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.
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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.
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.
I look forward for the day in which "millions give up on" Daily Mail.
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”).
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.
Indeed, but remember this is from these strange 4 years when the USA were the absolute greatest country of the world in quite every topic.
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The US was very well prepared. The Obama administration left an entire playbook with steps on how to respond, and there were early warning systems set up across Asia. The T***p administration cancelled it all. Plus Jared Effing Kushner was put in charge of supply chain administration and literally had interns with Gmail accounts trying to contact firms in China to source PPE. All of them should be investigated and, depending on the evidence gathered, charged with manslaughter or negligent homicide.
All of this right here. There were plans. There were smart people who, if followed, we could have less than half the deaths we have today. Our leaders didn't follow the preparation.
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I totally agree! USA is still more prepared than many in theory! The execution has to do with the leader though
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apparently, the type of leader is more important than how rich their countries are
An when you put it like that, it really does make sense. Having a plan and following through on the plan are two different things. You have to be willing to make the unpopular decisions for long-term benefit - allow the economy to take a major hit in favor of avoiding an even bigger hit later on. And you've got to be willing to make reasonable but maybe not ideal decisions fast rather than discuss the perfect solution for ages. If you can't do those things you're screwed, no matter how "prepared" you are.
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Rational people did this. And rational people couldn't imagine a pandemic would become a political OPINION.
Yea, we (The Netherlands) did terrible, because our prime minister and his "crew" are a bunch of degenerates and waited months to do anything at all and close to a year before they took proper measures. God how I hate that guy. Hated him with a passion for many years and now he's proven me right (again). He's a douchenozzle, doesn't know jack s**t and doesn't care about anyone but himself
As a fellow Dutchy i fully agree with you Zaza, Rutte and de Jonge totally f*cked it up!
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Not even Nostradamus could have predicted him.... Or did he?
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Might have been true, if the moron known as trump had not dismantled the pandemic team, or if we had a real leader
New Zealand is orange but didn't they do very well?
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Dunno the premier of WA did a decent job (except the hotel thing) and I think NT and TAS did ok but imo some states did worse, like that VICi spike and Scomo is just bumbling to me.
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As a Dutch person i can say, We were NOT prepared!! Our prime minister Rutte and his right hand De Jonge made a total mess of it, They did so many things wrong its appalling,
Didn't the Netherlands have a news broadcast where it said that if you had the vaccine you couldn't transmit the virus? That was dumb.
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To be fair, the US was extremely well prepared for the pandemic. It was just that no one expected their president to deny there was a pandemic.
The US may have been prepared when Obama put the epidemic team together but then Trump disbanded them after taking office... sooooo
they were. they just didnt follow through with a douchebag as a president.
It all depends on how incompetent the leaders of said country are. I'm guessing leaders who hate science wasn't a factor in this assessment.
Yeah. Just look who was leading the US and is currently leading Brazil and India... -_-
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Apparently Greenland had no importance at that time, because Trump hadn't offered to buy it yet.
Now that we know the character of an epidemic and how it spreads, seeing yellow S. Korea right under red N. Korea and next to orange Japan and China..... It feels like the one kid who does most of the work in a team project. (Btw, no politics intended here, just a joke on the aesthetics of the given image)
It's not just the leader, it's how the general populace views common sense and respects its enforcement. Culture plays a big part.
If their leader had told them to wear masks and wait it out in their apocalypse bunkers, Trumpers would have a totally different culture.
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I think we were fairly well prepared until our president systematically revoked just about all of our precautions because they were someone else's idea.
Of course they put us first, the USA is delusional on so many levels!
I have met zero people who actually believed Sweden was perpared for anything. Because most people here knew that "being prepared ", according to authorities, was somebody saying "someone should perhaps look into it" in a meeting. That's it. Litterarly.
yes as the united statesians we are incredibly prepared and will do so very well in the occurrence of a pandemic, how well-thought out our plans are, yes /s
And just today, here in Brazil, our trumpy prez is threatening sending the military to the streets to... *checks notes* Stop states' lockdowns? After mimicking people with respiratory issues on a livestream? And accusing China of chemical Warfare? Sigh.
Just compare Britain and New Zealand: both islands....and the winner is....
Reminds me AAA financial rating of Iceland just before its economic crisis
This. In the Netherlands they checked their protocols, and decided they were fine, but they failed to see inside the processes and register they couldn't actually pull off what the protocols said. Bureaucracy ftw.
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Guess it depends on where you live in the US. Things just never got that bad here.
The US WAS prepared under Obama -- we just never counted on having an ignorant, incompetent megalomaniac in the Oval Office when it happened.
Back then we were the most prepared... And then everything got shot to hell.
I love that although all over North American is coloured yellow, Canada is completely ignored in the best/worst listing. I don't know whether to feel insulted or glad.
Canada should say least prepared. Our stores of ppe, gloves etc was decimated, we had companies prepared to produce a vaccine in Canada but our Government ignored them and tried, unsuccessfully to obtain vaccines from,LOL,China. PLUS, most of Canada is still in lockdown!!! OUR LEADERS FAILED.
In 2014 the Public health authorities in the UK wrote a long report on how the government should act to counter a pandemic- what measures needed to be in place, stockpiling ppe, etc etc. The Government IGNORED it. It's still available on the government website here. Just search online for "2014 Pandemic Influenza Response Plan". Just imagine what might have happened if the government at the time wasn't so obsessed with making cuts to public spending and actually adopted some of its key findings. Maybe the UK could have avoided those 127,000 deaths- the highest in Europe and one of the highest in the whole world.
We may well have actually been well prepared, but we had idiots in charge.
Nobody thought it would be a political issue. Countries where politics is banned (China) were able to fare better than expected.
2019? I guess these people forgot how Trump shut down the Pandemic Research Team the year before.
Personally, I think Australia has handled the pandemic quite well. But, I know that that's not the focus of this joke.
Self sucking at it's highest. Then again who would have thought a someone like DT would get elected. So many dummies there.
US was prepared. Then a big orange clown came and messed it all up
Vietnam being in the Orange color while the total cases of infected is 3135 and 35 deaths. Seems legit
Well, the US was prepared until "he who must not be named" fired the expert the US had in China and refused to follow the plan that was left for him.
Ah, no. Even by 2019, *someone* had eradicated our national pandemic response ....
Our preparedness went to s**t because the masses elected a f*****g Tory government. And those same assholes are still electing them! Which is basically proof that Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May were hated because they were women more than they were hated for being Tories.
Sweden does NOT IN ANY WAY have a place among the best prepared countries! The only reason it did not get worse was luck, and people taking their own precautions. Goverment, authorities and the ones who decide things have been a complete joke of soap opera.
Prepared to do what though? Prepared to sit back and watch people die. Trump was 100% prepared for that.
Obama wasted what the Bush administration had stockpiled and the president that came after Obama was too caught up in his own promotions while proving that he is an idiot in his knowledge of science that The U.S. had little chance of survival.
Ha ha then trump threw out the plan and followed his tiny brain and murdered thousands of Americans
According to surveys, North Korea has the best strategy. 1 case of Covid? BLAM! 0 cases of Covid!
We WERE prepared, until Cheetolini sabotaged the response that had been carefully crafted for decades.
I mean, it's not too incorrect, but countries like China and Italy were hit pretty hard...
This was true before Dumpster boy dismantled our entire Pandemic Preparedness Team.
Swedish arrogance. Allways stating best country showed lack of equipment and strategy making it among worst prepared.
ell, we all know now America is all talk and show, nothing to support it.
Just because Canada is also yellow doesn't mean anyone thinks it's the same country.
Load More Replies... The UK and France together with Sweden and Finland were judged to be better prepared than Iceland, Spain, Norway and Germany. Australia on a similar level as US (Aussies DID dodge a bullet there), both better than New Zealand. I think with Australia and South Korea there's only two countries correctly predicted to actually do well.
Comparing Sweden vs. Finland: population 10,8M vs. 5,5M, cowid cases 1M vs. 88K, death toll 14158 vs. 919. Sweden has about double the population of Finland but 15x more deaths.
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No it did not, The Netherlands is on third place and we totally f-cked it up, We have 17 million people living here and more that 1.5 million people got sick and over 17 thousand died, We are a small country and if we had the same amount of people as the USA we would have the same numbers, It only looks a lot less because we have 17 million people and the USA has over 328 million.
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Same things have been always said for disruptive innovations in history.
It almost sounds like the badly translated Engrish seen in product manuals.
Sad thing is that there are some doctors still smoking nowadays...
it'll topple over if there are no intervention. They heavily stabilized it starting from 90s
Technically true - he didn’t say “not one s**t-smeared government building”.
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They are all things people said, or did, that were expected to do well and then failed miserably. Like Bill Gates wishing his wife another happy 25 years - they just announced their divorce like two days ago. Or the guy who sold his bitcoin at $14/coin to just cut his losses - bitcoin is worth over $56,000 per coin today so if he had just left it, he would've been a millionaire.
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I posted on the old IMDB message board before the release of Casino Royale that Craig was terribly miscast, the film would flop and that they wouldn't make another Bond film for a couple of years!
This was a good post for all the reasons i stay with BP. think you should have edited out the one on JK Rowling.
I agree. She has said wrong things and she needs to learn. But the hate that the woman is experienced is crazy. You cant preach for tolerance and then be extremely hateful with others.
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Remember this? I feel like this should be on here whooops-60...996fb4.jpg 
Everything related to covid could be here, but then it'd be quite more boring.
Load More Replies... Why do comments keep disappearing? I see the notification say someone has replied, but I can’t find anything.
The site has had some glitch problems, like comments vanishing when you click on them, bottom comments appearing as top on a list til you load more...try going to the article from the main page and finding the comment instead of using the notification link (slower but works most of the time). If it's getting bad, contact the bored panda team and hopefully they can find out why ur account is overglitching
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I opened this post because of the remote control photo. Did I miss it? I can only see the netflix/blockbuster logo (sticker?)
Click the link that says, “Note: this post originally had 67 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.” The remote is currently #37.
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they could add Marilyn Manson *Internal screaming intensifies* T_T 😭
They did, there's a link at the bottom of the post to the rest of the articles if u fancy a squiz :) there's some good ones!
Load More Replies... I just finished the final season of How I Met Your Mother. Ted and The Mother had their wedding in the spring (with a get-together at the bar first), and the gang went to their big class reunion in the Summer...of 2020. That didn’t age well.
Why would they make a page of posts by mostly a single social media account.
Everything on here seems to be ripped straight from Reddit or Twitter by the ‘writers.’
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I didn't get a lot of these. For example - who is the lady in the last photo?
There is a difference. Trans people are a category of people. As a category, trans people have not done anything to deserve getting hate. Whereas Trump, the individual, has done plenty of things that people hate him for, myself included.
Load More Replies... They are all things people said, or did, that were expected to do well and then failed miserably. Like Bill Gates wishing his wife another happy 25 years - they just announced their divorce like two days ago. Or the guy who sold his bitcoin at $14/coin to just cut his losses - bitcoin is worth over $56,000 per coin today so if he had just left it, he would've been a millionaire.
Load More Replies... I posted on the old IMDB message board before the release of Casino Royale that Craig was terribly miscast, the film would flop and that they wouldn't make another Bond film for a couple of years!
This was a good post for all the reasons i stay with BP. think you should have edited out the one on JK Rowling.
I agree. She has said wrong things and she needs to learn. But the hate that the woman is experienced is crazy. You cant preach for tolerance and then be extremely hateful with others.
Load More Replies... Remember this? I feel like this should be on here whooops-60...996fb4.jpg
Everything related to covid could be here, but then it'd be quite more boring.
Load More Replies... Why do comments keep disappearing? I see the notification say someone has replied, but I can’t find anything.
The site has had some glitch problems, like comments vanishing when you click on them, bottom comments appearing as top on a list til you load more...try going to the article from the main page and finding the comment instead of using the notification link (slower but works most of the time). If it's getting bad, contact the bored panda team and hopefully they can find out why ur account is overglitching
Load More Replies... I opened this post because of the remote control photo. Did I miss it? I can only see the netflix/blockbuster logo (sticker?)
Click the link that says, “Note: this post originally had 67 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.” The remote is currently #37.
Load More Replies... they could add Marilyn Manson *Internal screaming intensifies* T_T 😭
They did, there's a link at the bottom of the post to the rest of the articles if u fancy a squiz :) there's some good ones!
Load More Replies... I just finished the final season of How I Met Your Mother. Ted and The Mother had their wedding in the spring (with a get-together at the bar first), and the gang went to their big class reunion in the Summer...of 2020. That didn’t age well.
Why would they make a page of posts by mostly a single social media account.
Everything on here seems to be ripped straight from Reddit or Twitter by the ‘writers.’
Load More Replies... I didn't get a lot of these. For example - who is the lady in the last photo?
There is a difference. Trans people are a category of people. As a category, trans people have not done anything to deserve getting hate. Whereas Trump, the individual, has done plenty of things that people hate him for, myself included.
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