Feeling pretty doomy right now, lemme hear some positives! Generally positive, specific to your life, whatever you got. What’s something good going on that makes the future seem a bit brighter for you?
Curent generation of children. Despite meme spam like 67 or Italian brain rot - we did same shit with badger badger, lost the game etc - the emotional intelligence and awareness of upcoming generation is very encouraging. If we leave these people something good then the future of our civilization is in good hands.
We’re developing more and better treatments for diseases and ailments that we didn’t have when I was born. A person with HIV can live a long life, it requires a fair amount of medication, but we’re also on the cusp of just curing it outright. Same with cancer, there’s new therapies being discovered that may be of great use that are not just chemo.
I do the online dating thing. I live in the bible belt, so there’s lots of Conservatives, lots of Christians, & of course often both. It used to be super-rare to see “No MAGA” in a woman’s dating profile, simply because there aren’t that many liberals around. But maybe a year or so ago it started showing up on moderate profiles. Then on Christian profiles. Now I’m even seeing “No MAGA” on Conservative + Christian profiles. It’s one of the most common phrases I see, right up there with ‘dog-mom’, ‘passport stamps’ and ‘no hookups’. It’s like America is finally realizing what a scam MAGA has been.
The number of Justice Democrats winning primaries against established corporate stooges keeps growing with each primary. For example, in Colorado, Melat Kiros beat a fifteen term incumbent in their primary, someone who had been a senator for longer than she’d even been alive. So, I’m hopeful that the changes I’ve wanted since 2016 might actually start coming.
There are billions more people that have access to water and electricity compared to 40 years ago. Crime is down across the board worldwide and so was war until just recently.
On a personal note, after renting for thirty years I finally bought a house where my two adult daughters and their partners live. We are all currently in decent health , we all get along, and I just got my second grandchild. The first baby boy in our family which is nice because my son past away 9 months old, stillbirth.
That eventually I’m going to die.
Renewables and EVs!
Despite humongous efforts by us politicians and their corporate owners, adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles is speeding up.
Even further, the basic idea that the poster child for anti-future, Trump, may be doing irreparable harm to the US in many ways but is unintentionally key to speeding up the transition in the rest of the world.
Mango Mussolini has cemented his place in history as the worst ever President, the most corrupt, the most damaging to the country’s position, the most harm to the citizens, the worst so far in running up the debt. However history will also talk about his inadvertent role in other positive changes
Happy Cake Day!
Thank you! I can’t believe I’ve been here three years already!
EVs?
Yay, let’s continue with building cities for cars! Van you imagine, allowing human beings to just gasp walk around? Or *clutches pearls" drive bicycles? Ew! Worst of all: public transportation, oh noes!
I know you probably didn’t mean it like that but can we PLEASE focus on livable cities that are firstly designed for people, and lastly for cars where there isn’t another choice?
I so fucking miss the Netherlands, you can cycle everywhere, you can walk everywhere and sure, cars can get around where needed (still way too much, but at least there is some balance)
Design livable cities with goog cycling infrastructure and good public transportation and you can get rid of most cars in most cities
“Its not perfect! No improvement until it’s pefect! No harm reduction unless it’s perfect!”
This is how one ends up making no progress.
But there is no silver bullet that cures everything, or we can’t wait for utopia before we begin, or don’t let perfection be the enemy of better. I would also prefer cities designed around people: I live in Boston because it’s close to best you can get in the us. I am all for making most cars obsolete, but until then, we need to do better
The reality is the Netherlands still has cars and there always will be a need for at least some cars. The other reality is that we can switch to EVs in a handful of years, significantly reducing our impact on the environment. And the most unfortunate reality is redesigning cities is a continuous process over many decades: we can’t just do nothing until then
My point was mango Mussolini accidentally speeding up the global shift toward electrification and EVs, despite grasping for the opposite. However he has had no positive effect on transit or walkability, even accidentslly
People stop using Facebook, Google, and Amazon and people rebel against mandated car cameras. When you apply for a job you no longer need to agree to a privacy policy that allows your info to be used for robo calls and spam email. It also becomes illegal to require people to agree to those policies to see their medical labwork online.
Fines for these violations of law become meaningful, and companies start taking privacy seriously.
The global population is united in revulsion at the genocide and neverending war carried out by Israel, even if the politicians are owned. That gives me hope that justice will prevail.
Imperialism and neocolonialism are gradually dying, while the global south and socialist countries are rising. The old world is dying and the new is struggling to be born, but the process is moving forward.
Yea I see it too
When I see what wonders NASA does (with their ever shrinking budget), it gives me hope and makes me want to stay alive to be there for their new discoveries and breakthroughs.
Also another thing is this… the Fediverse and the broader FOSS community, we (self insert, lol) do things for the community bec we want to help, not because we are paid to or forced to, we try to make the world we live in a better place by fighting big tech and monopolies, it is truly fascinating to think about.
Any day now, Donald Trump will die.
Some day a mortician gets to glue his lips shut.
and its entirely possible Mitch Mcconnell is dead!
i mean… it’s hard to imagine to go any further down after that, but i also don’t see much potential to go up.
I can only see so much future so I guess I’d have to say I’m glad trump is so old. I just want to get this shit over with already so we can all go back to living simply again, without all the angsty bullshit always floating around everywhere, causing a rancid stink. Divisiveness is an old tool that is used against the populace, we need to recognize that for what it is.
I’ll try not to water the hope too much, but the other issue is the vast number of people who supported and still supported him. That much willful hatred of America (wrapped in wordy claims of loving America) is potentially very damaging regardless.
The good news is, a lot was developed into religious fanaticism around the man himself. The GOP has been trying to harness and weaponize it, but mostly seems to fail.
yea, Trump is just a symptom. But I’ll take the hope that he dies soon. I don’t wanna be a downer too much
every time i come home, it two cats are waiting at the door.
first they try to sneak out of the flat, afterwards they brush around and roll on the floor, demanding belly scratches.
yeah, i think as well they got the wrong software ;)
