Wait until November 2024 and I’ll let you know.
US Presidential election, for anyone outside of America wondering why this got so many upvotes
There’s always been some craziness but I feel like it’s growing more crazy every month. One of the superpowers started a war it can’t win, the other 2 are slowly going into a cold war, the climate is becoming more and more unpredictable and there’s always some kind of disease lurking around the corner. At the same time there’s some cool progress in technology and science (and even that comes with its own issues).
Yet even that war, horrible though it is, at least has a clear villain, it’s morally black and white, and most of the world is in agreement . Makes you wonder how the prequel nine years ago got mostly ignored
“Super power” was the soviet Union. Russia is just a regional power that happens to have nukes and inertia and covets the power of the soviet Union.
Crazy is the new normal
Too early to say. Crazy has been modestly rebuked and it’s only making them more crazy. Even if main crazy is punished, we might see fringe crazy respond in a variety of obviously undesirable ways. If they do, then normal crazy might step back out of a desire not to be seen as associating with fringe crazy, but that doesn’t mean that crazy will have passed. Crazy will just change tactics and lightly rebrand to new crazy.
The only way to end crazy is to thwart crazy’s plans at every turn and make crazy nonviable as a means for gaining power.
Instead of using terms like normal or crazy, I’ll instead use terms like stability. Things are pretty unstable where I live right now. The economy is unstable; high gas prices, high rent and home prices, high mortgage rates, high homeowners insurance rates with some leaving the state, the closure of small and local businesses are increasing, etc. My state also has a political crisis, a restrictions of rights and extremism from the far right.
I’ll take shitstorm for $100, Alex.
Elections are still coming. “Inflation” hasn’t been tamed. We’re also waiting for the next pandemic. Planetary thermal events are in progress. Mega drought in the American Southwest threatens to cripple hydroelectric power generation and agriculture for millions.
Normal? That’s just what they want you to think.
It’s getting back to the point where crazy seems unelectable, those committing election fraud are being charged, those committing treason are being jailed, at least some gerrymandering is rejected, and that crazy down south picked a fight with his states largest employer and lost.
We have the biggest environmental bill in history starting to take affect, and we just started receiving routine seasonal vaccinations for the most virulent diseases
I can’t help with megadrpught in the Southwest, except to say there are plenty of places to live with more water
yeah “they” god damn “them”
I couldn’t tell you- It’s either slipping into crazy or I’m just paying more attention to how fucked it always was.
Hell, I don’t know. My baseline is shot. I’m just trying to survive with virtue at this point.
We’re just experiencing quantum immortality. Most earths died in their reality in 2012. So the state of our universe grows more and more unlikely as time goes on and we avoid the worst possible outcomes of potential world wars, scientific experiments going sideways and pandemics.
Just imagine how the universe must look like for the people who didn’t have covid 19.
You shouldn’t state quantum immortality theory as fact. It’s not like the theory of gravity where we have a pretty solid understanding with overwhelming empirical observations. It’s just wild speculation and thought experiment. It’s philosophical; not scientific.
Brain death/loss of consciousness is not binary; it’s a progressive loss of cognitive faculties. Here is a decent write-up debunking quantum immortality. (PDF warning).
Quantum immortality is just the new Mandela effect in pop culture.
Oh you mean that was a serious post? I thought it was clearly a joke 😅
I did think it was serious… I see stuff like that said in all seriousness all the time online. My bad. It’s too hard to tell anymore…
World’s too crazy to tell what’s serious and what not.
Yeah, agreed. I originally found the “/s” shorthand for sarcasm cringey, but I feel like it’s necessary anymore…
It feels like reality and satire have merged, like we’re living in The Onion or something…
It’s probably a fault of mine that I don’t take ridiculous ideas seriously, even when it’s well known that others do.
Normal is, just like beauty, in the eye of the beholder…
Oh wait, that’s truth, normal is what the majority accepts… we’re domed, just don’t look up.
I go outside, talk to my friends, my extended family, it feels normal and stable.
I go online, and apparently the US is dying.
I think ita just an online thing.
Its because majority of the politicians are dying off. Their brains are shutting down.
The way I see it, things are continuing down the crazy path but it feels more normal because people aren’t denying it completely like they were a decade ago.
define normal
You have to provide more context…
gestures wildly at the world
