OriVerda

OriVerda t1_jd82v9c wrote

Right so in Stark Trek they've reached a post-scarcity, utopian society where one of three things happen to future humanity.

  1. They hop on a starship and colonize a planet so they can do honest work as pioneers, working relatively primitively is fulfilling and enriches their lives.

  2. They hop on a starship and explore a vast universe, discovering things and making technological breakthroughs in travel, robotics, holographics, artificial intelligence. Invention for the betterment of all and invention for the sake of invention.

  3. They dedicate themselves to the arts. Poetry, painting, sculptures and so on. Again, to enrich their lives.

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OriVerda t1_j6ws5dh wrote

Completely unrelated to the severity of the topic but "floating cities" paired with the year 2040 triggered some of my favourite memories from an old Playstation 1 classic, Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere. TL;DR the game's set in 2040 and features an aptly named floating city called Megafloat.

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OriVerda t1_j40inqc wrote

I feel this. It seems like it ended a long time ago but in reality news and media will cover something heavily in the first few days-months until something new comes along. I'm fairly certain ISIS is still up to no good and the Syrian civil war is also still ongoing but it's all about the Ukranian conflict now, a conflict which I think more or less started back in 2014.

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OriVerda t1_j17y06w wrote

After months of planning and campaigning I get to enact my revenge for the humiliation my ancestral homeland suffered at the hands of the US invasion decades ago. With glee, I watched as the deadly neurotoxin was loaded onto the missile which would disperse the vile substance in the atmosphere. Millions would die, a just revenge at long last.

Except that isn't what happened, it turns out one of my goons forgot to put the vial in the cooler to keep it from mutating. By the time it was released, the toxin had evolved and began to repair the hole in the ozone, undoing years of global warming.
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Not much of a writer, just wanted an excuse to write "deadly neurotoxin".

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OriVerda t1_iy1e2qu wrote

>lipped at me. I have been trying to get a job as well but have not found one yet. He yelled at me asking me why I am doing nothing, not being busy trying to find a job and just laying on the couch watching tv. He got so mad he started getting abusive. This was not the first time something like this happened as well. Around a week ago I broke up with him and now I practically have nothing. I can't go live with my family because they did not agree on the relationship and do not want to have contact with me. I have tried to get a

^ What this guy wrote, take it literally. Actually walk into places of business, locate the nearest employee and ask if you could speak to their supervisor. There's a chance they'll direct you to apply online but you might surprise a potential employer with your initiative.

On the flip side, they may think you're rude for waltzing in stores and asking to talk to people but when you're job hunting you got to take that chance.

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