Making predictions is a tough enterprise, and right here at Future Good, we don’t fake to have a crystal ball. However we do assume there’s actual epistemic worth in placing our forecasts on the market and — simply as importantly — proudly owning as much as how they turned out. (One thing that occurs too hardly ever within the media, as we realized after November’s election.) Wanting again at our predictions for 2024, we had a wild trip making an attempt to anticipate a yr that threw quite a lot of curveballs our manner.
For 2024, we made 24 predictions in complete, protecting every little thing from who would win the White Home as to if Elon Musk may truly get these Cybertrucks on the highway. When the mud settled, we obtained 14 proper and 10 improper — batting .583. That’s Shohei Ohtani on a scorching streak, although down considerably from our 2023 outcomes. However I did say it was a topsy-turvy yr.
Some calls have been proper on the cash, although. We appropriately noticed Trump’s comeback and the GOP taking again the Senate. We nailed it after we stated Oppenheimer would seize Finest Image (I imply, who didn’t love watching Cillian Murphy brood for 3 hours?). And we have been spot-on about some huge worldwide information, like Claudia Sheinbaum making historical past as Mexico’s first lady president and Modi protecting his grip on energy in India.
However hey, no person’s excellent. We thought the FDA would greenlight MDMA remedy for PTSD — that was a swing and a miss. We significantly underestimated what number of Cybertrucks Tesla would crank out. And whereas we obtained some tech predictions proper ( you, Waymo and SpaceX), we whiffed on predicting OpenAI’s strikes.
The entire level isn’t simply to maintain rating — it’s about getting higher at this prediction factor via apply and studying from our errors. And in a world that appears to get extra unpredictable by the day, we expect that’s a fairly helpful ability to develop. —Bryan Walsh
Donald Trump will return to the White Home (55 p.c) — RIGHT
I prefer to think about that at the very least one extremely sheltered particular person is studying this truth from this text: Donald Trump was elected to a second nonconsecutive time period as president. There wasn’t a lot braveness or confidence on this prediction, which I put at solely 55 p.c odds.
My primary strategy was to attempt to use a political science mannequin incorporating nationwide polling, and I got here up with a prediction of a slim Trump victory. President Joe Biden was pretty unpopular, and Trump was narrowly main him in polling. I wasn’t assured that benefit would persist — however it did.
I’ll say that if I had up to date my prediction all year long, it will have modified loads. I keep in mind in June, earlier than the disastrous Biden-Trump debate, telling pals I gave Trump a 75 p.c likelihood to win; after the controversy, I bumped it as much as round 90 p.c. When Vice President Kamala Harris changed Biden and surged in polling in comparison with her predecessor, I reverted to one thing like 50-50 odds. The precise race and its contours have been altering dramatically, and my sense of the race modified dramatically too. Virtually by coincidence, the final word election wound up being the slim contest that polling would’ve predicted on the finish of 2023. —Dylan Matthews
Republicans will recapture the Senate (85 p.c) — RIGHT
I believe my previous self defined the reasoning right here nicely: “There are numerous, some ways for Republicans to retake the Senate. The whole lot has to go proper concurrently for Democrats to maintain it.” The whole lot didn’t go proper concurrently for Democrats this election. They’d already misplaced a seat endlessly when Joe Manchin determined to retire in West Virginia, a spot the place no different Democrat-caucusing candidate may ever win, which left them with a 50-seat most in 2024.
Then they misplaced Sherrod Brown in Ohio and Jon Tester in Montana, purple states that have been going to be powerful for Democrats to hold on to in a presidential election yr. Then, in one thing of a shock, Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey was defeated by a personal fairness multimillionaire who doesn’t actually stay within the state and can’t inform the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers aside. When that man wins, you realize Democrats are having a nasty yr.
On the plus aspect, it may’ve been a lot, a lot worse for Democrats. Regardless of Harris dropping Arizona, Democrat Ruben Gallego received the Senate race there narrowly. Tammy Baldwin barely held on in Wisconsin, and Elissa Slotkin received an open seat in Michigan by 0.3 share factors, at the same time as these two states went for Trump. If the Senate outcomes had adopted the presidential map, Republicans would have a 56-seat majority and no bother confirming anybody Trump needs in his Cupboard. As an alternative, they ended up with 53 seats, which is likely to be simply sufficiently small to trigger Trump precise bother. —DM
Democrats will recapture the Home (55 p.c) — WRONG
My reasoning right here was that Republicans held a really small majority within the Home going into the election, and Democrats appeared prone to choose up plenty of seats in New York specifically attributable to redistricting. Certain sufficient, the celebration picked up three seats in New York, however misplaced others to choose up just one seat on internet — not sufficient to flip the chamber.
In my protection, I used to be clear this would possibly occur, writing, “There’s nonetheless an easy-to-imagine world the place Republicans maintain the Home, particularly if Trump wins the presidential race and if he pulls out a preferred vote victory this time.” Because it occurs, that’s the world we stay in. However with 220 Republicans within the Home and 218 wanted to move something, there won’t be a lot that Trump can do with this majority. —DM
Inflation will are available beneath 3 factors (65 p.c) — RIGHT
I’ve not all the time had the most effective observe report in the case of inflation predictions, however this one labored out. It was clear in 2023 that inflation had began to say no quickly within the wake of the Fed’s rate of interest hikes, and that decline continued via 2024, sufficient in order that the Fed was capable of begin reducing once more.
By the Fed’s most popular measure — the private consumption expenditures worth index, minus meals and vitality — costs grew by 2.8 p.c from October 2023 via October 2024. That’s an annual fee beneath 3 factors, although not by an entire lot. The Fed’s purpose is to get the quantity all the way down to 2 p.c. I discover it exhausting to see costs stabilizing that a lot, particularly if tariffs from the Trump administration trigger shopper costs to spike in a one-off occasion. However we’re clearly doing higher than a couple of years in the past. —DM
2023 US automotive crash deaths will once more exceed 40,000 (60 p.c) — RIGHT
I prefer to make this prediction primarily to attract our readers’ consideration to the scandalous variety of People killed by our transportation system. In 2023, based on statistics launched this yr by the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration, that quantity dropped by about 3.6 p.c from 2022, to a still-abysmal 40,990, a determine that is still considerably elevated after a Covid-era spike erased greater than a decade of progress in lowering automotive crash deaths.
What number of is that, precisely? It’s about as many People as are killed by weapons and greater than double the quantity killed in homicides general, although it’s far fewer than the numbers of People who die from illnesses like coronary heart illness and most cancers. It’s twice the variety of individuals killed by automobiles within the European Union, although the EU has 100 million extra individuals. And the federal automotive fatality statistics are literally round 10 p.c decrease than the true variety of People killed by automobiles as a result of they exclude some circumstances, together with crashes on personal roads and parking heaps.
If as we speak’s charges remained regular, a tough estimate would recommend that about 1 p.c of all People could be killed by automobiles — a stunningly excessive value of admission into our car-dependent society. —Marina Bolotnikova
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Netanyahu will likely be unseated as Israeli prime minister (75 p.c) — WRONG
I nearly all the time predict that Netanyahu will keep in energy, however I made an exception when writing final yr’s predictions as a result of the Israeli public was so extremely livid at him after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault on Israel. Polls have been exhibiting that voters needed him out — by a large margin. I figured if ever there was a time when he may very well be pushed out, this was it.
However even this wasn’t sufficient. Israel has a parliamentary system, the place governments usually type on the idea of coalitions. Netanyahu is admittedly, actually good at pacifying his allies within the governing coalition — they usually have stored him in energy. —Sigal Samuel
The world will likely be hotter in 2024 than it was in 2023 (80 p.c) — RIGHT
Local weather change may be very clearly making its results felt. This summer season was the hottest on report globally. By November, scientists stated this yr is “nearly sure” to interrupt 2023’s report. Additionally they famous that 2024 marks the primary yr that Earth is greater than 1.5 levels Celsius hotter than within the pre-industrial interval.
Sadly, this prediction was a fairly strong guess: You can also make it yearly and also you’ll get it proper about 80 p.c of the time. As my colleague Kelsey Piper has famous, “That is primarily based on trying on the final 25 years of atmospheric temperature knowledge: On common, in 4 out of 5 years, this prediction could be proper.” —SS
Narendra Modi will stay as prime minister of India after the nation’s 2024 elections (85 p.c) — RIGHT
Modi secured a 3rd straight time period as India’s prime minister after this spring’s huge elections, which noticed over 640 million voters end up. It’s an achievement equaled solely by India’s founding prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and one which was about as simple to foretell as any final result on this record-breaking yr of worldwide elections.
Modi rolled into the elections with an approval score within the mid-70s, or roughly twice as excessive as Biden’s recognition across the identical time. In a yr when incumbent leaders world wide fell in election after election, Modi and his BJP celebration have been a certain factor — a lot in order that my solely remorse was not selecting a chance of 99 p.c.
Even so, this election didn’t end up the best way many prognosticators anticipated, myself included. The BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance secured a majority in Parliament with 293 seats, however that was nicely in need of the 400 seats the alliance was capturing for. And the BJP itself solely received 240 seats, a big drop from the 303 seats it had received within the earlier election. In consequence, the celebration misplaced its solo majority within the decrease home of parliament for the primary time in 10 years.
As my colleague Josh Keating wrote, the outcomes have been dangerous for Modi however good for India as an entire, exhibiting that the world’s largest democracy stays a democracy. An amazing victory would have fed into Modi’s rising authoritarian inclinations, which have been on show this yr because the Indian authorities attacked critics at house and overseas — together with within the US. India was a uncommon instance in 2024 of the individuals efficiently pushing again towards a would-be autocrat. —BW
Claudia Sheinbaum will turn into Mexico’s first feminine president (90 p.c) — RIGHT
There was no braveness within the prediction that the massively widespread, however term-limited, left-wing President Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador (AMLO) could be succeeded by his protégée, Claudia Sheinbaum, a previous mayor of Mexico Metropolis and local weather scientist. The polling, even that early on, confirmed Sheinbaum with an enormous lead over challenger Xóchitl Gálvez, a sign of each Sheinbaum’s expertise and the recognition of AMLO and his Morena celebration.
Sheinbaum’s election was historic: She isn’t solely the primary lady elected president of Mexico, however the first Jewish particular person and (to the most effective of my data) the primary scientist. Local weather advocates shouldn’t be too sanguine, although. Regardless of her skilled background, Sheinbaum has no real interest in shrinking the favored state-owned petroleum sector. —DM
Ukraine won’t break the “land bridge” between Donbas and Crimea (70 p.c) — RIGHT
After the chaos of 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and 2023, when Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group of mercenaries mutinied and practically took Moscow, 2024 was a much less momentous yr within the battle. There have been main shifts, to make sure: Ukraine seized a part of the Kursk area in Russia, giving it Russian land it’d be capable to commerce for Ukrainian territory now beneath Russian occupation, and North Korea despatched troops to the entrance line, signaling each that Russia has severe allies within the battle and that it’s determined sufficient to name upon them.
However there have been no main battlefield breakthroughs, and one of many largest targets of the Ukrainian navy (splitting Russian troops on the Crimean peninsula from troops within the Donbas, the east of Ukraine) didn’t come to move. Right here is the map of navy management I utilized in final yr’s predictions:
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That is what the map seems like as we speak:
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When you look rigorously, you may see some modest variations between the maps. However general, they’re practically similar. The strains of management haven’t moved a lot up to now yr, and with Trump ascending to workplace and seemingly hostile to extending assist to the Ukrainian navy, the longer term is trying reasonably grim for Ukrainians defending their sovereignty. —DM
The FDA will approve MDMA-assisted remedy for PTSD (85 p.c) — WRONG
I don’t really feel too bummed about having erred in my prediction right here as a result of the FDA’s rejection got here as a shock to nearly everybody concerned. Once I made this prediction a yr in the past, sufferers, therapists, and policymakers alike have been anticipating that Lykos Therapeutics, the corporate making an attempt to get MDMA-assisted remedy authorized, would achieve success. In any case, Lykos had collaborated with the FDA on the trial design, and the latter had signed off on the methodology.
However in March, a report raised recent considerations in regards to the trial design and unreported adversarial occasions. In Might and June, extra researchers and advocates began to sound the alarm — not simply in regards to the psychedelic a part of psychedelic-assisted remedy however in regards to the remedy half. Some went as far as to accuse Lykos of being a “remedy cult,” one with a method that might improve threat to sufferers. In the end, the FDA responded to this new info by deciding to not approve Lykos’s software. —SS
OpenAI will launch ChatGPT-5 by the tip of November 2024 (75 p.c) — WRONG
Did OpenAI launch an entire lot of stuff in 2024? It certain did — a lot in order that the corporate determined to rebrand 12 days throughout the vacation season this December as “Shipmas,” releasing every little thing from ChatGPT Professional (a $200/month plan that features limitless entry to its prime mannequin OpenAI o1) to its video creation mannequin Sora to one thing referred to as “Santa mode.”
The blizzard of product transport — one matched by opponents like Google and Meta — is an indication of what my colleague Kelsey Piper recognized as a shift in AI, away from a single-minded deal with advancing technical progress and towards creating merchandise that individuals will truly be capable to use (and much more importantly, given how costly frontier AI work is, truly purchase). It got here as considerations have been rising over whether or not AI was hitting a scaling wall and AI corporations have been hitting “peak knowledge.”
However as I wrote final yr, “for the needs of this prediction, OpenAI might want to launch a product referred to as ‘ChatGPT-5’ — no ‘ChatGPT-4.5 Turbo’ or no matter.” Whether or not as a result of it was operating out of information or as a result of it didn’t need to lock itself into ever-escalating mannequin variations, OpenAI didn’t. I’ll take the L. —BW
Starship will full a launch with out both stage exploding (65 p.c) — RIGHT
2024 was a banner yr for SpaceX’s Starship, which noticed 4 check launches. The first in March is a tough case for my prediction: Whereas the launch itself was profitable, the booster stage burned up whereas hurtling again to the ocean and the ship itself seems to have disintegrated sooner or later. I predicted that neither stage would “explode,” and it’s exhausting to know if both did on this check. They actually didn’t function the best way SpaceX had hoped.
Fortunately for the corporate, and for my prediction, its three subsequent launches have been all smashing successes. In its June 6 launch, the booster and second stage splashed down, intact, within the Gulf of Mexico and Indian Ocean respectively. The November 19 launch, seen in particular person by SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s political ally Donald Trump, obtained the identical outcomes. However the one for the historical past books got here on October 13, when the booster stage returned to not the Gulf of Mexico however to the exact same launchpad in Texas from whence it got here, the place it was caught by two huge mechanical “chopsticks.”
No matter else you concentrate on Musk — and I believe lots of destructive issues — that was a reasonably awe-inspiring achievement, and simply met my prediction that the Starship challenge would notch main successes this yr. —DM
Fewer than 1,000 Cybertrucks will likely be delivered to prospects (60 p.c) — WRONG
I biffed this one fairly dangerous. For quarters one via three of 2024, Cybertruck gross sales totaled 28,250 within the US. Anecdotally, they appear to be in every single place in Washington, DC.
My rationale was that the extraordinarily uncommon design of the truck, full with a metallic reasonably than painted exterior and a very huge windshield, would show difficult to provide at scale. Furthermore, Tesla tends to function with excessive delays, which made me pessimistic that it will meet its timelines for the automobile.
In the end, although, it’s an organization with lots of expertise constructing EVs at scale, and the Cybertruck proved to be no exception. I did predict, nonetheless, that the practically 4-foot “monowiper” used on the windshield would break down instantly in inclement climate. Guess what? Tesla needed to launch a recall in June over precisely this. —DM
Waymo will increase to a brand new metropolis (80 p.c) — RIGHT
The trade chief on self-driving automobiles, a sister firm to Google, entered the yr working in San Francisco and Phoenix however had introduced plans to increase to Los Angeles and Austin. The latter metropolis has seen testing amongst Waymo’s personal workers however isn’t but obtainable to most of the people via both the Waymo One app or Uber (which has partnered with Waymo in Phoenix).
In Los Angeles, nonetheless, driverless taxi rides at the moment are extensively obtainable: In March, Waymo began letting Angelenos off its waitlist so they might hail rides, and as of November 12, anybody in LA County can use the service, with none waitlist. That matches my prediction that at the very least one metropolis would see driverless rides turn into extensively accessible the best way they already have been in SF and Phoenix. —DM
Antibiotics gross sales for farmed animals will improve at the very least 1 p.c in 2023 (65 p.c) — WRONG
Most antibiotics bought within the US don’t go to hospitals or pharmacies, however to farms. These antibiotics are used to make animals develop quicker and maintain them alive in overcrowded, unsanitary manufacturing facility farms, they usually’ve given rise to new antibiotic-resistant “superbugs.” When people fall sick from these superbugs, the everyday course of antibiotics might not do the trick to heal them.
Former Future Good fellow Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg referred to as the expansion in antibiotic resistance a “hidden epidemic.”
Monitoring the quantity of antibiotics bought to meat producers is an efficient proxy for understanding whether or not we’re backsliding or making progress on this epidemic, and final yr, I predicted antibiotic gross sales for livestock would have elevated by 1 p.c in 2023. As an alternative, they went down by 2 p.c. It is sensible that they declined as a result of beef manufacturing decreased by nearly 5 p.c, and cattle account for round 40 p.c of livestock antibiotic gross sales, whereas pork manufacturing remained secure. (I predicted 2023 gross sales as a result of knowledge is delayed by a few yr.)
I roughly knew this is able to occur, because the US Division of Agriculture predicted decreased beef manufacturing, they usually’re often proper about this stuff. Nonetheless, I ignored widespread sense and predicted livestock antibiotic gross sales would improve as a result of that they had been on the rise for the earlier 5 years. It’s a mistake to imagine that pattern strains will all the time proceed, and a lesson I’ll incorporate into future predictions. —Kenny Torrella
Oatly’s inventory worth won’t exceed $5 in 2023 (60 p.c) — RIGHT
Sadly, I used to be proper on this one. Oatly’s inventory has remained beneath $1.40 all yr, hitting a low of simply 61 cents in mid-November (it peaked at practically $29 per share in the summertime of 2021). It’s been an extended fall from grace for the corporate that single-handedly made oat milk cool, shifting it from the fringes of the dairy aisle to seemingly each espresso store menu in America.
As I wrote about final yr, the corporate has been beset by manufacturing issues and an onslaught of imitators. And it simply hit one other roadblock: In early December, a UK decide determined that Oatly can’t use the phrase “milk” on its merchandise after a UK dairy commerce group sued the corporate over the matter. It’s a part of a bigger pattern of the livestock trade’s effort to limit how plant-based corporations can market their merchandise.
In brighter information, the corporate lately reported its third-quarter income was up about 10 p.c in comparison with 2023, with development in the principle areas through which it operates. Regardless of a flagging inventory worth, Oatly is down however not out. —KT
45 p.c of the US egg provide will likely be cage-free by late November (70 p.c) — WRONG
The US egg trade remains to be headed towards a cage-free future, however in 2024, it moved slower in that route than I believed it will. As an alternative of amounting to 45 p.c of the egg provide, cage-free reached 40.3 p.c, only a 1.5 p.c improve from late 2023.
I used to be assured it will attain 45 p.c for 3 causes: Since 2019, the share of egg-laying hens raised cage-free had been rising by about 5 p.c yearly, a number of states had cage-free legal guidelines — banning the sale and manufacturing of caged eggs — going into impact in 2024, and lots of massive meals corporations had dedicated to a one hundred pc cage-free egg provide by 2025.
Why was I so off? I possible discounted the impression the chook flu has had on the US egg trade; this yr, the virus has resulted within the mass killing of 44.1 million hens as of mid-December — greater than double that of 2023. I used to be additionally overconfident on company progress; in accordance to the animal safety group the Humane League, many massive meals corporations are behind on fulfilling their cage-free pledges. Lastly, I most likely overestimated the impression of the 2024 state legal guidelines in Nevada, Oregon, and Washington; every have small egg industries and comparatively small populations.
We would see the tempo of progress speed up in 2025: The states implementing cage-free legal guidelines subsequent yr — Michigan and Colorado — have a barely larger mixed inhabitants than the three states from final yr and, extra importantly, they’ve a lot larger egg industries. In the meantime, the nation’s largest egg producer, Cal-Maine, can have plenty of new cage-free farms logging on in summer season 2025. However the ongoing chook flu outbreak — mixed with the unpredictability of company pledges — may shift the trajectory. —KT
Greater than 20 million poultry birds will likely be culled attributable to chook flu (60 p.c) — RIGHT
I hate that that is true, however I used to be proper on this one two occasions over. Greater than 40 million chickens and turkeys have been killed within the poultry trade’s H5N1 chook flu outbreak. And that’s simply this yr — for the reason that outbreak started in early 2022, over 120 million have been culled.
Most of these aren’t killed by the avian flu itself; reasonably, any time there’s a single detection of the illness at a poultry facility, the entire birds are exterminated, usually with ugly strategies, like actually overheating them to dying with industrial heaters. Three years into this unending nightmare, each the manufacturing facility farm trade and animal advocates are confronted with the truth that the chook flu could also be right here to remain.
And one disturbing improvement we couldn’t have predicted final yr: H5N1 is now pervasive in one other farm animal species, dairy cows, throughout the nation. Subsequent yr, I believe this illness will maintain stunning us. —MB
Extra animal rights activists will likely be sentenced to jail or jail (40 p.c) — WRONG
My reasoning right here was primarily based on prison trials being extremely unpredictable — so whereas I believed it was extra possible that at the very least one animal rights activist could be incarcerated than some other single final result, I put the chance at lower than 50 p.c. The prediction was largely a product of recency bias: Barely a month earlier than we made our 2024 predictions, Wayne Hsiung, probably the most distinguished US animal rights activists and a co-founder of the group Direct Motion In all places (DxE), was convicted and sentenced to jail for his involvement in actions at two California manufacturing facility farms.
DxE activists have run many comparable actions over the past decade, using a technique they name “open rescue,” through which they enter manufacturing facility farms and different locations the place animals are exploited, take away a couple of animals and take them to stay at a sanctuary, and invite confrontation with the prison authorized system. The first few prison circumstances I coated involving the group resulted in both dismissals or miraculous acquittals. However Hsiung’s 2023 jail sentence made it really feel just like the invoice was coming due.
This yr, I suspected {that a} long-awaited DxE courtroom case, involving the rescue of three beagles from an organization that breeds them for animal testing, would finish in jail time as a result of I knew it will be tougher for the activists to make a authorized argument for acquittal than in farm animal circumstances. However certain sufficient, the case was dismissed shortly earlier than trial. Extra DxE trials are scheduled for subsequent yr, however now I do know higher than to attempt to predict the end result. —MB
Billie Eilish will win a Grammy for “What Was I Made For?” (90 p.c) — RIGHT
This was a giant yr for Billie! I didn’t predict her new album or in depth world tour, however it’s not rocket science to know that the academy loves her work. With a earlier win for the James Bond theme she did again in 2020, the Music of the Yr award was a shoo-in. This yr’s Future Good 50 honoree and celebrity is simply lacking a Tony and an Emmy for that candy, candy EGOT standing. —Izzie Ramirez
One of many Kardashian-Jenners will seem in a Schiaparelli gown for the Met Gala (60 p.c) — WRONG
I used to be improper on this one — it wound up being Jennifer Lopez who regarded stunning in Schiaparelli. Whichever Kardashian-Jenner determined to learn this and show me improper: famous. However actually it’s higher this manner. J. Lo was a co-chair for the occasion alongside trend darling Zendaya, so she wanted the additional zhuzh. —IR
Oppenheimer will win Finest Image on the 2024 Academy Awards (70 p.c) — RIGHT
What did I write final yr? “The Academy loves biopics, it loves interval items, and for some purpose, it weirdly loves trendy movies that characteristic black-and-white scenes.” To nobody’s shock, Oppenheimer ran away with the present on the 96th Academy Awards, profitable seven Oscars, together with Finest Actor for Cillian Murphy, Finest Director for Christopher Nolan, and sure, Finest Image. Scorching canine!
So, since explaining why one thing we knew would occur occurred is fairly boring, I’m going to as a substitute talk about an all-time-great Oppenheimer-related question posted on the subreddit r/NoStupidQuestions:
Nicely, Rafe_Cameron_OBX, is it bizarre that your boyfriend watches Oppenheimer for as a lot as 15 hours per week? I believe it is determined by a couple of issues. Does he obsessively watch and rewatch the bravura scene of the Trinity check? Has he began mumbling one thing about being “dying, destroyer of worlds” in his sleep? (Assuming he sleeps.) You say he all the time makes time for you, which is nice, however does he insist on reciting strains from the Bhagavad Gita when he’s, uh, making time?
Whereas I’m hesitant to intervene in one other particular person’s relationship, if the reply to any of those questions is “sure,” I strongly recommend you drop him instantly. I’m nervous that if he doesn’t get therapy he might progress to a extra superior stage of Christopher Nolanism and begin making you watch Interstellar three to 5 occasions per week. —BW
Shohei Ohtani will lead the foremost leagues in house runs within the 2024 season (75 p.c) — WRONG
You don’t need to be Invoice James to know that two-way baseball super-duper megastar Shohei Ohtani had a fairly good yr in 2024, his first with the Los Angeles Dodgers, although an elbow harm stored him from pitching. He hit .310, good for fifth within the majors. He recorded 130 RBIs (second within the majors) and had an OPS (on-base plus slugging share, the gold commonplace hitting stat) of 1.036, additionally good for second in baseball.
He grew to become the primary participant in main league historical past to hit greater than 50 homers and steal greater than 50 bases, turning into the one participant within the 50/50 membership. On September 19, he had what many individuals take into account the one greatest offensive recreation within the 121-year historical past of Main League Baseball, going 6-for-6 with three house runs, two doubles, 10 RBIs, and two stolen bases. Oh, and he went on to win a championship, too.
The one factor Ohtani didn’t do is the one factor I predicted he would do: lead the foremost leagues in house runs in 2024. Ohtani mashed 54 taters, which might have been adequate to at the very least tie for the majors lead in all however three of the previous 24 seasons. Sadly, very huge boy Aaron Decide of the New York Yankees took the crown this season with 58 house runs.
I’ll admit, my mistake right here was forgetting that as spectacular as Ohtani is throughout the board in baseball, the 6-foot-7, 282-pound Decide is admittedly, actually good at mashing dingers, at the very least within the common season. He flamed out in his championship sequence towards Ohtani’s Dodgers, going 4-for-18 with only one homer and three RBIs, enraging Yankees followers throughout the nation. So although my prediction failed, I’d say benefit: Ohtani. —BW
