I mean, the Kamala campaign is pretty fresh. Somehow, people forgot that the conversation for like a year had been how the Democrats were going to get around her because everyone knew she was a train-wreck of a candidate.

I mean, I'm a Jets fan, so I've got dozens to choose from right there.

Rahul Gandhi is the biggest failure as a projected Prime Minister for India by once the largest political party.

I'll share one, an expat friend of mine from Russia would always take all his euro earnings and immediately convert them to rubles because the interest rate was quite good back then (2012).

I would constantly badger him about this because I was like, 'this is madness, a Russian with half a brain cell would never keep all their savings in rubles, and here you are'.

his excuse was always that he wanted to buy a flat and would need a large sum in rubles ready, even though doing a simple international bank transfer was not a big deal back then.

anyway, sure enough, after the annexation of crimea and sanctions + the oil price dropping, he ended up getting smashed. He did manage to get a flat in one of the poorer Russian regions eventually, but he lost probably the equivalent of 20-30k+ euros in the process.

if he had just kept it in Euros and done the transfer when needed, he would have come up like a boss.

Watching many crypto projects on 2017 launching ICO and receiving millions of dollars...now, they don't exist any more...

Beyond meat is clearly a winner. Who knew people would like to eat heavily processed cocktails of highly toxic chemicals, it blows my mind.

Every single government "war on ..." and "department of ..."

on a small scale NEOM has completd something

in October 2024, Sindalah became the first Neom region to be completed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waraq6ejbGw

Mayan Calendar - 2012 The Maya of South America was the most sophisticated and highly developed civilisation in pre-Columbian Americas, reaching its peak around the 6th century AD. They not only developed a written language but were gifted astrologers and mathematicians, developing a complex and incredibly accurate calendar system.

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar used by the Mayans was due to run out on 21st December 2012 after a 5,126-year-long cycle. The end of this ‘Great Cycle’ was interpreted by many as a doomsday prediction. The topic became a popular subject for the media as the date grew closer, leading to heightened fear across the world.

However, experts refuted the theory as pseudoscience and many historians pointed out that not even the Maya suggested the calendar ending was a sign of armageddon. The date merely represented the end of that cycle and the beginning of a new one. The whole thing was just a misunderstanding.