Cognitive dissonance is s real phenomenon.

I like to think I’m right, and really don’t want to be proven wrong. Changing my mind about anything hurts my ego, so that’s why I don’t want to hear about anything that violates my thoughts, beliefs and biases.

See also: Eschatology

According to some religions, the whole world will come to an end sooner or later. Actually, even physics/cosmology says so.

This looks like a dream target for hackers. Imagine all the data you could find here. If there ever was a single point of failure, this is it.

Mobile phones and earbuds solve that problem for the most part.

Maybe you could make a game where you fight some stupid stick figure, but make the mod support of the game so smooth and effortless that all players actually replace Mr. Stick with whoever you want. Basically, when you click play, the game immediately asks which mods you want to load. Anyway, the game devs could also use an anonymous modder account and release an “unofficial mod” that adds Trump and Elon in the game. Is that plausible enough?

It could be a cage fight.

Or let’s say there’s a political/economic disaster caused by the greed and stupidity of…

What disaster? Things have always been like this and our king is a great man. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, or you’ll find yourself in the gulag in no time.

Not just terrifying. This is straight up nightmare fuel.

If such a technology existed, the government and shady companies would do all sorts of awful things with it.

Eventually, there’s going to be a February when they don’t send a bill at all.

Humans are so invasive that they have gone to places that can’t even support human life for prolonged periods of time. Deep sea trenches, tall mountains, polar ice caps etc. Even the Moon isn’t safe from humans, and now they are also planning to invade Mars. Once they’ve spread all over every planet, moon and asteroid in the solar system, they’ll probably try to land on the Sun.

Try explaining the LGBT++++++ rights movement.