Due to unforeseen circumstances my ability to spend an eighth year in a row skipping New Year's Eve revelries here in Melbourne were effectively thwarted, all but forcing me to head back to the dying co-working space I currently reside at, crack open the bottle of faux-champagne that's been sitting in the fridge for nearly a year, and in a slightly inebriated state put down some initial words for one of those "predictions for the upcoming year" posts (while 400,000 people whooped it up just outside my window).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ff2f.com/2024-the-year-we-find-out