• MTK@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Hopefully, single use plastics would be a ridiculous thing in the future, maybe they will look back at it like we look back at asbestos.

    Here is a funny asbestos ad from the past

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    I wonder if more people will go back to flip phones. Some of my younger church friends are tired of smartphones and the amount of time and energy they suck out of your life and negative energy social media puts into it, and are switching back to flip phones. It’s surprising to see young people using them.

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    Car centric infrastructure 🤣 lol back in the 2020s they had to travel in slow ass crowds of cars 🤣🤣🤣 nobody liked driving but they settled for it because it was the best they had! Although I wish I could have bought Tears of the Kingdom when it was new, I don’t even want to know what cars were like.

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    As someone who has grown up watching Card Catalogs lose to electronic search, Internet Directories lose to electronic search, photo albums lose to electronic search, Curated Network Televisions lose out to ellectronic search, large-scale advertising lose out to electronic search…

    I don’t know. But whatever it is, 20 years from now, we’d say “Why didn’t you have a search engine that could do that for you?”

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    13 days ago

    porn was freely available and could be purchased at stores in many parts of the US.

    sex toys were widely available and could be purchased from the comfort of your own sex swing.

    now we have Qualuviagra which not only increases the size of your penis* but also makes you forget all about your low-T*

    *studies shown that penis size temporarily increases but long-term use will actually shrink it. prolonged use can induce Baby-Dick Syndrome (BDS). Abuse of the product is considered a class 1 felony and you will be registered as a sex offender unless you’re a registered Republican.

    *low T is a myth falsified by global warming scientists in order to confuse and belittle Republicans with BDS. If you are taking Qualuviagra to treat low-T, reach out to your nearest MediRogan for details about having low-T.

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    20 years is a bit short but… Eating animals will be regarded as highly immoral, “but everyone knew those animals suffered, right?”, on the same level as we now judge slavery

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        It’s sadly impossible until we guarantee food for everyone. It’s a luxury to choose where and what your next meal is.

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          This is so weird. Do people realize animals need to eat? Why don’t we eat that food directly? Eating animals makes for less food, not more. Like how 75% of soy is cattle feed, and then vegans get blamed for deforestation for soy beans. It’s ridiculous. Willful ignorance

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            Eh, only sorta. Plenty of animals can be fed on things we can’t eat. They tried raising rabbits in NK for example because they can survive off rocky ground that wouldn’t grow crops.

            Third world problem though. First world countries could be vegetarian easily.

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    With the advancement in technology, I’m sure in 20 years augmented reality will really kick off. I’m sure they will wonder why people used to play with controllers and not a VR headset… I might be watching too much SAO and I don’t even watch that anime.