I will start by my answer:

I am scared of the future as hell:

  • Big companies seem to win, at least that is what it seems to me right now.
  • Humans are becoming less social in a trend that is accelerating.
  • There is no one, as far as I know, that is working on a set of rigid AI regulations that will ensure that it limits or control its harms and capabilities.
  • People around the world are losing their freedoms gradually with almost no way to get them back.
  • Everything around me seems to get uglier, from wars to hunger and it does not seem to be improving anytime soon.

What do you people think?

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    I am looking forward to Trump’s death because nobody else seems to have whatever evil charisma he has that apparently works on half the populace to keep the infighting of US conservatives from imploding the party. All of the terrible stuff going on has been in the works for decades by far more capable people, but they needed a figurehead to unite the party and cut out any dissidents and there isn’t anyone waiting in the wings to take his place.

    Unfortunately he is wealthy enough that even his dementia will be held in check for far longer than he deserves and the media will continue to sanewash him so it will drag out for at least a decade more of his influence than would happen with almost anyone else.

    The scary part is he will be around long enough for the other people who couldn’t do all of this on their own to accomplish their goals to tear down the whole government. At a minimum they get the rest of this term with Vance as the wet noodle filling the void but accomplishing nothing on his own, but more realistically they go completely face off on direct election manipulation and the population is too overworked, stressed out, and fighting amongst themselves to fight it.

    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
      7·
      1 day ago

      This is my 2026 prediction:

      • Trump has an embolism possibly caused by a not so great and beautiful diet. They stall as much as possible swearing in the VP alleging Trump may recover.

      And then, right before it seems the VP will become the next president, a set of big tech companies claims that they have created [sic] a seamless AI copy of Donald J. Trump and is, for all means [sic again] the same conscience.

      Most politicians call it bullshit and actively fight it, but then the Supreme Court approves it and suddenly the country is led by an LLM model mad libbing Trump tweets.

      This goes for 45 days until a bipartisan vote… who am I kidding? No, it goes on and on, and now corporations are burning through the equivalent power consumption of Australia to get “the best” DJT GPT model so they can get their turn at the wheel.

      Yadda yadda nuclear war yadda yadda the end.