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Time is not just relative, it gives a whole new perspective of things that wasn't there. Think of it as an ultimate test to determine whether stuff is legit or not. And while some things remain unchanged, like the world still hailing Keanu Reeves, others turn sour, like an acidic vinegar you’d never, ever dare to call wine.

This phenomenon is known as poorly aged things, which means they not only didn’t get better over time, they got way worse to the point of passing cringe or meeting regrets. So in order to see some of the best of the worst real-life examples, we took a visit to the “Poorly Aged Things” Twitter account that does precisely what it says: “showcases poorly-aged things and blinx.”

With 719.9K followers and counting, it offers some of the most remarkable examples of feeling remorse over something you were honestly proud of before. How did this 180° change happen? I told you, it’s all time’s fault.

Part of the beauty (and the horror!) of the world we live in is that things are for the most part unforeseeable. I mean, nobody would have believed you if, back in 2018, you told us there was the greatest pandemic in modern history right around the corner that would forever change our lives as we were used to. But on 31 December 2019 (it’s hard to believe it was two years ago!) the coronavirus was first reported from Wuhan, China, from which it rapidly spread around the globe.

But what if we could have known it prior to the outbreak actually happening? Could we have changed the debilitating course of events that followed? The question may never have answers, but we can have a look at what it takes to make predictions about the future, and how accurate they actually are.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but a new disease apeared out of nowhere and destroyed world peace

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought so too but then I found this: https://archiecomics.com/did-a-classic-archie-comics-story-predict-virtual-schooling-in-2021-yes/

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got my bachelors entirely online. Graduated with honors. I honestly prefer it to classroom education but I have social anxiety and I prefer to be alone. I even don't like hanging out with my best friend a lot of the time.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was a part of sci-fi culture for decades, that kids would be "homeschooled" via computers. Just like rocket ships and flying cars. It all comes true sooner or later.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the short story "The Fun They Had." Did anyone else read that one?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the creators of these pictures and memes were psychics

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/archie-betty-comic-school-2021/

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read the entire thing. Iggy posted this: https://archiecomics.com/did-a-classic-archie-comics-story-predict-virtual-schooling-in-2021-yes/

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Jeff Diamond
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHERE'S MY FLYING CAR? This is choosing which promises to keep.

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Hugo A-niro
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe we are on the cusp of a new form of education we just haven't realized it yet

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Stan Chung
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

how long we've come. screens are thin and cameras are tiny.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL! i have a few books of archie comics that i got from goodwill one time, and this story is actually in one of them! i got them in 2020, and when i first read it i thought i was gonna die laughing!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That eye on the wall they also had a big brother deal going on, facetime/snapchat and zoom all come into this strip :) I love that it was a Betty storyline also ♥

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those old comics always had people dressed like trendy Soho children

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do in person school. I don't work well with online..I can't focus.

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Tanya Palik
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved the future Archie comics. My favourite was when they put this rod to their head for 20 minutes and it was like having 8 hours sleep.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait till you find out about Science Fiction, people have been predicting stuff for more than 100 years. And some of it actually came true! It's like magic!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't understand why it's a prediction if it was drawn in March of this year, as in just a couple months ago WHILE this was already hapening?

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If you've never heard of superforecasting, it’s the practice of prediction that covers everything from whether a currency will become stronger, one country will invade another, or there will be civil unrest in a city. Superforecasters calculate the probability of something happening and then adjust that as circumstances change. In this way, they’re able to come up with consistent predictions.

But it’s much more complex than that. According to Bloomberg, superforecasters did not accurately predict Brexit, putting the chances of a Leave vote at 23% in June 2016—the month of the referendum. Their predicted figure had been higher a few months previously but they had adjusted the likelihood downwards, reports the BBC.

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Being a superforecaster entails one quintessential personality trait, which is superior analytic ability. Philip Tetlock, the Leonore Annenberg University Professor in Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Pennsylvania, identified many people who could be turned into “superforecasters”—people whose analytic ability is considerably better than random people (or who, in financial analyst terms, “beat the market”).

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It doesn’t mean trusting your gut is all there is, since analysts have to do many other things besides just forecast, but it surely helps, Philip argues. Other personality traits for a superforecaster include being intelligent, playing games and solving puzzles, being able to pragmatically use other people’s ideas, and being open-minded to new data which shows up.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same things have been always said for disruptive innovations in history.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it'll topple over if there are no intervention. They heavily stabilized it starting from 90s

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Technically true - he didn’t say “not one s**t-smeared government building”.

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