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I'm fine. Covid isnt causing chaos anymore, WFH is optional (thankfully, i don't like it), I don't really care about Twitter or Netflix, reddit is a shame but there are alternatives, my mortgage rate is fixed at 1.8% for 30 years, Trump is on the other side of the ocean...
Most of the sh*t going on the in the world doesn't have very big impact on my life. Some do, but when I can't influence it (on my own) I try to not let it affect my mood.
30 years fixed at 1.8%?! Damn you you lucky bastard, that was never even at option over here lol
The development of AI as well.
This is the biggest worry in my head.
We will absolutely not be able to continue with our way of life. Significant portions of society will NOT be able to contribute “value” (the the capitalistic sense) to society.
What happens then? A bunch of young, lonely, disenfranchised people? Just bread and circuses with AI proliferated entertainment to keep the masses placated?
Eh, I do think it's possible for it to fizzle out. People freak out over ChatGPT but I haven't had great experiences with it and question exactly what sort of job it can reliably automate out. Fundamentally it's just a quicker way of querying the internet but with a loss in accuracy. There's the argument that the technology will improve and become exponentially greater - which is certainly possible - but there's also the possiblity of it just being overblown hype.
I saw the title and thought it was going to be exciting/positive haha
This whole discussion reminded me of this game - SEASON: A letter to the future
One can learn from it that when the world ends, another one begins. It does not negate all the tragedy, broken dreams, suffering, violence, etc. It's also a kind of a curse because all mistakes will be made again at some point, all achievements will be lost inevitably. But at least the life goes on
What is this, We Didn't Start The Fire?
Considering the COVID pandemic is still mass infecting people (with somewhere around 1/10 people getting Long-COVID, and some percentage of those people being disabled long-term) and now it's leading to weakened immune systems and fungal infections, my guess is another mass health-disruption event is what we're on the brink of.
Or maybe mass homelessness and poverty. Does anyone remember that two-parter from Deep Space Nine where they go back in time with ghettos in San Francisco? Past Tense. It was set in 2024.
It feels like that time at a party where everything escelates. But not in a good way, more like something resulting in the worst hangover of humanity. Being over 30 I dread this hangover.
At least the dread of the end has encouraged me to change my tune mentally. I want to work on myself.
I had a thought about all the alien stuff and if its true why the US government kept it a secret, and I was like "oh of course, its because the government is made of aliens"
I had to take a moment and think about how plausible that now feels lol.
I'm good. Helping in local community, which makes those global issues less touching. However I know, they're important, but I'd gone mad if I was thinking about the all the time.
I have lived through so many "once in a lifetime" category events that I'm just TIRED now. I want to have a nap.
From what I heard, the netflix password sharing change ended up being a net-increase in subscribers even accounting for the exodus caused by it.
So while they were going downhill for a while I think their password sharing crackdown surprisingly benefited them.
I think that's a tricky one; I technically still have an active account despite canceling. I feel like the fall-off will happen on people's next billing cycles
Imo it's the great filter. Like the universe is performing pincer movement on human civilization.
Jesus will soon return and take his chosen. I personally doubt that list will include me because while i think "god" may exist i dont think he pays attention to or really cares about us. He is just playing World of Tanksor something
If God was truly benevolent, why did he allow all those kids to die in Sandy Hook & Uvalde, as well as allowing toddlers to starve to death across the entire country of Sudan?
Because there is no God. If there's something out there, it's not benevolent. Reality is far more than what we understand even in physics. Just read up on Roger Penrose but moreso, I don't think there is any sway towards good or evil. Existence is just this.
Terrified... I don't know what to do. I don't know what anyone can do about all of this... Can anything be done about this mess? People have been trying to make things not relentlessly terrible all the time starting from their local levels for decades, centuries even, and things are still fucking awful. Less awful, of course, but that's not the same as not awful. And it seems like a lot of the bad news is a lot bigger, more frequent, and goes on longer than any good news I've seen and it feels like all anyone has to say on it is either "OH GOD WE'RE ALL DOOMED" or "[insert vague platitude here]". That or "MWAHAHAHA I'M GOING TO MAKE THINGS WORSE" because apparently a lot of politicians love acting like Hitler and a cartoon villain had a baby and they're what came out. Ridiculous. ~Cherri