China’s economic boom
Fwiw, this title would apply to any point in time in human history. We just have the internet now to exchange information about it with higher bandwidth and lower latency than ever. Just think about the cost of exchanging information with random individuals around the world even 30 years ago.
100 years ago you just said “Yeah, I’m sure all that’s happening. So what? The world is big, I just stick to my little corner.” Today we have an interconnected population of people who now recognize these things not only as problems, but as things that could/should be resolved.
millions of people in the third world are growing out of poverty thanks to the advance of technology.
Can you be a bit more specific? Which technologies defeat poverty where?
everything. There isn’t one particular technology driving this. My hometown of İstanbul has been transformed. Modern buildings are replacing horrible slums, there are new subway lines opening every year and almost everything is improving over time.
Turkey is fact actually building infrastructure like china.
People in the US hard time understanding thatnthe world moving forward while we are wasting our lives at the airports and hihhway traffic without proper national infrastructure plan to fix any of this shit.
And before any of you bootlickers start yupping about biden state aid for parasites… Let’s be real it is too late, too small, mainly focuses on corrupt highway construction, not enough maintenance, airlines bailouts and only then few bucks for rail to pacify “educated” crowd.
There is no plan, another generation of public investment looted. Hope y’all love that traffic and being treated like cattle at the airport.
Cheers!
This is the most depressing thread I’ve read for some time.
It’s horrific to read some of the posts twisting bad news and making out as though it’s good news. It’s like the posters are watching children in a sandpit playing, ignoring the monster flood thats about to wash them away but taking joy in their play. Wtf?
Professor Boyd is right https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
And after reading this thread, i am even more sure Rees is
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/opinion/science-civilization-collapse-environment-limits
Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”
You seem to have misunderstood the assignment
Fusion reactors are roughly 10 years away.
Fusion reactors are to modernity what communism was to “actually existing socialism”.
As allways
COVID research made generic sequencing for viruses and bacteria incredibly cheap. You can run a PCR test for most things now for $10 (USD) or less. This opens a whole world of highly specific diagnostics and cheap, hyper-personalized treatments.
Also, MRNA vaccines are being tested for several other diseases and it seems very promising.
Negativity bias is real! I was reminding myself just today that for every act of hatred, there are ten thousand acts of love or kindness happening unreported all over the world. In homes, on the streets at the store…
Don’t let the news get you down. Things aren’t as bad as all that.
This site usually has some good stories worth checking out.
Decentralized networks seem to be getting stronger. The number of options you have is crazy. I’m hoping for the day that decentralized networks overcome centralized ones. It’ll probably still be a while (years at least, probably), but given time, I bet it’ll happen.
I also had an idea for a wifi network where a router talks to other routers in range to setup networks independent of the internet. The idea being that, if widely enough adopted, you could potentially cut out ISPs except in situations where the signal needs to travel long distances (like rural areas). The router would have an antenna for long-range communication, and then a second antenna to actually talk to devices in a smaller range. Kinda like meshtastic, but significantly faster (with the trade-off being distance and penetration).
I also had an idea for a wifi network where a router talks to other routers in range to setup networks independent of the internet. The idea being that, if widely enough adopted, you could potentially cut out ISPs except in situations where the signal needs to travel long distances (like rural areas). The router would have an antenna for long-range communication, and then a second antenna to actually talk to devices in a smaller range. Kinda like meshtastic, but significantly faster (with the trade-off being distance and penetration).
There are open source projects in the works for just such a thing, I forget the details at the moment but I heard about them from the Meshtastic Discord funny enough.
Look up the IEEE 802.11ah standard (or Wi-Fi HaLow) for example, it’s a standard that can achieve pretty good WiFi data rates for quite a distance (enough that a neighborhood mesh would work well), whilst running on low power, sub-GHz hardware (like the Meshtastic hardware).
https://www.quectel.com/blog/what-is-wi-fi-halow-iot/
There are mesh internet projects using this, I just don’t remember their names right now haha.
Sadly while it uses more or less the same frequency band as LoRa in the USA (around 900MHz), I’m not sure how useable it is here in Europe given the band licensing restrictions. I’d like to think they’ve thought of that! But I dunno? I’ve seen HaLow hardware that only used the US band, but maybe other companies price EU equivalent hardware.
Wouldnt that meshed network be just a sort of torrent-like network?
How would that anarchistic type of network even work without some authoritive entity deciding the public IP? Auto configured IP based on a MAC? Maybe a MACv8 (because we already use a hex based adress. Maybe increase the MAC adress to allow for longer adresses?)
Regarding decentralized internet, your idea is being enacted! I posted a couple short docs about that over on [email protected]
Here’s the first one, I’ll go hunt down the second.
Edit: found it!
Such a network exists here in Germany, called Freifunk.
They provide firmware for routers. I have a node at home, but no other nodes in range right now.
Phantasy Star Online 2 (the original) was successfully archived by Team Clementine and they are waiting to release their own private server. They also have their Phantasy Star Universe servers running smoothly. I love Phantasy Star.
Back when I was using reddit, I found Uplifting News to be a helpful source of positive information. Some of it can be reminders of our boring dystopia, like students helping another by starting a laundry program at the school, but it’s something. Here is the lemmy version.
I’m a masochist, do you have a c/downliftingnews?
Yes, it’s [email protected]
Kids are so much nicer than when I was in school. Not perfect, obviously, but really just so much nicer to each other.
I’ve noticed this with my kids’ schools. Many kids are open about who they are - LGBT+, neurodivergent, mental illnesses, etc. - and people are generally accepting of that. When I was a kid, people were bullied relentlessly for showing any form of difference from “normal”. It makes me happy to hear them talk about things like that like its no big deal…because it shouldn’t be.
My niece attends school in a town with a population of less than 5k and even there she learned all about various different forms of sexuality and romantic interest just through conversations on the bus and was not only accepted but able to explore herself
Medical advancements. It’s one of two topics that consistently delivers exciting news. The other is historical research and discovery.
The USA is collapsing
Great, but the fictitious financial system is based on the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. If you want to see the US collapsing, then I guess it’s true that
Some men just want to watch the world burn
The world is already burning and the USA are the flames
If the USA started to collapse, this would be terrible for the democratic system.
“Democratic” system where your politicians are in bed with foreign lobbyists, and the same system that wages war on innocent people from other parts of the world and topples their government. What a beautiful system.
Is this sarcasm?
I don’t want it to collapse. Just stop being an arsehole.
Thats what everyone hoped for. For a long time. Wont happen
Violence has been going down for centuries. We’re hearing about it more, but it’s declining. It peaked around 1993, and it’s been trending downward ever since.
If you zoom out and look at super long term trends, it’s been declining for centuries.
Russian invasion is largest scale conflict since korean war.
Israel is conducting a genocide in Palestine.
WW3 is on the menu…
Turn the news off and look at the data. It’s important to end these conflicts, but in terms of scale, these are far smaller than the past.
Ukraine was literally largest scale military conflict since Korean war. What are you talking about.
Look at the sentence you wrote. Since the Korean War. And the Korean War was the biggest since the one before that.
We are going on thrid year of the Russian savagery with no end in sight with brutal trench war fare with casualties to show for it.
We don’t know geopolitical consequences of this and US disregard for “rules based international order” vis-a-vis israeli savagery but I trust you bro, we are living through the good times.
that sure doesn’t look like it’s been going down for centuries. What about per capita?
Here’s Western Europe. I highly recommend reading The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. It goes into this in depth.
