Okay, so my airing of grievances post had some issues.
So, lets swap it up:
What events are you looking forward to in 2026?
If I’m lucky my SRS
Is that sex reassignment surgery? I had to search and figure others might not know either
It is.
Hell yeah, that’s exciting! I hope you’re lucky :)
I hope you understand me when I say :3
In 2025 China installed over 500GW of solar power. That is an insane amount it’s over 1.3 gigawatts a day or a large power plant per day. Sodium batteries have gone into production and gonna be sold at like 50$/kwh. These price points and scales are where it’s cheaper to build 2 times your power needed in solar and have like a week of battery backup so you can power everything off solar and wind. Right now it’s 60/40 fossil fuels/low carbon sources for electricity production, 2026 will be the year it flips to 49/51 in actuality, it might take a year or two before analysts actually realize it has happened.
Oh, I’m not sure how I missed this:
I had been really looking forward to the World Cup
Finally switching to Linux!
US: hopefully trump’s death of old age
World: hoping for a fusion achievement
As much as I hope for both, I think only one of the two have a reasonable probability of happening.
Getting my backup situation under control so I can be less stressed…finishing my basement studio and maybe starting on my gaming room finishing. Id love to have more people over for playing some old console games and ps1/2 (which are a new console btw).
The state of the world I choose to ignore
Not really an event, but I installed a small trial solar setup (800W with 1 kWh battery) this past autumn that I am quite pleased with (despite the utter lack of sun since November).
In the spring, I’m planning to expand that to something like a ~7 KW solar array, 10 KW inverter/charger, and hopefully around 16 kWh of battery.
Screw you, AEP and my rate nearly doubling year over year
US midterm elections: November 3, 2026. The most-likely outcome is that the Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives, though they won’t actually take office until January 3, 2027.
Most likely outcome is a rigged election
What elections? Get out of your high horse
I don’t “look forward” to it per se, but I honestly am very curious what happens with Google’s “Sideloading Ban”
I wonder if there’d be any bypasses.
Or if someone would make a usable Linux Phone by then.
Like I really want an all in one device that you can unlock and relock bootloader at any time and the bootloader is lockable to a custom user password that locks out any evil-maid attacks by anyone other than the device owner. I want such a device that can work both as a phone and as a computer.
It looks like there is an eclipse for anyone in Spain, Greenland and Iceland:
Spring. Because it’s fucking cold here atm.
I’m ready for 1,000 downvotes. I’m fucking pumped for the white house ufc fight card.
Oh shit, this is a real UFC event:
And then a Gathering of the Juggalos in the new ballroom
Yes indeed
This is kind of what I’d hoped for this question originally. I don’t enjoy Trump and was looking to ask something that would lead to comments about a bunch of obscure things some groups were looking forward to, ideally not too political. It was going to be a moderation nightmare though and my other “what are the bad things about Trump in 2025” got me educated on why rule 6 exists
I hate Trump and everything about him. On the other hand, mma is the only sport I’ve ever cared about or watched. Seeing it grow and change over the last 20 years has been so cool. It feels like seeing it on a national stage like this will be MASSIVE for the sport and its growth. Thats especially true considering the new streaming system it’ll be under. As a side note, its always surreal when im watching an event and then Trump, kid rock and Mario Lopez walk out together mid event.
If those events attract those kind of people… maybe take a hard look at yourself?
Thats a ridiculous statement, but nice try lmao. Bad people are still people and tend to enjoy good things…
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It might not launch in the year but after it does launch we should see some new exoplanets and we might get some new information about dark energy. Since it’s scanning the sky we might see some interesting transient events
I’m always looking forward to new telescopes! With the way this disgusting excuse of an administration is going though I’m always afraid for the future of all remaining telescopes…
Gotta free up that budget to cut more billionaires taxes and throw more money at the military ya know?
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Pokemon turns 30 this year, so I’m hoping for some cool anniversary stuff (maybe gen 10??? 👀)
