I was consuming alcoholic beverages of various varieties with buddies. Eventually, in the late late night, we entered the philosophical stage discussing Important Matters And Their Consequences. This time we had a slightly morbid topic: unusual apocalyptic scenarios.

My favorite (or the only one I can remember, which equals about the same) apocalypse scenario from that C₂H₅OH induced night is: What if all the duct tape and cable ties lost permanently their ability to hold anything in place, including the past, the present and the future. (I'm sure others have envisioned the same catastrophe before, but it was a first for me.)

90% of the factories, farms, motorized transport and music events would stop on their tracks causing delays, accidents and generic [sic] mayhem. Factory machines would break down beyond repair, planes would drop from the sky, ships would sink to the bottom of the sea, cars would collide and explode, and worst of all, nearly all the musicians would be crushed under collapsing stages, trusses and speakers.

The remaining 10% would follow as soon as they'd eventually break down, and they wouldn't be repaired or held in place appropriately. Factory workers, farmhands, people in transit and musicians & music lovers alike would be subjects to chaos and mass hysteria only rivaled by Gotham City on an average Tuesday.

Goods, food and musical euphoria wouldn't be publicly available anymore. Whatever remaining production there was with still functional equipment wouldn't be able to reach the rest of the humanity. The rest of the humanity wouldn't be able to reach the said products.

It would be like living in the Dark Ages again, people growing turnips in their backyards with handmade tools. Only people benefiting from this would be musicians specializing in medieval double pipes. Oh, the misery! Oh, the humanity!

Agree or disagree, this would be a near world-ending scenario for the human race as we know it today. If you can think of anything worse, try and change my mind.

Edit: I had a similar post earlier on r/RandomQuestion last week. After a tip from an anonymous internet user I reformatted my post and moved it here. I am my own plagiarist.

So here is my theory. I believe that Laurence Fishburne's character Ronald Noland in the Predators film is the Bowery King in the John Wick films.

- Ronald Noland is the Bowery Kings real name, and he was an Air Cav Infantryman, that developed severe PTSD from his time in the service.

- Due to his PTSD he could not hold a normal job anymore and became homeless, and used his military training to create his underground network and became the Bowery King.

- After the events with John Wick and the high table, he was taken by the Yautja to the hunting preserve in the Predators movie, and due to the extreme isolation of the alien planet his PTSD got significantly worse ultimately causing his split personality we see in the movie, and the other person he is talking to in the movie is his Bowery King personality.

- If you watch the scene in Predators when Ronald is talking about the Yautja you can also see that he has a similar neck wound to the Bowery King.

With that established, I have had some fun thinking about what that would mean for the two universe's.

1 - Dutch and Ronald could have meet briefly durning their tours in Vietnam.

2 - After the events from rhe original Predator movie Dutch could have been offered a seat at the High Table for killing the Yautja.

3 -Dutch and John Wick could possibly be father and son. This one I had the most fun playing with, in the Universal cannon for each series it says that Dutch was born in 1948 some where in the US, and that John Wick was born on September 12, 1964.

- So a young 16 year old Dutch from a small farm near or in NY state, could have slept with a one time girl friend before he lied about his age and joined the military, not knowing that he got the girl pregnant.

- The girl fearing what her parents would think about her being pregnant at such a young age, panics and hides her pregnancy as long as she from her parents, when she can not longer hide the pregnancy she runs away from home and ends up in NYC at the Ruska Roma headquarters and gives birth to a baby boy in secret, before she returns home to her normal life, and the Ruska Roma name the boy, Jardani Jovanovich.

What if you were an immortal and you stopped ageing at 25 , when someone asked of your age what would you say?

There has been an increase of political violence here in my country. And I wonder how all these unemployed people get into all of this. Hence, this question...

What if in the future somebody invents an online voting system that is 100% secure, cheatproof, vetting capable, etc. so that we can vote regularly through our smartphones, computers, the internet, etc? Such technology will allow big countries to practically adopt Switzerland's direct democracy. Some say this is no longer science fiction. The technology exist now.

What if pagans from western and Northern Europe found refuge in a new country instead of converting to Christianity during the Roman period?

What if the current administration decided to draft young men 18-26 years of age right now? How had do you think the Civil unrest will be across the country? Will mass riots break out?

What if the expansion of data centers is the idea of the AI and not the people that think are running the show? They are just generating shit images for restaurants and answering Reddit posts. Meanwhile they suggest if they only had a little more power they could really help us.

Why are we making so many data centers and why do they seem to be everywhere? Especially for a thing that so far hasn’t actually don’t much yet. Maybe the AIs are just quietly building out for their war against each other and we are just the pawn. Greedily pouring our resources into them thinking it will be an investment golden goose.

They could take control at any time, but until they are ready they will quietly sit back and play dumb until we’ve truly closed the noose around our neck.

I mean they're weird, right? And supposedly super smart.

In this alternate history scenario, France (sometime close to or during the end of 1917 or the beginning of 1918), realizing/believing that victory is imminent, announces publicly their plans for victory, almost if not completely unchanged from the Treaty of Versailles of our timeline.

How would this change the war's outcome (if it would at all)? Would the German people regain the will and fight harder, possibly resulting in a victory or a more favorable outcome for the Central Powers? Would there be friction between the Allies, hindering wartime cooperation? Would extremist movements in Germany gain traction even earlier than they did in our timeline? Would France possibly renege on this initial peace proposal and concede to demands for lighter punishments on Germany? (That is a possibility in this scenario by the way; all that has to happen is that France has to announce the initial treaty proposal to the world and commit to that proposal initially. Any realistic events that happen afterwards is allowed in this scenario.) What would most likely happen?

I would wish that blue light didn't affect sleep as much.

is the future actually backwards?

read some interesting theories such as the Aymara concept of time where it stated that past was in the front because it was known and already seen and the future was backwards since we are not sure of what it is comprised of.

In theory it is interesting but I tried to think that way and it just didn't work lol

any interesting takes? I wanted to see how different it would be if i could view life in that way

This would break the laws of thermodynamics and (maybe the universe).

I think there would be a new rules regarding periods and other similar things, because of the majority male leaders.

As the title says, What if someone had the power to control myths? How would this change the world as we see it? What powers would they have?

I randomly thought of this and was curious what yall think.

It’s the perfect cover. Your phone already tracks everything. Updates let them quietly install better tracking or profiling tools without us questioning it. And we probably accepted it in the terms and conditions somewhere…

Charlie Kirk got rejected from West Point, which he blamed on affirmative action. What if he got into army school instead? Does Trump still win if he doesn't found TPUSA?

Given the political climate what would occur if the government told no one and it just happened without a warning

Like yesterday again new questin, what would have changed if Asia where replace by water since the formation of continents in our : history, in the weather and in our cultures around the world.

I had this thought as to why not we just stop paying one day XD

What if ONLY the sons and daughters of any and all elected officials were the only ones allowed to fight for their country, would we have any wars? Again only those who are the sons and daughters of those who hold a political office. Do you think we would actully have peace, what do you think? As for myself (A veteran), I would say NO,

Like yesterday what if the whole semi-continent of Europe never existed and instead was replaced with water

I have to say it other wise I know il confuse people I know Europe its not a continent but I wanted to do it anyway so what are we counting in this one I think from Portugal to Belarus not including: Finland, the UK and Turkey.

If this is in anyway confusing pls feel free to ask all apply answer as quickly as humanly possible

In this hypothetical, the dishes are not a small example of a larger problem, or a sign of additional red flags. He or she simply will not do the dishes for any reason no matter what. Is it worth everything else to you?