• Big P
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    512 years ago

    That we’ll solve climate change and I’ll get to live past 50

    • TheLemmingOP
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      102 years ago

      No one knows what happens in the future. We can make assumptions and calculation based on statistics and probability. But ultimately we don’t know.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      We probably won’t solve climate change. We might be able to make huge air conditioned complexes with just a single basic bed for everybody with insect farms underground for us to eat?

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      There are some ideas to terraform the Earth to keep it habitable. It’s just very expensive and challenging and if we screw it up, we’ll be worse off than when we started. We likely won’t get a 2nd chance and as a species we don’t typically nail it on the 1st try.

  • Destide
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    72 years ago

    That I progressed past my teenage years and cake

  • Greyscale
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    162 years ago

    That I have any sort of meaningful future or purpose ahead of me.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      I can’t stop picturing myself as a demolished beggar quite soon. Or a pile of mashed meat near a 10-story building.

    • TheLemmingOP
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      42 years ago

      I hope things happen in your life that make you able to believe, that, what you said was a lie isn’t one.

  • DJDarren
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    112 years ago

    “Flushable wipes”

    I’m at an age where moist arse wipes are a godsend, and I stubbornly cling to the lie that they’re flushable and fine.

      • @[email protected]
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        Every house I’ve lived on had a bidet and they all had a basic faucet. You clean yourself with a soapy sponge or hand and then spend several minutes splashing water on your ass and junk with your hand to remove all off the soap because there is no way the water stream can reach you. Then you have to dry yourself with a towel while water is dripping down your leg and even after drying properly the area still feels wet. At that point you realize it was more convenient simply climbing into the shower to do the same quicker and easier by washing yourself from the waist down.

        Wet wipes: you wipe yourself with them and dry with some toilet paper. Done.

        I will never give up the commodity of legally flushable wet wipes.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      If COVID has learned me one thing is that there is still hope! We really have a make it a large enough problem before the powers are willing to change.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        Covid has show me the exact opposite. Governments saying this is fine, keep going out less than a week before ordering a full lock down. Karens and Karims (is that the male for Karen?) going crazy about something as easy as stay home and less than a year latter, people openly couching in public without even a mask

  • @[email protected]
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    172 years ago

    Well, not that I believe in it. Representative democracy. It’s like, we have the right to elect representatives, who seem to more often than not represent corporate/money interests, not really the interest of the majority.

  • @[email protected]
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    432 years ago

    “You can buy a house with your own money” someone told me when I was a kid.

    Last week I calculated that if I save every penny and dont spend a thing for the next 47 years I might have just enough to get myself a small house (hoping of course that inflation doesn’t happen otherwise it would be a shame to save +500.000 euro 😂)

    • TheLemmingOP
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      122 years ago

      They didn’t say where though. I bet in some country you can buy a house for less than 10k

      • Dandroid
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        112 years ago

        Yeah, I recently bought my own house. I had to move to a rural area 2000 miles away from all my family and friends. But I did it.

          • Dandroid
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            22 years ago

            Well, I borrowed from the bank. But I think just about everyone does that. Other than that, no money borrowed. My parents paid for my college 100%, which gave me a huge headstart in life, as I didn’t need to pay off any student loans. After college I got a job at a startup, which gave me a bunch of stock, and then we sold the company, which gave me a really nice payday. My down payment and moving costs were entirely funded by that.

            So it was a mix of luck between having parents that could pay for my college, luck getting a job at a company that sold, and then moving to a less expensive area. Of course, I don’t want to downplay how hard I worked in college and at the startup to put myself in a situation where I could get lucky.