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What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?
  • I thought that actors on TV shows and movies were acting in real time, and that they had a special ability to do the exact same thing over and over again.

    As I grew in the Spanish speaking world, I also believed that Hollywood actors spoke Spanish, and that their voices changed dramatically only by switching languages.

  • Where do you realistically expect the world to be in terms of meeting the 2050 climate goals?
  • No way!

    We'll continue to warm the planet with CO2 emissions until we reach a point where summers actually kill people in the thousands, probably millions each year. As poor people (whose number is increasing) move out of now uninhabitable places, we'll see a collapse of the economic system. Many big companies will probably not find a way to sustain themselves and will disappear.

    Brace yourself for ever increasing cost of life, poverty, worse overall health, lower life expectancy, lower fertility rates and population, and maybe some water wars and food wars for some decades.

    Humanity might eventually recover from such collapse over a couple of centuries. I think of it as the Bronze Age Collapse, but worse by magnitudes.

  • Instead of "X", how about we all call it "the website formerly known as Twitter" from now on?
  • Y'know, they changed the name of an avenue nearby my childhood house from a single word name to the name of an obscure politician. This happened 30 years ago. People in the city still refer to it as it's old name so much that they might not even know the current name.