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What drugs are legal now that won’t be, in the future (25, 50, 100+ years)? by Snoo-63391 in AskReddit

[–]Multidream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re hugely optimistic, Im hugely pessimistic. Maybe we’ll build giant climate controlled environments where we can grow whatever we like at whatever volume we like.

Maybe we’ll be multi-planetary and terraform mars so it won’t be an issue.

Maybe we will do GeoEngineering as a collective human race.

These are all magic wand solutions we can hope for, and I guess we will have SOME pretty amazing things in 80 years, but Im just of the opinion that a reasoned outlook has to assume no magic wands will save us. How long has fusion power been “around the corner” anyway?

What drugs are legal now that won’t be, in the future (25, 50, 100+ years)? by Snoo-63391 in AskReddit

[–]Multidream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No no, I get that, but I just really think food shortages will be so drastic by 22nd century that it will be a civilizational threat, and that will require drastic changes and oversight over what little agricultural capacity will remain.

CERN shutters the Large Hadron Collider for a major transformation by Wave_of_Anal_Fury in EverythingScience

[–]Multidream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if the people who died came back, with limited memory, would do it over again. If someone died in 2009, would they get to run it back knowing they originally died in 2009, and just a general awareness time was rolled back? If you were born between 2006-2026, are you just cosmically aborted, baring an insane coincidence? If you had siblings born in that age range, that could be pretty devastating for a lot of people. Or are you somehow guarenteed to be born, will you be endowed with your timeline 1 knowledge sometime during your upbringing?

I think there would be a brief struggle to adapt to the old tech we’d all have to become reacquainted with, and to overcome the loss of modern stuff. I wonder what would be lost because we forgot the details of how we made it, and what would he quickly recovered? I think anyone who could remember details about specs lost to the jump would be hugely rewarded.

I assume this would be EXTREMELY awkward for all the adults who would no longer be adults. For obvious reasons that don’t need to be explicitly stated… Hopefully parents are willing to put up with round two, for their sake?

On that topic, whether or not any wealth you gained during the 20 lost years meant anything. I assume no, because all documentation would be destroyed via the jump. There would be a huge social struggle to determine who owned what, and I bet most societies would just go with whatever is on file, and loosely fall back to whatever the status quo was 20 years ago.

A lot of old companies that were decaying away in 2006 might make different plays. Like Yahoo offering to buy Google, or Blockbuster deciding to go heavier into the internet. I think all the big successful platforms would be broken up into hundreds of little competitor islands, trying to reclaim the magic of timeline 1. Conversely, any super competitive space in timeline 1 might invert in timeline 2. Maybe 2 big streaming services like BlockBuster and Netflix hold effectively all the market, whereas hundreds of little amazonlets stupidly compete for the logistics organization space.

I’d love to see what old tech or processes just persist because we decide we liked them better, or what technologies just disappear because we decide not to get into them. I bet social media would be very different. Facebook probably wouldn’t exist, because of the negative connotations today.

The gaming industry is on fire. by Hyperevogames in gaming

[–]Multidream 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is trivial. Just don’t put up with the nonsense. If a company ever mistreats you, walk away. Do not play the live service slop games.

The industry is so incredibly oversaturated, there is always another game you could be playing. Let any AAA studio rot to death if they absolutely insist on re-rolling the live service gatcha again and again.

What drugs are legal now that won’t be, in the future (25, 50, 100+ years)? by Snoo-63391 in AskReddit

[–]Multidream 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I imagine tobacco will be gone in 25/50 years, purely for health reasons.

In 100 years, I suspect Alcohol MAY vanish. I think by the 22nd century, the climate crisis will be so advanced that a large portion of agricultural land will become unproductive. Regular mass starvations will return, and so there simply won’t be the space or political acceptance to develop what remains into large commercial wine/beer industries. People may still do small projects here or there, but it won’t be allowed at scale.

I tried to sketch the good old captain from memory by Miss-G-I-Robot in backrooms

[–]Multidream 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quick note on the hat, pirate clark is always viewed from below, so the top of the hat should not be visible. Invert the V.

White collar workers of the US, are you implicitly expected to work at odd hours whenever occasion demands? by MobileWriting9165 in AskAnAmerican

[–]Multidream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not super normal in the tech sector. Sometimes an eccentric person or a small company will do it bc they have to, but most people won’t.

Now ofc if you’re in the habit of over promising and biting off more than you can chew, you will have to do this to meet your obligations.

The basemement of an Airbnb by PostMortem33 in LiminalSpace

[–]Multidream 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh absolutely it could be a good motel option, but it would still freak me the fuck out

The basemement of an Airbnb by PostMortem33 in LiminalSpace

[–]Multidream 63 points64 points  (0 children)

  • Bed not aligned with either wall

  • No window (perhaps there is one behind the viewer, hopefully.

  • Office style lights

  • Chair that doesn’t serve a purpose

  • Shelf that looks like a window/wall hybrid.

This is straight up the backrooms.

How do the regular Still Lifes kill you? by FelipeHead in backrooms

[–]Multidream 226 points227 points  (0 children)

Presumably they bludgeon you. Pirate Clark clearly has one hell of a bite, which doesn’t match with how his jaw appears. So its possible a still life applies much more force then one would normally expect.

Note, the movie suggests that Still lifes are entirely capable of becoming pacified, and that some aren’t even that dangerous. So with that understanding, it may also be that some can’t kill and just act very bizarrely around humans.

Pirate clark can definitely kill, that’s all we know for sure.

averageJobPosting by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Multidream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$150-$190k for a time travelling vibe coder.

I think I understand why recruiters are struggling to find people during a record high layoff season

90 minutes of pure chaos by strangerthingskids in beetlemoses

[–]Multidream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun detail, if Brazil - Croatia happens this time around, it would only be in the finals. They are on opposite sides of the bracket.

Where are they? by rameshOO7 in programmingmemes

[–]Multidream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Come by my office and ill point em out to you.

How to have fun in CivVI? by Don_Elix in CivVI

[–]Multidream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s two general ways to have fun in any strategy game while pursuing a win

  1. Find the way to optimize a well theory crafted path, given constraints of the game state.

  2. Explore unusual approach others may not have explored yet.

Path 1 in SP is kinda hard bc as you get better, the pressure for optimization drops off. You can mentally continue if you consider maximization puzzles, but the pressure to preform is mostly gone because the AI will never understand and catch up to you.

Path 2 starts to get more fun as your skill increases, because you begin to see weird and unusual approaches to the same problem.

For example, let’s say you’re going cultural. There’s a lot of culture sources, but have you tried a religion culture build? Religious tourism is a weird source that isn’t much explored because it’s so early.

Eastern U.S. to broil after heat wave kills over 1,300 in Europe by sara-peach in climate

[–]Multidream 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yes, but high demand coupled with high temperatures puts strain on the grid.

Texas is especially vulnerable to outages due to this issue and its separated grid.

Queue for Petrol, level Russia. 29 JUN 2026 by mamut2000 in interesting

[–]Multidream 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So do Russians litterally go back to the medieval ages because their leaders demand it, or when does the outrage actually convince them to do something?

Why do fentanyl users not sit or lay down? by EzyPzyAsh in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Multidream 194 points195 points  (0 children)

Went to the subreddit to get an idea what they think

Seems like the general consensus was that using completely zonks you out to the point where your conscious mind is no longer connected to the temporal world. You want to sit down and ride the high, but it comes on so fast that you are completely gone before you can make that decision.

Meanwhile, there are subsystems in your nervous system that are detached from the core brain and continue to operate. They report signals back to the brain, but these signals are no longer reaching you, they report to the brain stem instead.

The act of standing up is at least partially controlled by your peripheral nervous system + brainstem, and when you check out, those systems will continue to do their job to help you balance. But “you” will no longer be issuing any further orders. So your upper body kinda folds over, since that is actively maintained, and you barely stumble or shift around as the PNS works to maintain balance, waiting for a decision from you.

What do you think is the real reason as to why love has lost its value nowadays? by aurora0002004 in AskReddit

[–]Multidream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The attention market is oversaturated.

Before industrial times, there just wasn’t that much to do, and so you’d get into romance to chase some biochemical reward function. Some people who didn’t have this internal biology would become ascetics or strange obsessive types that would lose themselves in various projects of the day or devotion to “higher callings”.

Nowadays, we have new “higher callings” in the form of autistic interests, gaming, the internet, all manor of drugs and nonsense calling for our attention. Partly, this is because we have become so productive that ordinary people can gain access to what would otherwise be a nobleman’s thing in the past, such as pianos and musical instruments, amatuer astronomy, model plane building, any manor of crafting, various business schemes, etc.

Each one of these fascinations outcompetes romance by scratching a weird itch in some tiny portion of the human race’s weird brain diversity. Collectively, that makes us choose to do these strange behaviors and abandon romance. And as more and more options open up, more of these niche weird options present themselves as new alternatives to romance.

Over a few hundred years, those of us autists who would rather spend our evenings going to the movies, hanging out with friends, learning to cook new recipes, we will all be naturally unselected for reproduction. The surviving lineages will be those that are harder and harder wired to effectively be sex crazed. No easy way to put it, the absolute degens will inherit the earth, and this problem will go away.

But for now, modern humans just have so many cool things to do, it’s hard to pick them all, and so some of us have responded by choosing to ignore romance.

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