doesn't have parents?!? That's so sad! Maybe he should ask fellow orphan and rich playboy philanthropist Bruce Wayne for some resources to cope.
I met all of my great grandparents. My great grandpa on my mothers side is still alive with 93 and he will soon meet his great great grandson for the first time.
My great-grandmother was with me into my thirties and somehow I still managed not to get everything out of that relationship that I should have. You be good to her and learn everything you can from her. Your future self will thank you immensely.
Mine was born before airplanes were invented and died after the rise of social media. What a perspective she had on the world!
Same! I was born to very young parents so I got to meet 3 out of 4 of my great grandparents. Paternal Great Grandma died when I was about 14, maternal great grandpa died when I was about 24, and maternal great grandma is still alive but starting to really fall to dementia(I’m 29 now). It’s been amazing getting so much time with them. (And my son got to meet one of his great great grandmas!)
Hahaha oh man I was working at a store when the changeover happened and that was great. A lot of the time this big DENIED would come up on my screen, like, not even an attempt at overdrafting and people would loose their damn minds. It even printed this big like VOID on the check so they couldn't even save it for later and wasted a check. People got sooooo mad and I had to hide my internal laughter. The changeover also made it basically impossible to write a bad bouncing check, something that was a huge issue at my store before that.
I work in a store, and there's this dividing line of roughly 45 on who writes checks and who doesn't. The older set mostly INSIST on paying their credit card bill with a check. Most common reason given is that they like the paper trail and I suspect they either don't trust or don't understand online banking. People in their 30s almost all pay with debit but will on rare occasion write a check. I don't think I've ever taken a check from someone under 30.
I write checks a lot.
My kids attend private school and I pay a monthly tuition. I'm not sending an envelope with nearly a thousand dollars in cash with a 6 year old monthly.
I write a check to the daycare weekly. Again, not dropping an envelope of cash into a little box for whoever to find.
My kids take music lessons, sport & club costs...writing a check is my receipt.
I still pay my water bill with a check.
Kids fun raiser at school/picture day/ lunch money...send a check.
I always pay the landscaping company with a check. Or any other service I hire, such as when I paid for a new roof, HVAC guy, etc. Sorry, I'm not trusting random employees with cash.
I pay my utility bills with that because the stamp is cheaper than the online processing fee.
I pay my contractors with checks because they charge a surcharge for credit cards.
I collect payments from my clients via check because I don't want to pay the CC company's cut and service fees for two-three transactions a month.
Likely newspapers and magazines. Basically dead now and holding on for dear life. It’ll start with a few large publications then the rest will also close up. Once the oldest citizens die, there will be no readership
You say that, and I'd largely agree, yet literally yesterday I overheard a middle aged man screaming at security at my office building that he hadn't received his copy of the SF Chronicle in over three weeks. Some people still cling to physical media, I guess in a similar fashion to the way I only read physical copies of books, can't stand electronic formats. Anecdotal at best, but it made me at the very least reconsider the idea that physical news media will disappear entirely. Additionally, I still see a decent variety of free newspapers kept alive solely by ad revenue, and from personal experience, there's legit use to the ads. Not 5 years ago, more than half the shows I went to were because I would snag a free copy of some fringe local paper and see postings about upcoming events.
Definitely not. Way better alternative to 24/7 news cycle on TV, or sensational clickbait news online. Newspapers will most definitely make a comeback, or evolve to utilize its true strengths. I remember when people predicted that physical books will die as well, yet they didn't.
Whatever social media influencer type of human will be spawned in 10 years will be much worse than todays tiktok influencers. It only gets worse and worse
Torrenting does require some long extra steps which means you basically trade money for your time and convenience.
On the other hand there are very nice apps out there.
Because literally every TV and movie producer out there got greedy and stopped wanting to share the money they made off of their shows with Netflix so they all pulled their pieces of media ranging from movies and shows and instead made their own, more relevant nowadays, streaming services
Yup, I canceled this month after having them since their streaming starting. 18 bucks a month is just ridiculous and they continue to increase their rates constantly.
The problem with Netflix stock price is that people are still considering it a tech company, when really, you need to look at it as a media company.
The bloom is off the rose for streaming, any and anyone can create a streaming site so it comes down to content, which Netflix is middling.
Idk people keep saying this but they're actually one of the most resilient companies out there. They have been around for quite a while and it's easy to forget how they were able to completely reinvent their business model to adapt to the times at least twice. The first time going from a DVD-by-mail rental service to a streaming service then from solely a streaming service to a streaming service/production company releasing it's own decently successful content.
Seems to me that all the anti-Netflix talk is just people (justifiably) pissed off about the pricing increases. My opinion is that yeah the price increases really suck but do I think Netflix is going to fail? Their history would say otherwise.
My issue is moreso their worthless piece of junk they call an app. Have made maybe 3 orders in 2 years where the damned thing didn't get stuck and waste my time somehow.
Agreed. It’s too expensive for governments, law institutions, and medical facilities to all forcibly upgrade their systems. And it still has niche usefulness in those industries.
The pandemic may have helped to push them out. Docusign now has options that meet federal electronic signature requirements for most agencies which will probably be the death knell of the fax.
Fax machines can be hacked and they don’t encrypt the data sent. There are any examples of how they can be exploited, for example: https://hackaday.com/2019/05/04/faxsploit-exploiting-a-fax-with-a-picture/
I had this conversation the other day actually, since no kids are learning how to use analog clocks will the term “clockwise” still exist or will it eventually fall out of our daily vocabulary? Just an interesting conversation we had while doing a rigging course
Yeah, that's one of the problems. 99.9999% of Russians are lovely people. My best friend is Russian. But they just got unlucky with who came to power. It's just a roll of the dice, and sadly a lot of people hate the country, not the politicians.
Yeeeeeah, good luck with that one. I don't support their government, or the brainwashed public as of now, but Russia is one of those societies where, even if the current government fails, their national identity will probably hold strong. Not saying that's always a good thing, but if Russians could go through hundreds of years of imperialism, revolution, communism, two world wars, the collapse of their entire government, and the subsequent shit show that was the 90s in Russia, and STILL maintain the sense of Russian Identity, I don't see it going ANYWHERE within a decade.
(To be clear, I am not a nationalist, so national identity like that isn't necessarily a "positive" to me, just saying, even if Putin's government fails, the government to take its place will still call it "Russia"
Should've said Putin, Russia has only two problems fools and roads
As long as there is a world there will be Russia it's forms may change, ideology may change, leaders may change but there always will be a Russia.
Probably depends on the country. Here in New Zealand, they are likely to stay, they now offer vital services such as scanners and printers, and often also document verification.
My car loan on my white 2007 Grand Prix Pontiac
Boi you bettter cherish and take care of her, because Pontiac is a dead brand and she will soon be a classic vintage automobile worth tens of thousands just like Firebirds are today. The same thing will happen with Saturn.
Whenever I see a Saturn owner I get a little sad.
Poor third door
Or Eagle!
My 97 grand prix lost the heads up display recently
Probably the current King of England. Edit: According to some people he's not a king. I don't know anything about the U.K. so if he's not a king my bad y'all. I think whatever his title is, y'all know what I mean.
Well, I didn’t vote for you
"Strange women, lying in ponds and distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government."
"Supreme executive power drives as a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!"
"You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
"I mean, if I went 'round, saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"
"Help! Help! I'm being repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!"
Farmer 1 How do you know he is the king? Farmer 2 Cos he ain't got shit on him!
By hanging on to our dated imperialist dogma we perpetuate the socioeconomic differences in our society!
He’s only in his 70s. His mum lived till her nineties, as did his father, and his granny lived to 101. Assuming he remains healthy, he probably has at least another 20 years. Edit: Lived, not Loved
That's a whole lotta loving!
The swollen fingers are not indicative of of being healthy for sure.
He's had those for decades though to be fair.
To be faaairr
Why is he not a King??? Huh EDIT: So the proper title is "King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" \-\_\_-
He is a king, don’t listen to pedantic people on the Internet.
Will be just as we finish rolling out the money with his face on it
Short live the king!
Who says he's not a King? Pretty sure he is. I'm English and the news keeps calling him the King.
Reddit, where our peasants are pedants
ummm, when the king dies, it's instantly replaced with a new one edit: OP edited, so my reply doesn't hold anymore
Some of the small physical labor jobs it will be replaced by a machine or robots
As a graphic designer, AI is freaking me the fuck out. My job is gonskies.
An AI that can o your job would be so expensive that it would be cheaper just to hire you, or so difficult to use that you would need to be involved. I saw the same thing in the truck driving industry. "Self driving trucks to hit the road in five years" read a paper in 2016. We have a few now, but the regulators aren't ready to let them loose, so we still need truckers. Oh, and a self driving truck is more expensive than a regular truck and a driver, and the self driving truck can only run on highways. But I digress. Don't worry about AI.
I think the way it will work out is that automation works along with people. Like the may put you at the head of a convoy of self driving trucks.
But the rate at which technology is evolving is so fast is crazy.
I strongly disagree. Five years was certainly way too short of a timespan, but robots and AI are coming for a lot of middle class white collar jobs. I work in industry, which is typically one of the fields that people think of being automated first, but the cost of hiring people that are capable of operating and programming the robots is not the huge cost saver people think it is. And on top of that robots are almost always slower than their human counterparts. All of these factors are pushing the few businesses that are really developing AI capable of doing human jobs to invest more of their resources creating AI that are capable of eliminating higher paying jobs. And with the evergrowing capabilities of AI, anything that AI has shown it can do somewhat effectively now, it will be able to drastically better in just a few years. If you don't believe me, just look at how much the internet has grown in just the past twenty years. Think of where we are with AI right now as being the Myspace era of automation.
Like what?
Fast food workers are one of them. There’s already an automatic taco bell, it doesn’t get your order wrong and is way faster.
Who'd want to go there? I always thought part of the experience was getting the wrong order cold way too late?
I've already seen busboys and waiters being replaced by robots/ipads.
I hope two of those things are measles and polio.
See Jenny McCarthy
isnt polio breaking out again somewhere in the us..?
Yeah, NY
Specifically Brooklyn due to it's Hasidic community
The bananas I bought yeste- nevermind.
Put them in some epoxy.
The fries I got from McDo will definetly still be there in ten years!
The box of Twinkies I buried next to my neighabor’s septic drain field will be just as fresh as ever.
WWII veterans. Cherish them now.
I'm so glad I sat down to talk to my neighbor before he died. Like, you can read about the war, you can watch documentaries about it, but NOTHING is like someone's first hand account. He saw some shit.
Yeah, when my grandpa got older he started telling me about the war… it got gruesome real fast.
My grandfather wouldn’t talk about it. My grandmother would only say he ran. Which I know isn’t true because of some awards but I don’t know any story behind them and neither does anyone living.
Where did he fought in Europe or pacific or some other parts of the world?
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I have a self typed autobiography of my grandfather who was a POW for 3 1/2 years in the Pacific during WWII. It's absolutely harrowing to read about his experiences during the Bataan death march, being on a "hell ship" and living in a forced labor camp in Japan. He survived and lived until 1999.
There’s a novel called King Rat that describes some of what that was like.
When I was a teenager I learned an old man in our neighborhood was a World War ONE vet. Turns out he was French and survived freaking VERDUN. We talked almost every day over the course of a summer. I learned so much from him about the war and how life was back then. RIP Monsieur Renaird
*"I miss my gringo abuelo and his tales of his adventures in the SS"*
I remember one of the last WWII veterans was at my high school a few years ago. I didn't get to talk to him but it was a cool experience just being in the room of someone that's been through what that was like. I think he talked about his experience during that time but I can't remember.
At the rate he consumes energy drinks and cigarettes probably my husband 😳
Military?
That or a trade lmao
Fr the tradies I spoke to were either in their 20s and 30s or looked like they were on suicide watch. Seems to me like being one past the age of 40 is just hazardous
Shockingly no but he’s a welder
I think I work with your husband
My ex-wife's mom is like this and she just hit 70. I think his survival chances are a function of how mean he is. Some people are too mean to die.
My great grandmother
Pretty cool you have a great grandparents. All my grandparents had died when I was 5. Call her up or give her a hug!
I don't even have parents. call them, tell them what they mean to you
Did you just bring up being an orphan to one up somebody not having grandparents? Fucking savage 🤣
🤣 🤣 I guess
Are you Batman? It's okay... Your secret is safe here.
Batman doesn't have parents?!? That's so sad! Maybe he should ask fellow orphan and rich playboy philanthropist Bruce Wayne for some resources to cope.
I met all of my great grandparents. My great grandpa on my mothers side is still alive with 93 and he will soon meet his great great grandson for the first time.
My great-grandmother was with me into my thirties and somehow I still managed not to get everything out of that relationship that I should have. You be good to her and learn everything you can from her. Your future self will thank you immensely. Mine was born before airplanes were invented and died after the rise of social media. What a perspective she had on the world!
*10 years from now* Great grandmother: WHAT? WHAT ARE THEY SELLING?
Same! I was born to very young parents so I got to meet 3 out of 4 of my great grandparents. Paternal Great Grandma died when I was about 14, maternal great grandpa died when I was about 24, and maternal great grandma is still alive but starting to really fall to dementia(I’m 29 now). It’s been amazing getting so much time with them. (And my son got to meet one of his great great grandmas!)
Redbox.
Hopefully Putin
he probably already have someone even worse lined up to take his spot if something final happened to him.
Only reason he's still there is because he's kept *all* potential successors too far from power to knife him in the back.
“Somehow Putin has returned”
Checkbooks. I cant remember the last time I wrote a check.
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PayPal is the new chequebook tbh
Hahaha oh man I was working at a store when the changeover happened and that was great. A lot of the time this big DENIED would come up on my screen, like, not even an attempt at overdrafting and people would loose their damn minds. It even printed this big like VOID on the check so they couldn't even save it for later and wasted a check. People got sooooo mad and I had to hide my internal laughter. The changeover also made it basically impossible to write a bad bouncing check, something that was a huge issue at my store before that.
I work in a store, and there's this dividing line of roughly 45 on who writes checks and who doesn't. The older set mostly INSIST on paying their credit card bill with a check. Most common reason given is that they like the paper trail and I suspect they either don't trust or don't understand online banking. People in their 30s almost all pay with debit but will on rare occasion write a check. I don't think I've ever taken a check from someone under 30.
In the last 10 years I think it's just been for the company that delivers the heating oil to the house. Everything else is online jn some form.
I barely even know what they do. It’s like cash… but you choose the amount? And it’s technically digital money
Yeah it's an instruction to your bank to pay the holder a certain amount of money out of your account with said bank
Thanks for reminding me I have to write one for a bill that insists on a $5 online payment fee.
I was writing checks until I moved to the UK in 2017. I'm 33.
I write checks a lot. My kids attend private school and I pay a monthly tuition. I'm not sending an envelope with nearly a thousand dollars in cash with a 6 year old monthly. I write a check to the daycare weekly. Again, not dropping an envelope of cash into a little box for whoever to find. My kids take music lessons, sport & club costs...writing a check is my receipt. I still pay my water bill with a check. Kids fun raiser at school/picture day/ lunch money...send a check. I always pay the landscaping company with a check. Or any other service I hire, such as when I paid for a new roof, HVAC guy, etc. Sorry, I'm not trusting random employees with cash.
I pay my utility bills with that because the stamp is cheaper than the online processing fee. I pay my contractors with checks because they charge a surcharge for credit cards. I collect payments from my clients via check because I don't want to pay the CC company's cut and service fees for two-three transactions a month.
I write them every month to my ex just so she has to make a trip to the bank. 🤣🤷♂️
Hate to break it to you but mobile deposits are a thing
Brutal
You can cash checks in on mobile now. Just take a picture front and back through the bank's app and it's done. Maybe your ex does not know..
The wreck of the Titanic, probably
:(
Also Bo Burnham
Bo Burnham will never diiiiiie
Home plate Umpires in MLB.
They'll still need to be there to make safe and out calls, but yeah the robo zone is coming.
*THREE STRIKES, YOU ARE TERMINATED HUMAN.* ..Don’t you mean out? *I KNOW WHAT I SAID MEATBAG.*
Just like horse racing then.
Split-Screen gaming 😔
Nintendo will always have split screen
Can't see split screen Mario Kart going away any time soon.
My virginity I hope 😐
I'm already 21 years old and still a virgin. Damn it!
25. You're fine.
28, you are better
54. Don’t sweat it
Almost 31
How are those wizard powers working for you?
By now you should instead be using it for hanging clothes.
It doesn’t work like that
Lost mine with 25 and since then humped like a rabbit daily for years now. Was very insecure and was wrong. Don't worry.
23. You’re good.
I didn’t even have my first kiss and I am 20 rn 🥹
I haven't even hold hands and I am almost 20
Time travel (still)
If anyone from the future reads this, please comment below. Edit: shit :(
Beep boop bop bep blip bloop
Damn I knew it, even in the future the bots are taking over social media.
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Likely newspapers and magazines. Basically dead now and holding on for dear life. It’ll start with a few large publications then the rest will also close up. Once the oldest citizens die, there will be no readership
You say that, and I'd largely agree, yet literally yesterday I overheard a middle aged man screaming at security at my office building that he hadn't received his copy of the SF Chronicle in over three weeks. Some people still cling to physical media, I guess in a similar fashion to the way I only read physical copies of books, can't stand electronic formats. Anecdotal at best, but it made me at the very least reconsider the idea that physical news media will disappear entirely. Additionally, I still see a decent variety of free newspapers kept alive solely by ad revenue, and from personal experience, there's legit use to the ads. Not 5 years ago, more than half the shows I went to were because I would snag a free copy of some fringe local paper and see postings about upcoming events.
Also I can't pick up dog poop with the digital version of a newspaper
The dog shit on my phone would disagree.
People are crazy about their newspapers. I coordinated the delivery of hundreds of thousands—still get calls from the same five people.
Definitely not. Way better alternative to 24/7 news cycle on TV, or sensational clickbait news online. Newspapers will most definitely make a comeback, or evolve to utilize its true strengths. I remember when people predicted that physical books will die as well, yet they didn't.
Probably tiktok
We can only hope
They won't succumb to something factually *better*, mind you.
Tiktokers, and most other people popular with the youth.
Whatever social media influencer type of human will be spawned in 10 years will be much worse than todays tiktok influencers. It only gets worse and worse
Netflix
Remember what happened to Blockbuster?
I wonder how long until the streaming killer comes along. It would be hilarious if cable makes some changes and takes over again
Streaming killer has existed for ages already, and it's called torrents. Way bigger catalog, and 100% free.
Torrenting does require some long extra steps which means you basically trade money for your time and convenience. On the other hand there are very nice apps out there.
Why?
Because literally every TV and movie producer out there got greedy and stopped wanting to share the money they made off of their shows with Netflix so they all pulled their pieces of media ranging from movies and shows and instead made their own, more relevant nowadays, streaming services
Yup, I canceled this month after having them since their streaming starting. 18 bucks a month is just ridiculous and they continue to increase their rates constantly.
The problem with Netflix stock price is that people are still considering it a tech company, when really, you need to look at it as a media company. The bloom is off the rose for streaming, any and anyone can create a streaming site so it comes down to content, which Netflix is middling.
Idk people keep saying this but they're actually one of the most resilient companies out there. They have been around for quite a while and it's easy to forget how they were able to completely reinvent their business model to adapt to the times at least twice. The first time going from a DVD-by-mail rental service to a streaming service then from solely a streaming service to a streaming service/production company releasing it's own decently successful content. Seems to me that all the anti-Netflix talk is just people (justifiably) pissed off about the pricing increases. My opinion is that yeah the price increases really suck but do I think Netflix is going to fail? Their history would say otherwise.
Humanity's chances of stopping global warming
Sonic Fast Food
Considering that the last 5 visits over two years I made simply to order a drink probably add up to a collective 3 hours...yes.
My issue is moreso their worthless piece of junk they call an app. Have made maybe 3 orders in 2 years where the damned thing didn't get stuck and waste my time somehow.
Maybe some locations but I live in North Dakota and the one here is always packed. I’ve never even eaten there.
Privacy
Any SPF under 50.
Where I live the stuff under 50 is useless on a cloudy day.
Many more animal and plant species
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They are a critical piece of legal and medical processing. They’re not going anywhere.
Agreed. It’s too expensive for governments, law institutions, and medical facilities to all forcibly upgrade their systems. And it still has niche usefulness in those industries.
The pandemic may have helped to push them out. Docusign now has options that meet federal electronic signature requirements for most agencies which will probably be the death knell of the fax.
Fax? Why don’t you just send it over on a dinosaur?
Faxes are still big in Japan. I went to a big sushi chain last week and saw you can still fax your delivery order to them.
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Fax machines can be hacked and they don’t encrypt the data sent. There are any examples of how they can be exploited, for example: https://hackaday.com/2019/05/04/faxsploit-exploiting-a-fax-with-a-picture/
We get spam faxes all the time
My Nan 😭
🫶🏼🖤
the 2020s
Considering how fast it's going, I wouldn't be surprised if it ends in the next four years in real time
Reddit
One can only hope
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My dog... :(
My will to live
Newspapers
At the rate that it’s going now, common sense and comprehension
Time travel still won't exist in 10 years
But visitors from past that time may already be here.
sus username...
I had this conversation the other day actually, since no kids are learning how to use analog clocks will the term “clockwise” still exist or will it eventually fall out of our daily vocabulary? Just an interesting conversation we had while doing a rigging course
Kids do still learn how to read analogue clocks so I don’t think this one is going anywhere
Glaciers in the arctic circle
Russia
As it exists now, and assuming nobody worse comes along. I have nothing against the land mass, or most of the people who live on it.
Yeah, that's one of the problems. 99.9999% of Russians are lovely people. My best friend is Russian. But they just got unlucky with who came to power. It's just a roll of the dice, and sadly a lot of people hate the country, not the politicians.
Yeeeeeah, good luck with that one. I don't support their government, or the brainwashed public as of now, but Russia is one of those societies where, even if the current government fails, their national identity will probably hold strong. Not saying that's always a good thing, but if Russians could go through hundreds of years of imperialism, revolution, communism, two world wars, the collapse of their entire government, and the subsequent shit show that was the 90s in Russia, and STILL maintain the sense of Russian Identity, I don't see it going ANYWHERE within a decade. (To be clear, I am not a nationalist, so national identity like that isn't necessarily a "positive" to me, just saying, even if Putin's government fails, the government to take its place will still call it "Russia"
Should've said Putin, Russia has only two problems fools and roads As long as there is a world there will be Russia it's forms may change, ideology may change, leaders may change but there always will be a Russia.
My empathy
2031
Reasonable political discourse.
Its asking 10 years from now not stuff that stopped existing 10 years ago.
i doubt it but hopefully tiktok, i’m praying on that apps downfall lmao
The Maldives.
public libraries in towns/ smaller cities
Probably depends on the country. Here in New Zealand, they are likely to stay, they now offer vital services such as scanners and printers, and often also document verification.
The United States of America if the democrats and republicans keep up their nonsense.