1131 thoughts

The immediate practical society reply when immortality is achieved would be a chaotic world crisis related to the pension assets.
u/lelorang  ·  2025   ·  3,586 pts
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The local name for North Sentinel Island is unknown.
u/Crocodile_Banger  ·  2026   ·  3,584 pts
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Imagine how itchy Ben 10s wrist must be under that omnitrix.
u/Iambikecurious  ·  2026   ·  3,581 pts
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Because of degrading batteries, after enough time every laptop turns into a desktop computer.
u/Woomy3000  ·  2026   ·  3,576 pts
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Most women in the world probably know how to get blood stains out of fabric.
u/Damascus_ari  ·  2025   ·  3,575 pts
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If you make a silly face at any random child in public, chances are pretty good they will do one back, right? I wonder how many adults would match your energy if you made a silly face at them. It would certainly make grocery shopping more entertaining.
u/oxalis_  ·  2025   ·  3,570 pts
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Now that the Monty Hall Problem is fairly well known, a game show host could drastically reduce the number of winners by only offering the switch when the original selection has the car behind it.
u/roosterkun  ·  2025   ·  3,552 pts
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If we continue our burial habit, Homo sapiens might become the first large creature to be viable as an index fossil, signifying the start of anthropocene.
u/sora_mui  ·  2025   ·  3,551 pts
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MCU's NYC would be very affordable to live in. Being at the center of a world-ending event every few years and a couple of city-wide disasters every single year should be enough to drop housing prices. Finally.
u/nick-nt  ·  2025   ·  3,535 pts
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The majority of monsters aren't evil, just hungry.
u/LetMeExplainDis  ·  2025   ·  3,527 pts
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We don't really see Ronald McDonald anymore.
u/Intelligent-Bottle22  ·  2025   ·  3,513 pts
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Playing card corners are rounded because square corners would wear down faster, making it easier to tell cards apart.
u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT  ·  2026   ·  3,512 pts
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With self driving cars becoming increasingly popular, "Driving while sleeping" may become the next DUl-like offense.
u/samgarita  ·  2025   ·  3,506 pts
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Luckily for Superman, it very easy for him to tell what *is* and *isn't* kryptonite due to it being a glowing green rock.
u/low-on-cyan  ·  2026   ·  3,504 pts
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With neural implants, we are probably close to a "Sleep Now" switch for the human brain.
u/thesmartass1  ·  2026   ·  3,496 pts
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There are probably a few royal chefs who got killed because of cilantro.
u/Col0nelFlanders  ·  2026   ·  3,495 pts
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People grind rocks (salt) on their food and it makes it delicious.
u/gr33nny  ·  2025   ·  3,468 pts
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Squirrels and guinea pigs both figured out how to solve the rat charisma problem, but in different ways.
u/csanyk  ·  2026   ·  3,440 pts
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The laundry pile exhibits asymptotic behavior. You can get close to zero but never actually reach it (unless you do laundry naked).
u/FunSuccess5  ·  2026   ·  3,437 pts
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Dragon eggs, often depicted as spiky and scaly, must be quite painful to lay.
u/Chilli-byte-  ·  2026   ·  3,429 pts
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Quadrupeds probably spend a lot of time wondering why humans and birds don't tip over when standing.
u/Cosmic_Meditator777  ·  2025   ·  3,424 pts
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In flight simulators, every plane you pilot is fly-by-wire.
u/CoreEncorous  ·  2025   ·  3,418 pts
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It would be more efficient to dig graves 3 foot by 3 foot by 12 foot deep and bury the deceased standing.
u/smittythehoneybadger  ·  2025   ·  3,416 pts
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Once people get the option to jack into the matrix, the real world will just be a necessary part of the world that no one will want to visit, like farms or mines of today.
u/Previous-Jeweler-441  ·  2025   ·  3,415 pts
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There’s probably a travel agency somewhere already thinking about offering a 2061 Halley’s Comet cruise package.
u/Same-Celebration-372  ·  2025   ·  3,405 pts
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Your future self is watching you right now through memories.
u/deadeyes1990  ·  2025   ·  3,392 pts
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We associate monocles with rich people despite the fact they didn't spend the money on a full set of glasses.
u/OldTimeyMedicine  ·  2025   ·  3,380 pts
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Dogs have been domesticated for at least 14,000 years, which means they have been domesticated for all of recorded history.
u/ahandmadegrin  ·  2025   ·  3,379 pts
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If you can’t survive from art, it becomes a hobby for the rich—and without risk, real artistic breakthroughs get rarer.
u/taistomrage  ·  2026   ·  3,374 pts
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When people yearn for a simpler, worry-free time, they don't yearn for an actually simpler time, but for a time when they were kids and their parents did the worrying for them.
u/Square-Singer  ·  2025   ·  3,369 pts
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You don’t know your own name until someone tells you.
u/mcheisenburglar  ·  2025   ·  3,362 pts
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You might have spent the same $1 bill a few times and you'd never know it.
u/fwaig  ·  2026   ·  3,341 pts
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There's no better superhero equipped for childbirth than Mrs Incredible.
u/CaptainPeru  ·  2025   ·  3,337 pts
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We have all kicked a pregnant woman.
u/Intelligent-Bottle22  ·  2026   ·  3,335 pts
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The older you are when you get a tattoo, the less return you get on the investment.
u/vtx3000  ·  2025   ·  3,317 pts
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After the traffic lights turn green, the moment you start moving is the combined reaction times of every driver in front of you.
u/LetMeExplainDis  ·  2025   ·  3,314 pts
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A century from now, people will have access to HD photos and videos of the elderly as babies.
u/Fleeblorp  ·  2026   ·  3,307 pts
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Descendants of medieval criminals are lucky those occupations didn't become last names like Baker or Miller, etc.
u/ThinkThankThonk  ·  2026   ·  3,292 pts
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The rise of committee-made media and AI-generated garbage in the 21st century may be the in-universe explanation for why science fiction like “Star Trek” and “The Orville” seem to fixate on 20th-century music and films.
u/Happy_Da  ·  2026   ·  3,283 pts
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Aliens are commonly thought of or depicted as naked, but they would likely require a spacesuit of sorts, just like humans do.
u/PunchingZombie  ·  2026   ·  3,277 pts
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The rocks you listlessly kick in the street have existed long before any person was born and will remain long after you are forgotten.
u/ejcook32  ·  2026   ·  3,272 pts
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Due to the current prevalence of AI, content creators who started their career within the last five years are at an inherent disadvantage since they don’t have pre-AI content to fight accusations of their content being AI generated.
u/Anvisaber  ·  2025   ·  3,250 pts
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It's really unfortunate that our favorite things get worn out faster because we use them most.
u/Ch8s3  ·  2026   ·  3,236 pts
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Seeing color is one of the most subjective experiences in zoology.
u/MooseLongjumping9752  ·  2025   ·  3,233 pts
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If you wake up in the middle of a dream, would any ending you come up with be canon? Technically you made the dream up in the first place anyway.
u/domiran  ·  2025   ·  3,233 pts
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New houses are huge, yet families aren't bigger, and technology has reduced our space needs.
u/RobertFahey  ·  2026   ·  3,225 pts
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Much of the world’s wealth exists to preserve itself rather than to be consumed.
u/WindowAfraid5927  ·  2026   ·  3,222 pts
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No matter your age, someone you knew as a baby becoming an adult makes you feel incredibly old.
u/littleredditred  ·  2025   ·  3,211 pts
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Ads secretly act as an additional form of harming attention span, as even if you're watching a long video, it still gets interrupted frequently for long enough to break your focus.
u/da_dragon_guy  ·  2026   ·  3,207 pts
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70% of world problems would disappear if all humans were "compassionate".
u/sunny_1505  ·  2025   ·  3,194 pts
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