Already happened in 2020.

Azure Linux is a Microsoft-maintained, open-source Linux distribution built for Azure. It provides a lightweight, security-hardened operating system for virtual machines (VMs), containers, and Kubernetes clusters running on Azure infrastructure.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Linux

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WSL already exists, I think you have a baseline for this

I think historians will likely be deciding if we are already in ww3 or not. Although I'm quite surprised China hasn't moved on Taiwan

We're already in WW3

Water?

How does Disney factor into this prediction? I've never been there, but it seems like an oasis in the middle of a shit desert (speaking mostly about its ability to manage itself and just generally function).

If they move on with removing taxes on property the political and operational shot show of cities and counties without cash turning to special assessments and creating fees for school police and public services, essentially taxes that can raise without being voted, and with less supervision, that will make the "no step on snake" crowd revolt because gvmnt services without payment seems to be their thing.

The longer he lives, the more time he has to live with the consequences that catch up to him.

I'll allow it, but only in prison.

And I think it will come from AI. It's either that or aliens, and only one of those two actually exist.

Welcome to third world life.

they just end up charging people more for gas/electric and water instead of charging the datacenter owners.

he needs to keep the epstein files from being discussed, Dems dont seem to keen on trying to release it, they are just stringing it along, despite them "claiming they will do it.

Venezuela, a prod member of ExxonMobil Conoco-Phillips

Taiwan, brought to you by Nvidia

it's not called Republic of Samsung for nothing

argentina, most of them will likely flee there, not russia, since putin will likely find a window for you and steal your assets down the line.

The earth has been through many many climate changes, this isn't the first, it isn't the last

The earth don't care, it keeps chugging along, no it's us that won't survive

Nah. Gen Z is going to end up like Gen X. It is Gen Alpha which is going to kill us all if the Boomers don't already do it.

Imagine people progressively got soo dumb that one day we just forgot how to keep the technology working and went back to being cavemen.

flu is easy to become pandemic. several things can happen, antigenic shift, genetic drift, and the most popular is recombination. the h5n1/h1n1 flus can just recombine with pig and human flus to make it person to person.

Any idea if mass carbon capture could undo runaway venus-like greenhouse effects? I have no hope that humanity will put up with even minor inconveniences until lead starts melting at room temperature at the equator. It would give me hope if there was a way to undo runaway greenhouse processes.

countries dont seem interested in combatting climate change at all. plus there is one country that solely funds anti-climate change as thier economy depends on it, combined with the rest of the oil-gas industry. trying to get funding for research about climate change is a little dicey too.

Couldn't disagree more with either of those takes. Self driving cars won't be safer even theoretically given unsolvable problems and will almost certainly lead to even worse pedestrian rights and make our cities so much worse. That solution to climate change isn't realistic of feasible at all we need if we are going to solve it massive systematic change and an end to capitalism.

I've heard New Zealand is a popular place for that.

The sun will explode, but the process will take about a billion years.

The digital immortality you want: living forever in a virtual paradise.

The digital immortality you get: you are recorded doing something stupid that ends any career or relationship potential and is never able to be removed from the internet.

In another aspect, what does uploading ones self look like and when is the upload taken? Do they kill the original body after taking the upload or is there a you living out their days stuck in the mortal husk while another you (possibly not the one you are) is off living it up in an immortal body or virtual paradise?

Reminds me of San Junipero

Interesting. Is that why he stole all of our sensitive data?

They have a light switch in their house and they don't know what it's for. They just flip it every so often.

Little did they know it's was actually a peace and war switch

Once at a dinner party, one alien was showing the switch to another and they flipped it back and fourth a bunch of times and started WW1

Couple years later, another party and BAM WWII