What's something that's viewed as socially acceptable today that you think will become unacceptable 20 years from now?

https://lemmy.world/post/1747588

What's something that's viewed as socially acceptable today that you think will become unacceptable 20 years from now? - Lemmy.world

  • Selling high strength magnets without regulation
  • Petroleum cars

In 100 years?

  • Eating meat
  • Natural gas stoves
  • Oil/Natural gas furnaces
  • Anonymous online communities
  • Not wearing a sort of body-camera in most professions

In 1000 years?

  • Religion, mysticism, paranormal beliefs
  • An inversion of religious moralism, I think things that are thought of as evil will have to become the norm, genetic modification, cloning, etc.
  • Eating food in general

Why does religion get another 1000 years, but meat is gone in 100? 😩

Also: what’s that about magnets? Why would we outlaw/regulate high powered magnets?

Magnets are very weird. Up until now, we don’t really know what causes magnetism or how it works. We just know some rocks have it and others don’t. Also, magents aren’t super massively available in nature.

I’d hazzard a guess that guy refers to magnets the same way we SHOULD treat helium. It’s a precious rare non renewable resource and we squander it like it’s nothing.

…we can literally just make super powerful magnets. What the hell are you talking about?
Also magnets don’t fly out to space by themselves (at least not yet) 😁
No you can’t. At least not what they are talking about. Rare Earth Megnets have Rare in the name for a reason.

Mate, you’re talking out your ass. Neodynium is a rare metal, yes. But we’re not going through neodymium deposits fishing out magnets like they’re some sort of gemstone.

That shit gets mined, melted, alloyed with other minerals, smelted into shape then run through magnetic field generators to induce a magnetic charge in them, as just a very rough overall view of the process.

The biggest issue is that making them is INCREDIBLY material inefficient. Making one really good quality magnet requires an absolute fucking shit ton of processing, all of which reduces yield and increases waste product generation every step of the way.