My predictions for 2024
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Labour will win a majority, with around 330 seats — a bit less than Boris Johnson’s 2019 barnstorm. They will be weighed down by a strong performance from the Lib Dems.
A dog could have predicted Labour would win — i’m not inclined to give myself this.
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They will also markedly improve their seat count in Scotland, to the SNP’s detriment.
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I have no prediction for the outcome of the U.S.’ presidential election. Literally anything could happen — that thing’s shape in the weft of history is that of a chaos butterfly.
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One of the Messrs Trump and Biden may die, this year or next year. It seems like the sort of thing that might happen to throw a wrench into things.
Wrong… but only by a few centimetres.
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Israel wins the war in Gaza, at a steep cost to human life. The people thereof will be no better off than before, whatever comes after.
The bolded part? Not yet. The rest of it? Alas…
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Narendra Modi remains in power in India.
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A coup will overtake another Ecowas country.
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An Anglosphere country will ban TikTok (where “Anglosphere” here means one of the U.S., the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or Ireland).
Squeaking in under the buzzer, the U.S. is set to ban TikTok from January 19th to presumably the very next day.
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Stable Diffusion will win its lawsuit or settle out of court…
These things always take longer than my hurried arse expects.
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…But OpenAI will lose its.
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There will be another Nintendo “gigaleak”.
Yep, this time from Game Freak.
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The vibes are off; pop music in 2024 will be the least relevant it’s been in a long while. The average person on the street will struggle to name more than one or two songs that will have come out this year. (Gosh, that last sentence was a tense car crash, wasn’t it?)
Too subjective to really judge. People seem to like this Chappel Roan fellow.
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Marvel will implode in spectacular fashion, with some big internal shakeup or another.
Time to see what happens this year...
Also, any predictions relating to disney (mainly animated) movies? (considering how many movies of theirs have failed these years)
@171 I think Deadpool 3 will do well, and the new Planet of the Apes / Lion King sequels might be fluke hits, but everything else— woof.