1131 thoughts

If we do live in a simulation, the RAM shortages happening right now must be super ironic for a computer that can run the universe.
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The trick to stage hypnotism is figuring out who wants attention.
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The sun is the lowest thing on the food chain but would destroy any animal in a 1v1.
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If your first-ever attempt at gambling went completely unsuccessfully, that was probably the better outcome.
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Even though Earth has 8 billion people, the world we built only really runs on about 4–6 billion being awake at once — humanity has never experienced all 8 billion people up and functioning at the same time.
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AI will save humanity by destroying social media as everyone starts to realize "nothing online is real anymore".
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You can’t smell your booger until you pick it despite being in your nose.
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In a few years, "AI-or-Real guesser" will probably be a real job.
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The outcome of the card game 'War' is determined as soon as the deck is shuffled.
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Maybe the rapture did occur, and we all just suck.
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Pepsi could launch a video campaign featuring the tagline ‘Made by real humans, with love'... A counter to Coke’s image
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Teenagers and adults finding each other gross is a feature, not a bug.
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I think it’s unusual that no standardized literary way to write the submissive “I don’t know” hum that children (and some adults) often mumble has ever caught on, considering how old and common it is.
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Cats are probably very confused about why their human disappears for 8+ hours a day without returning with food.
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If birds suddenly decided it was fun to poop on humans, there wouldn’t be much we could do about it.
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There are people being born who will never know a world without AI.
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Telling students not to use AI at all in school is exactly as useful for preventing cheating as abstinence-only sex ed is at preventing STDs and unplanned pregnancies.
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There are people not born yet that will die before you.
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Social media companies in the future will be viewed like tobacco companies. Knowingly pushing a harmful & addictive product for profit.
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If you were born in the '90s, you may be the last generation that remembers what it was like to go to the internet, rather than always being on it.
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When I die, someone is going to have to cancel all of my subscriptions.
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Vampire bites turning people into vampires is extremely disadvantageous to their survival.
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If we could shrink ourselves down, at a certain size we would stop being able to hear anything because the sound waves would be too big for our tiny ear holes.
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Your parents become less older than you, proportionally, every year after you’re born.
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The AI bubble is driven by CEOs who’ve built their careers on judging the appearance of human work, where things only look good if someone actually put the effort in, suddenly meeting a technology that produces perfect‑looking work even when the substance is absent.
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The person who discovered popcorn must have been really surprised by it.
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Pez is probably the only candy immune to shrinkflation, as changing the size or shape would prevent you from using Pez dispensers.
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In a more futuristic post-apocalyptic world, no one will be able to use machinery they find on their travels because they won't have the app for it.
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There have probably been multiple times that an animal was born with a game-changing mutation only to be killed by something outside of its control.
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The lawyer in Jurassic Park wasn't actually a coward: he just had to run to a toilet to avoid pooping himself in a humid, unairconditioned car with two random kids. There ain't no time to light a flare gun and look cool; not when your ass is the flare gun.
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Public beaches remind us of how much the marketing and movie industries distort our reality.
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The McDonald's CEO can redeem himself by going on Hot Ones.
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Cheques were wild. You could basically make a single bank note in any denomination you liked. Want a $72.43 bill? Easy. $2500 note? No problem.
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The portrayal of caveman as being burly is probably pretty unrealistic when you realize how lean most of the people modern-day hunter-gatherer communities look.
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There are people alive today who have heard the camera-shutter sound-effect more often than they’ve heard real shutters.
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My microwave has cooked things at 59 and 29 far more times than 60 and 30.
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Digital archaeologists in a distant future are going to think a lot more happened on 1 Jan 1970 than actually happened.
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In the infinite set of all positive numbers, any number you can think of, no matter how large, is relatively a 'small' number because there is an infinite amount of numbers larger and a finite amount of number smaller.
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Kissing booboos is one of the most basic examples of the placebo effect at work.
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So many parents will be forced to endure junior high choir renditions of "Golden."
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California’s new legislation regarding age verification of operating systems could allow a child running a billion DOS instances in virtual machines to bankrupt Microsoft in seconds, due to the fines they’d receive.
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It's really convenient that the ice in our drinks floats up, and then the liquid it cools sinks down so the entire drink eventually cools evenly.
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The older you get, the harder it gets to blast poop stains off the back of the toilet bowl.
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There is a chance that the sensitivity of testicles is a product of evolution. The cavemen who were not as protective took damage thus lowered their chances to reproduce. Was there a breed of numb balls at some point?
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We always tell young aspiring artists they'll make no money, but we almost never tell young aspiring lawyers or doctors they'll have loans to pay off.
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In an apocalyptic scenario, wild hogs would be a much bigger threat than most people realize.
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The Earth has probably not been without a manmade fire since the hominids who first discovered how to make it. A fire has been burning ever since. Also, what if one of the first manmade fires has been kept alive since it was lighted hundreds of thousands of years ago? Passing from torch to torch.
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The fact that many people still say "aux" when referring to playing music in a car through Bluetooth, is the modern version of how we still say "filming" when it comes to recording a video.
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Saying “you’re quite self-aware” is a unique and fool proof compliment. If they are, they’ll agree. If they’re not, they won’t realize.
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Board games should pack two rule books. That way, multiple people can read the instructions at the same time.
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