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Subject: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: NightmareFarm on 02/27/22 at 8:40 pm

Try to stick to more universal stuff rather than personal life.

- No WW3

-  Autotune dying out

- Rock/Metal music being popular for a good chunk of the decade

- A huge backlash against the 2010s. I want pretty much everything that the 2010s represented to die off and replaced by different trends and stuff.

- Big leaps in technology but not dystopian like the metaverse and "the internet of things". Stuff like bullet trains, holograms, self driving cars, AI pets, etc

- Photorealistic graphics to become the norm in video games

- Memes becoming much less ingrained into pop/youth culture or outright dying

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 02/27/22 at 8:46 pm


Try to stick to more universal stuff rather than personal life.

- No WW3

-  Autotune dying out

- Rock/Metal music being popular for a good chunk of the decade

- A huge backlash against the 2010s. I want pretty much everything that the 2010s represented to die off and replaced by different trends and stuff.

- Big leaps in technology but not dystopian like the metaverse and "the internet of things". Stuff like bullet trains, holograms, self driving cars, AI pets, etc

- Photorealistic graphics to become the norm in video games


These are noble hopes. Except I would disagree with including holograms. In fact would put them in the negative category with the metaverse. They kind of dovetail with that. AI pets are OK I suppose, if one is into that sort of thing.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: NightmareFarm on 02/27/22 at 8:52 pm


These are noble hopes. Except I would disagree with including holograms. In fact would put them in the negative category with the metaverse. They kind of dovetail with that. AI pets are OK I suppose, if one is into that sort of thing.


Why is it dystopian?

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 02/27/22 at 8:56 pm


Why is it dystopian?


I didn't say it was dystopian. Holograms aren't all that different from the metaverse. They're both fake reality. Who needs it?

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: NightmareFarm on 02/27/22 at 9:00 pm


I didn't say it was dystopian. Holograms aren't all that different from the metaverse. They're both fake reality. Who needs it?


Doesn't have to be fake holograms. It could be real life holograms recorded from real life like video cameras.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: xX07-GhostXx on 02/27/22 at 9:19 pm

- Great reduction of infant mortality worldwide.

- There is an improvement of software archiving technology. As well as disillusionment with the thought of the internet being a place of permanence.

- Less homelessness.

- Higher employment rates. Living wages become better/more common.

- Elimination of difference of living standards between different neighborhoods in the united states (but I think this is optimistic to the extreme at this point).

- Less prejudice towards Emo culture, even if we don't end up being as common as we once were.

- Elimination of neighborhood watch regulations of a lawn's grass height. I don't think it's right you're supposed to risk ripping insects to shreds with a mower just to not be evicted.

- Memes dying. I also hope there's a massive increase in the production of art.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: NightmareFarm on 02/27/22 at 9:44 pm


- Great reduction of infant mortality worldwide.

- There is an improvement of software archiving technology. As well as disillusionment with the thought of the internet being a place of permanence.

- Less homelessness.

- Higher employment rates. Living wages become better/more common.

- Elimination of difference of living standards between different neighborhoods in the united states (but I think this is optimistic to the extreme at this point).

- Less prejudice towards Emo culture, even if we don't end up being as common as we once were.

- Elimination of neighborhood watch regulations of a lawn's grass height. I don't think it's right you're supposed to risk ripping insects to shreds with a mower just to not be evicted.

- Memes dying. I also hope there's a massive increase in the production of art.


I 100% agree on that last point. In fact if you don't mind i'll add that to my list. Thanks.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Howard on 02/28/22 at 3:20 am

- stopping the violence in the streets, on the trains and buses.
-making the roads safer.
-eventually cashiers won't be needed since a lot of supermarkets have self-serve.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: xX07-GhostXx on 02/28/22 at 7:32 am


I 100% agree on that last point. In fact if you don't mind i'll add that to my list. Thanks.


You're welcome. To be clear, I don't want all (or any) memes erased. But I do want it to be where no new ones are being made.

I also want this climate crisis to be quickly addressed.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: xX07-GhostXx on 02/28/22 at 7:38 am


- stopping the violence in the streets, on the trains and buses.
-making the roads safer.
-eventually cashiers won't be needed since a lot of supermarkets have self-serve.


I agree about the roads, but not cashiering. I believe it's one of those jobs that could ease unemployment if we didn't rely on automation so much.

Back when I was a cashier, I already had trouble finding the words to express myself out loud, but management gave me common things to say, so even that didn't hinder me on the job.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/22 at 7:45 am

Cyclists to stop riding on the pavements, and people to stop walking while looking at their phones and banging into other pedestrians. Plus e-Scooters on pavements!

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Contigo on 02/28/22 at 11:10 am

Hoping that everyone on earth has enough food to eat, a decent place to live, access to affordable  health care and peace between all nations. We're all in this together (the human race on earth), let's help each other out with what we can.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Howard on 02/28/22 at 2:40 pm


I agree about the roads, but not cashiering. I believe it's one of those jobs that could ease unemployment if we didn't rely on automation so much.

Back when I was a cashier, I already had trouble finding the words to express myself out loud, but management gave me common things to say, so even that didn't hinder me on the job.



What do you think about stopping the violence cause it seems to happen every day now.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Howard on 02/28/22 at 2:41 pm


Cyclists to stop riding on the pavements, and people to stop walking while looking at their phones and banging into other pedestrians. Plus e-Scooters on pavements!


I agree with that statement.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: xX07-GhostXx on 02/28/22 at 3:12 pm



What do you think about stopping the violence cause it seems to happen every day now.


I agree with it.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Howard on 03/01/22 at 3:29 am


I agree with it.


Violence, I mean by getting shot for no apparent reason, the homeless abusing innocent people on the street, the knives, guns and other weapons.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: xX07-GhostXx on 03/01/22 at 4:06 pm


Violence, I mean by getting shot for no apparent reason, the homeless abusing innocent people on the street, the knives, guns and other weapons.


I meant I agree with stopping the violence.

But in my ideal society, gun ownership would be compulsory for non-prisoners.

Edit: and more specifically, for the non-blind and non-intellectually disabled, since I don't want the blind or intellectually disabled accidentally shooting themselves.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Howard on 03/02/22 at 3:34 am


I meant I agree with stopping the violence.

But in my ideal society, gun ownership would be compulsory for non-prisoners.

Edit: and more specifically, for the non-blind and non-intellectually disabled, since I don't want the blind or intellectually disabled accidentally shooting themselves.


I've seen these incidents before in the paper where some guy threw human feces on another woman and a woman got hit across the head by a bat from a homeless man. ::)

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: LyricBoy on 03/04/22 at 4:45 am


I've seen these incidents before in the paper where some guy threw human feces on another woman


That’s just rude.  8-P

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Howard on 03/04/22 at 4:11 pm


That’s just rude.  8-P


I know it is, it's quite disgusting!  8-P

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Wink-182 on 03/04/22 at 6:16 pm

Personally, just prosperity, love, and generally to grow as a person and maybe to mature more and get more of a chance to see the world around me. On a world point of view, I'd totally say peace. I'm hoping this decade is one that starts out all frantic and crazy but only to slowly get more peaceful as the decade rolls on, but only time will tell for that one.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: xX07-GhostXx on 03/11/22 at 4:18 pm

I really wish people would stop using the word "meme" for viral videos, types of videos, or other internet culture besides impact font pictures and crossed out subtitle pictures. I am extremely tired of hearing the word "meme".

In addition, obviously, I wish crossed out subtitle memes (never thought something would make me nostalgic for impact font pics) and impact font pics would become extremely less popular than they are currently.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 03/11/22 at 4:52 pm

I wish people would stop saying "guys" all the time. It is beyond all pervasive. "Guys, do you like my hat", "guys, what do you think of...", Marie Osmond's TV diet commercial "guys, have I got a diet for you..." etc, etc. It is absolutely unnecessary and awful. It is to this era what "you know" was to the 80s. "She, you know, came over my, you know, house and you know, stole my boyfriend". A small but vocal group of people object to "guys" because it is not gender inclusive. That doesn't particularly bother me but I am happy to attach my cart to that wagon if it will eliminate the scourge of "guys".

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: xX07-GhostXx on 03/11/22 at 9:29 pm

I want it to be feasible to buy a house (or have one built) as well, but for newly-built ones, that'd only be if no local environments are disturbed in the process.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Howard on 03/12/22 at 7:04 am

Escalated sidewalks like you see in The Jetsons.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/22 at 9:20 am


Escalated sidewalks like you see in The Jetsons.
Escalating sidewalks already exist, I have been on several, especially at Heathrow Airport.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Howard on 03/14/22 at 2:43 pm


Escalating sidewalks already exist, I have been on several, especially at Heathrow Airport.

How are they?

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/22 at 4:14 am


How are they?
Makes it easier to travel at a faster pace, if walking on them.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: LyricBoy on 03/15/22 at 5:11 am


Escalated sidewalks like you see in The Jetsons.


And flying cars.

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/22 at 5:23 am


And flying cars.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need... roads!

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Howard on 03/15/22 at 2:35 pm


And flying cars.

If we're going to have flying cars then what will happen to the roads? ???

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/22 at 2:51 pm


If we're going to have flying cars then what will happen to the roads? ???
Roads? Where we're going we don't need... roads!

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: miserybusiness on 03/27/22 at 11:47 pm

a pop punk comeback

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: NightmareFarm on 03/28/22 at 1:33 am


a pop punk comeback


Looks like that's already starting to happen

Subject: Re: What is your hopes for this decade?

Written By: Howard on 03/28/22 at 3:26 am

To finally get guns off the street, there needs to be something cause this is getting way out of control.

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