It must be the highly structured nature of my sentences.

But doesn't the plastic biodegrade into CO2? What's the timeline? How does it compare to plants?

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A live organism covering the planet converting carbon dioxide to a solid? We have those. They're called trees.

"What if trees get out and start to convert every bit of carbon dioxide to wood?".

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Really? I thought we were already about 70 or 80% of the way to self driving cars, and I figured identifying, picking up and moving laundry to a hamper would be of similar difficulty, but with far less danger if errors happen.

Both centralized and decentralized technologies have their own pros and cons. I’ve been using centralized ones my whole life without batting an eye, and so do my parents, family members and close friends. Once I started becoming more conscious of my own privacy and browsing habits, I started investigating alternatives. I used social media just to communicate with people so I was able to get off that habit by switching to Signal and Qamon. What I’m trying to say is the only way decentralization actually starts becoming a part of our future—including social media and communication—is for people to become aware of the dirty games big tech companies are playing with our online identities. If it were up to them, they would become more hostile with their data collection, but the initiative to create alternatives will have to be sparked by the community. Decentralized data storage will 100% be a safer way of storing user data and information, but only time will tell if we get decentralized technology in social media or not.

Microwave it longer with less power so the heat can spread evenly.

I think microwaves are already almost space magic. We put the thing in the box, hit a button, 2 min later its done. Imagine showing that people a few hundred years ago that had to find their fire wood to heat anything.

I don't know if we can look at China as the future model of anything for developed countries. The country has a unique modern history, going from Maoist revolution, to starvation, to reform, to historically unprecedented economic growth, to a global superpower, where they are today. I don't see how the world view of the Chinese people and the CCP, shaped by these events, is in any way predictive of the rest of the world. The only common thread is what seems at times like a general slide towards authoritarianism, but that trend would have to continue for a long time, without the pendulum swinging back the other way, for Western democracies to take such steps.

It’s starting to happen already. Was just reading about a luxury chain of gyms in US which require interviews, references and a full parsing of your social media accounts.

yeah like i said twice the price of a 'normal' car

>EVs are already cheaper and are still getting cheaper

That is true. And they will.

But you seem to be forgetting one tiny detail - you need electricity generation to power EVs, and Europe HATES any construction of power plants, idiots as they are.

Sure there are some cool-looking wind turbines in german seas and few flacks of solar, but that won't power up a continent in winter. Not even close.

Getting food that's as hot as the sun in some parts and ice cold in others!

Using AI to write shitty stories with the hopes of preying on gullible people to join your telegram for profit.

The utopian dream

SPAM

The Tesla model 3 costs less than 40k€

Thorium power plants. Human augmentation (non-medical implants). Smart glasses and functioning AR.

Dunno reddit is also social media and I don't see it going away.
It becomes more moderated to follow laws and ToS which it already does to a significant higher account then couple of years back.

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- Active camouflage, Predator style.

- something close to the Holodeck from Star Trek. But I feel like it won't take long anymore with VR and AI

- more space missions. For many large bodies in the solar system we still don't know how they look.

- Moon colony, Mars base, Venus explorative missions (with Zeppelins!)

- Space station(s) with rotational gravity - 2001ish at least, or perhaps even Babylon5 ish

- floating (on water) cities, or under the oceans, like Jaques Cousteau believed in

- massive solar farms in deserts, massive wind farms in the oceans. Instead we trickle those here and there in areas with much less sun or wind. Like my own country Germany which is one of the least sunny places in the world, yet one with the most solar energy.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0GzwrdokMQ

Jep, enough funding to not let fusion die, but not enough to make real progress either.

The western world easily finds hundreds of billions for saving corrupt governments, banks, funding wars etc. but not for the one thing that could solve half of our problems.

From the article

>The moon’s surface contains a new source of water found embedded in microscopic glass beads, which might one day help future astronauts produce drinking water, breathable air and even rocket fuel, scientists say.
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>The findings come from a Chinese rover that spent two weeks on the moon in 2020. The Chang’e 5 rover drilled several feet into the lunar surface and returned 3.7 pounds of material, among which were the glass beads from an impact crater, according to a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.

What sucks about them?