I gave the only speech at my sister’s wedding that got people to cry. I also didn’t embarrass her in front of her friends.

I expect there will be more wars as countries no longer have a nation to enforce current borders. My guess is that the next international order will look more like the Concert of Europe with varying spheres of influence.

Some people are using it for work purposes when there isn’t a major policy on it.

You can tell because the work is shit.

Because it is somewhat competitive economically in certain use cases and a ton of existing infrastructure was already built to use various fossil fuels.

The switch to non-fossil fuels was going to take at least a generation in most developed countries since you need to build out electricity generation and storage.

Trump isn’t strategic, but a lot of the people currently supporting him are. As long as they can keep Trump’s attention elsewhere, they can do whatever they want.

Wanted (2008)

If I go back in time, with the friend group I had at the time, I could conceivably beat Zuckerberg to market with Facebook.

It is an ok hedge on inflation, but it is pushed a lot by scam adjacent businesses to push up consumption.

No, I’m expecting a SteamOS PC.

How much shit?

100 years: The EU has made English the default language across most of the union. Small nations went first as inter Union migration obliterated the ability for these countries to teach their local languages fast enough. Far right groups tried to preserve their languages, but they’ve largely been demoted to secondary status in their own communities to English, like Irish Gaelic. The last internal holdout is French, Spanish, and Portuguese as there is enough external demand of the language. French language law mirrors Quebec law, Spain and Portugal aren’t harsh about it.

I don’t see that much shift in the Americas except the possible loss of French. Mexico may become more English speaking as more Americans move to Mexico for lower cost of living, especially with retired populations that won’t learn Spanish. Spanish in the Americas may standardize as cross-border media becomes bigger.

I expect Africa to be in a three way struggle between English, French, and Arabic as the lingua franca.

I expect languages to standardize in Asia, but I expect that India and Pakistan will choose non-English languages.

There are tons of technology historically that were implemented with gigantic fundamental flaws which were properly identified and later solved or mitigated. These flaws were openly published and there was a discourse in society about them.

So, unless you can use that knowledge to immediately brick all use of that technology, that flaw is likely less severe than you think.

Yeah. Lemmy’s former growth came from external events which brought users to Lemmy. Without more of these shocks, I don’t see Lemmy growing.

There are a few skyscraper server farms, but they are usually in major metropolitan areas like Manhattan. But, as you touched on, it is usually cheaper to build out instead of up.

Yep. Jesus didn’t have a problem with raising funds for the church, he had an issue with the church being used as a forum for private financial business.

It needed better writing and directing, but the actors were very qualified for their roles.

I’m deleting Homeworld 2 from existence.

There are a lot of large PAC’s that effectively do this, pulling together a sizeable voting block and donation base. AARP, an organization for retired people, is one of the larger ones. It just happens that it is hard to a large group of people to agree on policy.

Because male loneliness appears to be more destabilizing to society.

It is a reflection of my identity, but not something which fully defines it.