Private surveillance equipment is now so cheap that it's more rational to assume that a given airbnb is recording your every move than not.



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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.



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I wonder how much debate it took for the original PI proofs to be accepted as fact. Because to prove a constant, you'd have to show that dividing by r^2 always yields the same #. With an infinite decimal, even using sig figs, wouldn't people argure you can't be certain it's 100% the same every time?



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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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Phone cameras need a "junk photo" setting for all those throwaway photos you take to remember where you parked, what's on a menu, QR codes, and all the other random stuff we use them for now.



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People probably faked illness to get out of work even in the hunter-gatherer era.



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If there was an immortal mime, we probably wouldn’t know for a very long time.



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Dogs probably measure time by routines, not by hours.



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Regardless of belief systems, people generally don't seem to like being preached at.



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So many parents will be forced to endure junior high choir renditions of "Golden."



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In 1998, The Truman Show was an outlandish concept. In 2026 it's a reality.



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You only have a lap while you’re sitting.



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The way you walk is unique, and you are unlikely to ever change your stride intentionally.



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With neural implants, we are probably close to a "Sleep Now" switch for the human brain.



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Squirrels and guinea pigs both figured out how to solve the rat charisma problem, but in different ways.



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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.



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The fact that C-3PO has a seam running alongside his head suggests he is made from deep-drawn stamped sheet metal halves.



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There are Cedar trees in N.Idaho that predate the Julian & Gregorian calendars.



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You can bracket the clade Euarchontoglires by using their immunity to chocolate.



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There are likely untold numbers of people living in LA County who are one degree removed in the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" by merit of the fact that they were caught in traffic at the same time, and don't know it.



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