20 years is a bit short but… Eating animals will be regarded as highly immoral, “but everyone knew those animals suffered, right?”, on the same level as we now judge slavery
This is farfetched. People love meat, and we have for our entire history. Even India only has around 30% vegetarian population. The demand for not just protein but specifically meat will never go away.
The only way I see us avoiding animal slaughter is by mastering bioengineering to the point where we can grow a perfectly marbled brisket in a lab without actually cloning the whole cow.
As is, one can only hope. Until a source of animal-like protein can be perfected and become cheap enough for sustained consumption by a lower class individual, some people (more than you realize) will not be able to get off animal proteins due to various medical conditions. I suppose accessible cures for these conditions would be a proper solution as well.
I’m not even going to touch on the luxury of choosing your next meal here, since that’s been addressed already.
I’m vegetarian, but I don’t see this happening
It’s sadly impossible until we guarantee food for everyone. It’s a luxury to choose where and what your next meal is.
This is so weird. Do people realize animals need to eat? Why don’t we eat that food directly? Eating animals makes for less food, not more. Like how 75% of soy is cattle feed, and then vegans get blamed for deforestation for soy beans. It’s ridiculous. Willful ignorance
Eh, only sorta. Plenty of animals can be fed on things we can’t eat. They tried raising rabbits in NK for example because they can survive off rocky ground that wouldn’t grow crops.
Third world problem though. First world countries could be vegetarian easily.
I’d say traditional (linear) television. Still common enough, though even today it’s clearly on the way out.
Cancelled my subscription this week, after a whole year of not watching it. (probably multiple, but I took last year to convince my wife)
Probably wrapping and cooking our food in volatile plastics.
Hopefully.
Putting hot food on polystyrene plates
I’m not a doctor.
But possibly there will be a better way to treat/cire cancer, and thus chemotherapy will be seen as similar to how we today see bloodletting or lobotomy.
I like this one the most. Chemo can be absolutely brutal.
Poison the cancer slightly faster than the whole organism! My dad cancer treatment gave him liver disease that eventually turned into a cancer that was way more deadly than his original cancer.
I wonder if more people will go back to flip phones. Some of my younger church friends are tired of smartphones and the amount of time and energy they suck out of your life and negative energy social media puts into it, and are switching back to flip phones. It’s surprising to see young people using them.
I believe you. History is full of movements and counter-movements. I don’t know if it’s going to be such a big movement though. Social media is literally addictive. Most people are not strong, mindful or willing enough to kick the habit
Wiping our asses with PAPER.
Chad
Nope, I can’t see this happening either, unless bides take over.
Toilet paper is actually rather effective, it is cheap, easily processed, effective enough at removing most of the crap, it does not require added water infrastructure (I would not clean my ass with grey water) and simple to teach new users
Added water infrastructure? My guy, the connection for the cistern is right there. The added infrastructure is literally a tee piece and the hose.
That is fair, though in places with unreliable water I doubt that using water to flush or a bidet would be the first priority.
This is just my experience, but that experience includes travelling through some remote areas in less developed countries. Water to wash is usually the first upgrade on the tech tree- It’s unlocked right after you dig a hole in the ground. Grinding xp to get plumbing will make life nicer, but to start with you just need to gather enough resources for a bucket.
If you happened to touch shit with literally any part of your body other than your asshole, would you be happy with just wiping it with a piece of dry paper, or would you immediately go wash it?
I have no more questions…
Btw, don’t even get me started if you have a hairy butt.
Does your asshole touch a lot of surfaces?
Mine mostly just touch my underwear…
frankly once you go water you simply cannot go back
So you’re OK with your asshole having some shit remaining on it because it only touches your underwear?
I feel for your SO.
Ok, this is fascinating.
This thread was about wiping with paper after going to the toilet, this was not a thread about general cleanliness.
I shower every day, this obviously includes wasing my asshole.
So now, I want an answer to this question.
What in this entire thread gave you the impression that I never wash my asshole?
I stand by what I wrote, wiping after using the toilet is fine, it obviously is a temporary solution until the next proper shower, but that is fine.
It’s like trying to wipe peanut butter out of a shag carpet.
Long live the three seashells
porn was freely available and could be purchased at stores in many parts of the US.
sex toys were widely available and could be purchased from the comfort of your own sex swing.
now we have Qualuviagra which not only increases the size of your penis* but also makes you forget all about your low-T*
*studies shown that penis size temporarily increases but long-term use will actually shrink it. prolonged use can induce Baby-Dick Syndrome (BDS). Abuse of the product is considered a class 1 felony and you will be registered as a sex offender unless you’re a registered Republican.
*low T is a myth falsified by global warming scientists in order to confuse and belittle Republicans with BDS. If you are taking Qualuviagra to treat low-T, reach out to your nearest MediRogan for details about having low-T.
What the hell, I misread the OP’s title and thought it was about stuff that was common 20 years ago which is no longer normal… I was very confused with everybody else’s answers lmao.
Sadly I can’t think of an answer for the thread, so downvote/upvote at your will 😂
It’s ok
In 20 years we will be shocked that we lived with all of the unnecessary fossil fuel usage while the world was slowly boiling. Oops, we fucked up the biosphere, guess we’ll just move to mars and eat fucking solar rays ffs.
The state of the air we breathe indoors.
And outdoors now too
Hopefully, single use plastics would be a ridiculous thing in the future, maybe they will look back at it like we look back at asbestos.
Here is a funny asbestos ad from the past
God, I wonder how many people got those and used them regularly who are now having issues because of them?
I’m pretty sure they put asbestos in basically anything back in the day.
Our ironing board had an asbestos pad at one end for sitting the iron on.
Probably not many. Asbestos is bad when it gets into the air. If it’s within an oven mitt, even if cut, how would it get into the air?
Teflon
With the advancement in technology, I’m sure in 20 years augmented reality will really kick off. I’m sure they will wonder why people used to play with controllers and not a VR headset… I might be watching too much SAO and I don’t even watch that anime.
Nah, I can’t see VR ever going so completely mainstream that it replaces a normal screen and controller.
It is just not convenient enough.
Greed is mainly what’s killing VR imo. It’s not that profitable to make a VR game compared to a normal game because everyone has a computer nowadays. Also motion sickness and cost of entry, those are factors too.
As someone who has grown up watching Card Catalogs lose to electronic search, Internet Directories lose to electronic search, photo albums lose to electronic search, Curated Network Televisions lose out to ellectronic search, large-scale advertising lose out to electronic search…
I don’t know. But whatever it is, 20 years from now, we’d say “Why didn’t you have a search engine that could do that for you?”
With (general) search engines being on decline for years that looks not all that probable. No popular search engine even searches what you asked it to search more of what you probably meant if you were as dumb as their ai thinks you are.
Card Catalogs were these index-cards we kept in a cabinet that helped people look for a book. And don’t say “word of mouth”, because card catalogs didn’t help with that. Card Catalogs helped you go from “Author or Subject” to “Book”, so you were literally trying to figure out a book you already “had an idea” about.
Tell me, how do you look for new books today? Do you use Amazon’s search engine? Google’s search engine?
Internet Directories were these lists of webpages that we used to organize. It was before webrings. The gist is that an internet directory is a list of cool websites on a certain subject, and we can keep those lists organized. Alas, no one used them after good search engines were made.
Curated TV Networks are losing out to Netflix, Youtube, and TikTok. All of which are search-engine based media consumption technologies. All hail the algorithm.
Now tell me where “search” is actually losing in our society. Maybe Google isn’t as dominant as it once was, but Netflix is still a damn search bar.
Maybe TikTok is finally something different: you don’t even search anymore. The algorithm assumes it knows what videos you like and shoves the next video into your face.
Right I think your last point will be the thing we look back on in wonderment. You mean you used to have to TELL the website what you wanted? How am I supposed to know??
Search engines are getting worse because they are moving towards selling you stuff instead of searching for stuff.
Amazon has become really bad.
Amazon is like that Stoner Uncle that says shit like, “just trust me bro, you need the DKAIRBGAUENBSHDBDJS 17-IN-ONE BACK MASSAGER TAX CALCULATOR LEFT SIDE ONLY LETTER OPENER CAT FOOD DISPENSER!”
And instead of providing said Uncle with powerful psychotropic medications and 24-7 supervision we made him into a multi-trillionaire.
I think it’s a bit more insidious. Yes the root of the issue is greed, but writing a good search engine has become much harder since the first iteration of Google. Now you have to deal with SEO-optimized marketing material generated by AI.
Building a “good” search engine today is like entering an arms race.
US health insurance industry… Either we get single payer or all of us will be in poverty.
Brother, US is never changing, you guys hate each other too much.
If there’s one thing Saint Luigi has taught us, that the Corpos hate, it’s that we can all agree we want them dead. At least a lot of people do.
They’re using our hatred to divide us, but our hatred can also unify us to demand actual change
Well, we’ve talked the votes and…sigh
