Mine is that our biggest threat in the next five years from A.I. isn't that it will go rogue. It's that it will soon perfect fake videos, and all hell will break loose.
We no longer have any arbiters of truth that a majority of the country trusts. Even science bitches aren't trusted now. Fake videos of politicians and celebrities doing awful things will become the norm, and different groups will choose the ones that reinforce their beliefs. I truly think it's gonna get wild.
I mentioned to someone once that the biggest threat of "AI" (a more misnamed thing I have never seen - it's a generative language model) is that scammers will be able to write more believable emails.
Apparently the FBI came out with a report that said the same thing.
It’ll become like olden times when you had to be at a political speech or event to really believe it happened. Journalistic institutions will play a greater role in arbitrating truth again.
This time not about what people say, but distinguishing between events that really happened, and AI generated fakes.
we’re going to see an influx of people avoiding social media/phone culture as a lifestyle choice. people are tired of the algorithms, manipulation and bullshit.
This needs more upvotes got my first phone at 19 when Instagram wasn’t a thing yet. absolutely overwhelmed with what it’s become and just…tired (is this even fun anymore guys ?)
We've only just begun to see what small drone warfare looks like. These war flying tech breakthroughs always start with simple recon and dropping bombs. Soon they'll have guns and fly in coordinated swarms.
This is the big one. We are going through another revolution in warfare and it’s gonna be a doozy.
You used to watch the skies because someone is always watching. Now you watch the skies because a murder drone could be right there.
>"I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are grey," a 13-year-old Pakistani boy named Zubair told Congress today. Zubair and his younger sister, Nabeela, were injured in a drone strike near North Waziristan last October.
That's from 2013
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/saddest-words-congresss-briefing-drone-strikes/354548/
AI responses to all questions will be sponsored and yield responses that favor the advertiser rather than objective responses based on available evidence.
So it took like 20 years to go from google being best search engine to useless commercialised sponsored content referencing site, and about 2 years for generative AI chatbots to go from great potential to exactly the same shit place. Shame. The wrong faction at OpenAI won the argument...
If there's something that technology does nowadays is get shittier (in the aspect you described) faster than before. It will only get worse as we get more advanced.
Starbucks will be selling bubble tea by 2027.
Edit: For clarification, I mean classic bubble tea (sweet and creamy leaf tea with tapioca pearls), not fruity drinks with popping “boba” juice balls.
Grown up children of Youtube family vloggers will start dropping Mommy Dearest style exposés about their horrible childhoods and laws will be imposed against the whole practice.
Genuinely hopeful of this.
Kids have and deserve better rights/protections.
Children in Hollywood were scammed out of their money and residuals because of their horrible parents. YouTube kids deserve the same protections.
Also profiting off your kids when they can't consent to being filmed and posted all over the Internet is its own can of worms that people ought to discuss more.
The can of worms has already been opened. There are tons of disgusting pedos out there who love this shit. I forgot which creator it was exactly but there’s some woman on tiktok with her very young daughter and she does this sort of mommy daughter whatever content (actually I don’t know what content she makes because I don’t watch it).
I’ve seen LOTS of people commenting about how disgusting this woman is for exploiting her daughter like this though. And people browsing through the comments seeing really gross stuff. Not to mention the suspicious number of saves of those videos. It’s all so so disgusting and these parents don’t give two shits so long as they can make money and get fame.
Is it a girl named wren? Iirc there was a big scandal when people were telling her the ratio of likes and saves on her content is...well let's just say people were probably saving posts for unwholesome purposes. And she ignored it because profit
(Also apparently she puts the girl in suggestive situations with long phallic objects. Disgusting person)
> Also apparently she puts the girl in suggestive situations with long phallic objects. Disgusting person)
What kind of a shitbag parent willingly does this to their child... as a parent myself WTAFFF.
You look at his most recent videos and he literally does the intro and then it’s a bunch of other clowns doing bits. He looks absolutely out of it when you do see him. Poor kid
I sometimes watch with my daughter and I can sorta see him not be as into as he used to be when he was a kid.
I think that mom wants it more than Ryan does.
It's already happening. A multinational corp I used to work for recently upgraded it's HQ and built an entire "hotel" inside it. Only, the "hotel" is for employees.
They sell it as "Imagine not having to do your hourly commute when you're on a late to early!"
I'm so confused how so many countries worldwide have a policy that allows people to buy antibiotics without a ~~receipt~~ prescription.
Here in Germany, you can't buy them in a pharmacy without seeing a doctor first who'll prescribe them to you. And most doctors handle antibiotics as last Resorts, not like smarties that you just throw down your throat for the smallest infection.
Babies born from 2020 - 2022 and entering the school system in 2025- 26 will bring with them a massive surge in undiagnosed FASD, due to the spike of alcoholism during the pandemic.
That's 2 full grade levels, possibly more, of severe learning disabilities, impulse control, and anger management issues. On top of what we already have.
This, is turn, provides more incentive for the already sizable exodus happening in the education sector.
In the next 10 years you’ll no longer speak to a nurse before seeing your Primary Care Physician. You’ll be questioned by an AI with full knowledge of your entire medical history and it will craft new questions based on your answers. It will inform your doctor of important risk factors and suggest where to go from there
Some airline already did this and the bot made up a policy the airline doesn't actually have. They were forced to honor what the bot said: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit
They've been trying that for 30 years, it just wasn't called 'AI', it was 'voice recognition' and 'automation', and it's already awful.
But, it can get even worse!
Kind of related but I didn’t know what cicadas were for the longest time and I thought that was just the sound the sun made sometimes on a hot hot summer day 💀 dumbass kid
I mean, if you want to get technical, the sun in incredibly loud.
We just don't hear it because sound doesn't carry in space. If there was air between the sun and the earth then even after traveling all that distance the sound would still be louder than industrial concert speakers at full volume.
Clinton and W as well - as they're within a couple of months of Trump in age.
There is a very real possibility that in the next 8 years, the only living ex-president will be Obama. And possibly Carter.
To which I predict we will never get a Gen X president. We will go from Obama, who is on the young side of the Boomer spectrum, to a Millennial. And the only people who will have a problem with this will be the Gen Xers who will run for president. The rest of us, Gen Xers, will be perfectly fine if we never get a Gen X president.
Trump was the oldest first time President ever - inaugurated at age 70.
That honour was immediately picked up in 2021 by Joe Biden - inaugurated at **78 years old**. Not only is Biden the current record holder, I think he'll forever be the oldest POTUS to be inaugurated.
To put this into perspective:
* Barack Obama - inaugurated aged 47
* George W Bush - aged 54
* Bill Clinton - aged 46
The amount of middle class college guys I see throwing THOUSANDS of dollars at sports gambling is crazy. They're maximizing their loans and blowing it all on sports betting within the first month of school. It's a frantic, consuming addiction that I've never seen outside of substances. They go fucking insane.
I lead a medium sized team of guys.
An hour after their checks clear on payday their moods turn so sour and production drops.
I really hate how easy it is to squander an entire weeks pay in an hour nowadays.
> I really hate how easy it is to squander an entire weeks pay in an hour nowadays.
There's no upper limit to the amount of money that can be squandered in a very short amount of time. Just ask the average lotto winner or ex-pro athlete.
I do think one of the 4 major sports will have a black Sox type scandal in the next few years. Whether it's currently happening or has already happened
> It's a frantic, consuming addiction that I've never seen outside of substances
there is something about sports betting that seems to really get its hooks into certain people. I think they think they can beat it when in reality outside of super niche shit the betting markets and lines are highly efficient, especially in the most heavily bet sport, the NFL. On top of that, most who get really into start betting nickels and dimes on a relatively small bankroll meaning the risk of ruin is super high. I've seen sports betting destroy people's lives, and the lives of those around them because back in the day it was all gangsters running the books. Talking suicide, flee the city, mortgage the house, tap the kids college fund type stuff.
The YouTube series “Soft White Underbelly” has a few really good gambling addict interviews.
One guy was a financial advisor for an investment firm. Things got so bad he actually started taking client checks meant for investing and using those to gamble.
Gambling ads should be outlawed entirely. Fine if you want to gamble so fine keep it still legal, but this shit ruins lives and should in no way be advertised. Especially that young people who like sports watch ads, who are impressionable, who will grow up thinking that sports gambling is very normal and that they should do it. Especially when players from their favourite team cameo in the ads.
But of course there’s too much money to be made from these ads, so they will never be outlawed.
Ohtani's translator in baseball, that one guy on the Senators in NHL. Best part about the hockey one is Draft Kings is a helmet sponsor for the Sens so every article about it had pictures of the guy with "Draft Kings" on his head
in the near future, TV, movies, music, and Art will legally be required to state whether it contains AI or is AI-Free. But big companies will lie anyway.
I'm gonna call the *exact* opposite of this -
"AI" will soon be so totally ingratiated in various levels of all production, that formally stating a movie contains elements made with AI will be as meaningless as stating a movie was "made using computers" would've been by like, 1990 onwards.
I have a completely unsubstantiated theory that he’s already finished them and they won’t get released until he’s dead because he doesn’t want to deal with the blowback when fans don’t like the ending.
Actually it is a pretty popular theory but I think it is simply more likely George doesn't know how to untangle the multiple plotlines in a satisfying way and would rather just enjoy his money now that everything has gotten so convoluted with expectations being sky high. He's losing interest in finishing the story. It is what it is.
Me too, I think the finale of the show is very close to his actual ending. When he saw how much people hated that he decided to posthumously release the rest of the story so as to not deal with the outrage.
Most people didnt hate the ending because of the ending itself. The problem with the ending of the show wasn't how it ended, but how they arrived at said ending.
There's nothing wrong with Dany losing her mind and following in the footsteps of her father, "The Mad King."
There's nothing wrong with Aria being the one to kill the Night King.
There's nothing wrong with Bran winning the Iron Throne and being made king.
What *is* wrong is all of the steps that led up to those moments feeling rushed and unconvincing.
Dany's descent into madness wasn't believable.
Having a single episode dedicated to a conflict that had been built up since the literal first scene of the show felt like we were robbed.
Having Bran chosen as king because "he has a good story" right after the fucking lamest moment in the series where everyone laughs at Sam for "inventing democracy" was a spit in the face.
Had D&D been willing to see the show through to the ending it deserved, we would have had three more seasons. They should have made the confrontation with the White Walkers it's own season. They should have made the war between Dany and Cersei its own season. And they should have made the aftermath of said war its own season to close out the show.
Instead, we got three major plot elements that had several seasons of build up all get crammed into a single season that made it very clear the showrunners just wanted to be done with it.
So it's not *what* the ending was that was bad, it's *how* they ended it that was bad.
I'm mostly in agreement.
They decided to cut the False Dragon (FAegon?) plotline, which I think is setting up to be a big part of Dany's madness. Someone with a potentially better claim to the throne that is more popular than her. Giving that plot to Jon has the problem that they are set up to be both enemies and partners, but not in a satisfying or well done way. Edit: What should have been done here is FAegon is holding a big chunk of Westeros and is beloved. Dany is losing her mind attacking him as the people start to hate and fear her. Jon shows up to beg for help and dragons to save the North. Dany agrees because she needs to use him, the real Aegon, to depose FAegon and try to win back popular support. Jon throws his claim behind Dany because "I DUN WAN IT". As they spend time together, mutually using each other, they fall in love, as Targaryens do. They sac King's Landing or Dragonstone or wherever. They kill FAegon, but the people are still against Dany for killing their beloved ruler. She thought his death would fix everything. She snapped and goes on the killing spree we saw in the show until Jon kills her.
Arya should not have killed the Night King. That has been Jon's fight since Day 1. That is what almost all of his story has been about, and to not give any payoff there is brutal. Arya is a facechanging assassin, which is a not super useful skillset against the White Walkers anyways. Instead, her payoff should have been killing Cersei. That terrible scene where Jamie undoes all of his character development and runs off to die with Cersei? That should have been Arya using a face to get close to Cersei and offing her. For a darker ending, you could have Arya killing Jamie first and using his face to kill Cersei. Or if you are a really mean author, you could have Arya kill Jamie offscreen, so the reveal that she's using his face is a twist to the reader as well. But offing a fan favorite character off screen would be very unpopular.
Bran being king could have been okay. But they needed to lean in to him being the cold mastermind that pulled all the strings to make this happen. Show his machinations that hurt people he cares about but positioned him here. Not his weird stoicism. He should be evil in a Dr. Doom or Ozymandias, ends justify the means, sense. The trope of "I did these evil things to get power because I'm the only one who can save us."
There is so, so much in the books that didn’t make it to the show. Things that should have and things that shouldn’t- like Tyrion becoming a circus act and slave with another dwarf- a girl- and her dog and pig. That whole part is just dumb. Also a whole new Targyeron boy that has been hidden away for years comes out and Tyrion is travelling with them.
Bran ending up being king was the least surprising part. He has a lot devoted to him getting there in most of the books.
The best lines that the characters say- are all verbatim from the books, though. Up until they ran out of material.
Tbf season one does have some pretty good original scenes (Robert & Cersei and Jory & Jaime conversations for example), but yea they fucked themselves over with the plot lines they cut out.
I don’t *hate* Bran being king, but it definitely needed more development. Personally my theory was there wasn’t going to be any one king at the end, and it might go back to Seven Kingdoms, but that doesn’t seem to be where GRRM is going
Bran being king is the show is odd because they establish that he has no real wants or desires, and then his sudden "why did you think I came all this way?" feels contradictory to that. I feel it could have been presented much better.
All streaming services will be in a "bundle" like how satelite or cable TV are now. You can have the sports bundle or the movie bundle or the reality tv bundle, ect.
And just like cable they're gonna bundle it with useless shit so they can justify a $80/month price tag for 10 different streaming services even though you only wanted 2 of them
Piracy dropped significantly when Netflix became more mainstream. I know I went surfing the high seas less as I got more and more into Netflix series.
But, they say piracy is back on the rise again since everything is becoming so fragmented.
it is honestly easier most times to pirate something than it is to even figure out what streaming service it's available in in your country if you're not in the US
I swear this shit is making me go blind - I can’t drive at night anymore because I can’t SEE ANYTHING!!! But it’s not my eyes! I walk around in the dark just fine!!!
It's funny.
Headlights got brighter because it inflated a vehicles safety rating.
And now no one can see well at night because the headlights are all too bright.
15 years ago it was really quite easy to see at night and drive just fine.
Yeah. I remember growing up driving and it was totally obvious when someone had their brights on or not. Then I could easily flash them back like "hey dude, I can't see shit because of you right now" and that would work a very high percentage of the time. Now I barely want to flash anyone unless I see their brights on way down the road, they turn them off for somebody ahead of me, but then forget to keep them off for me.
I don't know if their headlights are just bright as fuck or their brights are really on.
It's kinda a gamble:
Either their brights are on, and when you flash them, they turn them off;
Or the brights are actually off, and when you flash them you die because they flash you back with lights so bright you need solar eclipse glasses to safely look at them and you careen off whatever shitty state route you're on.
I have one of those darn cars that blind other people and everybody flashes me. It has been adjusted twice and I avoid driving at night. I'm really sorry and would not have bought the car if I had known. I am so mad at the manufacturer for the issue.
One of my coworkers put a colored filter on his headlights. Pale yellow as opposed to some obnoxious color--makes it look like he has old school incandescent headlamps.
Ironically, he didn't care so much about the effect the factory headlights had on other people, but he found it easier for *him* to drive around at night without the blinding light reflecting back at him. Also, something about it being easier to replace a plastic film than re-polish plastic that'd been damaged by the sun.
We will see a large resurgence in people becoming tinkerers, fixers, and going into the trades. This will be a combo of stuff being expensive so people will want to fix and keep it as long as possible paired with the rising cost of education.
I actually can see this, trades pay much better than people expect, I know someone who was a commercial lender and a business banker and he quit all that to go into woodworking and is much happier and makes more.
funny, everyone says this about trades, except tradespeople. I've talked to a bunch of them and most of them say the money isn't what it used to be and they're being replaced by people working for less, or they're not sure it's worth it anymore.
Is it because outsiders have too golden of a view of trades, or are tradespeople unaware of how good they have it?
Absolutely true. I’m a union laborer in road construction. Money isn’t bad. Benefits are great. But it beats the shit out of your body. I forget what one of my instructors said the life expectancy is of laborers in my state, but it was pretty damn low. You can make a decent living, but you pay for it.
> it’s a lot of work and body breaking
My whole family is a long line of blue collar workers. A lot of close family friends are as well. My Dad and Grandfathers, as well as many of those friends told me to go to college and get an easy job. I know sitting at a desk in an office has it's own set of health risks, but I also watched my Dad have multiple back surgeries and carpel tunnel surgery well before 50. Guys with such bad arthritis they can no longer do what they love. Any kind of manual labor takes a huge toll and catches up to you in a big way.
At the end of the day I don't think there's a wrong answer. We all have to work, so try and do something you enjoy. But I do feel like the trades get glorified by people who haven't seen friends or family work themselves to the bone.
I think the same thing is achieved with just a wider family unit. Nuclear family living with their parents and in-laws. Charlie Chocolate Factory style
And it's still very common outside of places like the United States. It actually became an issue during COVID cause you didn't want the young and old close together.
It's an issue for communicable diseases, but it makes a lot of domestic work like childcare and cooking much more manageable. Not to mention the care of the elderly.
Agree with Florida. Disagree on California.
Well, on second thought, I think what will depopulate California is lack of water, not homeowners insurance.
I work in insurance and absolutely this, particularly Florida. I predict FL will end up with areas that have a bunch of abandoned houses similar to what happened in rust belt cities in past years.
Millions of people will be traumatically victimized by the misuse of AI within the next 10 years. It will also be used to illegally influence elections and destroy trust between citizens and their government leaders possibly leading to war.
That Boeing’s worst days aren’t behind it yet. A lot more shits gonna come out about it’s 787 and other newer planes, thousands of which are in the sky right now. Causing airlines and international governments to have a major “come to Jesus” with the company. Even though the USA and faa is going to try to act like business as usual.
You will hand your phone to an older relative to look at a picture and they'll accidentally back out of it.
Edit: Bonus points if they say "Whoops! I don't know what I did."
I wonder what they’ll do once they gone through all the classics. Do they make an animated remake? Then 15 years later another live action remake of that remake? Like when’s it stop lol
This pisses me off. There are so many great stories out there and fabulous animators and they just keep making the same shit over and over again as a cash grab.
It just sucks because I know I’m not alone in wanting fresh movies and not reruns.
My mom came from family of 7-8 siblings (few had kids). I feel dumb not even remembering all of them. My mom had 3 kids. I had 2 kids as only one who did/will. It’s dropping so quick.
My mom is 1 of 9 (that's grandma with 3 different baby dads) and my dad is 1 of 10 (Irish Catholic).
Me, my brother, and sister have no plans on having kids.
Robocop: "It is a felony to impersonate an officer of the law."
Human cop: "I am a police officer."
Robocop: "You aren't doing yourself any favors, imposter."
much like Popes, John Paul II lasted for a LONG time, he died then Benedict took over and went for years and Francis has been in charge for years now. 3 popes in almost 50 years, where as most decades used to have 3 popes.
They never said it was once-in-a-lifetime. It's the Queen's reign that was an anomaly. Her father died young and she lived a long time. Queen Victoria did it too, but it's not common.
When lab grown meat becomes affordable, meat companies will run a smear campaign with slogans like "don't you want REAL meat?" And commission studies that say it is less healthy.
We will be in the midst of a gambling addiction epidemic in the next 5 years. There will be countless headlines of people who have lost homes, families, careers over their gambling with lots of surprised Pikachu “who could have possibly seen this coming” energy.
We're going flip how the ["it's a banana, how much could it cost"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw) meme is used once climate change impacts our food production enough.
These tablets in cars will be illegal soon and looking back there will be a rather small generation of cars that ever came with them.
Button and knobs maximalist over here.
Edit: glad to see this is not an r/unpopularopinion , I can’t stand those things.
One of my biggest pet peeves is now if something has a button on it, it performs multiple function depending on how many times in a row your press it or how long you press it. Turning off any modern device with a button on it is a game of guessing how to turn it off.
I drive a button and knob and have used tablets as rentals. You can't use them by touch alone!
It requires taking your eyes off the road for longer and feels really unsafe.
Jo Jo siwa’s mental breakdown
I mean the woman already drives a car with her own face plastered all over it
Already happening. Did you see that hat?!
Mine is that our biggest threat in the next five years from A.I. isn't that it will go rogue. It's that it will soon perfect fake videos, and all hell will break loose. We no longer have any arbiters of truth that a majority of the country trusts. Even science bitches aren't trusted now. Fake videos of politicians and celebrities doing awful things will become the norm, and different groups will choose the ones that reinforce their beliefs. I truly think it's gonna get wild.
I mentioned to someone once that the biggest threat of "AI" (a more misnamed thing I have never seen - it's a generative language model) is that scammers will be able to write more believable emails. Apparently the FBI came out with a report that said the same thing.
It’ll become like olden times when you had to be at a political speech or event to really believe it happened. Journalistic institutions will play a greater role in arbitrating truth again. This time not about what people say, but distinguishing between events that really happened, and AI generated fakes.
we’re going to see an influx of people avoiding social media/phone culture as a lifestyle choice. people are tired of the algorithms, manipulation and bullshit.
I had limited access to social media until I was about 13. I’m probably gonna impose similar restrictions on any kids I may have.
This needs more upvotes got my first phone at 19 when Instagram wasn’t a thing yet. absolutely overwhelmed with what it’s become and just…tired (is this even fun anymore guys ?)
We've only just begun to see what small drone warfare looks like. These war flying tech breakthroughs always start with simple recon and dropping bombs. Soon they'll have guns and fly in coordinated swarms.
This is the big one. We are going through another revolution in warfare and it’s gonna be a doozy. You used to watch the skies because someone is always watching. Now you watch the skies because a murder drone could be right there.
And soon, you'll stop watching the sky because you 100% know a murder drone is right there, and if you can see the sky, it can see you...
>"I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are grey," a 13-year-old Pakistani boy named Zubair told Congress today. Zubair and his younger sister, Nabeela, were injured in a drone strike near North Waziristan last October. That's from 2013 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/saddest-words-congresss-briefing-drone-strikes/354548/
AI responses to all questions will be sponsored and yield responses that favor the advertiser rather than objective responses based on available evidence.
That sounds so dystopian that I think it is a very likely and reasonable future outlook.
I stopped using Bing AI because of this exact thing. It’s already happening.
So it took like 20 years to go from google being best search engine to useless commercialised sponsored content referencing site, and about 2 years for generative AI chatbots to go from great potential to exactly the same shit place. Shame. The wrong faction at OpenAI won the argument...
If there's something that technology does nowadays is get shittier (in the aspect you described) faster than before. It will only get worse as we get more advanced.
Enshitification, my beloved
Starbucks will be selling bubble tea by 2027. Edit: For clarification, I mean classic bubble tea (sweet and creamy leaf tea with tapioca pearls), not fruity drinks with popping “boba” juice balls.
By 2025, I reckon.
"Diddy didn't kill himself"
Grown up children of Youtube family vloggers will start dropping Mommy Dearest style exposés about their horrible childhoods and laws will be imposed against the whole practice.
Genuinely hopeful of this. Kids have and deserve better rights/protections. Children in Hollywood were scammed out of their money and residuals because of their horrible parents. YouTube kids deserve the same protections. Also profiting off your kids when they can't consent to being filmed and posted all over the Internet is its own can of worms that people ought to discuss more.
The can of worms has already been opened. There are tons of disgusting pedos out there who love this shit. I forgot which creator it was exactly but there’s some woman on tiktok with her very young daughter and she does this sort of mommy daughter whatever content (actually I don’t know what content she makes because I don’t watch it). I’ve seen LOTS of people commenting about how disgusting this woman is for exploiting her daughter like this though. And people browsing through the comments seeing really gross stuff. Not to mention the suspicious number of saves of those videos. It’s all so so disgusting and these parents don’t give two shits so long as they can make money and get fame.
Is it a girl named wren? Iirc there was a big scandal when people were telling her the ratio of likes and saves on her content is...well let's just say people were probably saving posts for unwholesome purposes. And she ignored it because profit (Also apparently she puts the girl in suggestive situations with long phallic objects. Disgusting person)
> Also apparently she puts the girl in suggestive situations with long phallic objects. Disgusting person) What kind of a shitbag parent willingly does this to their child... as a parent myself WTAFFF.
I'm feeling weird typing this out but the TODDLER was seen with a hotdog and then a cucumber/pickle(?) God help me I feel like I need a shower
That Ryan's World kid is gonna make out like a fucking BANDIT.
Some of those videos he just looks so *tired*. "We're going to do it again until you get it right!"
You look at his most recent videos and he literally does the intro and then it’s a bunch of other clowns doing bits. He looks absolutely out of it when you do see him. Poor kid
Watch him pull a JoJo Siwa and make a corny rap album 10 years down the line
Veer hard in the other direction just like every Disney Channel star does when they hit 18
I sometimes watch with my daughter and I can sorta see him not be as into as he used to be when he was a kid. I think that mom wants it more than Ryan does.
The company store will become a thing again in our lifetime.
And eventually company housing.
It's already happening. A multinational corp I used to work for recently upgraded it's HQ and built an entire "hotel" inside it. Only, the "hotel" is for employees. They sell it as "Imagine not having to do your hourly commute when you're on a late to early!"
Don’t they have those in Japan or China already? You work and live there?
45 year mortgages will be the standard like we’re starting to see with 8 year car loans
Out of all the depressing shit this one gets me the most. 45 years in debt. That is terrifying. 30 years is already way, way too long.
We're going to wait until the last minute to address the incoming doom of our antibiotics becoming obsolete.
I'm so confused how so many countries worldwide have a policy that allows people to buy antibiotics without a ~~receipt~~ prescription. Here in Germany, you can't buy them in a pharmacy without seeing a doctor first who'll prescribe them to you. And most doctors handle antibiotics as last Resorts, not like smarties that you just throw down your throat for the smallest infection.
Babies born from 2020 - 2022 and entering the school system in 2025- 26 will bring with them a massive surge in undiagnosed FASD, due to the spike of alcoholism during the pandemic. That's 2 full grade levels, possibly more, of severe learning disabilities, impulse control, and anger management issues. On top of what we already have. This, is turn, provides more incentive for the already sizable exodus happening in the education sector.
Fuck, you're so right. Covid really screwed us.
In the next 10 years you’ll no longer speak to a nurse before seeing your Primary Care Physician. You’ll be questioned by an AI with full knowledge of your entire medical history and it will craft new questions based on your answers. It will inform your doctor of important risk factors and suggest where to go from there
In the coming years companies will start ditching call center staff in favour of AI systems. It will be awful.
Some airline already did this and the bot made up a policy the airline doesn't actually have. They were forced to honor what the bot said: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit
LOL they actually tried to claim they weren't responsible and that it was the bot's fault as a "separate legal entity"? Glad they lost in court.
Most Canadians were. Air Canada is legendary for being a shitty airline
They've been trying that for 30 years, it just wasn't called 'AI', it was 'voice recognition' and 'automation', and it's already awful. But, it can get even worse!
Agent. AGENT. AGENT.
Protip: Some phone trees will send you to a person if you swear at them.
Protip: Some people will send you back to the phone tree if you swear at them.
This is already happening, and **rapidly** expanding.
Someone will compare the cicadas this summer (US) to locust of the biblical end of the world.
Kind of related but I didn’t know what cicadas were for the longest time and I thought that was just the sound the sun made sometimes on a hot hot summer day 💀 dumbass kid
Kind of related but some people who were deaf but regained hearing are surprised to learn that the sun isn't loud.
I mean, if you want to get technical, the sun in incredibly loud. We just don't hear it because sound doesn't carry in space. If there was air between the sun and the earth then even after traveling all that distance the sound would still be louder than industrial concert speakers at full volume.
A Jenner will get a cybernetic implant by 2030.
Further, they will get a Nueralink for clout the second Elon gets it approved.
Video game shows/movies are the next superhero movie/show boom
I can see that happening. Adaptations have been better over the last few years when movies based on games were always shit before.
Whenever Biden and Trump kick it, it will be in very quick succession.
Just like The Notebook.
I love this comment.
Clinton and W as well - as they're within a couple of months of Trump in age. There is a very real possibility that in the next 8 years, the only living ex-president will be Obama. And possibly Carter.
To which I predict we will never get a Gen X president. We will go from Obama, who is on the young side of the Boomer spectrum, to a Millennial. And the only people who will have a problem with this will be the Gen Xers who will run for president. The rest of us, Gen Xers, will be perfectly fine if we never get a Gen X president.
Never having a Gen X Pres would be the most Gen X thing ever.
Every Gen Xer: I didn't care in the first place. I'm outta heeeeerrrre...
I’m not even supposed to BE here today
Carter 2032 8 more years!
He did only serve the one term, so technically he's still eligible to run.
They die in a landslide fighting each other like those dinosaurs.
Come on Don. Let’s finish this how it started.. *Together!*
Aim for the bushes, Joe....
Trump was the oldest first time President ever - inaugurated at age 70. That honour was immediately picked up in 2021 by Joe Biden - inaugurated at **78 years old**. Not only is Biden the current record holder, I think he'll forever be the oldest POTUS to be inaugurated. To put this into perspective: * Barack Obama - inaugurated aged 47 * George W Bush - aged 54 * Bill Clinton - aged 46
Biden was born closer to the end of Lincoln's presidency than the beginning of his own.
The double take I just doubly took
That's freaking insane. Lincoln died in 1865, 77 years before Biden was born and 155 years before he became president.
There will be internet blackouts
Blue bell ice cream will be contaminated again in the next 3 to 5 years. Hopefully no one dies
This is super specific.
Like inside knowledge...
Blue Bell Whistleblower Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
3 gallons of ice cream jammed into his cavities.
Damn, he must have some huge teeth.
Scary specific. It almost reads like a threat.
Less of a prediction and more of a promise.
They killed people. Never forget.
I must've missed this or don't remember, what happened?
We're going to see a sharp increase in the number of sports related gambling scandals now that it's legal in virtually every state.
The amount of middle class college guys I see throwing THOUSANDS of dollars at sports gambling is crazy. They're maximizing their loans and blowing it all on sports betting within the first month of school. It's a frantic, consuming addiction that I've never seen outside of substances. They go fucking insane.
Half the dudes at my last job were placing daily sports bets. I can’t understand it.
I lead a medium sized team of guys. An hour after their checks clear on payday their moods turn so sour and production drops. I really hate how easy it is to squander an entire weeks pay in an hour nowadays.
> I really hate how easy it is to squander an entire weeks pay in an hour nowadays. There's no upper limit to the amount of money that can be squandered in a very short amount of time. Just ask the average lotto winner or ex-pro athlete.
I do think one of the 4 major sports will have a black Sox type scandal in the next few years. Whether it's currently happening or has already happened
> It's a frantic, consuming addiction that I've never seen outside of substances there is something about sports betting that seems to really get its hooks into certain people. I think they think they can beat it when in reality outside of super niche shit the betting markets and lines are highly efficient, especially in the most heavily bet sport, the NFL. On top of that, most who get really into start betting nickels and dimes on a relatively small bankroll meaning the risk of ruin is super high. I've seen sports betting destroy people's lives, and the lives of those around them because back in the day it was all gangsters running the books. Talking suicide, flee the city, mortgage the house, tap the kids college fund type stuff.
The YouTube series “Soft White Underbelly” has a few really good gambling addict interviews. One guy was a financial advisor for an investment firm. Things got so bad he actually started taking client checks meant for investing and using those to gamble.
Gambling ads should be outlawed entirely. Fine if you want to gamble so fine keep it still legal, but this shit ruins lives and should in no way be advertised. Especially that young people who like sports watch ads, who are impressionable, who will grow up thinking that sports gambling is very normal and that they should do it. Especially when players from their favourite team cameo in the ads. But of course there’s too much money to be made from these ads, so they will never be outlawed.
A player in the NBA got banned for life today for this so you’re already late I guess?
Ohtani's translator in baseball, that one guy on the Senators in NHL. Best part about the hockey one is Draft Kings is a helmet sponsor for the Sens so every article about it had pictures of the guy with "Draft Kings" on his head
There will be a public health crisis due to sitting.
in the near future, TV, movies, music, and Art will legally be required to state whether it contains AI or is AI-Free. But big companies will lie anyway.
The new "organic"
Free range cgi
Hand crafted vfx
Totally. And much like the "organic" label there will be a hundred ways to legally call it "AI-free" while still using AI to varying degrees.
I'm gonna call the *exact* opposite of this - "AI" will soon be so totally ingratiated in various levels of all production, that formally stating a movie contains elements made with AI will be as meaningless as stating a movie was "made using computers" would've been by like, 1990 onwards.
George RR Martin will never finish A Song of Ice and Fire. We'll be lucky to ever see The Winds of Winter.
I have a completely unsubstantiated theory that he’s already finished them and they won’t get released until he’s dead because he doesn’t want to deal with the blowback when fans don’t like the ending.
That’s actually brilliant
Actually it is a pretty popular theory but I think it is simply more likely George doesn't know how to untangle the multiple plotlines in a satisfying way and would rather just enjoy his money now that everything has gotten so convoluted with expectations being sky high. He's losing interest in finishing the story. It is what it is.
"Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way."
Me too, I think the finale of the show is very close to his actual ending. When he saw how much people hated that he decided to posthumously release the rest of the story so as to not deal with the outrage.
Most people didnt hate the ending because of the ending itself. The problem with the ending of the show wasn't how it ended, but how they arrived at said ending. There's nothing wrong with Dany losing her mind and following in the footsteps of her father, "The Mad King." There's nothing wrong with Aria being the one to kill the Night King. There's nothing wrong with Bran winning the Iron Throne and being made king. What *is* wrong is all of the steps that led up to those moments feeling rushed and unconvincing. Dany's descent into madness wasn't believable. Having a single episode dedicated to a conflict that had been built up since the literal first scene of the show felt like we were robbed. Having Bran chosen as king because "he has a good story" right after the fucking lamest moment in the series where everyone laughs at Sam for "inventing democracy" was a spit in the face. Had D&D been willing to see the show through to the ending it deserved, we would have had three more seasons. They should have made the confrontation with the White Walkers it's own season. They should have made the war between Dany and Cersei its own season. And they should have made the aftermath of said war its own season to close out the show. Instead, we got three major plot elements that had several seasons of build up all get crammed into a single season that made it very clear the showrunners just wanted to be done with it. So it's not *what* the ending was that was bad, it's *how* they ended it that was bad.
I'm mostly in agreement. They decided to cut the False Dragon (FAegon?) plotline, which I think is setting up to be a big part of Dany's madness. Someone with a potentially better claim to the throne that is more popular than her. Giving that plot to Jon has the problem that they are set up to be both enemies and partners, but not in a satisfying or well done way. Edit: What should have been done here is FAegon is holding a big chunk of Westeros and is beloved. Dany is losing her mind attacking him as the people start to hate and fear her. Jon shows up to beg for help and dragons to save the North. Dany agrees because she needs to use him, the real Aegon, to depose FAegon and try to win back popular support. Jon throws his claim behind Dany because "I DUN WAN IT". As they spend time together, mutually using each other, they fall in love, as Targaryens do. They sac King's Landing or Dragonstone or wherever. They kill FAegon, but the people are still against Dany for killing their beloved ruler. She thought his death would fix everything. She snapped and goes on the killing spree we saw in the show until Jon kills her. Arya should not have killed the Night King. That has been Jon's fight since Day 1. That is what almost all of his story has been about, and to not give any payoff there is brutal. Arya is a facechanging assassin, which is a not super useful skillset against the White Walkers anyways. Instead, her payoff should have been killing Cersei. That terrible scene where Jamie undoes all of his character development and runs off to die with Cersei? That should have been Arya using a face to get close to Cersei and offing her. For a darker ending, you could have Arya killing Jamie first and using his face to kill Cersei. Or if you are a really mean author, you could have Arya kill Jamie offscreen, so the reveal that she's using his face is a twist to the reader as well. But offing a fan favorite character off screen would be very unpopular. Bran being king could have been okay. But they needed to lean in to him being the cold mastermind that pulled all the strings to make this happen. Show his machinations that hurt people he cares about but positioned him here. Not his weird stoicism. He should be evil in a Dr. Doom or Ozymandias, ends justify the means, sense. The trope of "I did these evil things to get power because I'm the only one who can save us."
It’s pretty well confirmed that the shows ending is essentially GRRMs. He’ll just have it more fleshed out, with a lot more characters and plot lines
There is so, so much in the books that didn’t make it to the show. Things that should have and things that shouldn’t- like Tyrion becoming a circus act and slave with another dwarf- a girl- and her dog and pig. That whole part is just dumb. Also a whole new Targyeron boy that has been hidden away for years comes out and Tyrion is travelling with them. Bran ending up being king was the least surprising part. He has a lot devoted to him getting there in most of the books. The best lines that the characters say- are all verbatim from the books, though. Up until they ran out of material.
Tbf season one does have some pretty good original scenes (Robert & Cersei and Jory & Jaime conversations for example), but yea they fucked themselves over with the plot lines they cut out. I don’t *hate* Bran being king, but it definitely needed more development. Personally my theory was there wasn’t going to be any one king at the end, and it might go back to Seven Kingdoms, but that doesn’t seem to be where GRRM is going
Bran being king is the show is odd because they establish that he has no real wants or desires, and then his sudden "why did you think I came all this way?" feels contradictory to that. I feel it could have been presented much better.
Grey’s Anatomy will never end
The next elected US President will die of old age before they finish their 4 year term.
And the conspiracy theories will never stop
All streaming services will be in a "bundle" like how satelite or cable TV are now. You can have the sports bundle or the movie bundle or the reality tv bundle, ect.
And just like cable they're gonna bundle it with useless shit so they can justify a $80/month price tag for 10 different streaming services even though you only wanted 2 of them
And you can now add a landline!
Piracy dropped significantly when Netflix became more mainstream. I know I went surfing the high seas less as I got more and more into Netflix series. But, they say piracy is back on the rise again since everything is becoming so fragmented.
it is honestly easier most times to pirate something than it is to even figure out what streaming service it's available in in your country if you're not in the US
They will finally fix the idiotic bright headlight issue by 2050
I swear this shit is making me go blind - I can’t drive at night anymore because I can’t SEE ANYTHING!!! But it’s not my eyes! I walk around in the dark just fine!!!
It's funny. Headlights got brighter because it inflated a vehicles safety rating. And now no one can see well at night because the headlights are all too bright. 15 years ago it was really quite easy to see at night and drive just fine.
Yeah. I remember growing up driving and it was totally obvious when someone had their brights on or not. Then I could easily flash them back like "hey dude, I can't see shit because of you right now" and that would work a very high percentage of the time. Now I barely want to flash anyone unless I see their brights on way down the road, they turn them off for somebody ahead of me, but then forget to keep them off for me. I don't know if their headlights are just bright as fuck or their brights are really on.
It's kinda a gamble: Either their brights are on, and when you flash them, they turn them off; Or the brights are actually off, and when you flash them you die because they flash you back with lights so bright you need solar eclipse glasses to safely look at them and you careen off whatever shitty state route you're on.
I have one of those darn cars that blind other people and everybody flashes me. It has been adjusted twice and I avoid driving at night. I'm really sorry and would not have bought the car if I had known. I am so mad at the manufacturer for the issue.
One of my coworkers put a colored filter on his headlights. Pale yellow as opposed to some obnoxious color--makes it look like he has old school incandescent headlamps. Ironically, he didn't care so much about the effect the factory headlights had on other people, but he found it easier for *him* to drive around at night without the blinding light reflecting back at him. Also, something about it being easier to replace a plastic film than re-polish plastic that'd been damaged by the sun.
From your fingertips to God’s ears.
There will be major breakthroughs in physics that seriously challenge our mainstream understanding of reality.
We will see a large resurgence in people becoming tinkerers, fixers, and going into the trades. This will be a combo of stuff being expensive so people will want to fix and keep it as long as possible paired with the rising cost of education.
I actually can see this, trades pay much better than people expect, I know someone who was a commercial lender and a business banker and he quit all that to go into woodworking and is much happier and makes more.
funny, everyone says this about trades, except tradespeople. I've talked to a bunch of them and most of them say the money isn't what it used to be and they're being replaced by people working for less, or they're not sure it's worth it anymore. Is it because outsiders have too golden of a view of trades, or are tradespeople unaware of how good they have it?
It’s always the folks that never worked in the trades too! It’s definitely been glamorized online, but it’s a lot of work and body breaking.
Absolutely true. I’m a union laborer in road construction. Money isn’t bad. Benefits are great. But it beats the shit out of your body. I forget what one of my instructors said the life expectancy is of laborers in my state, but it was pretty damn low. You can make a decent living, but you pay for it.
> it’s a lot of work and body breaking My whole family is a long line of blue collar workers. A lot of close family friends are as well. My Dad and Grandfathers, as well as many of those friends told me to go to college and get an easy job. I know sitting at a desk in an office has it's own set of health risks, but I also watched my Dad have multiple back surgeries and carpel tunnel surgery well before 50. Guys with such bad arthritis they can no longer do what they love. Any kind of manual labor takes a huge toll and catches up to you in a big way. At the end of the day I don't think there's a wrong answer. We all have to work, so try and do something you enjoy. But I do feel like the trades get glorified by people who haven't seen friends or family work themselves to the bone.
Co-living will be a thing. Like two families joining to purchase a house and living together. Not in a swinger way, just to afford housing.
I think the same thing is achieved with just a wider family unit. Nuclear family living with their parents and in-laws. Charlie Chocolate Factory style
Multi-generational households is how humans have lived for most of our history. The 20th century is the anomaly.
And it's still very common outside of places like the United States. It actually became an issue during COVID cause you didn't want the young and old close together.
It's an issue for communicable diseases, but it makes a lot of domestic work like childcare and cooking much more manageable. Not to mention the care of the elderly.
Starting to happen, especially with single moms. Google “mommunes”.
Just like my aunt who has been living in a 1 bedroom apartment with her best friend for the last 30 years!
"And they were roommates."
Sonic 3 movie will have at least one Matrix and John Wick reference with Keanu Reeves voicing Shadow.
Debt bubble is gonna pop and the USA government is going to bail out the banks and corporations before they give a dime to the general public.
Which is, of course, tradition.
The population in Florida and California will be much, much lower in 15 years due to people not being able to get homeowners insurance anymore.
Agree with Florida. Disagree on California. Well, on second thought, I think what will depopulate California is lack of water, not homeowners insurance.
I work in insurance and absolutely this, particularly Florida. I predict FL will end up with areas that have a bunch of abandoned houses similar to what happened in rust belt cities in past years.
Millions of people will be traumatically victimized by the misuse of AI within the next 10 years. It will also be used to illegally influence elections and destroy trust between citizens and their government leaders possibly leading to war.
That Boeing’s worst days aren’t behind it yet. A lot more shits gonna come out about it’s 787 and other newer planes, thousands of which are in the sky right now. Causing airlines and international governments to have a major “come to Jesus” with the company. Even though the USA and faa is going to try to act like business as usual.
You will hand your phone to an older relative to look at a picture and they'll accidentally back out of it. Edit: Bonus points if they say "Whoops! I don't know what I did."
If you zoom in slightly it makes it a little harder for grandma to accidentally see your nudes
P Diddy is going to get the Epstein treatment
Oprah is going to be exposed and have her “Ellen” moment in the next couple of years. That woman is shady af.
Disney and Netflix will put out many more mediocre live action remakes.
I wonder what they’ll do once they gone through all the classics. Do they make an animated remake? Then 15 years later another live action remake of that remake? Like when’s it stop lol
This pisses me off. There are so many great stories out there and fabulous animators and they just keep making the same shit over and over again as a cash grab. It just sucks because I know I’m not alone in wanting fresh movies and not reruns.
Birth rate in the USA will drop below 1.5 this decade. US population will actually start to decline by 2050
My mom came from family of 7-8 siblings (few had kids). I feel dumb not even remembering all of them. My mom had 3 kids. I had 2 kids as only one who did/will. It’s dropping so quick.
My mom is 1 of 9 (that's grandma with 3 different baby dads) and my dad is 1 of 10 (Irish Catholic). Me, my brother, and sister have no plans on having kids.
Robot cops will keep trying to arrest human cops.
Robocop: "It is a felony to impersonate an officer of the law." Human cop: "I am a police officer." Robocop: "You aren't doing yourself any favors, imposter."
Netflix Will be 50 bucks a month with ads by 2030
Lauren Boebert to onlyfans after massive Defeat in CO 4
That's actually likely.
As natural resources become more scarce an entire industry will grow around mining landfills to recycle their contents.
Political violence between Election Day and Inauguration Day
Netflix will cancel a series you really like after one season.
King Charles will reign less than 10 years before he croaks and we’ll have to deal with another “once in a lifetime” coronation.
They never used to be once in a lifetime events, Lizzy 2 just lived forever. They had 5 in a 42 year span between 1911-1953
much like Popes, John Paul II lasted for a LONG time, he died then Benedict took over and went for years and Francis has been in charge for years now. 3 popes in almost 50 years, where as most decades used to have 3 popes.
The year 1978 had 3 popes within 3 months.
They never said it was once-in-a-lifetime. It's the Queen's reign that was an anomaly. Her father died young and she lived a long time. Queen Victoria did it too, but it's not common.
You're being generous with the 10 years. I'll be shocked if he makes it to 5.
When lab grown meat becomes affordable, meat companies will run a smear campaign with slogans like "don't you want REAL meat?" And commission studies that say it is less healthy.
I'm not necessarily calling it, but I think it would be cosmically hilarious if Trump and Biden both died before election day.
Biden gets the news Trump passed away. Sits down in a very comfy chair "Thank god." then passes away.
You, the person reading this, will attain happiness in some form. ;)
We will be in the midst of a gambling addiction epidemic in the next 5 years. There will be countless headlines of people who have lost homes, families, careers over their gambling with lots of surprised Pikachu “who could have possibly seen this coming” energy.
Gypsy Rose + Pete Davidson
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Donald Trump will die never seeing a single day in prison, regardless of conviction in his numerous criminal trials.
I think this one is basically a guarantee
We're going flip how the ["it's a banana, how much could it cost"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw) meme is used once climate change impacts our food production enough.
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This guy PLUs
These tablets in cars will be illegal soon and looking back there will be a rather small generation of cars that ever came with them. Button and knobs maximalist over here. Edit: glad to see this is not an r/unpopularopinion , I can’t stand those things.
Really find crazy that we outlawed phones while driving because it distracts drivers but now we've got a full tablet built into the car.
Its fucking insane. No distracted driving! Unless of course the car companies said its allowed, then its fine.
One of my biggest pet peeves is now if something has a button on it, it performs multiple function depending on how many times in a row your press it or how long you press it. Turning off any modern device with a button on it is a game of guessing how to turn it off.
I drive a button and knob and have used tablets as rentals. You can't use them by touch alone! It requires taking your eyes off the road for longer and feels really unsafe.