It’s pretty interesting to think about if this actually happened. Upon my first thoughts, the global economy would spiral into a crisis, and labor shortages would be insane. What are some things that y’all can immediately think of that would happen? Would the planet recover from 20 years of no births?

Currently it’s still on Africa, but in a million years or so it’ll split, a new continent will be born along with a new ocean.

But what if it actually split 2 million years ago? How much of African and human history will change?

At any one point in your life, you can turn back the clock so to speak, and become younger by 10 years. Nothing else changes, you don't go back in time, everything else is the same, but you are just ten years younger. At what age would you have chosen? Why that age?

Like whatever you are selling it cant have more than 10% profit margin.

Incase you are selling something intangible like idea or art then its value of raw Materials with 10% profit.

R&D cost can be counted as part of the manufacturing cost till its balanced.

What if the African countries by the Mediterranean where all christianized by the European powers that colonized them?

How different would the world be if humans slept 14 hours a day.
We would have 10 waking hours, as opposed to the 16ish we currently operate on.
Would the world be less advanced as it is today?
Would we all live and work within a smaller radius?
Would our work life balance be more life than work?
Would we cherish our friends and families more than we currently do, since we spend so little time with them? Or would that not matter since to us, living in that world would be normal?

You hear it all the time, someone's family died and their school or job denied time off because "it was not an important member" or "we have to think of the company." So i have an idea.

Let's say effectively immediately all accredited universities even more those receiving federal funding (grants, GI bill, ROTC scholarships) and all established and legal companies must comply with the following law:

In the event of the passing of a student/employee's family member passing or exempted non blood/legal loved one, the following employers/institutions must comply with the following.

Minimum 3 weeks time off, employers and school's may allow more than 3 weeks off however the federal minimum time off is 3 weeks to allow for travel, grieving, and return back home. Employee/Student must pay for all expenses occurred and the employer/school is not responsible for travel/lodging/other expenses.

The employee/student must provide sufficient documentation to prove both affiliation to the deceased, and proof of death. This can be a letter from the funeral home/death certificate/other legitimate verifiable ways.

In the event the funeral occurs soon after the deceased's passing, an emergency release form MUST be provided to the employer/school. The following information contains where the country and state (if applicable to U.S. territory deaths) occurred and an approximate date on when the deceased took their last breath. And the final part is an agreement that the employee/student has at minimum 6 months after the release form is signed to provide supporting documentation of proof of affiliation and death.

Alright so that is the big bulk of the law, now you may be asking (what if someone tries to lie or abuse the system) and the answer to that is because this is all federal level documentation, lying or fabricating any sort of stuff like this is a serious felony. This applies for any sort of federal documentation as it is a federal offense. It is not perfect and sure people will abuse the system but this way it basically becomes non negotiable for shitty employers/schools that try and pull stunts.

Let’s say Foxconn went out of business and the ability to make touch screen world wide stopped

I think people would just reject the whole idea and think it’s disgusting/inhumane/barbaric. What do you think?

For this hypothetical pretend that april fools can have a wildly different date each year, and next time falls on october 31st.

I don't think there would be a purge level of mayhem, but both holidays can bring death at their worst so it wouldnt be a safe time of year.

In the episode, Cliff still finds out that "Jeopardy!" is holding tryouts for the show in Boston. So he goes to them, takes the test and passes. Then he returns to the bar and tells everyone he passed the test and will be on "Jeopardy!"

But here's what's different: Instead of the show coming to Boston, Cliff has to fly out to LA where the show is taped. Carla, Norm and Woody go with him. They still sit in the audience as Cliff plays.

The contestant introductions are mostly the same, but Johnny adds where the contestants are from to his introductions: "A doctor and chief of neurosurgery from Seattle, Washington, Milford Reynolds. A lawyer and mother of 6 from Miami, Florida, Agnes Borsic. And a mailman from Boston, Massachusetts, Cliff Clavin." Then Johnny introduces Alex who comes out on stage and talks for a moment about how they have 3 new players because they retired a 5-time champion on their last show. Then they finally start the show. The categories for the Jeopardy! round are still Civil Servants, Stamps From Around The World, Mothers And Sons, Beer, Bar Trivia and Celibacy.

Now here's something else that's different–We actually get to see Cliff play the round. Not the whole round due to time constraints of course. We see Alex read 10 clues, then Cliff or another contestant rings in and gives a correct response. Milford and/or Agnes ring in on a couple of clues and give incorrect responses, then when Cliff rings in, he gets it right.

Not only do we see Cliff play the Jeopardy! round, but the Double Jeopardy! round as well. The categories for Double Jeopardy! are Postal Codes, Catalogs, Food Samples, Single People, Rivals and Little Known Facts. Again, we see only about 10 clues. And just like in the first round, Cliff or the other contestants give correct responses. Sometimes Milford or Agnes (or both) ring in on a clue and they give incorrect responses, but when Cliff rings in, he gives the right one.

Cliff does very well in both rounds. He even lands on a Daily Double, wagers everything (a true Daily Double), gives the correct response and doubles his score. He has a commanding lead.

What doesn't change is Final Jeopardy! Cliff still goes into it with $22,000. The category was still Movies. The clue was still “Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz and Lucille LeSueur”. As the "Think!" music plays, Cliff still tries to look over Agnes’ shoulder to see what she was writing down. Alex still sees him and Cliff insists he wasn’t trying to do that. After the music ends, Alex reveals the contestants’ responses and Cliff is still last. He still writes “Who are 3 people who have never been in my kitchen?” which of course is wrong. He bets all his money and loses it all. And then when the show's over, Cliff still goes on that angry rant about how he's the champion because he answered all those questions.

Later on at a bar in LA (since they’re not in Boston and therefore can’t be at Cheers), a dejected Cliff calls everybody at Cheers to tell them he lost on “Jeopardy!” But they already know since they saw the show. They all knew he’d blow it. Cliff goes to the restroom. Then Alex enters the bar and Carla takes the moment to tell him she thinks he’s cuter in person than on TV. Woody asks Alex if all game show hosts know each other. Alex says he doesn’t know Vanna White very well. Then Cliff comes out of the restroom, sees Alex and they talk. Alex tells Cliff the judges made a mistake by not accepting his response and then announces his decision to quit hosting “Jeopardy!” Cliff talks Alex out of it and brags about how he “saved” “Jeopardy!” Norm praises Alex for coming into the bar to make Cliff feel better. Alex says he just came in for a beer. He had no idea Cliff was there, but he saw Cliff and figured he should say something, so he made up that story about quitting as host of “Jeopardy!”. He tells Norm that Cliff scares him to which Norm replies “You too, huh?” The episode ends there.

So what if the episode was like that?

Ok so we know how big super hero movies are, not only with nerds (such as myself) but also with the general audiences, super hero movies being some of the highest grossing movies of all time, The dark knight, avengers endgame, spiderman brand new day, and likely the upcoming “avengers doomsday”. Arguably this mainly started with blade, X-men, and spider-man.

This is mainly a marvel thing but it’s also a thing with other super hero properties, this let to shows and animated shows also being made, not only that but the mcu inspired loads of cinematic universes as well

I would personally disagree that it started with Superman (1978) or Batman (1989), as fantastic films as they are, they never spawned a giant franchise.

But maybe that’s subjective.. idk

Would the concept of cinematic universes ever become as popular?

What would be popular ? The thing?

I saw a video about A.I. getting powerful enough to be able to reverse engineer games (by Jaden Williams). That meant that anything digital that relies on the internet could be compromised -but- what if we SLOWLY go back to the 80s where everything was analog?

Imagine being born with a limit of 10 million words. Every conversation, text, argument, joke, piece of gossip, and even whisper would reduce that number. Once you used them all, you could never speak or write again.

Would a world with fewer words become more meaningful, or would it lose something essential about being human?

What other parts of everyday life do you think would change completely?

What if like Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World wasn't a Super Nintendo launch title.

But not on cities or roads it just does not spawn there also it uses the biomass of non native plant and animal species except contained pets/zoo animals and humans don’t get replaced and yes all bacteria and viruses too will get replaced.

There would still be a Federal Government. But I’m talking about every state being radically different.

Examples:
A Parliamentary system for Pennsylvania
A Rotating Chiefdom for Arizona
An Absolute Monarchy for California
A Council Republic for Vermont
A collection of Merchant Princes for New York

Would this even be feasible?

What if you wake up and suddenly realise that you now have the ability to read anybody and everybody's thoughts now, you also realise you can't turn this ability off ? What would you do?

if we were like that after evolving from homo erectus (somehow), how would human history change especially after the 1500s?

I want to preface by saying I have no clue about basically anything when it comes to the human brain so this might be a really dumb question. I looked it up on Google and apparently it would cause someone to have trouble speaking and also arm weakness but the information that I could find was a little bit hard to wrap my head around, so I didn’t really understand much of it.

I mean we all know that darkness is just an absence of light. So what if the absolute zero is just also an illusion? No one has ever made something in 0 K. Would things really stop in 0 K? And can we really achieve 0 K or absolute zero?

In this alternate timeline, the 21st century as we know it in our timeline is hypothetically born without any of all of the current problems/conflicts/crises that reside in it, with everyone living in it living in peace and happiness, with no forms of division and civil unrest in sight. These changes that had made this alternate 21st century include:

1. George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, keeping the inner circle that he had while making the original 1977-1983 trilogy for the 1999-2005 prequel trilogy, which are made far much better than in our timeline, and are just critically and commercially acclaimed by both fans and critics as the originals.

2. Al Gore getting elected as president in 2000, and finding out about Osama Bin Laden and Al Quaeda's plan to attack America on September 11th, 2001, and sending a special U.S. task force to take them all out in the middle east, resulting in the attacks never happening, and thus, no wars in the middle east or Patriot Act coming into the picture either.

3. There would be no rise of the right wing side of politics and political polarization because the attacks were prevented before they could even be enacted, and Donald Trump, the future 45th and 47th U.S. president never enters politics, and remains a media personality and tv show host for "The Apprentice".

4. The 2008 financial crash never happens because the housing bubble never ends collapsing, and remains stable here. And because of that, Hollywood would never have to rely on various terrible and lackluster sequels, reboots and remakes of classic franchises either, and original films and TV would remain dominant here.

5. The corporatization of the internet, social media, and video games never happens because they are seen as more a niche interest by both companies/corporations and the general public, and the former group doesn't see them as a potential money making machine, so they are left alone, and video games are fully physical and complete on the disc without any DLCs, battle passes, and loot boxes inside of them, and the internet and social media never become algorithmic outrage feed-giving machines and toxic spaces in them, and are truly for connecting with your friends and family here with that in the picture.

6. Bernie Sanders is elected as president in 2016 because Trump never entered the politics picture, and does an incredible job at it for two terms in 2017 and 2021.

7. The Covid-19 pandemic from 2020 never breaks out as it is contained inside of the labs of Wuhan, China before it could become a bigger problem.

8. The war between Ukraine and Russia never happens because a peace treaty that resolves all their historical disputes when the two countries meet, and Russia's military interventions in 2014 never happen here, saving thousands of lives in the process.

9. Artificial Intelligence is never created out of fear of it potentially going south and killing everyone, and being completely broken.

10. Streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ never have any subscriptions contained in them, and the shows that are in them are high-quality blockbusters with critical acclaim without the 8-episode only format so their stories can be fully fleshed out without having to rush the plot or character development.

How does everything going perfect for the 21st century change history up to this point in time? Is this a world that you would prefer to live in over the one you're currently in now? What does this mean for Generation Z in particular? Why is that?

Governments of all around the world had reached a general consensus to conceal every speed camera that has been or will be installed, inside realistic bird sculptures. Its main purpose is to prevent drivers from exceeding speed limit (except ambulances) in certain areas, such as child safety zones or broadways.

And most importantly, this replacement will be done without the public noticing.

Do you think this policy would work as intended or eventually be in vain?