Possibly US specific: Artificial Red/Yellow/Blue dyes in food. I hope…
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
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.
Gasoline-only cars, most likely
20 years though? That’s incredibly generous and unlikely imo.
People are refusing to tackle the infrastructure issue of people charging their cars who do not own single family detached homes. It’s a significant population of people for which owning an electric vehicle is a huge inconvenience. Public charging stations exist, but take significantly longer than the 2 minutes it takes to pump gas.
The second big thing is that people simply don’t replace their cars that often. Might be pulling this out of my ass, but I had read recently that the average person replaces their vehicle every 7-12 years…and it is often not with a brand new vehicle. Considering how electric cars still make a very small percentage of those on the road, I can’t see 100% removal of gas vehicles in 20 years in only a few generations of vehicle ownership change.
The Nissan Leaf came out around 15 years ago as the first big name, somewhat popularish electric vehicle. Yet in 2025 electric vehicles are nowhere close to even 50% of vehicles on the road.
In the more distant future? Sure. 20 years ain’t happening tho.
But we’ll see!
Unless something drastic happens, there will be a decent number of cars on the road in 20 years that are already on the road today.
Not in 20 year mate.
Oil has a massive problem, it is just too fucking good at what it does, energy density of a battery is far, far below petrol, and require complex infrastructure at the point of sale, while petrol can even be dispensed without electricity.
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
Allowing Israel to get away with shit.
Lol, were you alive 20 years ago? same shit
Probably wrapping and cooking our food in volatile plastics.
Hopefully.
Putting hot food on polystyrene plates
Wiping our asses with PAPER.
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
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.
It’s like trying to wipe peanut butter out of a shag carpet.
Does your asshole touch a lot of surfaces?
Mine mostly just touch my underwear…
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.
I think the main takeaway here is that you recognize washing is the appropriate thing to do, but are OK with a temporary wipe until your next shower. People are saying with a bidet you don’t have to wait, you use wash each time.
I agree it’s gone off the rails and I’m partly to blame. I just don’t understand peoples reluctance to use bidets.
frankly once you go water you simply cannot go back
Teflon
Using plastic to contain food. I’m always a little turned off when a takeout place uses plastic containers as opposed to the paper or foil ones. Plus it’s terrible to animals, especially marine life such as dolphins.
Single-use plastic, yeah. Things like Tupperware will stick around unless we go back to using asphalt for food preservation.
I think we’re going to see single use wax-paper or similar displace the plastic and Styrofoam for your delivery order.
People probably wouldn’t believe we sold water in plastic water bottles or shopped with disposable plastic bags.
I think it might take a lot longer than 20 years for plastic to fully die down
Where I live, plastic bags and styrofoam are already rare now. Now we just have to wait for people to realize water is free.
You should go on street view and check out Asia, whenever I visited Thailand and see a backroad, there is a huge number of used plastic bottles lying next to the road.
They still get drinking water from bottles.
Weather that is the case in large cities like Bangkok I don’t know as I haven been there enough to learn.
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
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
hmmm… over here cows and sheep are fed on banana leaves and some tree I cannot name. I don’t know about you but either of these don’t float my boat too well
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.
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.
The state of the air we breathe indoors.
And outdoors now too
Social media, at least in the current form.
That’s true. They already evolved and most of us didn’t even realize. News feeds were added and gradually evolved to use information they know about is to push our buttons and affect our behavior and beliefs.
They still needed content, but with generative AI that’s no longer necessary, this is why social media companies are so invested in it.
Social media is no longer social it became a platform to manipulate people. It is much worse than traditional ways of propaganda, because each person gets their customized feed tuned to issues that are more likely to influence them.
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I’m hoping the answer is money.
It won’t be, but I can hope.
Do you mean physical money in terms of paper/plastic/coins or money as a concept? If the latter, how would society function?
The latter.
And, star trek.
We could probably have or be close to a post scarcity society today if people weren’t so fucking greedy.
Greed was a useful trait when it was down to survival of the fittest before we developed agriculture.
After that, the usefulness of greed became less relevant over time, and I would argue that at this point, it’s counter productive.
Just saying.
