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The lawnmower-wielding Grim Reaper of suburbia is being replaced by automation and AI.

u/max · 2026 · 0 pts

Anyone who recommends you "fake it 'til you make it" rarely warns that once you've made it, you're still faking it.

u/Periodic-Inflation · 2026 · 0 pts

Trees built a fully renewable system for food, climate control, carbon capture, and ecosystem balance before humans discovered fire. They even minimized movement by offloading their expansion to animals. Despite all our intelligence, we’re still nowhere near that level of sustainability.

u/WindowAfraid5927 · 2026 · 0 pts

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Littering may be much less prevalent than we assume, thanks to environmental factors like wind and birds carrying our trash around.

u/Krostas · 2026 · 0 pts

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The myth of Narcissus falling in love with his reflection in a pool of water suddenly makes a lot more sense when you remember that actual mirrors were probably very rare back then.

u/thatfreakingmonster · 2026 · 0 pts

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People who think stupid fictional characters are unrealistic or badly written have never worked in customer service.

u/LittleGreenSoldier · 2026 · 0 pts

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Gen Z might be the last generation to really remember the world without AI, just like millenials/Gen X were with accessible computers.

u/playr_4 · 2026 · 0 pts

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Every soldier you honor on Memorial Day was put there by a soldier honored on someone else's Veteran's Day.

u/mikebellman · 2026 · 0 pts

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People probably read more now thanks to smartphones than before.

u/thesmartass1 · 2026 · 0 pts

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Has screaming for icecream ever worked?

u/skolliousious · 2026 · 0 pts

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In the future, there will be a time when AI will be the great conspiracy theory answer to everything. "Did human kind really build giant structures that reached hundreds of meters into the sky? AI theorist says no."

u/vintagegeek · 2026 · 0 pts

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Unicorns could have existed long ago, but they don't show up in the fossil record because their horns are made of soft tissues that don't fossilize.

u/robin-bunny · 2026 · 0 pts

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The quality of sleep you get when you're really sick is great.

u/WokeAsFawk · 2026 · 0 pts

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Americans are so bad at 'staying right except to pass' that the right lane has become the optimal passing lane because of how empty it is.

u/V1per41 · 2026 · 0 pts

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We have a tendency to look down on people who didn’t have to work hard for what they have because their parents gave them everything. We then proceed to work hard so we can provide the same thing for our children.

u/snowball062016 · 2026 · 0 pts

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At least one of your keys probably works on some other lock in the world.

u/BextoMooseYT · 2026 · 0 pts

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At some point, someone whose favorite dish was the loofah was no longer able to say so.

u/naimelhajj · 2026 · 0 pts

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As robotics tech improves and gets more lifelike, people who do the robot dance very well become less impressive.

u/Frigid_Despot · 2026 · 0 pts

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To someone born with only one functional eye, photos and movies must feel much more immersive.

u/Stummi · 2026 · 0 pts

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Without auto-adjusting proprioception, a shapeshifter who could also change body size might face frequent and severe clumsiness.

u/DarthWoo · 2026 · 0 pts

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The average assumed age of some with 67 in their username has shifted from 59 to 12.

u/mrsunshine1 · 2026 · 0 pts

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Each person celebrates a new year twice a year if they also celebrate their birthday.

u/mazalaca · 2026 · 0 pts

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We have no way to know if different people feel the time passing at the same speed.

u/Kilek360 · 2026 · 0 pts

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Getting older is still preferable to not getting older.

u/Charn22 · 2026 · 0 pts

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How long do you have to sit on the toilet playing games before it becomes a hobby?

u/thesmartass1 · 2026 · 0 pts

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Looney Tunes used to be for children only, but now with TikTok Brainrot it is actually a lot more mature than most media adults consume.

u/SuperbRiver7763 · 2026 · 0 pts

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The first quiet minute after guests leave is its own kind of event.

u/gamersecret2 · 2026 · 0 pts

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The ten-dollar menu will come and go faster than it took for the dollar menu to ever become a thing.

u/Family_Gardener · 2026 · 0 pts

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All we ever needed was the one 3D printer. We just needed to print more 3D printers with the 3D printer.

u/Family_Gardener · 2026 · 0 pts

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Companies thought AI would let them pocket the wages of fired workers, but instead, clients just demanded price cuts, leaving Big Tech as the only ones getting rich.

u/palmerry · 2026 · 0 pts

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You must choose whether or not you believe in free will (the ability to choose).

u/QuantumDreamer41 · 2026 · 0 pts

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I wonder if there is good money in writing (good) fanfiction and then publishing once the characters enter the public domain?

u/Gamma_The_Guardian · 2026 · 0 pts

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We never say it's partly moony.

u/cdmurray88 · 2026 · 0 pts

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If most of us ever got a biopic, our biggest concern probably wouldn’t be the portrayal, it would be whether the actor cast as us is attractive.

u/Vast-Intention · 2026 · 0 pts

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If our fingers had taste buds, everyone would use a bidet.

u/NeverBob · 2026 · 0 pts

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As inflation increases, the "cent" sign will eventually become obsolete.

u/DumplingsOrElse · 2026 · 0 pts

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If the world is against you, if you are actually fighting haters all the time, if people don't show up for you, the common denominator here is... you. You may be more awful than you thought.

u/Routine_Test_4175 · 2026 · 0 pts

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The need to coordinate labor and resources may inevitably produce money, and as technology increases the leverage money provides, asymmetric compounding may represent a universal Great Filter.

u/FerusGrim · 2026 · 0 pts

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The next generation won’t know dollar stores where everything actually costs a dollar.

u/ResponsibilityOld164 · 2026 · 0 pts

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Reaction Channels are someone's attempt to create a monoculture, since that has been disrupted by the internet.

u/ShitThroughAGoose · 2026 · 0 pts

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If I had a time machine, I would go to the year in which a time capsule was to be opened, get some things unique to that year, and go back to when that time capsule was about to be buried and put those things in. Then, back to the time it's opened and watch the hilarity and confusion. Time trolling.

u/brainzilla420 · 2026 · 0 pts

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What if the reason Squidward is bad at the clarinet is because he has tentacles instead of hands?

u/TheMasterindisguise · 2026 · 0 pts

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You have around ten minutes before you feel the effects of a meteor impact if you're standing at the opposite end of Earth.

u/ihatethesidebar · 2026 · 0 pts

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Dinosaurs had all of the necessary materials to go to the moon.

u/Intelligent-Bottle22 · 2026 · 0 pts

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One of the reasons the Internet loves cats is that having too many baby memes would be creepy.

u/Lord_Spy · 2026 · 0 pts

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If a person from 20 years ago heard an AI generated audio clip, they would probably think it sounds uncanny but wouldn’t be able to figure out why.

u/yesthisiskyle · 2026 · 0 pts

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If you put frosting on a muffin, does that make it a cupcake?

u/jclv · 2026 · 0 pts

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Global screen addiction has probably sent four-leaf clover discoveries off a cliff.

u/fosfeen · 2026 · 0 pts

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Rationality only exists on a microscopic scale. Zoom out enough, and you realize that either your goal or the start of your chain of logic was irrational.

u/ArtemIsGreat · 2026 · 0 pts

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The number of people that use 6767 as their bank PIN code is likely rising at an exponential level.

u/Castes · 2026 · 0 pts

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