• wanderwisley@lemm.ee
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    24 days ago

    We came so close to having the beginning of back to the future part 2. But instead, we have the second half of back to the future part 2 where Biff steals the sports almanac and Marty is unsuccessful to take it back.

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    24 days ago

    The future does suck. I think that’s mainly because all progress we made in productivity goes straight to the ultra rich.

    Just think about what these billions of dollars could have done to our lives… We could have eradicated hunger and poverty, have a new golden age for humanity and science. Instead we have popstars in space and oligarchs controlling the politics.

    Without a new ‘French Revolution’ that gets rid of the parasites, oligarchs, 1%, billionaires we will never get to a good future.

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      24 days ago

      Man when i was a kid and i stared to see these assembly robot arms, i was like: woah, when i’m like 30, people probably don’t work anymore, because that’s what the robots do.

      When i was 30 rich people crashed the economy and shrugged, and now ultra rich still try to get even richer, and kill the planet, because they don’t live that long anyway

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    25 days ago

    It really sometimes depresses me to think how far along those utopian futures we could be if we as a species didn’t have to spend so much of our lives and potential counteracting bad faith sociopathic saboteurs to progress.

    Maybe history is just 75% of the people mostly at a stalemate with 25% whose empathy-deficient mental illnesses give them an edge in obtaining power and resources.

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    24 days ago

    We can build the above picture but why would we, you’re creating tunnels where they aren’t necessary.

    You are robbing the people going through these tunnels from the nature and daylight around it

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      23 days ago

      2019, the good old times when we thought that line would go up instead of down

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    23 days ago

    This is the opposite of what a flat earther would say.

    The main position of flat-earther (and the backers of conspiracy theories) is that you can’t trust sources, especially official sources of course.

    And if you look at things without having the official explanation you start to notice things that, in appearance, do not make sense. Like the fact that you can see farther away than the curvature of earth allows. Of course it’s very easy to explain with the refractory properties of the atmosphere but can be quite difficult to demonstrate.

    PS: earth is definitely round, I’m not trying the defend their theory.

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    25 days ago

    Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is a really good graphic novel about a kid’s relationship with his dad through the lens of retrofuturism, as it gradually tarnishes, starting with the 1939 World’s Fair.

    I’ll probably go to Expo 2025 in Osaka this year, since I’ll happen to be there, but it’ll be hard to maintain any real optimism.