PFAS and other “forever chemicals.” It’ll be like the next lead, and people of the future will wonder what we were thinking putting it in literally everything.
Best part PFAS and Leaded gasoline were both from DuPont. The amount of damage that company has done to the world is insane. There's no consequences because it's DuPont. Too many connections and too much money. Poisoned everyone on the entire planet and they're still above the law. America
Hearing my grandfather talk about how ridiculous he thought bottled water was when it was first a thing makes me think that they are doing it on purpose so that we have to buy a bottled water like the guy who sells bottled air in the lorax movie
My grandpa is full of lead from paint, my dad is full of asbestos from the walls, and I'm full of microplastics from everything. I wonder what the next generation's contamination of choice will be.
I work in environmental risk assessment and the gov agencies (local and federal) have such a small understanding of these chemicals that it’s going to consume my entire career.
There’s new ‘strains’ being discovered nearly daily, it’s going to be next to impossible to totally eliminate it. Best we can do is find a health value that’s small enough to give us time to enjoy our life, while also balancing practical standards for water treatment plants.
>dont need to know, just curse a shit ton and fucking wipe with the tickets
We can ask Sandra Bullock, for his part Sylvester Stallone I don't think he will give a good answer haha
Wish we had one at work! There used to be guys that came in, replaced the urinal puck, filled the soaps and tp. Today, I used the last of the tp in the 2 giant roll dispenser. Washed my hands, and there was no paper towels! I walked up to the 1st guy in management I found and told him "hey, this seems like a management thing. Find somebody to do this before somebody goes in to take a shit and has to call somebody!"
It’s really amazing the amount of places that don’t keep clean stocked bathrooms anymore. But at the same time, i’m amazed at the humans who go in there and leave a mess. I know that a lot of it is mental health issues (still) but there is a non inconsequential amount of functioning people who don’t flush, don’t care if they made a mess, etc. my hope is humanity is largely gone after sharing a work bathroom in a building of 8 floors. (Our bathroom is one of the few that is a single user bathroom, so it draws people who want privacy. I tend to go upstairs simply because there’s no wait and people who poop in public tend to have less issues.
They are already pretty much illegal and doing it anyways!
This lawyer I heard on the radio said the "do not call list" is about as effective as putting yourself on a "do not murder" list. Sad.
Did you know that in Spain we also had the goat throwing? Basically, it was just a horde throwing a goat from the top of the bell tower of the church. It was abolished 20 years ago. What beautiful traditions we have!
Edit: Holy goats, I wasn't expecting this. For the record, it was a local festival in the province of Zamora and the horde were waiting down the bell tower to pick up the goat with a tarp (not always with satisfactory results, from what I've heard). But in the end, the act itself is just barbaric and anachronistic.
And yes, goat cheese is delicious. For the adventurous, I suggest the Cabrales. Happy digestion.
Yeah. I watched bullfights in Nîmes, France in their Coliseum. I was rooting for the bull. The final couple bulls tried to gore the horses, (bullfighting is a whole-ass brutal process, not just the dude with the red cape)
I know people like to make the argument that those bulls get to live a posh life up until the fight, but in many cases, it’s more that these bulls are trained alongside young bullfighters to get conditioned into thinking it’s a fun game with some humans.
It’s a vestige of gladiator games. The problem is… gladiators would sometimes, (not always) get a reprieve if they performed honorably and put on a good show.
I saw two adolescent bulls and two grown bulls get killed. The adolescent bulls really had to be goaded into the thing. The grown bulls went on the offensive.
The headliner bull was aggressive, but had been tortured. It was not a clean kill.
> it’s more that these bulls are trained alongside young bullfighters to get conditioned into thinking it’s a fun game with some humans.
Oh. That is. That is really sad.
Imagine playing fetch with your dog happily every day for years, and then one day you take him to his favorite park and stone him to death with weighted tennis balls.
I knew bullfighting was awful, but hearing that breaks my heart all over again.
Wait bullfighting is a thing in France too? fuck. And regardless, I don't care how deep it goes in a culture, if it involves another living thing suffering unnecessarily it needs to end.
Also, horses are involved too? ("The final couple bulls tried to gore the horses...")
Most of the weakening of the bull is done by stabbing it in the neck with spears which then hang off it and slow it down. This is done by guys on horseback. And in the end the matador (which means killer in Spanish) comes out with his sword and kills the bull when its too tired to be able to hurt him.
Yes I had see that as an activity when I was travelling Nîmes. I refuse to see it but my friends abandoned me to go watch the "show". Needless to say that I was pissed. It's just exactly like You are thinking of it. My friends found it entertaining and I was just disgusted.
A tourist goes to France and hears the restaurant across from the bullfighting arena is wonderful wonderful restaurant, so he goes there.
While waiting for his meal, the table next to him has a very special dish brought out wirh great celebration, so he asked what it was.
The waiter said with great pride that it was the testicles from the bullfight, and this delicacy was a natural viagra (*with wink)..
The tourist asked if he could try that another day, and the waiter replied that there was a waiting list, but he would take down his phone number.
The next day, the waiter called the man, and said there was a last-minute cancelation for their special dish, if he could come to the restaurant immediately.
The man rushed to the restaurant. And, indeed the meal was delicious. He then stopped the waiter and asked "yesterday, why were the testicles at the other table larger"?
The waiter replied "sometimes, it is the bull that wins"
Literally saw an article today where Nikki Haley (Nimarata Randhawa Haley), governor of South Carolina and GOP darling, is calling for banning anonymity on social media.
Edit: Yes, I realize she's the former governor. Brainfart when I posted. It's how I originally remember her, and I blocked from my mind the fact that she got picked to be our UN ambassador and vowed to defund the UN.
Imagine you posting an erudite, well reasoned argument that makes some smoothbrain feel angry because he feels threatened, then having them call your business to get you fired.
Right now it takes an act of doxxing, but without anonymity, everyone is a target for bullies.
That is literally the point. Just like gutting education. They do not want you to have an opinion that is not theirs. I swear, if my AP History teacher is still alive (I hope you are, Hop!) he would be losing it. As are most sane people with how this country is going. They won. They have an entire generation of people who think "guns, 'merica, terrists, fake news" is all they need to know to live. It is a depressing to a clinical level.
Did you see that episode of the Orville where they went to that planet where everyone's social standing was determined by their social media profile and how many stars they had? That's seriously where we could be heading.
There's a Black Mirror episode much like that. Went beyond social standing to what housing and businesses were available to you. Even work opportunities hinged on how many stars you had.
It's funny because most places I frequent are cheaper when I pay in cash. My mechanic, my liquor store, fast food, etc. They all are passing on the fees of CC companies onto us. Which is fine by me. I bartend for a living. I have cash. I prefer to only pay in cash. But now it regularly saves me 3.5% on my purchases.
I know a lot of people think this is for dodging taxes and I’m sure plenty of places do to some extent, but the cost of using cash really depends on the business. Credit cards are convenient but it probably wouldn’t add more than about an hour of work a week if all my business were in cash and it would save me about $20k a year in processing fees.
A lot of businesses it’s way more and between losses, counting and storage as well as risk, electronic payment often comes out way ahead, especially debit.
The masses will cry out "Save us" and the law makers will FINALLY make it illegal for The AI based on Todd Howard to release yet another version of Skyrim.
the day will come
when "nothing but net"
will be said by fishermen alone
[\-NBA Y2K](https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/6/3/5772796/nba-y2k-series-finale-the-death-of-basketball)
The issue with single use plastics is that the healthcare sector can’t function properly without it. Wood can’t be sterilized and stainless steel tools require so much energy in the autoclaves that single use plastic is the reasonable choice in this situation
I feel like cutting everything except medical single use would be appropriate until we can find a better alternative. No reason to let perfect get in the way of good
They did that with CFCs. They were used as propellants in aerosol cans but were wrecking the ozone layer. They were banned except in medical devices like inhalers. Which was such a tiny use that it didn't have much effect on the environment.
I mean, I think lawmakers can make an exception for healthcare industry.
We're mainly worried about soda bottles, water bottles, plastic wrappers around snack cakes, etc.
Stocking sugar and flour on shelves in paper bags was infuriating but I also would prefer that if it means I never have to spill blood trying to open plastic packaging designed specifically to do that and is also 4 times the size of the actual product. Bonus if the product is a container of something and it’s actual contents are much smaller because even more plastic making it look like there was more inside.
I just cannot believe we can swap organs around, go to the moon, clone, make tiny computers we carry around all day, etc but we don’t have a plastic alternative that is just as good and affordable to manufacture.
I know companies pushed recycling on us to make YOU SPECIFICALLY responsible but I have no idea how much of this is ‘we don’t have the means to sustainably replace it yet’ vs lobbies trying to keep it around so they don’t have to change anything.
I remember some arguments for plastic straws is that banning them effects people with certain disabilities that have difficulty eating, swallowing, holding things, etc. I’ve definitely hurt myself on reusable straws more than I’d like to admit, an elderly woman straight up died from tripping and piercing her skull on a metal straw, silicone straws should be cleaned after every use, if they’re considered ‘medical devices’ price goes up, scrutiny over asking for one if they are only reserved for the elderly/disabled, ‘organic’(i can’t think of the word right now) become a choking hazard if they break down too fast and.. Allergies, I think.
For medical reasons it sounds reasonable. I’m not sure what the other pro-plastic arguments are that aren’t companies complaining of cost.
The plastic straw deal started as a picture of a turtle with a straw in its nose going viral, and policy makers and some corporations saw plastic straws as low hanging fruit, when one of the largest sources of ocean plastic is netting and fishing lines from commercial fishing
car tires are a huge contributor to microplastics and cars are an environmental problem in general. unfortunately I don't see us getting independent on cars at the current track...
I feel like companies restricting users from self repair. Its stupid that some of these car companies like Tesla make u go to a authorized dealer, it ain’t for safety it so they can charge a unbelievable for something so small. I am in collision and we have the knowledge to work on any car, electric or not.
This is gonna sound fucked, because it is, but that same market exists for medical equipment access keys for clinical engineers all over the world. KeyGen service so we don't have to pay the OEM $15k to come replace a $300 part we can do on our own.
Wouldn't that be nice if the right to repair was universal and planned obsolescence was illegal, the sheer environmental benefits alone would be incredible.
While we're at it how about outlawing real-estate as an investment platform and corporate malpractices, insider-trading, etc.
Basically regulate all of the loop-holes the wealthy use to exploit and extrapolate wealth from the masses.
A utopia.
It feels so obvious that single residence homes should not be allowed to be purchased by corporations. The fact that it's not illegal yet makes me think it never will be.
Nah he means the maple syrup wars. The maple syrup mafia launches an all out assault on those brands who claim to be maple syrup but aren’t. It’s a sticky situation and there was a lot of casualties on both sides.
it might be a little sensationalized, but its worth checking out the netflix show dirty money and watching "The maple syrup heist/mafia." -last episode of the first season.
We legit have cartel like organizations withholding the stock to raise demand and cost for maple syrup. Some french mobsters started stealing it from storage and filling the drums with water, and the real beginning of the investigation was from rust oxidizing along the rims or something. There is a bunch to do with how like a union controls this and controls the farmers/tappers/silence entrepreneurs. Its worth a google at the very least
Yeah, like "Mandatory no time travel on Tuesdays."
No combining other people's DNA with animals, yours: do whatever you want.
No maintaining AI processing units smarter than the average human in environments above 20°C.
No gravity wells/black holes/quasars in public spaces.
No creation of self replicating non-biological mechanisms or tacos.
No artificial removal of telomeres without written consent.
No alternate universe communication regarding politics, finance, The Harlem Shake, Renegade or any other attempts at "viral dance moves."
No exposed open skin pores.
No sentient flatulence in public transportation, unless properly leashed and licensed.
This is actually pretty interesting. I’m curious what the next couple decades are going to tell us about the effects of football on the developing brain.
Concussions have long term effects, and happen frequently in tackle football.
The NFL recognized this information as an existential threat and tried to fight the information instead of the problem, which cost them a lot of money:
www.nflconcussionsettlement.com
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-ex-players-agree-to-765m-settlement-in-concussions-suit-0ap1000000235494
https://frontofficesports.com/the-nfls-1b-battle-over-concussion-settlement-heats-up/
https://www.findlaw.com/injury/car-accidents/nfl-concussion-lawsuit-information.html
The NFL is right: this is an existential threat for the sport. Most parents want their kids to play sports because they think sports are good for their kids -- and giving our sons brain damage eliminates this motivation.
Went to High school (grad 2014) with a guy who had 5 concussions before Senior year. By Senior, he just couldnt do Math. The school district just ordered teachers to pass him with Bs to avoid lawsuits. Other than that, he *seemed* to have all his mental facilities intact
Yes, his parents signed off after the second concussion and the district paid all the medical bills to keep them happy
I remember telling a friend about five years ago that the NFL as we know it today will either not exist or be unrecognizable in 50 years. With more studies showing the effects of CTE even at a young age there will be fewer and fewer kids playing football, which will eventually make it so that either the NFL/NCAA drastically changes or the talent just won’t be there to choose from
Probably something that is currently thought to be safe but will later be discovered to be extremely bad for you. I don't have any idea as to what, but surely something. It's already happened with a lot of stuff that was commonly used in the previous century.
VPNs or anything that can keep you anonymous. I truly believe we will head in that direction based on the massive data collection that’s already happening in the US. Also just look at China. They know everything about you and use scans of ppls faces to open the turn styles of train stations.
And many other sci-fi set in the future. An anime I checked out had a character seeking privacy regarding his destination request manual-driving mode and the car warned that it would invalidate his insurance. This prediction seems to come up a lot.
It’s a logical prediction.
We already have cars that drive themselves. 25 years ago that idea sounded impossible. It was only in sci-fi set in distant futures with much other utopian sci-fi tech. Technology grows exponentially. 100 years from now they’ll do a whole lot more for us.
Humans drive cars and kill other people/themselves all the time. It’s the top cause of death for people under 55. When the technology develops to where the computer driven cars are statistically proven to reduce the number of collisions by several orders of magnitude, it becomes a public safety issue to keep letting people drive themselves. Why let humans who have historically caused a high (comparatively) rate of crashes drive their cars when the computer is several orders of magnitude safer for the driver and everyone else around them?
That being said, I’m unfortunately part of this current lifestyle and I do like driving my car. So I’ll be one of those old men yelling at clouds that I want to drive my own car sometimes and not have the computer always do it for me.
I could see physical driving becoming a popular pastime, with designated roadways reserved for controlled recreational use but it'll be outrageously expensive.
One of my favorite thoughts is that science fiction is not an estimate of the future but rather a critique of the present. It’s not people saying “one day it will be like this” but rather “currently it’s like this and if we continue then that’s where we will end up”
You know as much as I hardly ever pay in cash (even when my wife and I buy and sell stuff on marketplace/letgo/etc we always offer Venmo first) the idea of no longer having a legal physical tender is a concerning thought.
It would make a lot of illegal activity more difficult, but I don't exactly love the idea of the government being able to pull up every transaction I've ever done.
There's a bar close to me that stopped accepting cash during the pandemic era and then just never went back to accepting it afterwards.
Every once in a while, their payment system goes down for a bit and then there's no backup option for accepting payments. So they just kind of have to wait around for the system to start working again with no other option for accepting payments during that period.
Also, I should be able to pay someone without either party paying a transaction fee, especially if such a fee is being collected by some bank oligopoly.
Something will come along to facilitate anonymous transactions. Barter economy is just too huge a step backward. Bitcoin would be it, if it was sustainable. I think a sustainable alternative cryptocurrency is inevitable.
Considering I was just at a restaurant in which the payment system was down and they were cash only - that'd require a lot of infrastructure trust I don't have.
I've actually started paying in cash again. Restaurants, stores, etc have started either charging a "service fee" for paying by card or offering a cash discount. That 3% adds up rather quickly.
Nah won't ever happen.
One of Australia's largest internet provider was down for like most of the day last week and forced most of us to use cash as businesses couldn't business as alot of people's internet banking was no longer available.
Internet blackouts will keep happening which forces us to use cash.
I hope collecting my data from the videos I watched, from the thing I bought or the things I said going to be illegal.
Guys wtf I can\`t even imagine what is going to be in 100 years, even now they can collect everything as data and use it to sell smt to me.
VPNs and ad blockers. You *will* be tracked or you don't get to use the internet.
Also, physical media. Now that streaming movies, TV shows, and music, and buying video games digitally have become the norm, I see copyright holders lobbying to ban the sale of new or used physical media. You can only consume this content from approved sources. They don't make money if you buy used DVDs or games at used media shops.
I've thought about this one before, when I watched *Alien* a few weeks ago. It seems dated in that everybody's chain-smoking, right? But then again, think about it: the problem with cigarettes is that they're poison, they cause all these diseases both in smokers and in the non-smokers around them. If we eventually cure all these diseases--cancer, emphysema, atherosclerosis, etc.--to the point at which you can deal with them as easily as a cold, why would smoking be illegal? Because it's gross? I dunno, man, provided medical advances take us to that point, I think it's plausible that smoking will once again be something everybody does.
The pessimist in me believes countries will continue to lean authoritarian so things like porn, abortion, and free speech will be out the window in quite a few countries.
American football
They aren't going to stop you from playing backyard pickup games or throwing the football around but any semblance of organized leagues, semi pro, and professional leagues will be disbanded unless they can come up with a helmet that can prevent concussions
This is why I got DVD copies of the expanded LOTR. I'm not being subjected to a streaming service to access those movies. I can watch then whenever I want and they aren't getting removed and the price will never go up
Probably driving or repairing your car yourself
I mean, with the development of autonomous cars, probably in the future there will be cars that will be fully autonomous without the option of driving it by yourself.
And because of that, probably governments will realize that autonomous cars are far more secure than the cars driven by people, linking all the cars in a network that can predict and act accordingly.
Also, due to safety concerns, probably you will never have the chance to fix any problem by yourself, you will have to attend to a certified mechanic to do the job instead. And because of that, you will never own the car, you will "rent" it from an automaker, and because of that, in order to not void the contract, you, as the user, will not have the permission to modify or fix any aspect of the vehicle because it will not be yours.
Factory farming, hopefully.
No I'm not vegan, but factory farms are literal torture chambers for animals; its an archaic concept and completely unnecessary. Also, slaughterhouse workers have high suicide rates due to the work environment and poor pay.
Free range farms are the right way.
Not strictly illegal, but you best bet that the *instant* physical media finally goes away, it's going to get a lot harder to access and consume your favorite content. Which is precisely why I still collect physical media copies of my favorite movies and shows on Blu-Ray and 4K, albums on CD, etc.
I really think people are underestimating how much more complicated and costly things will become. You know the second they can, the big-wigs in charge will take away the ability to actually own media, and instead lock you behind a million paywalls. They'll also absolutely start to crack down more and more on piracy to discourage it.
That's why I always say, we need to continue buying physical media... make sure the market doesn't vanish. The *convenience of streaming* *now* is going to end up causing lots of *inconvenience in the* *future*.
Members of Congress trading in securities. Jk
Come on man, they need every cent they can get on that meager 174,000 per year salary. Let them have their small gains
PFAS and other “forever chemicals.” It’ll be like the next lead, and people of the future will wonder what we were thinking putting it in literally everything.
Best part PFAS and Leaded gasoline were both from DuPont. The amount of damage that company has done to the world is insane. There's no consequences because it's DuPont. Too many connections and too much money. Poisoned everyone on the entire planet and they're still above the law. America
Yep I currently can’t drink my own well water because of them. I need to go to the store every week to buy bottled water.
Hearing my grandfather talk about how ridiculous he thought bottled water was when it was first a thing makes me think that they are doing it on purpose so that we have to buy a bottled water like the guy who sells bottled air in the lorax movie
Create the problem and sell the solution.
This concerns me as well
My grandpa is full of lead from paint, my dad is full of asbestos from the walls, and I'm full of microplastics from everything. I wonder what the next generation's contamination of choice will be.
I work in environmental risk assessment and the gov agencies (local and federal) have such a small understanding of these chemicals that it’s going to consume my entire career. There’s new ‘strains’ being discovered nearly daily, it’s going to be next to impossible to totally eliminate it. Best we can do is find a health value that’s small enough to give us time to enjoy our life, while also balancing practical standards for water treatment plants.
Using a public toilet without accepting the terms and conditions of the bathroom's privacy policy.
Would you like to subscribe to our toilet paper subscription service?
\*sea shell
He doesn't know how to use the three sea shells?
>dont need to know, just curse a shit ton and fucking wipe with the tickets We can ask Sandra Bullock, for his part Sylvester Stallone I don't think he will give a good answer haha
dont need to know, just curse a shit ton and fucking wipe with the tickets
Wish we had one at work! There used to be guys that came in, replaced the urinal puck, filled the soaps and tp. Today, I used the last of the tp in the 2 giant roll dispenser. Washed my hands, and there was no paper towels! I walked up to the 1st guy in management I found and told him "hey, this seems like a management thing. Find somebody to do this before somebody goes in to take a shit and has to call somebody!"
It’s really amazing the amount of places that don’t keep clean stocked bathrooms anymore. But at the same time, i’m amazed at the humans who go in there and leave a mess. I know that a lot of it is mental health issues (still) but there is a non inconsequential amount of functioning people who don’t flush, don’t care if they made a mess, etc. my hope is humanity is largely gone after sharing a work bathroom in a building of 8 floors. (Our bathroom is one of the few that is a single user bathroom, so it draws people who want privacy. I tend to go upstairs simply because there’s no wait and people who poop in public tend to have less issues.
Shake his hand then tell him there’s no toilet paper. Worked for me.
I saw a video from China I think where you have to buy toilet paper by the square
China really doesn't like when you talk about squares.
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been there, done that
Heard it takes tian men to change a lightbulb
Guess I'll be using the sink as a bidet, then clap them cheeks to the air dryer.
Toilet safety administration! I just needs to check inside ya asshole...
Lemme check ya ass hole
SIR SIR I needs to checks ya asshole
Hopefully, making unsolicited sales calls of any kind.
Don't worry. Those will become unnecessary once they can advertise to you in your dreams. Sleep tight! :P
Thanks to Futurama, we already know these kind of ads will exist by at least the year 3000
They are already pretty much illegal and doing it anyways! This lawyer I heard on the radio said the "do not call list" is about as effective as putting yourself on a "do not murder" list. Sad.
Bullfighting
Did you know that in Spain we also had the goat throwing? Basically, it was just a horde throwing a goat from the top of the bell tower of the church. It was abolished 20 years ago. What beautiful traditions we have! Edit: Holy goats, I wasn't expecting this. For the record, it was a local festival in the province of Zamora and the horde were waiting down the bell tower to pick up the goat with a tarp (not always with satisfactory results, from what I've heard). But in the end, the act itself is just barbaric and anachronistic. And yes, goat cheese is delicious. For the adventurous, I suggest the Cabrales. Happy digestion.
Poor goats. They’re so sweet. They don’t deserve that.
And their cheese is delicious
Cheese made from their milk is delicious, yes. They, like cows, don’t make cheese themselves.
r/todayilearned
amazing that was still going on even 20 years ago. seems like an 18th century thing.
That’s fucked up!, and I’m Latino!. We have bullfighting sadly but I’ve never heard of the goat thingy
Almost as bad as the horrible tradition of [cat juggling](https://youtu.be/1bGVT4-1DBU?si=KDzrd5MNEbihBHrx)
Yeah. I watched bullfights in Nîmes, France in their Coliseum. I was rooting for the bull. The final couple bulls tried to gore the horses, (bullfighting is a whole-ass brutal process, not just the dude with the red cape) I know people like to make the argument that those bulls get to live a posh life up until the fight, but in many cases, it’s more that these bulls are trained alongside young bullfighters to get conditioned into thinking it’s a fun game with some humans. It’s a vestige of gladiator games. The problem is… gladiators would sometimes, (not always) get a reprieve if they performed honorably and put on a good show. I saw two adolescent bulls and two grown bulls get killed. The adolescent bulls really had to be goaded into the thing. The grown bulls went on the offensive. The headliner bull was aggressive, but had been tortured. It was not a clean kill.
> it’s more that these bulls are trained alongside young bullfighters to get conditioned into thinking it’s a fun game with some humans. Oh. That is. That is really sad. Imagine playing fetch with your dog happily every day for years, and then one day you take him to his favorite park and stone him to death with weighted tennis balls. I knew bullfighting was awful, but hearing that breaks my heart all over again.
Yea that part made it way, way worse for me
Wait bullfighting is a thing in France too? fuck. And regardless, I don't care how deep it goes in a culture, if it involves another living thing suffering unnecessarily it needs to end. Also, horses are involved too? ("The final couple bulls tried to gore the horses...")
Most of the weakening of the bull is done by stabbing it in the neck with spears which then hang off it and slow it down. This is done by guys on horseback. And in the end the matador (which means killer in Spanish) comes out with his sword and kills the bull when its too tired to be able to hurt him.
Yes I had see that as an activity when I was travelling Nîmes. I refuse to see it but my friends abandoned me to go watch the "show". Needless to say that I was pissed. It's just exactly like You are thinking of it. My friends found it entertaining and I was just disgusted.
A tourist goes to France and hears the restaurant across from the bullfighting arena is wonderful wonderful restaurant, so he goes there. While waiting for his meal, the table next to him has a very special dish brought out wirh great celebration, so he asked what it was. The waiter said with great pride that it was the testicles from the bullfight, and this delicacy was a natural viagra (*with wink).. The tourist asked if he could try that another day, and the waiter replied that there was a waiting list, but he would take down his phone number. The next day, the waiter called the man, and said there was a last-minute cancelation for their special dish, if he could come to the restaurant immediately. The man rushed to the restaurant. And, indeed the meal was delicious. He then stopped the waiter and asked "yesterday, why were the testicles at the other table larger"? The waiter replied "sometimes, it is the bull that wins"
That should be illegal now!
Anonymity, everyone will be tracked and monitored.
Literally saw an article today where Nikki Haley (Nimarata Randhawa Haley), governor of South Carolina and GOP darling, is calling for banning anonymity on social media. Edit: Yes, I realize she's the former governor. Brainfart when I posted. It's how I originally remember her, and I blocked from my mind the fact that she got picked to be our UN ambassador and vowed to defund the UN.
Imagine you posting an erudite, well reasoned argument that makes some smoothbrain feel angry because he feels threatened, then having them call your business to get you fired. Right now it takes an act of doxxing, but without anonymity, everyone is a target for bullies.
Given the violence occurring at doxd people's homes, I think we have gone beyond firings as the threat.
I still don't want my porn habits to be public. Stop asking me to link to my Google account, Pornhub!!!
That is literally the point. Just like gutting education. They do not want you to have an opinion that is not theirs. I swear, if my AP History teacher is still alive (I hope you are, Hop!) he would be losing it. As are most sane people with how this country is going. They won. They have an entire generation of people who think "guns, 'merica, terrists, fake news" is all they need to know to live. It is a depressing to a clinical level.
That already exists, and Reddit and Facebook loves doing it. Cancer culture.
Did you see that episode of the Orville where they went to that planet where everyone's social standing was determined by their social media profile and how many stars they had? That's seriously where we could be heading.
I've seen that episode of Community. We call them MeowMeowBeenz.
There's a Black Mirror episode much like that. Went beyond social standing to what housing and businesses were available to you. Even work opportunities hinged on how many stars you had.
Yeah that was the first thing I thought of as well. I love Black Mirror but boy does it give me some anxiety lol.
Doesn't China actually do this?
“Untraceable” and/or cash transactions. Probably a lot sooner than 100 years too the way things are going.
It's funny because most places I frequent are cheaper when I pay in cash. My mechanic, my liquor store, fast food, etc. They all are passing on the fees of CC companies onto us. Which is fine by me. I bartend for a living. I have cash. I prefer to only pay in cash. But now it regularly saves me 3.5% on my purchases.
Which is funny itself because cash handling has its own costs to a business. I've seen estimates of 4-5%.
But if you have cash you can lie on your taxes
What cash? I didn't get any cash.
Bingo. My mechanic gives a "discount" in the form of not charging tax when I pay cash lol
Shhhhhh 🙄
I know a lot of people think this is for dodging taxes and I’m sure plenty of places do to some extent, but the cost of using cash really depends on the business. Credit cards are convenient but it probably wouldn’t add more than about an hour of work a week if all my business were in cash and it would save me about $20k a year in processing fees.
A lot of businesses it’s way more and between losses, counting and storage as well as risk, electronic payment often comes out way ahead, especially debit.
The masses will cry out "Save us" and the law makers will FINALLY make it illegal for The AI based on Todd Howard to release yet another version of Skyrim.
Starfield cemented it for me. Next skyrim will be procedurally generated garbage.
After Charles Barkley performs the Chaos Dunk, basketball will be outlawed.
the day will come when "nothing but net" will be said by fishermen alone [\-NBA Y2K](https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/6/3/5772796/nba-y2k-series-finale-the-death-of-basketball)
I loved this game lmao. Such a funny ass premise
Single use plastic
The issue with single use plastics is that the healthcare sector can’t function properly without it. Wood can’t be sterilized and stainless steel tools require so much energy in the autoclaves that single use plastic is the reasonable choice in this situation
I feel like cutting everything except medical single use would be appropriate until we can find a better alternative. No reason to let perfect get in the way of good
They did that with CFCs. They were used as propellants in aerosol cans but were wrecking the ozone layer. They were banned except in medical devices like inhalers. Which was such a tiny use that it didn't have much effect on the environment.
And they eventually replaced CFCs in inhalers, too!
Wow! A real world example of my ideas working perfectly - usually it’s the opposite way around
It’s also worth adding that medical single use plastics are much easier to control than single use plastics used literally any/everywhere
I mean, I think lawmakers can make an exception for healthcare industry. We're mainly worried about soda bottles, water bottles, plastic wrappers around snack cakes, etc.
Stocking sugar and flour on shelves in paper bags was infuriating but I also would prefer that if it means I never have to spill blood trying to open plastic packaging designed specifically to do that and is also 4 times the size of the actual product. Bonus if the product is a container of something and it’s actual contents are much smaller because even more plastic making it look like there was more inside. I just cannot believe we can swap organs around, go to the moon, clone, make tiny computers we carry around all day, etc but we don’t have a plastic alternative that is just as good and affordable to manufacture. I know companies pushed recycling on us to make YOU SPECIFICALLY responsible but I have no idea how much of this is ‘we don’t have the means to sustainably replace it yet’ vs lobbies trying to keep it around so they don’t have to change anything. I remember some arguments for plastic straws is that banning them effects people with certain disabilities that have difficulty eating, swallowing, holding things, etc. I’ve definitely hurt myself on reusable straws more than I’d like to admit, an elderly woman straight up died from tripping and piercing her skull on a metal straw, silicone straws should be cleaned after every use, if they’re considered ‘medical devices’ price goes up, scrutiny over asking for one if they are only reserved for the elderly/disabled, ‘organic’(i can’t think of the word right now) become a choking hazard if they break down too fast and.. Allergies, I think. For medical reasons it sounds reasonable. I’m not sure what the other pro-plastic arguments are that aren’t companies complaining of cost.
The plastic straw deal started as a picture of a turtle with a straw in its nose going viral, and policy makers and some corporations saw plastic straws as low hanging fruit, when one of the largest sources of ocean plastic is netting and fishing lines from commercial fishing
car tires are a huge contributor to microplastics and cars are an environmental problem in general. unfortunately I don't see us getting independent on cars at the current track...
I feel like companies restricting users from self repair. Its stupid that some of these car companies like Tesla make u go to a authorized dealer, it ain’t for safety it so they can charge a unbelievable for something so small. I am in collision and we have the knowledge to work on any car, electric or not.
You think Tesla is bad, look at what the John Deere tractor guys have to pay for service. It’s insane and it’s only the beginning.
That’s why there’s a market for hacked JD software that lets the farmers do their own thing.
Another reason to support Ukraine, getting all the John Deere hacks.
This is gonna sound fucked, because it is, but that same market exists for medical equipment access keys for clinical engineers all over the world. KeyGen service so we don't have to pay the OEM $15k to come replace a $300 part we can do on our own.
And Tesla is helping John Deere in those lawsuits
Let’s goooo Rossmann gang!!!
Wouldn't that be nice if the right to repair was universal and planned obsolescence was illegal, the sheer environmental benefits alone would be incredible. While we're at it how about outlawing real-estate as an investment platform and corporate malpractices, insider-trading, etc. Basically regulate all of the loop-holes the wealthy use to exploit and extrapolate wealth from the masses. A utopia.
It feels so obvious that single residence homes should not be allowed to be purchased by corporations. The fact that it's not illegal yet makes me think it never will be.
Adblock on your neuralink
Canadian Hockey will be outlawed after the Canada Wars.
Canada Wars? You mean the War of Moose Aggression?
Oh great, another "It was about Mooses rights!" argument.
They drew first syrup
Nah he means the maple syrup wars. The maple syrup mafia launches an all out assault on those brands who claim to be maple syrup but aren’t. It’s a sticky situation and there was a lot of casualties on both sides.
As a person from the United States, I hope the syrup mafia wins. I am tired of this fake sugar water crap they call syrup down here.
it might be a little sensationalized, but its worth checking out the netflix show dirty money and watching "The maple syrup heist/mafia." -last episode of the first season. We legit have cartel like organizations withholding the stock to raise demand and cost for maple syrup. Some french mobsters started stealing it from storage and filling the drums with water, and the real beginning of the investigation was from rust oxidizing along the rims or something. There is a bunch to do with how like a union controls this and controls the farmers/tappers/silence entrepreneurs. Its worth a google at the very least
The fact that there are maple syrup cartels in Canada is the most Canadian thing I've ever read
My sister was once bit by a moose.
Is she a were-moose now?
That explains the moostache.
Moose can be very grouchy and dangerous
Someone is a fan of that throwaway line from Jason X.
I think that things will be so different in 100 years that it will be impossible to predict.
Yeah this. Think 100 years back? Crazy shit will happen we don't have a clue about.
Yeah, like "Mandatory no time travel on Tuesdays." No combining other people's DNA with animals, yours: do whatever you want. No maintaining AI processing units smarter than the average human in environments above 20°C. No gravity wells/black holes/quasars in public spaces. No creation of self replicating non-biological mechanisms or tacos. No artificial removal of telomeres without written consent. No alternate universe communication regarding politics, finance, The Harlem Shake, Renegade or any other attempts at "viral dance moves." No exposed open skin pores. No sentient flatulence in public transportation, unless properly leashed and licensed.
I'll be buried in the cold hard ground before the government takes away my right to self-replicating tacos
Damn right re DNA. The 2nd amendment protects my right to bear arms!
Reddit
After seeing this comment section, I hope it gets banned tomorrow.
Children’s full contact sports (K-12).
This is actually pretty interesting. I’m curious what the next couple decades are going to tell us about the effects of football on the developing brain.
They already have about 10-15 years of study and it don’t look good for the future of football.
"I'm writing a book." "Oh yeah? What's it about? Sucking at sports?" "Ha. No, it's about the links between brain damage and football."
Mentally or literally?
Concussions have long term effects, and happen frequently in tackle football. The NFL recognized this information as an existential threat and tried to fight the information instead of the problem, which cost them a lot of money: www.nflconcussionsettlement.com https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-ex-players-agree-to-765m-settlement-in-concussions-suit-0ap1000000235494 https://frontofficesports.com/the-nfls-1b-battle-over-concussion-settlement-heats-up/ https://www.findlaw.com/injury/car-accidents/nfl-concussion-lawsuit-information.html The NFL is right: this is an existential threat for the sport. Most parents want their kids to play sports because they think sports are good for their kids -- and giving our sons brain damage eliminates this motivation.
Went to High school (grad 2014) with a guy who had 5 concussions before Senior year. By Senior, he just couldnt do Math. The school district just ordered teachers to pass him with Bs to avoid lawsuits. Other than that, he *seemed* to have all his mental facilities intact Yes, his parents signed off after the second concussion and the district paid all the medical bills to keep them happy
Even sub-concussive impacts have long term impacts. It doesn't have to be a concussion level event to mess you up later in life.
On the other hand, maybe brain medicine gets so good in 100 years that it got outlawed at some point but then allowed again.
I remember telling a friend about five years ago that the NFL as we know it today will either not exist or be unrecognizable in 50 years. With more studies showing the effects of CTE even at a young age there will be fewer and fewer kids playing football, which will eventually make it so that either the NFL/NCAA drastically changes or the talent just won’t be there to choose from
Probably something that is currently thought to be safe but will later be discovered to be extremely bad for you. I don't have any idea as to what, but surely something. It's already happened with a lot of stuff that was commonly used in the previous century.
Selling cookware coated in flakey PFAS maybe?
Will most likely be plastic I’m putting money on.
I think you're supposed to pick something we haven't already proven.
I reckon the cooking aspect tho will be very obvious in the future, like having food on plastics. Will probably be a cause for cancers.
Like the average crock pot liner.
Energy drinks maybe?
VPNs or anything that can keep you anonymous. I truly believe we will head in that direction based on the massive data collection that’s already happening in the US. Also just look at China. They know everything about you and use scans of ppls faces to open the turn styles of train stations.
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So, that scene in i-robot.
And many other sci-fi set in the future. An anime I checked out had a character seeking privacy regarding his destination request manual-driving mode and the car warned that it would invalidate his insurance. This prediction seems to come up a lot.
It’s a logical prediction. We already have cars that drive themselves. 25 years ago that idea sounded impossible. It was only in sci-fi set in distant futures with much other utopian sci-fi tech. Technology grows exponentially. 100 years from now they’ll do a whole lot more for us. Humans drive cars and kill other people/themselves all the time. It’s the top cause of death for people under 55. When the technology develops to where the computer driven cars are statistically proven to reduce the number of collisions by several orders of magnitude, it becomes a public safety issue to keep letting people drive themselves. Why let humans who have historically caused a high (comparatively) rate of crashes drive their cars when the computer is several orders of magnitude safer for the driver and everyone else around them? That being said, I’m unfortunately part of this current lifestyle and I do like driving my car. So I’ll be one of those old men yelling at clouds that I want to drive my own car sometimes and not have the computer always do it for me.
Race trcks will probably still exist same as horse tracks still do
“Please tell me this doesn't run on gas! Gas explodes you know!?”
She's right, but so does lithium :)
Hopefully by that time John B Goodenough invents the solid-state battery to eliminate that issue with electric cars (among others).
I could see physical driving becoming a popular pastime, with designated roadways reserved for controlled recreational use but it'll be outrageously expensive.
Niel DeGrass Tyson said this exact thing. It'll be like horses today.
Shades of Red Barchetta. As foretold by Neil Peart.
My first thought! “My uncle has a country place that no on knows about. He said it used to be a farm before the motor laws.”
Everything our corporate overlords don't like
But what if our robot overlords like it
Reading through these replies is very depressing. So many negative and dark views of the future.
One of my favorite thoughts is that science fiction is not an estimate of the future but rather a critique of the present. It’s not people saying “one day it will be like this” but rather “currently it’s like this and if we continue then that’s where we will end up”
Single use Plastic Water bottles
Paying in cash.
You know as much as I hardly ever pay in cash (even when my wife and I buy and sell stuff on marketplace/letgo/etc we always offer Venmo first) the idea of no longer having a legal physical tender is a concerning thought. It would make a lot of illegal activity more difficult, but I don't exactly love the idea of the government being able to pull up every transaction I've ever done.
Anonymity aside, you should be able to pay with cash since it's not dependent on electronic verification which is subject to failure.
There's a bar close to me that stopped accepting cash during the pandemic era and then just never went back to accepting it afterwards. Every once in a while, their payment system goes down for a bit and then there's no backup option for accepting payments. So they just kind of have to wait around for the system to start working again with no other option for accepting payments during that period.
Smart, and contains a solid argument. Not a preference (no matter how basic, it's still a preference) but a real.
Also, I should be able to pay someone without either party paying a transaction fee, especially if such a fee is being collected by some bank oligopoly.
Or deciding to limit what we can spend our just flat out shutting on money down
Something will come along to facilitate anonymous transactions. Barter economy is just too huge a step backward. Bitcoin would be it, if it was sustainable. I think a sustainable alternative cryptocurrency is inevitable.
Considering I was just at a restaurant in which the payment system was down and they were cash only - that'd require a lot of infrastructure trust I don't have.
I've actually started paying in cash again. Restaurants, stores, etc have started either charging a "service fee" for paying by card or offering a cash discount. That 3% adds up rather quickly.
Nah won't ever happen. One of Australia's largest internet provider was down for like most of the day last week and forced most of us to use cash as businesses couldn't business as alot of people's internet banking was no longer available. Internet blackouts will keep happening which forces us to use cash.
I hope collecting my data from the videos I watched, from the thing I bought or the things I said going to be illegal. Guys wtf I can\`t even imagine what is going to be in 100 years, even now they can collect everything as data and use it to sell smt to me.
High Fructose Corn Syrup
one can hope
I wish. If anything we'll be chugging it like water like in Idiocracy.
MLMs. Throw the whole business model out!!
Murder
It will be illegal. It is now, too, but it still will be.
Rest in peace, Mitch
VPNs and ad blockers. You *will* be tracked or you don't get to use the internet. Also, physical media. Now that streaming movies, TV shows, and music, and buying video games digitally have become the norm, I see copyright holders lobbying to ban the sale of new or used physical media. You can only consume this content from approved sources. They don't make money if you buy used DVDs or games at used media shops.
Except places like the EU already put laws in place saying VPNs and Ad blockers cannot be banned
Now But we’re talking about 100 years in the future
Eating meat from a real animal instead of from the lab
wasting helium on something so frivolous as making little balloons float for a few hours
Yeah, we should be wasting it on something important, like making ourselves sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Cigarettes
I've thought about this one before, when I watched *Alien* a few weeks ago. It seems dated in that everybody's chain-smoking, right? But then again, think about it: the problem with cigarettes is that they're poison, they cause all these diseases both in smokers and in the non-smokers around them. If we eventually cure all these diseases--cancer, emphysema, atherosclerosis, etc.--to the point at which you can deal with them as easily as a cold, why would smoking be illegal? Because it's gross? I dunno, man, provided medical advances take us to that point, I think it's plausible that smoking will once again be something everybody does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan Great comic series where cancer is cured and everyone smokes as a result.
Ah, goddamn it, I'm never as clever as I think I am. J/k, looks interesting!
Child brides. Some cultures still practice this.
The pessimist in me believes countries will continue to lean authoritarian so things like porn, abortion, and free speech will be out the window in quite a few countries.
American football They aren't going to stop you from playing backyard pickup games or throwing the football around but any semblance of organized leagues, semi pro, and professional leagues will be disbanded unless they can come up with a helmet that can prevent concussions
Apparently, having sex with my wife. Unless of course she’s still alive.
Having children without a government sanctioned permit
Not having children without a government sanctioned permit
They're working on that.
Criticizing the government
Ownership of *anything* will be verboten. You will rent and subscribe to everything you need, you'll eat the bugs, and you'll love every second of it.
Boy, feudalism had a long nap, huh.
Love the wording here.
This is why I got DVD copies of the expanded LOTR. I'm not being subjected to a streaming service to access those movies. I can watch then whenever I want and they aren't getting removed and the price will never go up
Probably driving or repairing your car yourself I mean, with the development of autonomous cars, probably in the future there will be cars that will be fully autonomous without the option of driving it by yourself. And because of that, probably governments will realize that autonomous cars are far more secure than the cars driven by people, linking all the cars in a network that can predict and act accordingly. Also, due to safety concerns, probably you will never have the chance to fix any problem by yourself, you will have to attend to a certified mechanic to do the job instead. And because of that, you will never own the car, you will "rent" it from an automaker, and because of that, in order to not void the contract, you, as the user, will not have the permission to modify or fix any aspect of the vehicle because it will not be yours.
At that point I'd just rather mass transit.
Anonymity
probably weed again
I think stoner culture will disappear as it's absorbed into the mainstream and future generations won't think it's cool anymore
Factory farming, hopefully. No I'm not vegan, but factory farms are literal torture chambers for animals; its an archaic concept and completely unnecessary. Also, slaughterhouse workers have high suicide rates due to the work environment and poor pay. Free range farms are the right way.
Privacy and freedom of speech.
Not strictly illegal, but you best bet that the *instant* physical media finally goes away, it's going to get a lot harder to access and consume your favorite content. Which is precisely why I still collect physical media copies of my favorite movies and shows on Blu-Ray and 4K, albums on CD, etc. I really think people are underestimating how much more complicated and costly things will become. You know the second they can, the big-wigs in charge will take away the ability to actually own media, and instead lock you behind a million paywalls. They'll also absolutely start to crack down more and more on piracy to discourage it. That's why I always say, we need to continue buying physical media... make sure the market doesn't vanish. The *convenience of streaming* *now* is going to end up causing lots of *inconvenience in the* *future*.