Reading last year's thread and knowing that the coup attempt is roughly a week away is a little eerie. But also it's a goddamn relief to be reminded that at the very least, Trump is not the president at the moment.
Sam Alito will say "Let's go Brandon!" from the bench. (I copped that from someone on Twitter.)
I will lose my temper with some jackass on the subway flaunting his maskless, heavily breathing fat heads at me, and end up with a nickname bestowed by T/ck/er C/rls/n and thousands of angry Internet Tough Guys on Twitter.
Rivers will boil, the living will envy the dead.
Orioles are probably not going to make the World Series this year.
Predicting that nothing good will ever happen is probably insufficiently specific.
6: Well, I predict that something good will happen.
Neither good nor bad from my perspective, but I predict the Cleveland Browns will not make the playoffs.
8: If they just win both their remaining games and some other stuff happens, they're in! You heard it here first.
They probably won't win the Super Bowl, though.
They put the rock and roll hall of fame there because overall rock deserves no better.
If they're about to rock, I know of a guy who will salute them.
If they are about to roll, I can push them.
I'm terrible at predictions but,
1) I'm dreading the midterms. I expect them to go poorly for the Dems, and the Omicron wave means that there will be a lot of room for interpretation in the importance of Q1 numbers for covid cases, inflation, and unemployment and that suggests a campaign season with everyone talking past each other (even more so than normal).
2) I think there will be another round of Covid boosters in 2022.
3) I'm excited that we may be on the cusp of electric cars becoming mainstream in the US. I'm very curious about reactions to the Ford Lightning, and curious what companies introduce new electric models next year.
I'm terrible at predictions but,
1) I'm dreading the midterms. I expect them to go poorly for the Dems, and the Omicron wave means that there will be a lot of room for interpretation in the importance of Q1 numbers for covid cases, inflation, and unemployment and that suggests a campaign season with everyone talking past each other (even more so than normal).
2) I think there will be another round of Covid boosters in 2022.
3) I'm excited that we may be on the cusp of electric cars becoming mainstream in the US. I'm very curious about reactions to the Ford Lightning, and curious what companies introduce new electric models next year.
Uggh, sorry about the double post. Also, the Vox article looking back at their predictions for 2021 was good.
I think maybe we hold the Senate, because the map is decent.
I do not predict voting rights legislation getting enacted in 2022.
Will the Bobcats beat the Bison for the national championship next weekend? I'm sure the odds are long, and rightfully so. But getting past Sam Houston State in the quarterfinals was enough of a surprise that there's maybe a chance against NDSU.
I don't think there'll be another round of boosters because everyone will just get Omicron so will get their booster that way.
Honestly, I'm feeling a little off myself.
Following up on 15.3, it looks like the Kia Ev6 is getting very good reviews. I'll be curious to see how it sells.
Predict, predict
Worst Robert Frost reboot ever.
16. Annual Covid shots will become normalised like flu shots.
Predicted: EIIR will force herself to keep breathing until 2024, to beat Louis XIV 's record.
25: Hopefully they'll remain free on the NHS. My understanding with the flu shots was that many groups in England were not covered and had to pay out of pocket. That's not too much of a burden with flu, but Moderna and Pfizer are going to make their shots much more expensive.
I'm kind of nervous because Betty White lived through the Depression, WW2, the Cold War, and filming Lake Placid but she decided 2022 was too awful to see.
I was just made aware of covidvisitrisk.com, a nicely detailed visit risk calculator with support from the Canadian government, but accounting for various countries.
2022 fire season in California is going to be shit shit shit. I can't believe we'll get lucky twice. The news from Colorado is making me nervously revisit the decluttering thread.
For that matter, will this be the year that people finally internalize the truth about recycling? Is there any real point to my filling up the single-stream bin every week, or should I segregate items 1980s style and make a biweekly run to the recycling center myself? (Yes, my family did this when I was growing up, so I guess there's a tiny bit of nostalgia to motivate me.)
26 is correct . You get s flu jab free if you are over 50 or have various medical conditions. Otherwise you pay but it isn't much.
I predict shooting sprees are going increase hugely over the next year, along with multiple sieges of state capitols around the election.
29: Be 1980s-style purist about your single stream bin: clean metal cans, clean glass jars, clean cardboard boxes. Those are still worth money to your collector. Trash everything else with no qualms. Or with the same qualms you had before but with no fantasy that someone at the sorting center is digging the plastic cap out of your wax milk carton. It'll be trash either way, so don't do the fantasy-recycling first. (Probably not even 1s and 2s for plastic.)
If you aren't sure, call your solid waste division and ask them what products they can still get money for.
Thank you! My next question is (of course): don't all the glass vessels break when the recycling truck tosses them around?
We put our glass containers in bubble wrap before recycling them.
hey, you got your glass in my bubble wrap! hey, you got your bubble wrap in my glass!
Obviously, you put the Amazon warehouses at the recycling plant so the bubble wrap can recirculate.
The glass milk bottles can be returned.
I pay a deposit on my soda bottles. I might as well take those to the supermarket to get the money back.
38:. Not me. Just ten states have this. Has anyone proposed a national bottle return law?
39: I know it's not common, but I used to return them and now I put them in the recycling. I should gather them and take them to the store. The town I'm moving to is kind of ex urban with an old rural town core and a train. You can pay for trash pick up, but you can also just take stuff to the dump/transfer station. In my current apartment, bottles pile up too quickly so I put them in the communal bins outside. With a single family house and a garage and basement, I might get back into returning the cans and bottles.
I was at a farm stand/store that had milk in glass bottles. It was priced around the same as the other milk but you had to pay. $2.00 deposit. I think that's the real recycling.
38. The grocery store we go to has outdoor bottle/can return devices. Each category of returnable has a dedicated machine. I've seen a lot of them in MA. Liquor stores often have them as well. The main annoyance is that the devices only accept stuff the owner sells, which they figure out from the bar codes. The other annoyance is I keep forgetting to take them when I do a grocery run.
39. There have been efforts here to expand the coverage of the returnable bottle law, to cover more bottles, cans, and glass items, or to raise the deposit amount. Deposit is 5 cents. None of these efforts have gotten any traction in the legislature. (The MA Senate passes a lot of progressive legislation that is ignored by the non-progressive House.)
40. The glass milk bottles are actually pretty common, and they have a high deposit because milk bottles are expensive.
41.2 -- Is the orientation of the House really just about 5 or 6 specific people, or is there something else at play. I see that the ambassadorial appointment of the majority leader has been confirmed -- is this a positive development, or a negative development in terms of the House. Assuming positive, a shit ton of this sort of thing should be going on, so long as we continue to have a 50th vote in favor of Biden nominations.
43: That's how they sell it in Ontario - in bags, and you put the bag in a jug.
41: right, and they actually get reused that way.
This just in: Betty White is still dead
Shit. Then who is drinking all my gin.
46: I thought she was a Vodka fan.
She asked for that, but I only had gin and Everclear.
a new years gift to you all: https://twitter.com/ArielleDombasle/status/1477202244764200961?t=i78CbahoAcQz9OQfBlD0KQ&s=19
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I wish I'd predicted that Bolsonaro would be so full of shit that they'd take him to hospital for it; because that's what has happened.
Oatmeal with dried cranberries every day. Keep things moving.
Seattle has a dairy with weekly doorstep delivery and they don't use glass bottles even though re-collecting them would be built right in -- there's a FAQ somewhere, I think they say the weight and loss and breakages make it a very near run in CO2, and wildly more expensive for them as a business.
I finally went back and read last year's prediction thread and I see I was fairly spot on about the short term. In particular the ominousity of Trump forgoing the Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve Party. What I admit I did *not* see was the doubling down on the "stolen" narrative and in particular the willing participation in it of the vast majority of R politicians.
You were very spot on. It's an eerie thread.
On the subject of eerie predictions, we have been watching "Travelers" - fairly good Canadian SF series about time travellers from the future- and there is an extended plotline about a SARS-like pandemic that is creepily accurate given it was filmed in 2017. Masks, explanations of R0, shortages of PPE, lockdown, self isolation, superspreader events, A&E overwhelmed, the whole lot. There's even a very meta bit where one character says "the news says there's been looting. That doesn't make sense. You're feeling I'll so you decide to steal a TV?"
We were absolutely transfixed and joking about "did a Traveller script this?"