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- Krassy5
Trump will lose 2020
- formed4
Trump gets it. Declares a State of Emergency and postpones the election until he 'recovers', drags it out forever in court, inciting riots and violence to keep us all distracted along the way.
He'll blame the "Deep State" for poisoning him and making an assassination attempt. He'll bring in armed forces to enforce curfews and bring martial law, declaring himself the Ultimate Greatest Greatness Ever.
[writing that it sounds dangerously close to something he would actually do]
- How is Netflix not producing this already?sr_rosa
- Then invades Poland.Sandder
- he would be blind enough do follow fru , me thinks.neverscared
- Writing this on June 13 (about a month later). Shockingly prescient with the whole riots and curfews and martial law bit.monNom
- Krassy3
Biden will pick Hillary for VP running mate
Biden/Hillary will win the presidency
Biden will serve as president for a few months and then resign
Hillary will be president for 3+ years
- ...and this plan is why Biden ran in the first placeKrassy
- sup fellow kidsmoldero
- If this would happen it would be like they were announcing another season of Tiger King.robotron3k
- 7 years then hillary.neverscared
- Bill will become the First Lady
Bill will then tap another internBustySaintClaire
- Nairn5
After Germany's helping out France and Italy's worst C-19 cases, 51% of people in Britain appreciate the benefits of Stronger Together and engage parliament to nix Brexit.
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Haha, just kidding - we'll have learnt nothing.
- Nairn made a funny!Continuity
- Hey, if things go really bad, old German "cremation facilities" are at your servicedrgs
- ^
https://i.imgur.com/…Nairn - UK and Germany are connected by train, right?drgs
- monoboy3
1. Governments that handled it as best they could will try to re-build after 6-12 months of massive upheaval and thousands of deaths.
They'll manage it because the population has trust in them and everyone came together. Sweeping new laws and a re-set of the financial system to one that's more inclusive heralds a new era, with huge investment in R&D and a new renaissance. Hooray!
2. Those that handle it badly, will see social unrest and a complete collapse in political support as the bodies start to pile higher than other countries. Probably ending in some sort of martial law lockdown until order (and democracy) can be restored. Politics will polarise to extremes. Decades of instability will ensue leading to a full-scale uprising.
- Also, dinosaurs. It wasn't a meteor was it?monoboy
- Dinosaur extinction is a lie. Wake up sheeple!deadsperm
- I fully expect the US to have it worst.monoboy
- it was COVID-1Bennn
- If only Trump had managed to build his wall, we couldn't all chipped in and put a lid on it too.monoboy
- *could'vemonoboy
- live and learnutopian
- 3. Some messy middle area across the full spectrum, just as we've been for the last few decades.inteliboy
- utopian0
Dear fellow creatives,
Copywriters will probably be the first go with the next 18 months because of ChatGTP and other AI platforms. I recently used ChatGTP to write a 500 word blog post for our company website...and within 15 seconds it was completed. I carefully reviewed what ChatGTP spit out, and I could not believe how thoughtful, well-written and on-point the blog post article was.
Will ChatGTP win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism?...probably not, but FFS...the AI's writing ability was nothing short of astonishing!
As for illustrators, designers, musicians, architects, etc...either "adapt, evolve or go extinct". Because if you don't except the new reality of a world driven by AI (EVERYTHING!)...many of you will be searching for a new line work within the next couple of years.
- All copywriting will turn out the same, maybe even identicaldrgs
- While it's amazing, it's also to well-rounded. People will start looking for that 'edge', the bias of a human, to prove authenticity.formed
- But yeah, I had it write a dozen things for me just to see. Not perfect stuff, but saves me tons of time (I'll still re-write).formed
- It's adequate for generic, vanilla corporate blog posts. But no way will it replace musicians.zardoz
- As for illustrators, designers, musicians, architects, etc...either "adapt, evolve or go extinct" isn't that pretty much the standard career arc for designers?jonny_quest_lives
- like what is an AI proponents view of a typical agency workflow that leads one to believe it's inefficient in someway?jonny_quest_lives
- from the thumbnail sketch all the way through client pitch the typical agency workflow is pretty lean... as most agencies don't get paid for pitchesjonny_quest_lives
- agency wins pitch... then the client notes come in, revisions until launch, multiformatting for social, av and print, then client may want one off events...jonny_quest_lives
- it will be another tool but the doom and gloom is really overrated. Personally it will end up being used as a more robust stock asset when legalities settlejonny_quest_lives
- Companies like Disney will prob train/create their own Diffusion software and will be overly litigious against commercially available toolsjonny_quest_lives
- AI solves it all though amirite? client notes? revisions? pivot to new creative? Legal clearances for key art? Talent approval? AI solves it.jonny_quest_lives
- take a deep breath everything will be ok...jonny_quest_lives
- Design has never simply been about creating a visual or copy... Design is problem solving.jonny_quest_lives
- ^ all this
AI changes nothing for career profesionals.
Just a tool long term, just hype short termgrafician - Don't stop believing!utopian
- entertained by the concept that consumer tastes will evolve to appreciate edgy human content over AI, like it's not capable of creating individually targetedkingsteven
- content and that's not more effective than a single campaign or brand. or that the entire client/ studio experience with revisions, UX can't be replicatedkingsteven
- Just like humans can intuitively recognize a scammy website from a normal one, we will soon be able to tell AI copywriting from human copywritingdrgs
- i dunno, i work primarily in editorial production and my biological voight kampff has been tingling for yearskingsteven
- futuremongolian1
I have three good friends who all moved to Canada because of Bush. They all got great jobs, became permanent residents, became citizens and are currently living happily ever after.
- And when I say "Bush" I mean they were increasingly disgusted with trajectory of their country.futuremongolian
- So they were the ones that got the last 3 spots.ETM
- how does one start the process of moving to canada?dorf
- find a job, move to Canada.futuremongolian
- Also, certain people meet skilled worker requirements where you don't even need a job before coming.futuremongolian
- First steps outlined here:
https://www.youtube.…ETM - not a prediction.sarahfailin
- canada though appears great is heading down hill like the rest of the western world. -hope not a prediction.yurimon
- comon Yuri,
Canada is a great country, but good luck moving there without having a jobGeorgesII - there was a peak time for canada.yurimon
- Post Peak Canuck Society.detritus
- nb4
Elon will get high and tweet that he’s running for president and the first response will be “ya can’t, ya dingus you weren’t born here” and he will prove the value of the twitter Edit button
- QBN also needs an EDIT buttongrafician
- Maybe Elon can buy QBN and introduce a EDITnb
- Qbn doesn’t need one.monospaced
- pango1
West will do nothing meaningful. Russia will absorb Ukraine in March
- It's kinda like Putin is giving them a warm bear hug?shapesalad
- Is it up to “the west” to solve this?monospaced
- no. but west surely doesn't look like they're going to do anything.pango
- "It's beige alert"drgs
- With China backing Russia economically, those sanctions are equivalent to thoughts and prayerspango
- Russia doesn't even need China backing them but it will help.fadein11
- No seriously. What should “the west do” exactly that would be meaningfully? Send 100,000 troops and some drone bombs? What?monospaced
- @mono, if the west truly had some collective balls, we would cut off all access to oil & gas markets for Russia. That would crush them. But it won't happen...brandonp
- I do not know. I'm a graphic designer.pango
- It happened. Now what. They aren’t crushed.monospaced
- Now it drags onpango
- drgs1
Old computer equipment, sealed video game cds from 1998-2002 will be worth fortunes in 2050
- why?Nairn
- Period of most nostalgiadrgs
- sealed unopened original iphone?shapesalad
- 1 million dollarsdrgs
- I don't think so. It was too ubiquitous and broadly disseminated at that point.
Pre-PC era will hold its value, I think - 16Bit and downward.Nairn - https://www.ebay.com…
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https://www.ebay.com…drgs - Ok, CRTs are different. I forgot about those. Lost o'nerds love those things. Rest is niche fetishism, which you'll get in any thing.Nairn
- 30 years from now all tech supported by Win98 will be niche fetishismdrgs
- so drgs is a hoarder?sarahfailin
- Already now, IBM PCs cost already lot of cashi_was
- I bought a 1st gen 5gb ipod (boxed) from someone on here years ago for £80. Still have it, now it's going for £1000 or so on ebayBaskerviIle
- 25 years later -- still an unachievable dream
https://www.ebay.com…
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- monNom4
China claims to have 'defeated' covid-19 - the 'American virus'. No new cases in official stats for some period. Suddenly, the outbreak re-emerges in China and is blamed on foreign reintroduction, maybe from a regional adversary like Taiwan. China makes the case domestically and to the world that they must secure the homeland by defeating the virus abroad, the same way they did already. Cue regional military action to enforce their 'proven' measures.
There's a timing aspect with this virus. First in first out. The country that conquers it first will have an advantage over those still locked down in the belly of the curve.
On the global stage, as China emerges a few months ahead of the rest of the world, it uses its manufacturing clout to deliver international aid in the form of medical equipment and supplies to favoured nations, and limits export to competitors. This shifts global alliances and strengthens China's existing role on the world stage. Belt and road signatories fare much better due to availability of medical supplies from China.
The US suffers terribly from mass casualties and a devastated economy - many insurers go bankrupt due to the large numbers needing treatment. Lack of public health care leads to much worse outcomes than other industrialized nations. Massive stimulus to industry, and falling tax receipts due to lockdowns lead to unsupportable debt, and the US defaults on debt or experiences rapid inflation as they print their wat out of it. International trade stops being priced in unstable dolllars and starts being priced in the most stable currency at the time. Maybe gold? maybe renminbi? A battered USA must turn to China for aid during the darkest hours and in doing so will need to give up control of economic assets similar to the UK following the second World War.
The USA eventually recovers, but their position on the world stage, and their ability to project power, is never the same. They become like Great Britain. A once global empire now compelled to follow another country's lead.
- Your last paragraph will come to pass anyway, but one thing about the US is its ability to mobilise and it 70 odd years of eternal war footing/manufacturin...Nairn
- I don't trust Trump to lead, but I do 'trust' the MilitaryIndustrialCo... that's been running laps around the rest of the world since long before we were bornNairn
- I don't put much faith in the MIC. Look a Boeing. Incompetence propped up by guaranteed contracts and regulatory capture. Too big to fail.monNom
- But yes, all else being equal, the USA military is nothing to triffle with.monNom
- One thing about an emergency is that it gets the engineers and thinkers back in the loop, rather than bottom-line focused mngnmt, which was Boeing's problemNairn
- I would read this bookyuekit
- nb1
Prediction:
By April 1st (i.e. sometime in the next five days): the US will have a higher number of confirmed (reported) cases of COVID-19 than China.
- Possibly, but we still don't know how accurate China's numbers are.SteveJobs
- ^ this.Krassy
- That's why I added "reported"nb
- And you don't KNOW that China is lying.nb
- Also, we know in the USA that most people – even those with symptoms who show up at a hospital – are not being tested at this time.nb
- So we can be certain our numbers aren't accurate, either.nb
- With testing in NYC, they should already know which borough, which neighborhood, street, stores and shops this came from.robotron3k
- Not sure that has anything to do with what I'm talking about.nb
- Regardless, all NYC hospitals are refusing tests to people with mild symptoms. Most of those cases recover on their own, they will likely never be tested.nb
- What nb said.monospaced
- Damn, can't believe I said Apr 1st. Could hit this sometime tomorrow...nb
- Why would anyone assume China is more likely to lie about the total of Corona cases than the US?CyBrainX
- Because they're China, that's what they do.monospaced
- mort_4
Taking a cue from Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Boris Johnson will start wearing a tight army green t-shirt in press conferences to attempt to gain popularity.
It won't play out quite like it did in his head.
- shapesalad2
Rave will make a massive comeback once Covid is past us all.
- let's hope soKrassy
- it never went awayfadein11
- that's true tooKrassy
- i've met so many 20 year olds recently that have encyclopaedic knowledge of the shit i lived through i'm hoping for something newkingsteven
- Covid is never going to be passed us. We're going to have waves with brief periods that it will be safe enough not to wear a mask.CyBrainX
- lol barely seen a mask here in a monthkingsteven
- drgs1
Miss Nevada, who is transgender, will win Miss USA 2021 (November 29)
- Proving once again that men are better than women at everything, even being women!_niko
- ^^gonzalle
- https://youtu.be/4Er…Gnash
- LOL NikoGuyFawkes
- I was wrong
https://www.al.com/l…drgs
- bulletfactory0
- Caviar? Wet ash tray?....what?Maaku
- tea leaves - Used in Harry Potter series for predictions.bulletfactory
- looks like melted cookies & cream ice creamalbums
- Oreo Blizzardcaterpus
- THE GRIM!jtb26
- woofZOOP
- Dragons well tea.shapesalad
- utopian5
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
- "celebration of ignorance" - beautifully and horrifically accurate.Morning_star
- Nairn0
USB Socks.
Don't ask how, it's not our place.
But it's going to happen.
- https://www.amazon.c…imbecile
- how about nanotextile battery in 50-100 years?sted
- https://images-na.ss…Krassy
- i worked on a pitch for bluetooth nikes in 2004, i feel USB socks may finally pave the way.kingsteven
- Will you gets a warning if you put on inside out?MrT
- They'll be based on the USB Mini-B spec, so you'll have to try each one on three times before you get the fit the right way around.Nairn
- lolimbecile
