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

They weren't wrong! There should be a movie! The first was not a movie it was an abomination!!

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

It didn't age poorly; it died a very painful death.

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

If it had been executed better I think it would have done well. But they completely botched it like a bad LA plastic surgeon.

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

It would have worked if they didn't change so much to the story and songs. Check the youtube video's on it by Sideways and Lindsay Ellis. They both explain in detail the stuff this movie did totally wrong. Oh, and cat-holes. You can't unsee that.

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

It could have worked with practical make-up instead of nightmare inducing CGI.

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

They weren't wrong, it was HOW it was done that ruined it

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

I loved the new Cats movie. Old Deuteronomy song was amazing.

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

I remember in musical theater we did makeup to look like this musical.

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

Oh I watch this YouTube channel. It’s called ms. Mojo. They usually don’t get much wrong, but they got this wayyyy wrong!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If only we could pop back in that persons workspace when they made this, leave a picture of cat b******e, and disappear back to my own time with an evil laugh and a faint puking noise.

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

I love the animal, but I watched 10 minutes of the actual broadway show on PBS when they took it off Broadway. I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOOOOOORED!!!!! OMG! HOW the HELL did that thing every make any money, much less last that long on Broadway???!!!

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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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