More Funny Photos That Aged Like Milk

• Could 2020 be better than 2019?

  

  Like the rest of us, this person started out 2020 with optimism and hope that the new year would be better than 2019. However, just one day after their tweet on January 1 2020, the s**t show had already began. 

  On January 1, pro-Iranian protestors attacked the US embassy in Baghdad, the Australian bushfires were continuing to destroy homes and kill people and wildlife, and Jakarta was submerged in deadly floodwaters. 

  On January 2, the US retaliated in Baghdad, and a US ordered missile strike killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani (which resulted in a heated round of retaliatory missile strikes at US bases and further degradation between US and Iranian relations). 

  So, no, things did not get better than in 2019. From the first day of 2020, things got worse and worse. 

  Via Reddit

• The mighty fax machine

  

  Although he was a Nobel prize winning economist, Paul Krugman's prediction was about as wrong as it could have been. In 1998, 41% of adults were using the internet but only 9% of households had access to the internet (compared to 90% today). Granted, nothing like the internet had existed before so we don't blame Krugman for his way-off quote. But nevertheless, his quote has aged like milk. 

  The internet has done more for the economy than the fax machine could dream of. Today (especially in 2020), online shopping is the preferred way of shopping for billions of people. The internet gave birth to many concepts that revolutionized the economy, from social media to e-commerce. We could go on about this all day, but let's put it simply: you don't carry around a fax machine in your pocket, do you? 

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• USA, the pandemic hero

  

  Before 2020 the idea of a pandemic lived in science fiction books and movies. And that was when this chart was made. At the top of the list of which countries are best prepared to deal with a pandemic sits the proud USA. It's laughable how wrong this list is. Let's examine the reality of the USA in a pandemic. 

  Of all the countries in the world, the USA has recorded the highest numbers of cases of Covid-19 (currently over 12 million) and deaths (currently over 250,000). While we won't go into the politics of why America has handled the pandemic terribly, let's take a moment to laugh at how incorrect this table is. Aged. Like. Milk. 

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• Naughty Santa

  

  These hilarious tweets come only 5 hours apart. In the first tweet, Jackie is presumably upstairs on Christmas eve when she hears a commotion downstairs. She jokes that Santa is inside her house making the noise, and invites him to make a sandwich. Then, 5 hours later Jackie posts photos of her house trashed, saying that her house was robbed. 

  The main thing we have to ask ourselves is, does Jackie really believe in Santa? If not, why wasn't she worried about the sounds coming from downstairs? By the looks of her house, the robbers really went for it. That would have been really loud. But Jackie just sat upstairs, laughing about how Santa was making noise... Jackie had it coming to her. 

  Via Reddit
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  In March, Boris Johnson, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, visited a hospital and was quoted saying that he will continue to shake hands with people, despite warnings from health officials that this is one of the main ways Covid-19 can spread. 

  Then only 24 days later, Johnson announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19 and spent some time in a hospital because his symptoms were so severe. Probably shouldn't have been shaking so many people's hands in hospitals. LOL. 

  Via Reddit

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