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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

Blockbuster was given the chance to buy Netflix for 1 million dollars. They said no

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

When Netflix started losing money in their early days, the two owners made several offers to sell out to Blockbuster for $50 million in 2000. Blockbuster passed because they didn’t want to buy a company that was hemorrhaging red ink. The rest is history, and Netflix is now worth over $230 billion. Ironically, 20 years later Netflix has released a documentary titled “The Last Blockbuster” about the one remaining store in Bend, Oregon and how it all fell apart.

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

It's not the same though. You couldn't beat navigating through hundreds of surly teens over a sticky carpet to pounce on the last VHS copy of Big Trouble In Little China. Those were the days.

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

I actually miss going to Blockbuster, we had the best 2 clerks who worked there, probably 18 or 19 and they recommend the best movies, movies I never would have tried on my own. They recommended Requiem for a Dream and Pi, both excellent. I got them to try a couple of British movies that they ended up liking. Plus how much fun was it for kids, on a Friday night, picking out a movie to watch at a sleepover?

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

Netflix was a mail order dvd service that was not streaming service that we know today. One would have to send back the picked movies that you rented through the mail.

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

You really have to wonder, why didn't Blockbuster change? They could have started mailing videos and then streaming them like Netflix does. If you hear something, that's just me scratching my head in wonder.....😂🤣

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

Yeah cuz Netflix is a POS. Haven’t been to Blockbuster in years; maybe the last time I went was in 2001.

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

I miss hiring DVDs, it wasn't that expensive and i could get good movies.

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

𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓.

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

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... *deep breath* ahahahahahahahahahahahaha! *dies*

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

Blockbuster had SO many chances to go the way Netflix did...........but their corporate levels just wanted to sell out and take the money.

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

Blockbuster had a decent pay per view set upon satellite for awhile

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

Blockbuster had their chance to buy Netflix and they said No so... oh well.

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

imagine if someone was unlucky enough to invest in blockbuster

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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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