This is all joke and fun until you realize we are heading towards the 30s
and we totally passed up girls wearing flapper dresses…
You’re just not hanging out with the right women.
probably 😭
being middle aged and married, i need that shit to be in the open!
I’m 52, married and up until a few years ago I did dance nights regularly. Charleston, swing, salsa, tango, etc with women half my age was a regular thing. It doesn’t have to be weird if you don’t make it weird. They were lovely and we had a blast.
PS: Dancing (Ballroom, hip hop, etc) is a great way to make sure you don’t lose mobility with age. Once you hit ~45 keeping, your mobility starts to be an constant effort.
sadly I have two left feet… I hear you though. I love to people watch and attractive young ladies are attractive but I’m not asking for anything other than enjoying that moment
Go take dance classes. All it takes is practice
Seriously. I found our local vocational school has an evening program for adults including dance classes. Good exercise, nice way to spend an hour and meet a few folks. If you’re new, just take a beginner class! If you aren’t ready to move up from there by the time it’s done, take it again next semester. Lessons usually are not that expensive and everyone is there to learn–it’s ok to have 2 left feet, you’re just trying to get a little more control/comfort using em 🙂
Now with climate change!
But didn’t we have climate change back then? The Dust Bowl…?
Oh yes, it’s going to be just like that, except much worse!
The decade metaphor might fail here but let me tell you it’s five past twelve
i’d personally say it’s at least ten past twelve but whatever
World War 3 to begin in 2039
sooner. this play-through is a speedrun
Exactly. Planes were relatively new last time. Now drones are relatively new. Communication is so fast now—it’s a world record speed run for sure
Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Think about that one.
i’m worried that might be awfully on-spot.
The “limits of growth” study has the following diagram:
after having thought about it for a few months, i do definitely see population rates declining in the future due to low birth rates and a worsening economic situation (lower wages, widespread unemployment, …) but i don’t think a war would be a necessary consequence. it could be just barely avoided if wisdom prevails.
Yeah but this time we’re doing a faster and ahead of schedule.
Let’s just hope there’s a new FDR to come with it. Sure would love to see that one.
Well, AOC is often only referred to by her initials
I wish AOC could be the new FDR
Every head in the room turns to watch the monkey’s paw curl
Oh no, does that mean shes going to intern Japanese people and be extremely racist?
Yeah but this time we’re doing a faster and ahead of schedule.
Efficiency!
Considering FDR threw 100,000 American citizens into concentration camps because of their race, I think we’ve already got one
We might get there early
Don’t worry, those of us left are going to see marvelous things once we hit the 60s.
Its like before but this time with robots
It’s like before but this time you have to subscribe.
And adds. “Your neighbourhood’s destruction, sponsored by General Concrete inc!”
but that also means we will live to see the 40s, and the current nazis hanging upside down.
Unless we’re on the Star Trek timeline in which case WW3 starts next year and runs for 30 years.
At least we skipped a world war 1 part deux.
Nah, it won’t be the same.
100 years ago we didn’t have ecological collapse.
America was about to have the Dust Bowl and China a drought that caused a massive famine, so we definitely had some localised ecological collapse
or nuclear weapons
Depending on an angle, one can say it began around that time 😅
What you mean? People on the 20s were clearly traumatized by a recent pandemic, pushing for worldwide economic protectionism and isolationism, revolting against and dehumanizing people that practiced “sexual dissidence”…
The 1920’s was also started with the type of weird kind-of-flu epidemique.
They had some years of crazy partying between end of ww1/the spanish flu ine the late 1910d and the great depression and fascism really got hold in the end of the 1920S tho, so couldnt we at least get some of those years first?:(
The poor weren’t at those crazy parties, they were organizing and fighting for workers rights. The rich are in fact having crazy parties right now, if my rich Snapchat friends are anything to go by.
Do you ask me? I don’t decide (^_-)
It’s going to take the young to fight the fascists in America. Hope they are ready.
I give it a year tops before the beginning of civil war 2.0
I’ll give it a year tops before the beginning of the World War III.
I’ll take that bet! Because I’m not big on online presence depending where you are if you’re in the GTA and the world is on fire more than it currently is I owe you a beer.
Nice, I hope I’m going to lose. I live in Russians neighborhood, so we will see if I’m able to get that beer.
After learning about the term ‘puriteens’ I’m not sure the youngest Americans will want to.
Hope they are ready.
They young or the fascists? Because the fascists don’t look to be in much shape for a proper beating.
The fascists are fat fucks. This is well know.
Young white men seem to be one of the biggest demographics for trump supporters. It’s not just the old.
A shit ton of those Caucasians are overweight. Sadly that’s just the state of our health nationally. I went back to power lifting and am getting to my three plate goal for benching. I haven’t lifted this much in decades. But I’m still big bellied. So I have work to do to get ready. But I do expect there to be a need to be in shape soon enough.
When you’re talking military age, obesity is extremely lower than say anybody 30+
Have you read the military reports on how limited the population pool is for healthy and passable individuals? There’s a concern there isn’t enough healthy fighting age males.
I haven’t. Is it a function of willing able bodied men being lacking, or is it talking about a draft?
Time’s a flat circle
We didn’t even make it the full decade. We did the whole pandemic thing but just passed on a new Jazz age with interesting new music and style, said no thanks to the libertine philosophy, and decided to fast forward 5 years and let this dusty old turd and his lame wrecking crew of Christian nationalists and the least intelligent pack of nerds that has ever existed, nose dive us right into the fucking ground.
There’s no way this motherfucker couldn’t just hire somebody to do the tariffs math right. He literally had all the money to hire the most talented people bc he’s just been stealing it from us constantly. Instead he and his crew are such cheap little shit stains that they decided to just have AI handle it and fuck it all up as always. And now their big master plan is to dump whatever fucking money is left into more AI!?! Because they still don’t fucking comprehend that’s not the God damn solution to everything!?!
Fuck I hate these dumb fucks so God damn much
God, I bet all of history’s previous dictators are just shaking their heads while they burn in hell because this guy is such a fucking joke.
There’s no way this motherfucker couldn’t just hire somebody to do the tariffs math right.
They couldn’t hire someone to do the tariff math ‘right’ because there is no ‘right’ math to do.
Fair point. Just to be clear though, I don’t say “right” in support of tarriffs, I say, right in terms of not accidentally multiplying the damage by 4x the original plan.
Although, now you got me thinking maybe the 4x worse damage wasn’t even an accident.
There’s a bioscience company with some really shady gov ties that was one of the only vaccine manufacturers that didn’t completely tank in the stock market last week when FDA cuts were announced.
Over the last year their stock has been going down, but last week, it was up a little compared to companies like Moderna and Pfizer. Not by much, but it seemed weird the company actually announced a buy back of their own stock.
It would be interesting to know if the majority of shares were bought back before or after the giant crash. If it was before the crash, that would mean the company would be kind of fucked over by their own buy back. If the majority of shares were bought after the crash, that would be an odd choice but I guess if they mysteriously make a recovery it would be a win.
…and here comes the 40s
the world wars were basically two halves of the same conflict, the only real difference between the two was the whole Russian Revolution that brought a third communist faction into the mix,
and dont kid yourselves, The Soviet Union was a co-belligerent of the Allies, not a part of them. you aren’t allied with someone when you’re formally at war with them until the mid1920s, watch them kick off a war by partnering with nazi germany, and then have a little ceasefire for 4-5 years between 1941 and 45 when nazi germany betrayed them. and go back to pointing guns at them
Russia sees itself as “other” to the rest of Europe, for those who dont read history, you need only visit a news site to see how that is still the case today
My dad is a child of the 40’s. He’s the quietest, most thoughtful and loving man. Bring on the 40’s.
Nice people are born all the time but fucked up shit don’t happend every decade. The worst of the second war happened after 1940
Ugh, we learned nothing.
Capitalism leads to imperialism and fascist. Fascists are the useful idiots of empire. A collective suicide in a exponential function. It will end the human race and most life on earth…
Don’t forget the eldritch horror.
Any day now, Elon will announce that the real reason they need
GreenlandUltima Thule is so he can perform a ritual to awaken Azathoth and end the simulation.At least we believe in science and modern medicine
" The statement of the Soviet scientist’s is very interesting. Does he know what this alternative energy source will be? No, he simply has faith. Science will find a way. I hear revolutionary Marxists saying that the destruction of the environment, pollution, and radiation will be controlled. And I see them act on their words. Do they know how these things will be controlled? No, they simply have faith. Science will find a way. Industrialization is fine and necessary. How do they know this? Faith. Science will find a way. Faith of this sort has always been known in Europe as religion. Science has become the new European religion for both capitalists and Marxists; they are truly inseparable; they are part and parcel of the same culture. So, in both theory and practice, Marxism demands that non-European peoples give up their values, their traditions, their cultural experience altogether. We will all be industrialized science addicts in a Marxist society.
I do not believe that capitalism itself is really responsible for the situation in which American Indians have been declared a national sacrifice. No, it is the European tradition; European culture itself is responsible. Marxism is just the latest continuation of this tradition, not a solution to it. To ally with Marxism is to ally with the very same forces that declare us an acceptable cost.
There is another way. There is the traditional Lakota way and the ways of the other American Indian peoples. It is the way that knows that humans do not have the right to degrade Mother Earth, that there are forces beyond anything the European mind has conceived, that humans must be in harmony with all relations or the relations will eventually eliminate the disharmony. A lopsided emphasis on humans by humans — the European’s arrogance of acting as though they were beyond the nature of all related things — can only result in a total disharmony and a readjustment which cuts arrogant humans down to size, gives them a taste of that reality beyond their grasp or control and restores the harmony. There is no need for a revolutionary theory to bring this about; it’s beyond human control. The nature peoples of this planet know this and so they do not theorize about it. Theory is an abstract; our knowledge is real.
Distilled to it’s basic terms, European faith — including the new faith in science — equals a belief that man is God. Europe has always sought a Messiah, whether that be the man Jesus Christ or the man Karl Marx or the man Albert Einstein. American Indians know this to be truly absurd. Humans are the weakest of all creatures, so weak that other creatures are willing to give up their flesh that we may live. Humans are able to survive only though the exercise of rationality since they lack the abilities of other creatures to gain food through the use of fang and claw."
- Russel Means of the Lakota People (Full speech here)
“Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.”
Chief Dan George
This is the kind of knowledge and wisdom I grew up with as a traditional Ojibway-Cree in northern Ontario. A common saying or idea that many of our Elders always reminded us is that ‘life is short, so terribly short’ and the thought that ‘what you gain and the wealth you own in this life means nothing because you can’t take it with you when you die’
Now that Trump is sinking us on education and science, China will have or maybe already has the superior military, tech wise. They will be able to pop over and take resources. They’ve surveilled, remember the balloons? Not high tech per se, but if you consider the means as a camouflage on immediate threat and a +10 to hide in plain sight it makes more sense.
Remember. China stopped selling chips to our defense contractors right after Trump, this time around. Why?
Many of the things Trump is doing that are making headlines right now are helping tank the military. I know, we want shrinkage on what we dole out to defense contractors. That’s not this. What Trump is doing is lowering the quality by reducing tech and the education to pull from to run, develop, and innovate that tech. China never stopped working on those things.
Consider the world game here. Climate change is here and that makes the new long game a resource consolidation to try to be last country standing as things crumble. Resource consolidation IS why Trump is going on about Greenland and Canada.
And they stopped selling us rare earth minerals. We won’t even be able to build anything more complex than a toaster
https://www.reuters.com/world/china-hits-back-us-tariffs-with-rare-earth-export-controls-2025-04-04/
Edit: source
Time to crank up Nano-C research, like transistors, resistors, semiconductors made from graphene, carbon nanotubes.
I woke up the other day and thought, “What if Putin launched a nuclear war on the US? And the current administration knew beforehand but did nothing other than leave the country in advance of the bombs making impact?”
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