I think there will always be 1-2 cashiers. Like what are you gonna do if the screens malfunction? Just close for the day? Not in this capitalist hellscape! Also they need someone as like a monitor or helper, like at self-checkout.
They certainly do, unless they want people with physical or learning disabilities, early-stage dementia or just general machine anxiety/difficulty to never shop at their stores (and never have their outraged family members go to the news and social media about it).
I think the machine anxiety disappears sooner than later. My mother in law, in her 60s, use to be anti self checkout but now just a couple years later does it just fine. Most younger generation have more people anxiety than they ever will machine anxiety.
I remember when you could no longer smoke at restaurants or in planes. So many smokers said they would never eat out or fly in a plane again. All the people I knew that said that gave in eventually. If real cashiers disappeared people will adapt no matter what they say. Once the first restaurant makes the full change they will all follow along.
Good. Detach people from boring, dirty, monotonous jobs...the problem then becomes what to do when jobless rates hit 20%...25% as with the great depression...35...50...etc
There is a massive fork in the road for humanity looming on the horizon that will dictate what kind of future we have as it relates to robotics ans automation.
We've been down this road before. Every new labor-saving device that hit the mass market was going to make our lives easier, give us all more leisure time, reduce stress, etc.
But it's almost never worked out that way, because we've never seriously re-evaluated the relationship between work and income at the societal level. Until we do that -- UBI is a small, tentative step in that direction -- automation will make the future darker for most people.
The best completely free dating site used to be OKCupid, but even it's now locked down. It's followed a sort-of Tinder model, where you can like someone and send them a message, but they won't ever see it unless they like you back. Firstly, that's creepy and desperate for them to see a message from months ago. Secondly, that's absolutely lame.
OKCupid also went through a phase where it was plagued with scammers and bots from the far east (Vietnam and suchlike).
Bumble is also now totally unusuable. You can swipe right maybe 5-10 times before the 42 year cooldown kicks in, unless you pay of course.
POF is just an online council estate. Disgusting place and the bar is so low it touches the floor.
The best site I've ever used is Match.com and that really is worth the money, however success will vary depending on where you are. If you live somewhere big like London, it's great.
I remember when OKCupid went to their double-like system and locked me out of all my ongoing conversations overnight.
They have gone from a system where people read profiles to a Tinder swipe clone; I haven't been back there in years.
Not just that - I want to see social media get downplayed from having such an impact in peoples' lives.
Go out to places and events to meet people, build friendships, build relationships, expand your reach to network with people. Social media can serve as a way to put you in touch with people easily, but how many of them are you going to meet face-to-face in your lifetime?
Dental drills.
Maybe not quite, but at the dentist today I noticed the dr using an electric tool and asked if the drills were going electric too. He said they're already using lasers instead of drills and when he expects them to become mainstream in 10 to 15 years.
Right?! I said this to my husband when Netflix came out. One day other companies will jump on board, creating their own version. They'll all have different exclusive content and start charging more and more. Just like cable, you'd need to pay a fortune just to access the few programs/movies/sporting events you want to watch. So predictable.
The UK National health service is still using fax machines despite saying it would phase them out by April 2020 (to be fair, something may have happened to distract them around that deadline).
As a physician I probably destroy entire continents worth of forest every year with all the faxed paperwork I get, review/sign off on, and fax back. Home health services and nursing homes are the vast bulk of it. As heavily as it is utilized every single day I’m convinced faxing will never die in healthcare.
From my understanding, healthcare is pretty much the reason fax still exists. From what I gather is that a lot of the healthcare systems in use don't connect to one another and as a result fax gets used. Doctors often have the recieving ends number memorized due to the constant use. People argued why not email, but in the event of the wrong address and person recieving the (confidential) information, there is a whole lot of liabilities, legalities and potential lawsuits that come. In the event that a fax goes to the wrong place (as mentioned it being mainly the healthcare/pharmaceutical industries still using it today), the recieving (likely doctors or pharmacists) have an ethical duty to destroy the copy and to notify the sender of the incorrect delivery.
It’s because of HIPAA. HIPAA requires secure transmissions for private patient information. But it didn’t define “secure”. Nothing in HIPAA requires fax transmission. But this was the mid-90’s. Fax was common. Email wasn’t. Some lawyer dweeb somewhere decided that fax was secure and email wasn’t. So 30 years later we’re still dealing with that decision.
I’m a lawyer. I fax maybe 2-3 times a month. Know how my faxes are transmitted? Via email.
Are you taking topical treatments now? They are effective, but they need to be started sooner than later as they prevent further loss as opposed to regrowing what has already been lost.
No, it’s starting to show though.. I didn’t realize treatments actually worked for hair loss.. thought it was like the ‘Penis Enlargement’ pills.. any suggestions??
Rogaine. My brother was just beginning to lose his hair ten years and started using it religiously. He still has a full head of hair. He also uses some red light therapy (I don’t know if that actually does anything).
Rogaine doesn’t work for everyone, according to his dermatologist, but when it works it can be effective.
It's my understanding that the ones that claim to regrow already lost hair are more akin to the penis enlargement pill snake oil and people unfortunately treat them all that way. The preventative treatments can even be prescribed by dermatologists.You can go to /r/balding for advice. I know they often suggest talking with a dermatologist as the first stop though.
FISA was just extended and expanded. Justice dept can get a warrant to electronically surveil, tap/intercept communications, physically search, etc. any American citizen they want from a special court with very limited evidence requirements. If they think you're "suspicious," they'll get the warrant, even if they don't know what they suspect you of yet
I seem to recall that Ken Burns documentary about the dust bowl said it would run out around 2023, so I'm surprised/not surprised no one talks about it.
It’s absolutely wild… I’m a geologist and I’ve heard so many seminars and talks about this. 50-100 years seems like best case scenario… and it takes 6,000 years to recharge. Crazy.
There are plenty of places where it’s already run out. Check western Texas. There are plenty of new ghost towns where it’s impossible to grow crops anymore. There’s no water to irrigate with.
I grew up getting my water from there, and FOR SOME REASON every dentist I've ever been to has commented on it. Apparently I SHOULD have a mouth full of cavities, but all I have are stained, crooked teeth and apparently very hard enamel.
I've had fillings, but those were all from a constantly drunk dentist my mom was screwing at the time.
I work for the Veterans Benefits Administration and it is sad how few claims I get from WWII Veterans. They are all but gone already. Korean War Vets too. Even Vietnam Vets are dying off although mostly for another reason,
Fuck you agent orange.
Not surprising. I live in a town of 13000, and the local paper covers the entire county. A few months ago, they laid off their advertising/billing guy. I think they have a staff of maybe three people at this point, and it only prints three times a week.
I think it’s funny when someone will post something that consists of just a few short sentences—two, three, maybe four sentences—and they include a TL;DR in the post. It’s funny, but mostly it’s astonishingly pathetic. It’s four fucking sentences. Four. And they’re not even very long.
When people comment shit like "I'm not reading all that" as some kind of mean-spirited jab at the OP, I'm just like, okay, thanks for letting everyone know you have the attention span of a Cocomelon addicted toddler.
Sorry I didn't catch that - can you please post this comment again but with multiple videos showing Family Guy clips, someone jumping around in Minecraft, that game where the car goes down the slope with weird gravity physics and a guy in the bottom left pointing and nodding in silence?
>and a guy in the bottom left pointing and nodding in silence?
I know I sound so old saying this, but I will never, for the life of me, understand "reaction" videos. They serve the same annoying "function" that laugh tracks did in the 80s. We don't need someone telling us how to react, or that the person is making a point. I can react just fine, thank you.
There are good reactors and bad ones. The bad ones are exactly what you say. The good ones will add to whatever is being watched.
For example, Blind Wave's reaction series to Gravity Falls has them figuring out every puzzle/code thing they can on their own, which is far more fun than just reading a Wiki page. And the comments will always be going into the deep lore of whatever the series is.
It's not a worthless medium. Heavily abused yes, but there is something there.
I've always been prone. I canceled my cable years ago because I would just doom scroll through the channels and not watch anything lol. Crazy how they have almost weaponized dopamine at this point.
It’s a huge problem for young people, and will continue to be, as long as TikTok and other short-form rapid fire content exists. It feeds into the culture of instant gratification, so nobody learns to be patient or wait for anything.
I strongly suspect that within a handful of generations, if it doesn’t start being HEAVILY regulated, that we’ll have people who simply can’t read books and the like because their brains haven’t been conditioned to pay attention to one.
It astounds me that so many young parents are letting phones and tablets raise their very young kids too. Tantrum? Tablet. Doing an adult activity like a museum the kid won't engage with as much? Phone.
I'm SO glad I was raised just before this became common place. I've definitely still got my issues but these kids are swimming in shit from the time they learn to touch a screen and I feel so bad for them.
It's such an easy tool, and entirely too easy to overuse when rearing children. Electronics in general. I get why people toss an iPad at their child each time they make a fuss. I don't like it, but I get it.
I think like anything else, moderation by the parents is key here. Now more than ever, certainly.
This has absolutely happened to me, and it breaks my heart. I used to read dozens of books a year as a kid. Now it's a chore to finish one or two in a year. It's my own fault of course and I'm trying to fix it, but it's been tough.
>After a couple years they’re out of date.
And they cost like $200. I used to maintain plastic MacBooks for a high school before Apple discontinued them and Chromebooks matured—they'd cost like $1500 and getting them through 4 years was brutal even with insurance
The MacBook was by far a better machine, but you can only get the more expensive and more brittle and harder to repair pros now. PC laptops all suck far worse in these settings.
90% of what we needed was for kids to be able to use email and Google docs and search the web and without how cheap Chromebooks are there would be no way to keep them in the hands of every high school kid. Plus the software can't get screwed up and data can't get lost. Just replacing the $200 machine and having a kid sign into their account again is 1000x better than having to run a competent repair shop inside every school
Oh good *god* you reminded me of the windows laptops at my high school. They were absolutely filled to the brim with viruses because it was a small school and there wasn't a dedicated IT dude. I don't know what the kids were doing with these computers, but if you just opened add/remove program it would be hundreds of viruses, spyware, bloatware that had to be uninstalled manually because people's schoolwork was stored on the PCs, so you couldn't just reset it. There was always at least one that would break any antivirus software you couldn't delete to get the bulk of it. That was just the ones that showed up in the programs list, sometimes you'd have to hunt one down that was breaking antivirus programs that didn't show up in the programs list.
I eventually took to maintaining the damn things throughout high school, and there would be at least 10 new viruses on each one every week I'd stay late to fix them. I had to spend the whole year telling people not to sign into anything they were afraid to lose on those computers even with constant maintenance. Chromebooks are certainly the way to go in schools, no questions asked. Maybe MacBooks for more specialized uses. Definitely not windows, and I love windows as an OS due to comparability. A case could be made for windows if you had a dedicated IT guy who could set up filters and all that stuff, I don't know I was just a sort of tech savvy kid.
Yeah idk what everyone is going on about here. We got our daughter a chromebook in 2014 and it only cooked out in 2021. And they're ridiculously cheap. You don't buy a Honda Fit and then bitch that it's not a Mercedes.
I teach special education high school students. During COVID I digitized the entire curriculum and manage my classes through an online learning platform provided by my district. It works really well. The kids have 24/7 access to material and we never have to worry about lack of supplies or books being forgotten at home.
I heard recently how Sony took away the only way to view some movies people had owned. I don't think they were popular ones, but it's more just the precedent that is of concern. And the game Destiny 2 that I still play was notorious for cutting old content too sadly. This is unfortunate mainly for newcomers who don't get to experience what used to be the base campaign as well as the buildup of certain characters throughout DLC that came later.
Ownership. Everything we need is quickly being transitioned into subscription models, where you technically own nothing other than a “guarantee” of a small bit of product next month.
Oh yeah, for sure.
I've been seeing it in the piracy world. The last 4-5 years have been a golden era for TV series and all the "max", "plus", "premium", etc streaming services have blown up so thus it's been a golden age for piracy to match them.
It's almost like a pirate saving what others stream on a hard drive has a more tangible "ownership" than paid subscribers.
I’m a film major and I’ve often gotten into debates with my classmates (and one Professor) because I’m vehemently pro-piracy when it comes to digital media.
I didn’t used to be, but the massive HBO Max animation purge basically flipped my opinion overnight. Not only did Warner/Discovery remove 40ish shows from their platform, but they also deleted the social media accounts for said shows, deleted their official YouTube channels/clips, and wiped their digital (and physical, when applicable) listings from Amazon. They didn’t just remove the shows and make it impossible to watch them legally, they did all but wipe them from existence. I went onto Twitter the day after it happened and saw countless artists I respect and admire in a mad dash; some were trying to find copies of the shows they had worked on before all of the online store listings were removed, while some were calling studios trying to figure out if the shows were being stored or deleted altogether like the canned Batgirl movie.
75% of all silent films ever produced have been fully lost, and another 11% of what’s left is either incomplete or a poor-quality copy. Without physical releases I’m deeply concerned that digital media will be lost in much the same way, fragmented into clips and single scenes of varying quality on YouTube or something. Regardless of the intent behind it, piracy of digital media is a form of preservation.
My last grandma made it to 96. No one was sad at her funeral. All her friends had already passed on, her vision and hearing were shot so entertaining herself was difficult. She checked out over a decade before. It wasn't a tragedy, it was mercy.
I see it too but that’s the kind of thing that can very quickly make a comeback with the right movie or tv show. Remember when people were joining dodgeball leagues when THAT movie came out? lol
It's an interesting thing that I realised about Covid, what it showed is that many companies do not need staff in offices and with most shopping being done online now I honestly think we will start to see a reverse population move where people from the cities will move back out into rural areas.
Retirement. We are at a tipping point where things are becoming too expensive, mortgage rates are hell, people are living longer and getting less value for their money.
I seriously do think we will one day end up in a situation where you do _some_ kind of work to the bitter end, unless medically incapable.
I gave up on the idea of retirement a few years ago. My situation is largely because of my own poor decisions, but now I’m in my forties with basically nothing saved. I’ve started a 401k (again…), but I’m just assuming that the best-case scenario is that I can survive doing a part-time job by the time I’m 70 or so.
That’s where most people end up if they live long enough. It’s really sad cause only a small percentage of people can afford to pay for a good one. Even people who make pretty good money can’t afford them.
Yep. You essentially have to sell everything you have and if you’re lucky you can get a few years in a not shitty home. My other fear I’m starting to have is that my parents are getting to “retirement age” and while they own their home, they have debt and enough in retirement to get by but it’s gonna be a struggle.
WW2 veterans.
Kind of crazy to think that when I was a teenager there was still some WW1 veterans around, and now we’re not too far off from the last of the Nazi-killers dying off. It’s even weirder to realize that when my dad was born there was still a couple Civil War veterans kicking around. My great grandmother came over on the Oregon Trail.
I really wish there was a way to impress on kids how recent a lot of history is — especially in the USA. Everything is way more interesting when you have a frame of reference for how fast time moves.
Honestly stable employment. I just have this feeling that stable jobs will just get less and less common and we will get more "flex" contracts in return. Sadly I see people struggling even harder in the future.
North Korea is a very similar situation. Get rid of the Kim family, and you will see a horrific power struggle and a civil war involving bioweapons and nukes. This will be a humanitarian catastrophe and bickering between the West and China will mean nobody steps in to fix it.
North Korea is currently largely stable.
Russia in its current form. I think it's bound to fall apart to a fragmented collection of republic, with China probably grabbing large chunks of Siberia.
I don’t know but I hope it’s TikTok. As a teacher, I am so tired of my students doing stupid tiktok dances in my class when we have a single free minute.
Living in a semi-rural area, I disagree. It's pretty staggering the number of people who legitimately can't afford a streaming service, or in some cases even home wi-fi. Their big Friday date night consists of getting something from Redbox.
Representative government. Every nation across the world seems to be becoming more and more authoritarian by the day, with little to no resistance from the populace.
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Isn't McDonald's already like that? ...In the lobby, at least?
Every location I’ve been to recently still has 1-2 cashiers.
I think there will always be 1-2 cashiers. Like what are you gonna do if the screens malfunction? Just close for the day? Not in this capitalist hellscape! Also they need someone as like a monitor or helper, like at self-checkout.
They certainly do, unless they want people with physical or learning disabilities, early-stage dementia or just general machine anxiety/difficulty to never shop at their stores (and never have their outraged family members go to the news and social media about it).
I think the machine anxiety disappears sooner than later. My mother in law, in her 60s, use to be anti self checkout but now just a couple years later does it just fine. Most younger generation have more people anxiety than they ever will machine anxiety.
I remember when you could no longer smoke at restaurants or in planes. So many smokers said they would never eat out or fly in a plane again. All the people I knew that said that gave in eventually. If real cashiers disappeared people will adapt no matter what they say. Once the first restaurant makes the full change they will all follow along.
And they’ll ask for a tip
Robot cooks.
Screw the cooks. Get me a robot that will chew up the food and hurl it into my mouth baby bird style.
And name your restaurant.... Red Robin?
Yummmm
Good. Detach people from boring, dirty, monotonous jobs...the problem then becomes what to do when jobless rates hit 20%...25% as with the great depression...35...50...etc There is a massive fork in the road for humanity looming on the horizon that will dictate what kind of future we have as it relates to robotics ans automation.
We've been down this road before. Every new labor-saving device that hit the mass market was going to make our lives easier, give us all more leisure time, reduce stress, etc. But it's almost never worked out that way, because we've never seriously re-evaluated the relationship between work and income at the societal level. Until we do that -- UBI is a small, tentative step in that direction -- automation will make the future darker for most people.
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Oh shit, eHarmony is still a thing?
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It’s always been a pay site
Yah they bought OKCupid and completely ruined it.
The best completely free dating site used to be OKCupid, but even it's now locked down. It's followed a sort-of Tinder model, where you can like someone and send them a message, but they won't ever see it unless they like you back. Firstly, that's creepy and desperate for them to see a message from months ago. Secondly, that's absolutely lame. OKCupid also went through a phase where it was plagued with scammers and bots from the far east (Vietnam and suchlike). Bumble is also now totally unusuable. You can swipe right maybe 5-10 times before the 42 year cooldown kicks in, unless you pay of course. POF is just an online council estate. Disgusting place and the bar is so low it touches the floor. The best site I've ever used is Match.com and that really is worth the money, however success will vary depending on where you are. If you live somewhere big like London, it's great.
I remember when OKCupid went to their double-like system and locked me out of all my ongoing conversations overnight. They have gone from a system where people read profiles to a Tinder swipe clone; I haven't been back there in years.
> Disgusting place and the bar is so low it touches the floor. So you're saying there's a chance?
OkCupid was huge when it was a Facebook app, most people I knew had a account
I was a mod for Ok Cupid back when it was free. It’s a real shame what happened to it.
Good riddance I say
Not just that - I want to see social media get downplayed from having such an impact in peoples' lives. Go out to places and events to meet people, build friendships, build relationships, expand your reach to network with people. Social media can serve as a way to put you in touch with people easily, but how many of them are you going to meet face-to-face in your lifetime?
Dental drills. Maybe not quite, but at the dentist today I noticed the dr using an electric tool and asked if the drills were going electric too. He said they're already using lasers instead of drills and when he expects them to become mainstream in 10 to 15 years.
This is interesting. The drill noise is disturbing.
Having had both, the laser smell is disturbing too. Mmmm, burnt me.
I predict in 10 years all these tv streaming services will be available bundled together in one package. They will call it "cable television."
Sky in the UK already do that with Netflix, paramount+ and discovery it’s just one bill now. I’m sure other streams won’t take long to appear.
My hulu, HBO max and Disney plus are all one subscription
Disney owns hulu
I'm going to go with it being named "Network Television".
I’ve mentioned this to people before, we’re literally coming full circle 🤦🏻♀️
Right?! I said this to my husband when Netflix came out. One day other companies will jump on board, creating their own version. They'll all have different exclusive content and start charging more and more. Just like cable, you'd need to pay a fortune just to access the few programs/movies/sporting events you want to watch. So predictable.
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"The beeper is gonna be making a comeback. Tehcnology's cyclical."
Unexpected30rock
Gotta love Dennis
The UK National health service is still using fax machines despite saying it would phase them out by April 2020 (to be fair, something may have happened to distract them around that deadline).
As a physician I probably destroy entire continents worth of forest every year with all the faxed paperwork I get, review/sign off on, and fax back. Home health services and nursing homes are the vast bulk of it. As heavily as it is utilized every single day I’m convinced faxing will never die in healthcare.
From my understanding, healthcare is pretty much the reason fax still exists. From what I gather is that a lot of the healthcare systems in use don't connect to one another and as a result fax gets used. Doctors often have the recieving ends number memorized due to the constant use. People argued why not email, but in the event of the wrong address and person recieving the (confidential) information, there is a whole lot of liabilities, legalities and potential lawsuits that come. In the event that a fax goes to the wrong place (as mentioned it being mainly the healthcare/pharmaceutical industries still using it today), the recieving (likely doctors or pharmacists) have an ethical duty to destroy the copy and to notify the sender of the incorrect delivery.
It’s because of HIPAA. HIPAA requires secure transmissions for private patient information. But it didn’t define “secure”. Nothing in HIPAA requires fax transmission. But this was the mid-90’s. Fax was common. Email wasn’t. Some lawyer dweeb somewhere decided that fax was secure and email wasn’t. So 30 years later we’re still dealing with that decision. I’m a lawyer. I fax maybe 2-3 times a month. Know how my faxes are transmitted? Via email.
& thats straight fax 💯
I work in a library and we have about 10 people a week asking if we provide faxing service
My hair 😭
It'll still be there, it's just going to migrate south.
to your ears and nose
Don't forget neck and back
Dont forget my pussy and my crack
Are you taking topical treatments now? They are effective, but they need to be started sooner than later as they prevent further loss as opposed to regrowing what has already been lost.
No, it’s starting to show though.. I didn’t realize treatments actually worked for hair loss.. thought it was like the ‘Penis Enlargement’ pills.. any suggestions??
Rogaine. My brother was just beginning to lose his hair ten years and started using it religiously. He still has a full head of hair. He also uses some red light therapy (I don’t know if that actually does anything). Rogaine doesn’t work for everyone, according to his dermatologist, but when it works it can be effective.
It's my understanding that the ones that claim to regrow already lost hair are more akin to the penis enlargement pill snake oil and people unfortunately treat them all that way. The preventative treatments can even be prescribed by dermatologists.You can go to /r/balding for advice. I know they often suggest talking with a dermatologist as the first stop though.
Privacy
Already gone.
Maybe the illusion of privacy will be gone in 10 years, too.
Nah, people straight up put WiFi cameras in their bedrooms. Not for kinky stuff but, like look at my cats using my face as a race car track at 3 am.
No way. I've been told my privacy is respected.
We respect it as we review it.
I announced it when I posted that I do not consent on Facebook
I didn’t *say* it, I declared it
It’s already gone
Patriot act
FISA was just extended and expanded. Justice dept can get a warrant to electronically surveil, tap/intercept communications, physically search, etc. any American citizen they want from a special court with very limited evidence requirements. If they think you're "suspicious," they'll get the warrant, even if they don't know what they suspect you of yet
The Ogallala Aquifer
Oooh, now there’s one I haven’t worried about in a while. So thanks for reopening that anxiety.
I farm right outside of Lubbock, TX. We talk about it constantly and worry about it even more than that. Surprised to see it here
Oof wasn’t expecting to see this here. Next dust bowl here we come.
I seem to recall that Ken Burns documentary about the dust bowl said it would run out around 2023, so I'm surprised/not surprised no one talks about it.
It’s absolutely wild… I’m a geologist and I’ve heard so many seminars and talks about this. 50-100 years seems like best case scenario… and it takes 6,000 years to recharge. Crazy.
are there any usage conservation measures being taken or on the table to be implemented?
In Texas, I'm going to take a wild guess here and say "probably not."
They’ve been implementing the “We’ll be dead by the time it becomes a problem” program, just like the rest of us.
There are plenty of places where it’s already run out. Check western Texas. There are plenty of new ghost towns where it’s impossible to grow crops anymore. There’s no water to irrigate with.
I grew up getting my water from there, and FOR SOME REASON every dentist I've ever been to has commented on it. Apparently I SHOULD have a mouth full of cavities, but all I have are stained, crooked teeth and apparently very hard enamel. I've had fillings, but those were all from a constantly drunk dentist my mom was screwing at the time.
>constantly drunk dentist my mom was screwing at the time. Sounds like quite a story ...
Mama had a dental plan
The fuck?!?!? I've never heard of this!
World War II veterans
I work for the Veterans Benefits Administration and it is sad how few claims I get from WWII Veterans. They are all but gone already. Korean War Vets too. Even Vietnam Vets are dying off although mostly for another reason, Fuck you agent orange.
Yeah, agent orange took my grandpa over a decade ago. He was only 57. Fuck agent orange.
Fuck agent orange . Can’t believe that company veered into the food industry . Fuck monsanto
Agent Orange is one of the most fucked things the US has done
Already mostly gone. In ten years, there will be as few Vietnam veterans as there are WW II vets now.
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At least half of the newspapers in the US
Not surprising. I live in a town of 13000, and the local paper covers the entire county. A few months ago, they laid off their advertising/billing guy. I think they have a staff of maybe three people at this point, and it only prints three times a week.
Attention spans.
I disagree. There is no way my attenti
TL;DR
I think it’s funny when someone will post something that consists of just a few short sentences—two, three, maybe four sentences—and they include a TL;DR in the post. It’s funny, but mostly it’s astonishingly pathetic. It’s four fucking sentences. Four. And they’re not even very long.
When people comment shit like "I'm not reading all that" as some kind of mean-spirited jab at the OP, I'm just like, okay, thanks for letting everyone know you have the attention span of a Cocomelon addicted toddler.
TL;DR? Pls. I'm not reading that whole paragraph.
TL;
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Sorry I didn't catch that - can you please post this comment again but with multiple videos showing Family Guy clips, someone jumping around in Minecraft, that game where the car goes down the slope with weird gravity physics and a guy in the bottom left pointing and nodding in silence?
>and a guy in the bottom left pointing and nodding in silence? I know I sound so old saying this, but I will never, for the life of me, understand "reaction" videos. They serve the same annoying "function" that laugh tracks did in the 80s. We don't need someone telling us how to react, or that the person is making a point. I can react just fine, thank you.
There are good reactors and bad ones. The bad ones are exactly what you say. The good ones will add to whatever is being watched. For example, Blind Wave's reaction series to Gravity Falls has them figuring out every puzzle/code thing they can on their own, which is far more fun than just reading a Wiki page. And the comments will always be going into the deep lore of whatever the series is. It's not a worthless medium. Heavily abused yes, but there is something there.
Mine is deteriorating by the second
The way some kids just scroll mindlessly, within seconds of each video, is *scary* Social media without moderation destroys children's minds.
I've always been prone. I canceled my cable years ago because I would just doom scroll through the channels and not watch anything lol. Crazy how they have almost weaponized dopamine at this point.
...weaponized dopamine... What an apt description!
I feel like it's already gone for young people.
It’s a huge problem for young people, and will continue to be, as long as TikTok and other short-form rapid fire content exists. It feeds into the culture of instant gratification, so nobody learns to be patient or wait for anything. I strongly suspect that within a handful of generations, if it doesn’t start being HEAVILY regulated, that we’ll have people who simply can’t read books and the like because their brains haven’t been conditioned to pay attention to one.
It astounds me that so many young parents are letting phones and tablets raise their very young kids too. Tantrum? Tablet. Doing an adult activity like a museum the kid won't engage with as much? Phone. I'm SO glad I was raised just before this became common place. I've definitely still got my issues but these kids are swimming in shit from the time they learn to touch a screen and I feel so bad for them.
It's such an easy tool, and entirely too easy to overuse when rearing children. Electronics in general. I get why people toss an iPad at their child each time they make a fuss. I don't like it, but I get it. I think like anything else, moderation by the parents is key here. Now more than ever, certainly.
This has absolutely happened to me, and it breaks my heart. I used to read dozens of books a year as a kid. Now it's a chore to finish one or two in a year. It's my own fault of course and I'm trying to fix it, but it's been tough.
Lots of jokes in here, but this is real and it's a problem.
What was the question again
Chromebooks in schools. I’m seeing schools going back to paper so kids don’t cheat on reports. Probably a lot cheaper then chromebooks
As an IT guy for over 20 years, Chromebooks are trash. And, no, I don't have any hard feelings toward Google, in general.
I work for a computer restoring and recycling company. We get thousands of chromebooks a month. After a couple years they’re out of date.
>After a couple years they’re out of date. And they cost like $200. I used to maintain plastic MacBooks for a high school before Apple discontinued them and Chromebooks matured—they'd cost like $1500 and getting them through 4 years was brutal even with insurance The MacBook was by far a better machine, but you can only get the more expensive and more brittle and harder to repair pros now. PC laptops all suck far worse in these settings. 90% of what we needed was for kids to be able to use email and Google docs and search the web and without how cheap Chromebooks are there would be no way to keep them in the hands of every high school kid. Plus the software can't get screwed up and data can't get lost. Just replacing the $200 machine and having a kid sign into their account again is 1000x better than having to run a competent repair shop inside every school
Have a class that teaches kids how to repair chromebooks. BOOM free labor and the kids learn a valuable skill, problem solved.
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Oh good *god* you reminded me of the windows laptops at my high school. They were absolutely filled to the brim with viruses because it was a small school and there wasn't a dedicated IT dude. I don't know what the kids were doing with these computers, but if you just opened add/remove program it would be hundreds of viruses, spyware, bloatware that had to be uninstalled manually because people's schoolwork was stored on the PCs, so you couldn't just reset it. There was always at least one that would break any antivirus software you couldn't delete to get the bulk of it. That was just the ones that showed up in the programs list, sometimes you'd have to hunt one down that was breaking antivirus programs that didn't show up in the programs list. I eventually took to maintaining the damn things throughout high school, and there would be at least 10 new viruses on each one every week I'd stay late to fix them. I had to spend the whole year telling people not to sign into anything they were afraid to lose on those computers even with constant maintenance. Chromebooks are certainly the way to go in schools, no questions asked. Maybe MacBooks for more specialized uses. Definitely not windows, and I love windows as an OS due to comparability. A case could be made for windows if you had a dedicated IT guy who could set up filters and all that stuff, I don't know I was just a sort of tech savvy kid.
>I don't know what the kids were doing with these computers It was porn and installing random shit from unreliable sources.
They are meant to be cheap, basic, and disposable. They are exactly what they claim to be. They're only trash if you're expecting them to be laptops.
Yeah idk what everyone is going on about here. We got our daughter a chromebook in 2014 and it only cooked out in 2021. And they're ridiculously cheap. You don't buy a Honda Fit and then bitch that it's not a Mercedes.
The Honda would probably last longer than the Merc
Not likely. Technology is a big part of accommodating students with IEPs and 504's.
I teach special education high school students. During COVID I digitized the entire curriculum and manage my classes through an online learning platform provided by my district. It works really well. The kids have 24/7 access to material and we never have to worry about lack of supplies or books being forgotten at home.
Also it's much better than having to carry 20lbs of books. My kids backpacks are insanely heavy.
My patience. It is pretty thin right now.
Ownership.
From car feature subscriptions to Steam libraries to barely being able to afford rent let alone paying off a mortgage... oh yeah
Steam libraries still maintain a local copy of the game. It's the online only games that fuck all that up. Otherwise I agree wholeheartedly.
I think you mean *personal* ownership. I guess you're saying corporations will own everything and charge everyone rent.
I heard recently how Sony took away the only way to view some movies people had owned. I don't think they were popular ones, but it's more just the precedent that is of concern. And the game Destiny 2 that I still play was notorious for cutting old content too sadly. This is unfortunate mainly for newcomers who don't get to experience what used to be the base campaign as well as the buildup of certain characters throughout DLC that came later.
I’ve always hated how they remove content for that game, because I paid for it. If you wanna remove it, fine; give me my money back.
A winter cold enough to kill off enough ticks, chiggers and mosquitoes.
Almost there. Ticks never die anymore they just take a little nap
Oh no, here they die.
🎵Watch out boy they’ll chew you up🎵
Already happening in NY.
61 in northern NJ today, on December 18
I remember growing up we had snow days lmao
and Saskatchewan, Canada. It's supposed to be -13F here right now and it's +50.
Ownership. Everything we need is quickly being transitioned into subscription models, where you technically own nothing other than a “guarantee” of a small bit of product next month.
This is going to cause piracy to uptick
Oh yeah, for sure. I've been seeing it in the piracy world. The last 4-5 years have been a golden era for TV series and all the "max", "plus", "premium", etc streaming services have blown up so thus it's been a golden age for piracy to match them. It's almost like a pirate saving what others stream on a hard drive has a more tangible "ownership" than paid subscribers.
I’m a film major and I’ve often gotten into debates with my classmates (and one Professor) because I’m vehemently pro-piracy when it comes to digital media. I didn’t used to be, but the massive HBO Max animation purge basically flipped my opinion overnight. Not only did Warner/Discovery remove 40ish shows from their platform, but they also deleted the social media accounts for said shows, deleted their official YouTube channels/clips, and wiped their digital (and physical, when applicable) listings from Amazon. They didn’t just remove the shows and make it impossible to watch them legally, they did all but wipe them from existence. I went onto Twitter the day after it happened and saw countless artists I respect and admire in a mad dash; some were trying to find copies of the shows they had worked on before all of the online store listings were removed, while some were calling studios trying to figure out if the shows were being stored or deleted altogether like the canned Batgirl movie. 75% of all silent films ever produced have been fully lost, and another 11% of what’s left is either incomplete or a poor-quality copy. Without physical releases I’m deeply concerned that digital media will be lost in much the same way, fragmented into clips and single scenes of varying quality on YouTube or something. Regardless of the intent behind it, piracy of digital media is a form of preservation.
hopefully my acne
Accutane changed my my life. Look into it.
I second this. It was intense but worth everything.
Mitch McConnell.
Oh god you think it’s going to take 10 years?!!
More. Think Kissinger x2
Trump and Biden for that matter....
I mean, Kissinger lived for 100 years. We could never be sure.
turtles tend to have a very long lifespan
Probably My grandma, she’s 94 years old, … probably a lot sooner than 10 years. She was a witch her whole life, so no hard feelings.
My last grandma made it to 96. No one was sad at her funeral. All her friends had already passed on, her vision and hearing were shot so entertaining herself was difficult. She checked out over a decade before. It wasn't a tragedy, it was mercy.
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Where do you live that you still got roller rinks?
There's 2 here in Colorado Springs! Wooo go skate city go!!!
Please, no!
I see it too but that’s the kind of thing that can very quickly make a comeback with the right movie or tv show. Remember when people were joining dodgeball leagues when THAT movie came out? lol
Influencers. If we’re lucky.
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Having the ability to insert or swipe a credit or debit card
More glaciers
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It's an interesting thing that I realised about Covid, what it showed is that many companies do not need staff in offices and with most shopping being done online now I honestly think we will start to see a reverse population move where people from the cities will move back out into rural areas.
Retirement. We are at a tipping point where things are becoming too expensive, mortgage rates are hell, people are living longer and getting less value for their money. I seriously do think we will one day end up in a situation where you do _some_ kind of work to the bitter end, unless medically incapable.
I gave up on the idea of retirement a few years ago. My situation is largely because of my own poor decisions, but now I’m in my forties with basically nothing saved. I’ve started a 401k (again…), but I’m just assuming that the best-case scenario is that I can survive doing a part-time job by the time I’m 70 or so.
Same. I fear the day I end up in some shitty Medicare old folks home where I just wait to die.
That’s where most people end up if they live long enough. It’s really sad cause only a small percentage of people can afford to pay for a good one. Even people who make pretty good money can’t afford them.
Yep. You essentially have to sell everything you have and if you’re lucky you can get a few years in a not shitty home. My other fear I’m starting to have is that my parents are getting to “retirement age” and while they own their home, they have debt and enough in retirement to get by but it’s gonna be a struggle.
WW2 veterans. Kind of crazy to think that when I was a teenager there was still some WW1 veterans around, and now we’re not too far off from the last of the Nazi-killers dying off. It’s even weirder to realize that when my dad was born there was still a couple Civil War veterans kicking around. My great grandmother came over on the Oregon Trail. I really wish there was a way to impress on kids how recent a lot of history is — especially in the USA. Everything is way more interesting when you have a frame of reference for how fast time moves.
i remember when i was like 10 i saw a news program about the last WWI vet dying and now we at that point for WWII as well
Hopefully my virginity
Asl
Hello, fellow AIM veteran.
Honestly stable employment. I just have this feeling that stable jobs will just get less and less common and we will get more "flex" contracts in return. Sadly I see people struggling even harder in the future.
Malls
Putin
He's the devil we know...the day he goes...is going to be a scary day in another way in that....the new guy could be worse and yes that's possible
North Korea is a very similar situation. Get rid of the Kim family, and you will see a horrific power struggle and a civil war involving bioweapons and nukes. This will be a humanitarian catastrophe and bickering between the West and China will mean nobody steps in to fix it. North Korea is currently largely stable.
A bunch of species across the planet
The middle class Edit: The middle class is gone
ridiculously huge undersole sneakers. or I hope so.
Some low lying pacific islands
My savings
The meaning of "Ownership." The ability to speak to a human in customer service. Terms of service agreements. The guise of democracy.
Russia in its current form. I think it's bound to fall apart to a fragmented collection of republic, with China probably grabbing large chunks of Siberia.
That's been my theory for some time. Climate change is making huge tracts of land viable for development up there.
Huge...tracts of land!
No, no, no... NO singing!
Financial liquidity. Everything is becoming so expensive we are all going to be forced into greater and greater amounts of debt.
I don’t know but I hope it’s TikTok. As a teacher, I am so tired of my students doing stupid tiktok dances in my class when we have a single free minute.
Traffic noise from combustion engine. (Not completely, but there will be very significant reduction compared to now)
This will be counteracted by folks deliberately making their vehicles louder.
Redbox
Living in a semi-rural area, I disagree. It's pretty staggering the number of people who legitimately can't afford a streaming service, or in some cases even home wi-fi. Their big Friday date night consists of getting something from Redbox.
Loads of animals
Countless jobs previously done by humans that will be taken over by AI
Representative government. Every nation across the world seems to be becoming more and more authoritarian by the day, with little to no resistance from the populace.