The future sucks...

yeah, the information age hit us before we could come up with an education age
- We made it way too easy for morons to get online. Folks who don't even know what a "packet" is can livestream their anus on TikTok, and capitalism is fine with that because it's "monetized".
  
  nobody wants to adopt my "everybody gets arch only" platform
  
  We made it too easy for morons to find each other and unite.
  
  You mean a data packet? What should people know that?
- I'm pretty sure future historians are gonna end up calling this the "Misinformation Age" instead.
  
  i like it, because it's kind of ironic. the term used by the us govt is "disinformation". so calling it the "misinformation age" tracks perfectly.
- It was called “The Enlightenment,” but then we forgor….
  
  "The Age of forgor" has a good vibe to it

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.

The fact that this is considered a political meme :(

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.
- 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
- Not only that but setting up the institutions of our society to prevent it happening again
- I just finished Ezra Klein's new book and I thought it was great. It illuminates the history that has brought us here and gives some hopeful ideas on how we can fix it. That is, if there is anything left to fix by next year.

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.

Id love if they cared about sources, what

Technology made us regress
- Only because people misuse it. As people of Earth, born and beholden to the dirt itself, technology and science should be used to better connect ourselves with nature and help facilitate relations between all things, for the benefit of all things. Instead, we use technology and science to distance ourselves from nature, coming from the false assumption that we are somehow seperate from or above nature. It is beyond human control, always has been, and it won't be long until the relations and environment will cut those arrogant humans down to size in what they call "a catastrophe of global proportions." We are not special, unless discussing how especially weak humans are - weakness to provide food for ourselves and relying on reason and intellect is what makes special. Humans only survived as long as we have due to our ability to understand the relations of our world, and our ecological niche is to help facilitate those relations not just between people, but the mountains and the water and the birds. Instead we turn that mountain into gravel and call it "development", pollute our water by using it as coolant for a factory, silence the bird songs more and more each year, and reduce human beings into "workers." This is true whether you're right or left, capitalist or socialist, there is no "revolution" within that mindset, only continuation. Industrialism at all costs because "science will find a way" will doom us.
  There is another way, a way that understands we have no right to take from mother nature. That wealth is meaningless unless you give it away. I dream of a solarpunk world where buildings are grown, where food grows literally everywhere, with massive urban metropolises that resemble rainforests, where cities are built to clean water instead of pollute it, where technology can genetically supercharge trees so that they grow solarcell leaves to power our homes, where education is exploration, where all animals have right to roam, where we understand our living biosphere so well we're able to replicate that process on other planets. Why are we even considering space travel if we don't even know how to live on our own planet? Why do we create these gadgets and gizmos only for competitive profits and not the betterment of mankind? Why do we require people to have money for food and teaching them how to obey their superiors at a workplace, instead of teaching people how to grow their own food and learning about the relations of natural things? Why aren't we investing as much into lab-grown meat as we are into killing animals? It all goes back to our attitude towards nature, and this horrible religious mindset that thinks we are god.
  
  You aren’t wrong. What I said was more of a joke than truth. What I should say is: social media driven by algorithms was the biggest mistake of all.

On point 😂😭

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.
- He really DOES resemble bad 1985 Biff, doesn’t he?
  
  I believe when they made back to the future that the character of Biff was meant to be trump.

We don't have to worry about flat Earthers anymore, they all joined Q-Anon.

sauce??? checkmate dumbass

(Meme from 2019)
- 2019, the good old times when we thought that line would go up instead of down

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.

Bots and bad actors; bots and bad actors.

The little angry meme man makes me happy.

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

big if true

this is why chatgpt is too liberal

In the 1930s the majority of people believed in the elders of zion. Humanity has always been built up by a handful of geniuses.
I think with AI being able to teach and create interactive videos explaining complex topics we will get there, but we just need to reach an apex. Imagine asking an AI how white blood cells attack a specific type of disease, or how a CPU is made, with the ability to adapt the video to followup questions; the addictiveness is bound to turn out thousands of geniuses and I think it will be very neat.
Though those supposed geniuses dont titty tuck japanese milfs in 1440p with 360 degree field of view and 120fps.

To be fair, same thing happens to people who claim that earth is flat.
- Just ask a person who thinks the earth is flat to scientifically prove it. They can't.
  A person can use a lake and a pair of binoculars to calculate the circumference of the spherical earth.
  
  like the flat earther who accidentally proved the earth is round with a laser
  
  Reminds me of Galileo being prosecuted for defending his belief that the planets revolved around the sun (heliocentrism). The earth isn't flat, but turns out the universe is. One would hope that would be enough for them.
  
  I was gonna say they could look at a photo but I'm assuming that if were the case they wouldn't be flat-earthers.
  I mean despite them being able to use telescopes and seeing other spherical shaped planets.
- If the earth is flat, what is at the center? Is North America at the center? I once tried projecting the NASA high res earth texture onto a flat disc in blender, for a laugh, and quickly ran into that problem. If the earth is flat, then how are the continents arranged, such that travel times AND the travel of celestial objects and constellations makes sense?
  
  The North Pole is the answer I've seen given. At least some of them believe that the azimuthal equidistant projection map on the UN's emblem is what the world really looks like from above