This includes plans to breed billions of sterile flies and dump them from the air over southern Texas and Mexico in the hope of stopping the parasite’s spread.

Incidentally, this isn’t a new plan, it’s a successful plan that’s been used against Screwworms in South America and eradicated them entirely in some places. It does take constant effort to ensure they don’t come back, and the US has broadly funded this eradication program for years because of the global good it does for relatively little cost comparatively. If Mexico and South America’s livestock is safe, we make money and have food and best of all, the worm doesn’t make it into the US to torture human and animal alike.

I mean, that’s the first paragraph. Do we really need to spell out what gets written in paragraph two, or just go straight to the article from May?

There will be no shortage of wealthy liches who want to create some kind of bubble-city where everything looks perfect. We already have it now, it will just become more stratified and more atomized.

They’ve been making these kinds of predictions for a long time. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t very real existential threats to humanity around every corner, we may well experience a complete disaster, lord knows our logistics chain is delicate and largely ignored and props up everything we care about.

But what a lot of people miss in all of these predictions, is how adaptable and malleable human life is.

Will there be flooded cities and shanty-towns across coasts? Probably. Will there be gleaming cities of solar-powered utopia? Also probably. Will there be unrest, crime and war and famine? Absolutely. Will there be new comforts and escapes and new ways to stay safe and protected by your state in return for your attention, your money and your time? Also absolutely. Will it all be fragile? Yes, and it is now as well.

The future doesn’t hold just one thing, it holds many things. The future has always been the same: more of everything and then some. Look at us now, people predicted by this time we would have flying cars and robots… which we do! In some places. But we also still have uncontacted amazonian tribes, so we have everything we had in the previous century plus more.

A bridge collaoaes and no one foxes it

But… I want them to fox the bridges :(

lots of us said that this would be exactly what would be happening

And this is also what they wanted, they WANT people to start firing on cops in masks, this is the escalation they need to make the excuse for turning the US into a massive locked-down corporate prison.

“What’s that? People are shooting at our precious law enforcement heroes?? Let loose the Palantir Drones! FLY MY PRETTIES!”

There will come a day in a number of years from now, when we look back at the Gaza Genocide and for some reason everyone will have been against it and everyone will have sided with the Palestinians all along, and everyone will have hated Israel’s government the entire time.

A fat lot of good that will do the tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent people murdered while we posted memes and argued with each other if it’s antisemitic to bomb schools.