Community Status Updates

wjfox

Yeah, but as a reader of r/Futurology, you should know that cancer cures are announced every month :) Sometimes every week.
Today, 09:40 AM

Erowind

It is exceptional to hear about on the BBC while driving home though. I'll still hold my breath until this t-cell breakthrough passes clinical trial.
Today, 10:29 AM

Erowind

The comments are a treat as always. The far right really does dominate many online spaces and not enough people are conscious of it.
Today, 06:39 AM

Casey

Life expectancy from birth is not the same thing as life expectancy for someone who's (almost) reached 72. Life expectancy for a 72 year old is 85.
Yesterday, 06:49 PM

waitingforthe2030s

The singularity is never happening.
Yesterday, 08:57 PM

Outlook

If GPT-2 can play chess then the singularity is happening and it's going to happen very soon.
Today, 03:06 AM

Alislaws

Although Disney have managed to do a pretty good job with marvel so not sure what's up with that.
Yesterday, 05:10 PM

Erowind

Non-expanded universe isn't canon to me. Haven't seen a movie since Rogue One and wasn't a fan personally.
Yesterday, 10:12 PM

Omosoap

What I read was that it seems Disney is trying to make Star Wars a successful franchise like Avengers is, but Star Wars is very different. One of their major errors for the fan base was that they did not utilize all of the extra built in resources and storylines from the fan base community and instead scrapped it for their own story, which lost most of the original fan base in the process.
Today, 04:00 AM

Maximus

Mike Pompeo is the Secretary of State, and where did you hear this? Can't find mention of it anywhere.
Yesterday, 01:29 AM

10 year march

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/14/pompeo-says-killing-of-suleimani-is-part-of-bigger-strategy-to-deter-us-foes
Yesterday, 02:00 AM

Maximus

I think that's taking what he said out of context, he just said the US is re-establishing credible deterrence against adversaries. In the case of Russia, he gave the example of increasing lethal aid to Ukraine, and navy partols in the SCS in response to China.
Yesterday, 02:07 AM

starspawn0

Several companies are working on light-headed scanning of "fast optical signals". What they can do with this is probably so advanced that experts would laugh at you, and say it's "impossible". I've never actually seen the tech that various companies have produced myself, but a little bird told me it's real, and prototypes exist.
Yesterday, 06:27 PM

starspawn0

You might check out this podcast. It's wild. The offices of Kernel in LA sound very futuristic, as do many high-tech companies:
https://www.thelifecyclepodcast.com/episodes/2019/11/22/dont-you-know-im-loco-the-life-cycle
Yesterday, 06:34 PM

starspawn0

Damn auto-correct! "Light-headed" should be "light-based". Not sure how it came to write that.
Yesterday, 06:40 PM

Alislaws

Don't fuck Dogs. They don't like it.
(apparently? I haven't done any comprehensive surveys or anything? Pretty sure PETA is against it and they have probably asked dogs how they feel about it I guess)
Yesterday, 02:41 PM

Alislaws

#NotAPetOwnerButImPrettySureThatIsNotRight
Yesterday, 02:43 PM

waitingforthe2030s

Creative automation is going to make writers and animators even more useless. and very fast.
Yesterday, 08:58 PM

10 year march

What will this actually mean in terms of how long for benifical Ai
Jan 19 2020 07:26 AM

Erowind

tortures and death."

"Everybody knows that leftists just love radical Islam fanatics; however, few manage to understand that their perverted sympathies are not limited to bomb-making, knife-wielding crazies. Leftist policy is to import and promote scum of EVERY kind that exists on the face of the Earth, no matter from East or West."

Jan 19 2020 12:18 AM

Erowind

I don't know about you, but I'm getting white genocide conspiracy theory vibes. Islamaphobia, russophobia and homophobia oh my!

All said, can we appreciate how wonderful this gif is

https://einsamerkrieger.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/essence.gif
Jan 19 2020 12:28 AM

Cyber_Rebel

@Erowind

That website itself is Breitbart levels of garbage, no argument there. But I was only saying that the book itself which depicts those images of gulag imprisonment is separate from it, or didn't originate there.

That said, some of the book is very true while I figure some is allegory for oppression. In any case, agreed that is not the "leftism" we aspire to.
Jan 19 2020 01:53 AM

Raklian

Because the gods are bored and need to play a joke.
Jan 17 2020 05:27 PM

Erowind

The house is from the 1920s and has old radiators in every room. It's one of many reasons I'm moving next month. The paint is falling off the walls too over the past month and the bathroom tile has been falling off the walls for nearly a year. Aren't cheap landlords great! He did show though and the heat is back on.
Jan 17 2020 10:06 PM

Erowind

It would not surprise me if the insulation hasn't been checked in 50 years

@raklian lol
Jan 17 2020 10:10 PM

Alislaws

Patrick stewart has voiced all the station announcements apparently, with many of them changed to fit the star trek theme.
Jan 16 2020 03:15 PM

Outlook

That makes a lot more sense. For the longest time I kept thinking of polytheistic pagans, but the sacredness of nature and now how you relate it to futurist and modern elements is really interesting.
Jan 15 2020 06:10 PM

Omosoap

Yeah, polytheism is a part of Paganism, but there are a lot of different "Paganisms" in a sense. There are even Atheopagans (though their acceptance in Paganism is hotly debated). I am sure my brand of Paganism will be given a lot of heated debate at first. Granted some Digital Pagans will be Polytheist, but most will probably be either Animistic, Pantheist, Panentheist, or Secular (Atheist/Agnostic), I would guess. I've seen divisions of Paganism where they say there are three b...
Jan 15 2020 07:08 PM

Omosoap

branches (polytheist, animistic/pantheist, or witchcraft), but Paganism could be divided in so many different ways, as Modern Paganism is divided into many smaller branches. And, I would argue new ways to practice Paganism are forming all the time, as it is not relying on any overarching text so it has very few limitations in that sense.
Jan 15 2020 07:10 PM