Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future

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Here’s a list of top news stories on 31st December 2019:

• Crowd storms US Embassy compound in Baghdad, gunshots heard, report says
• Texas man who stopped church shooting says he ‘had to take out’ gunman because ‘evil exists’
• West Virginia correctional cadets who gave Nazi salute in photo will all be fired
• Michelle Obama is ‘most admired woman’ in new poll
• Joe Biden says he would consider a Republican as his running mate
• 82nd Airborne Division preparing for deployment amid unrest in Baghdad
• Trump spent 1 of every 5 days in 2019 at a golf club
• This Wicked Sunrise Was Shot During a Solar Eclipse
• Greyhound offers free ticket home for runaway kids
• A 14-year-old boy disappeared on his way to school 10 days ago
• Alabama cops gloat over “quilt” made from cardboard signs confiscated from homeless people over Christmas

If you had predicted something significant for that (or any other) date, I’m sure you could pull something from the news headlines. Which is why non-specific predictions are unimpressive even if claims of prescience are made after the fact.

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Prediction is difficult, yes I agree, for many reasons, but it is not always impossible, very hard most of the time, but then sometimes, light as a breeze but crucially, if no on pays attention including those who predict, in a studious manner, then what is the point! We are all doomed! DOOMED!

I’ll leave it at that.

You can now view how your (possibly) forum first pre-emptive-counter-topic to a unwritten draft “topic” shapes up, pretty good actually! I am impressed.

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