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

Pandemic? ✅ Political extremism from one end to another? ✅ Ongoing genocides? ✅ Maniacs yelling for war? ✅

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

that just defies common sense even in 2002, never mind not ageing well

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

It was the best thing to happen for HBO - they had the chance to take several shorrtcuts to end it quickly. Not so great for the fans though

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

I had the weirdest "Mandela effect" moment when they announced his death. I could have sworn he had actually died decades ago and vaguely remember a few 9gag posts about it back when I was in Uni (before 9gag was just a site full of bloody GIFs and videos).

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

If you want only music it's still more useful than the phone

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

If that was "surprisingly well" I'd hate to see what they were expecting.

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

What the heck is that even supposed to mean in terms of a nationwide department store chain?

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

A three second google search... Speaking of Butch Hartman trending, that brings us to today and the accusations of plagiarism. While the jury seems to be out on whether Hartman has committed textbook plagiarism – as in shamelessly tracing over someone else’s art – or just copied art without tracing, it still looks bad. Butch Hartman was commissioned to draw Mikasa Akerman (from Attack on Titan) and delivered a piece that looked a lot like fanart from a Japanese artist known as @028ton on Twitter. Fans reached out to the original artist and tattled. Told ya, the internet won’t let you get away with anything. Didn’t take long for @028ton to condemn Hartman’s actions. Ouch. While Butch Hartman has remained silent about the latest controversy, the fact remains that his star is on the decline. His once prosperous YouTube channel has been losing subscribers and his most recent uploads barely break 10,000 views. Sure, that’s still a lot of eyeballs, but it’s also a paltry number when compa

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