1y ago

early 2020's rule

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Star Trek writers batting 1000 so far, please please please let them be wrong about the nuclear horror.
- Can't you feel it? The threads of global tension snapping with a deafening blast? The ravenous chantings of Mars cutting through the ambient noise?
  
  Mars, where you go to die of cancer while under the rule of a racist narcissistic libertarian billionaire with a savior complex, and his Nazi buddies.
  Sounds fun, pass.
  
  The tree sags, heavy with fruit
  The harvest is near
  Hel hungers for her bounty
- The Irish Unification should happen this year. Tiocfaidh ár lá.
  
  After 104 years separated and with prince Charles III in charge, idk seems like low odds.
- Not so keen on the eugenics war, either...
  
  That happened 30 years ago.
- Death from global famine seems to be the harsher alternative to nuclear exchange, and what we expect to be the primary driver of the climate-based population correction.
  As catastrophic existential risks go, I'm still rooting for AI takeover and robot rebellion, which has coolness factor. It also means our electromechanical brethren might continue the quest of exploration and expansion.
- Should be around time for WWIII
- /agree
  But I doubt it.
- I'm just hoping I get vaporized rather than slowly irradiated to death

Every day we get a step closer to the Bell Riots.
A friend and I have tickets booked to be in San Francisco the first week of September. We don't know what we will do there but we will be there to support Gabriel Bell.
- We are absolutely worse off in the real 2024 than what "Past Tense" depicted.
  Vin asks Sisko for a "UHC card" when trying to identify him. A universal healthcare card. In the real 2024? Still no universal healthcare in the US.
  The famous billionaire's role in the story of "Past Tense" was to get residents of the districts access to "the nets" to tell their story. In the real 2024, Elon Musk would just take to Xitter and advocate for crackdowns.
  Once on the nets, the resident's stories actually swayed public opinion. Can you honestly imagine the stories they told making a dent in the zeitgeist, even if they trended on YouTube and TikTok?
  Sanctuary districts exist too, they're just on the border and privatized.
  Ira Steven Behr set out to depict a horribly dystopic 2024, succeeded, and undershot.
  
  We can still look forward to Irish Unification
  
  That's a bit dramatic isn't it?
  Sanctuaries, for example, on the show hold (or rather, imprison) unemployed people, as there are no jobs. AFAIk, the US is nowhere near a segregation state that ostracizes people once they lose their job.
- Well, just try not to cross paths with any of the main characters.
  
  Cut him some slack. Life is difficult when your mom names you Biddle.
  
  But he had a nice hat, despite what "Bell" said about it
- https://bellriots.netlify.app/
  222 Days (as of posting this)
  
  We only know that it's the first week of September. You don't know the exact date. But any count is better than no count.

... is that Joe Don Baker?

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