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So anyway, I'm radicalized, rule (slrpnk.net)

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[-] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago

I was hoping that the future would be like Star Trek, a beautiful high tech paradise where we worked our problems out and live in a post-scarcity world. Instead we're getting Deus Ex, minus the shades and trench coats.

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[-] uriel238 5 points 11 months ago

How did we fix the climate crisis and the plastic crisis in Star Trek?

I bet it's tech developed by environmental conservation labs in the not-defunct Soviet Union.

[-] UnpledgedCatnapTipper 3 points 11 months ago

Well we're do for the Bell Riots and Irish Reunification this year!

[-] uriel238 1 points 11 months ago

Whelp. North Ireland was Brexited while Ireland is still EU, and that remains still a vector of EU influence on GB (and smuggling goods into EU) so either the borders close and the troubles start all over again or the Irelands reunify.

From the lack of news, I've assumed everyone not near the border has been choosing to not look at it too hard.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Plastic crisis looks to be possible to fix with bacteria. How disruptive those bacteria end up being is another matter.

[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

climate crisis

Nuclear winter in the wake of the Eugenics Wars. Cooled us right down. Even in Star Trek, our immediate future is... bleak.

[-] uriel238 1 points 11 months ago

Yes. Nuclear winter trades global warming for a tuckfun of even bigger problems.

Volcanic winter is such a pain in the butt, I call shenanigans on the many-years winters allegedly in Westros, which would force them to migrate (or have decades of grain stores, which they totally don't). With modern freight, volcanic winter is less of a problem for industrialized nations, but we still feel it.