Violent chaos in the US. One of three things will happen:

• The Supreme Court sides with the states that want to remove Trump from the ballot. Trump’s minions cry foul and lose their minds.
• Trump gets on the ballot but he loses to Biden again. Trump’s minions cry foul and lose their minds.
• Trump gets on the ballot and wins. Trump and the GOP take that as a mandate to govern with impunity, and run roughshod over the country.

No matter what happens in November, I expect this US presidential election cycle to be a shit show.

I’m gonna find my g spot, because there’s only so many places I can look.

A completely new type of cheese

China invades Taiwan and the US helps defend them.

1. China’s president Xi Jingping’s remarks about taking Taiwan back over during his address to the nation this year.

2. I work with someone who is currently high ranking in a corporation and is a retired submariner who was also in intelligence and is currently in the reserves. He has mandatory federally protected training upcoming this year over this exact scenario (basically, not all of their training is federally protected, meaning an employer can’t retaliate over taking time off to do mandatory training). The military is obviously convinced it’s a real possibility.

I think combat drones will go full autonomous this year, as a means of overcoming control signal jamming.

It will be limited-mission autonomy, and only as a capability not the default operational mode, but there will be a huge push to make the newest drones capable of continue the mission in the event of lost connection with their remote controller.

It will also be necessary because of the sheer numbers of drones involved in the Ukraine war. There simply won’t be enough pilots.

Obviously, autonomy already exists. Iron Dome operates autonomously, because attackers have the initiative, the robot is required for fast-enough response.

If recent history is any indication (it’s not, but it’s fun to think about), the craziness won’t even start for a few weeks/months:

March 2014: MH370 disappeared.
March 2015: Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 is intentionally crashed in the Alps.
April 2016: The Panama Papers are leaked/published.
February 2017: The Oscars’ presenters forget how to read.
February 2018: Parkland, Florida school shooting.
March 2019: The Boeing 737 Max is effectively banned from flights after a string of crashes.
March 2020: Covid doesn’t start, but finally comes to a breaking point and restrictions are implemented across the US.
March 2021: The container ship Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal.
February 2022: Russia invades Ukraine.
February 2023: US Air Force shot down a Chinese spy balloon.

To be honest every year seems to start with “crazy shit”. We just notice it because “omg this year is so crazy already”

Fist fights on national television in American congress.

Hopefully a massive gamma-ray burst aimed directly at Earth.

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