• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Challenges in 2034:

    • Survive infancy with no medical care except the LLM your assigned insurance conglomerate provides. (Which is only able to prescribe Ozempic and anxiolytics.
    • Hack the pre-installed digitized Elon Musk consciousness out of your mandatory XTesLink™ Not-An-Enslavement-Device™ brain implant without letting him find out beforehand lest he trigger the built-in “re-education” module.
    • Escape the coal mine without exceeding your quota of oxygen, triggering the alarm.
    • Don’t die of radiation poisoning. Or Sars-CoV-2029. Or high-velocity lead poisonin due to looking “ethnic” in the vicinity of a Paw Patrol™ robotic police unit.
    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You forgot the “Not get burned at the stake as a heretic for not having at least one child by the age of 16”!

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Housing: Hide in ceiling of a store (make sure its a corporate chain, not small bussiness)

    Food: Shoplift the store at night

    Job: You don’t need one

    Profit?

    (/jk but is it actually possible to hide in a store and not get noticed? 🤔)

  • Alice@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Y’all were buying houses in 2014?? I thought we were well and truly fucked by that point.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Throughout my life, things have always gotten worse.

      I’ve come to the conclusion that for any major investment, the time to invest was the early 2000s, and the second best time is right now, because it’s only going downhill from here.

      Unless it’s tech, because early tech is almost always shit compared to later versions of the same… To a limited degree. Eventually it all gets enshittified.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I mean I graduated high school in 2014 and it was absolutely challenging to find a job, buy a house, afford groceries, etc. So challenging, in fact, that I only managed one of those things. Like that’s why I developed anxiety, because my brain was (rightly!) occupied with the thought that I would never be able to get a job and be independent in the contemporary economy, which was completely correct.

    Things are worse now for sure but shit was bad back then too.

  • missandry351@lemmings.worldBanned from community
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    11 months ago

    Nah all those were already challenges back in 2014. I know because I was looking for a house back in 2014. Did I found it? Nah, still living on rent.