What would you like it to be like?
2/23/2025 2:55:39 PM
That's last thing I want to think aboutNot that I'm scared of the future, I am optimistic. Very optimistic actually
2/23/2025 3:00:00 PM
Based on what?
2/23/2025 3:15:37 PM
Everything
2/23/2025 4:21:10 PM
We seem to be reading different news.
2/23/2025 4:23:10 PM
We on our back, starin' at the stars above (Aww, man)Talkin' bout what we gonna be when we grow up (Mm)I said, "What you wanna be?
2/23/2025 4:31:34 PM
https://genius.com/Morrissey-spent-the-day-in-bed-lyrics
2/23/2025 5:01:53 PM
I'm so confused
2/23/2025 5:46:36 PM
Are you saying you are optimistic about our future, accounting for current circumstances, or simply starting that you are generally an optimist?
2/23/2025 9:24:14 PM
I do hope it follows in this spirit
2/28/2025 12:31:43 AM
I'll be 65 turning 66. I guess i have a woman at that point. I doubt kids, aint got none now doubt i'll have any laterHope i have a house with a yard. Although apt life kinda nice. At the very least want some poontang. And hope a pound of strawberries isn't much more than $3 on sale. $2 would be nice and about double what can be had on a good sale now
2/28/2025 12:47:38 AM
^^Thanks for the Elon Musk marketing piece.
2/28/2025 7:56:45 AM
that's why I said, in that spirit. Not necessarily any of those particular people.
2/28/2025 9:52:04 AM
Fair. I really like space stuff. I'm just sorry that the face of the most successful company in that arena turned out to be so flawed. Is he trying to be the modern day Wernher von Braun? Collaborating with fascist officials to advance his scientific goals? I think it's more malign than that.
2/28/2025 10:31:30 AM
i wont be alive but i think im getting a pretty good deal!
2/28/2025 12:45:21 PM
2/28/2025 7:22:48 PM
i am chronically ill.a better place to start this thread might be to post some truths that arent going to change no matter what, for example, in 20 years there will be half as many chinese living as there are right now.was just thinking certain data might change the direction of the thread[Edited on March 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM. Reason : .]
3/4/2025 11:07:51 AM
3/4/2025 12:54:46 PM
^Best part of that bit was that they kept doing it beyond the Year 2000, but never changed the date or the style.
3/4/2025 1:01:02 PM
8/21/2025 12:52:15 PM
desalination
9/5/2025 6:44:40 PM
fewer human beings feeling the urge to murder other human beings.
9/10/2025 9:06:15 PM
^^I read an article(gift article) like the day after you posted that coincidentally. It mentions it being an imperfection solution due to the super salty brine that ends up back in the ocean.
9/10/2025 9:42:30 PM
we took the deal
9/27/2025 10:44:31 AM
Gender is a construct though. This can’t be denied in that bargain. That’s the slippery slope that leads to homophobia that is fueling MAGA.
9/27/2025 2:29:39 PM
Maybe if you want to say gender is a construct, but we draw the lines based on sex.And in any case, I don't think most MAGAs care all that much about run-of-the-mill homosexuals.[Edited on September 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM. Reason : ^^ holy shit he nailed that one]
9/27/2025 8:05:25 PM
wish they had shown Nancy Mace's face when he was calling out the right wing bs stuff
9/27/2025 9:54:58 PM
^^There shouldn’t be any hard lines is the problem, that thinking is incompatible with American ideals of freedom. Heteronormative Principles and guidelines make sense, I doubt most lgbtq people would disagree with that, but saying functionally the extremely rare transgender person can’t exist openly is anti-American. The federal government doesn’t need to have an opinion on every weird subculture, but it should protect Americans’ right to be weird as long as you’re not infringing on anyone else. This is how most people saw things through the 90s. The T has been part of LGBT for a long time. GOP are the ones who whipped people into a frenzy about them with bathroom bills. I want a 2050 closer to 5th Element than Brave New World. Keep America weird
9/27/2025 11:23:04 PM
This is the bargaining stage of grief for what we are about to lose.If…..if ……if Dems just capitulated on this one issue (Trans rights) then MAGA would’ve moderated and we could’ve hashed out some kind of deal that moved the country forward ………MAGA is an Authoritarian movement in search of grievance to justify its power grabs. If it’s not Trans people it’ll be something else, whatever is convenient.The next stages of grief are depression and acceptance, btw.
9/28/2025 5:33:58 AM
Trump picked off any group that had a grievance with the left and made a ton of alliances across lines that were not typically conservative. The left was excommunicating yoga moms with vaccine doubts, people uneasy about trans stuff, and silicon valley tech bros. You can make alliances or fight and force it.
9/28/2025 8:41:58 AM
And I’m convinced that a large portions of those groups, even if you eliminated all their concerns on each of those issues, would have found and clung to some other grievance to justify their slide to Authoritarianism.
9/28/2025 9:46:11 AM
If the biggest dumbest narcissist in the history of politics did it, someone else can. Not trying and throwing hands up is a serious cope.
9/28/2025 9:56:32 AM
What were silicone valley tech bros grievance with the left?
9/28/2025 10:14:08 AM
^Commiefornia wouldn't let them force employees to come in during the plandemic and made them wear masks. And they made them try to limit harmful content on their platforms. God forbid they have any culpability in what is shared on their platforms or any regulations whatsoever.
9/28/2025 11:09:55 AM
Not to mention several may have been frequent visitors to Epstein’s island.
9/28/2025 11:55:16 AM
^^ it’s more the big anti tech regulations. Big case of biting the hand that feeds you. Also the AI regulations that favored big players over upstarts.The Covid thing was only Elon. Being in California myself at the time, most tech people were very afraid of Covid and supported the most draconian measures. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-the-biden-administration-is-suing-apple-and-investigating-big-grocershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14110[Edited on September 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM. Reason : A]
9/28/2025 12:20:21 PM
9/28/2025 12:45:03 PM
^What about the middle ground between none and any?
9/28/2025 12:51:37 PM
The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean
9/28/2025 1:44:09 PM
9/28/2025 1:52:29 PM
9/28/2025 4:27:54 PM
^ Overall you sound like you're talking about the dynamics pre-2015
9/29/2025 12:21:34 PM
Feels relevanthttps://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/70966/what-is-a-reactionary-centrist-does-uk-have-them
10/1/2025 8:55:02 PM
relevant to 2050?
10/1/2025 9:10:38 PM
Relevant to discussions in this thread
10/1/2025 9:13:20 PM
well I'm reclaiming my thread for hopeful visions for the future
10/1/2025 9:25:00 PM
You're the boss, I'm past my edit window but I had found a centrist thread to bump if you want to edit my post away
10/1/2025 9:32:50 PM