1131 thoughts

In the not so distant future a written note or talking to a friend will be more factually reliable than a photo or video.
u/ejcook32  ·  2025   ·  2,334 pts
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The first people to ever hook up who met online were most likely scientists.
u/CopingAdult  ·  2025   ·  2,319 pts
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Self-driving cars would allow for cops to easily bring you in when you have an arrest warrant.
u/zav3rmd  ·  2026   ·  2,313 pts
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If you have a kid, you've created a sacrifice of life to the universe.
u/elfmachine100  ·  2025   ·  2,312 pts
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Slugs would be one of the creepiest creatures on Earth if they were fast.
u/MrBublee_YT  ·  2025   ·  2,286 pts
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It's impolite to call someone a devil unless they just walked into the room.
u/JewwKnee  ·  2025   ·  2,280 pts
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Procrastination may be one of humanity's greatest survival mechanisms.
u/kacimber  ·  2026   ·  2,279 pts
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Software that can detect swearing in videos would be helpful in locating the part of a dashcam recording that you're looking for.
u/AptoticFox  ·  2025   ·  2,257 pts
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The longer you don’t pee, the longer you’ll pee.
u/Vivi01224  ·  2025   ·  2,251 pts
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If animals are capable of dreaming, are they able to tell the difference between "reality" and the dream world? Are they both equally real to them? Or maybe the dream world is their "reality", and we have it wrong.
u/Jebusfreek666  ·  2025   ·  2,247 pts
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In a universe with many civilizations, only one needs to reach extreme technological maturity. After that, progress stops being parallel and starts being inherited.
u/lelorang  ·  2026   ·  2,236 pts
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Maybe the only reason we didn’t die in quicksand is that we were warned about it so often. We might be dooming the next generation by not passing on our vital knowledge.
u/HermitBadger  ·  2025   ·  2,228 pts
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Microsoft might have lots of your personal data, but it still can't remember what size window you want your emails to open in.
u/DementedCrazoid  ·  2026   ·  2,226 pts
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MK Ultra wasn’t a failure because mind control is fictional. They just didn’t have social media and big data at the time.
u/wuhduhwuh  ·  2026   ·  2,211 pts
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You never see good news written in the fine print.
u/Dawildpep  ·  2025   ·  2,204 pts
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Everything smells like snot. You're just used to it.
u/Nomekop777  ·  2026   ·  2,197 pts
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Someone out there has probably dreamt about you doing something completely random.
u/WindowAfraid5927  ·  2025   ·  2,194 pts
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It’s so dumb that if you bite your lip while chewing, it will swell, so it is now much more likely you’ll bite it again.
u/ATXgaymer02  ·  2026   ·  2,191 pts
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Old dads had a drawer full of wires. Today's dads have a drawer full of USB cables.
u/thesmartass1  ·  2026   ·  2,184 pts
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At any given time, we are all one sphincter failure away from humiliation.
u/Tyrion_Canister  ·  2025   ·  2,184 pts
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If there were high quality games made based on some of the world most hard to solve issues, Gamers would solve them or provide other solutions in less than a year.
u/Macshlong  ·  2025   ·  2,173 pts
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Every new credit card expiration date feels like a lifetime away. But before you know it, some kind-faced barista is telling you your charge has failed...
u/Alternative_Run_6116  ·  2025   ·  2,152 pts
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Somewhere, someone you don’t know has an object in their house that they absolutely love because it was regifted by the person you gave it to.
u/RockyRidge510  ·  2025   ·  2,141 pts
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It’s a shame we didn’t get real pictures of UFOs before AI pictures and videos are going to make it harder to tell the truth.
u/Domenstain  ·  2026   ·  2,138 pts
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Maybe aliens are already watching us because they want Earth but their ethics won’t let them wipe us out. So they wait, watching us spiral toward self-destruction to justify stepping in. Not to save us, but to inherit the planet without guilt
u/Eased91  ·  2025   ·  2,134 pts
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Women’s pants often lack pockets because the same companies that make them also sell handbags.
u/K_R_S  ·  2025   ·  2,131 pts
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Younger generations will never get to appreciate the fun of discovering hidden menues, games, and other bonus content DVDs had.
u/Asto_Vidatu  ·  2025   ·  2,124 pts
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When the movie is better than the book, you never even know the movie is from a book.
u/OreosnMilk247  ·  2026   ·  2,121 pts
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The first person to hear an echo probably thought the world was talking back.
u/themegapint  ·  2025   ·  2,106 pts
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We're pretty lucky that pigeons make gentle cooing noises and not loud squawking noises.
u/bluesatin  ·  2025   ·  2,106 pts
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Cold macaroni with mayonnaise sounds disgusting, but add pickle relish and suddenly it's macaroni salad.
u/-jp-  ·  2026   ·  2,104 pts
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Text to speech might as well add “Sorry, TTS!” at the end of each message.
u/4623897  ·  2025   ·  2,099 pts
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Most humans are ok with being licked affectionately by strangers as long as they aren’t human.
u/Fast_Garlic_5639  ·  2025   ·  2,096 pts
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The global moth population was likely much higher before humans mastered fire.
u/It_Is_Blue  ·  2026   ·  2,086 pts
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Fire code/fire alarms must have been much less strict when everybody smoked indoors.
u/PoorPinkus  ·  2026   ·  2,081 pts
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Blind people would probably be really good at picking locks and cracking safes.
u/twelveinchmeatlong  ·  2025   ·  2,075 pts
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People born on January 1st, 2000 never have to worry about guessing their age.
u/CPT_Sycoe  ·  2025   ·  2,074 pts
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We are living in the good old days of chatbots and artificial intelligence.
u/imjusthere4good  ·  2025   ·  2,072 pts
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We think AI is here to help us work, but we spend half our time doing free labor to train it.
u/ethereal3xp  ·  2026   ·  2,071 pts
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An AI saying "I'm afraid I can't do that" has gone from menacing to disappointing.
u/UnrealGaming9  ·  2025   ·  2,059 pts
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As you have group chats that have specific people excluded, so are there group chats with you specifically excluded (probably).
u/stonetemplefox  ·  2026   ·  2,055 pts
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If we had completely separate passages for air and food, a congested nose would be a huge problem.
u/Fitted4  ·  2025   ·  2,047 pts
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As a rich person, Harrison Ford probably owns a lot of things that Indiana Jones would say belong in a museum.
u/Totally-NotAMurderer  ·  2025   ·  2,046 pts
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15 years ago we used to doomscroll text(Twitter, Facebook statuses). 10 years ago we doomscrolled images(Instagram, FB image posts. 5 years ago we started doomscrolling videos (TikTok, Insta Reels, YouTube shorts).
u/Moohamin12  ·  2026   ·  2,044 pts
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Everything man-made began with one person daring to imagine something new.
u/theinsomniacsheep  ·  2025   ·  2,039 pts
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It only takes one person with a vendetta to ruin a fast food restaurant’s survey % for the whole year.
u/GateOfD  ·  2026   ·  2,037 pts
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If someone visited Clark Kent's apartment and found Superman paraphernalia, that would probably actually work with the Clark Kent cover story and make it more believable that he was just a nerd.
u/nicmos  ·  2026   ·  2,033 pts
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Two deaths of celebrities with alliterative names who had reality shows about their families within one week. Someone better keep an eye on those Kardashians.
u/definitelybono  ·  2025   ·  2,029 pts
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Dreams feel like internal AI - everything feels like reality but you can tell something is off. Sometimes six fingers or you can fly. People, places, and things morph around in unusual ways. All the details are scraped from past experiences and the information one has consumed over their lifetime.
u/sakecat  ·  2025   ·  2,025 pts
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In the Star Trek universe, accidentally being brought to the future but not being important enough for Temporal Investigations to immediately try to send you back to your own time must be deeply depressing.
u/DarthWoo  ·  2026   ·  2,023 pts
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