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13 Ways It Could All Be Worse

On the bright side, it could be darker

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Greg Nix
Apr 11, 2025
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Things are rough right now. There aren’t many silver linings to be found, what with the horrors and all. But when you’re struggling to see the light, sometimes it’s instructive to think about how much worse it could all be. There are, in fact, tons of ways life could be either incrementally or immensely more annoying.

Here are thirteen of them.

  1. Cars could make the same sound as an angry swarm of bees, and then you’d never know if there are angry bees around or not.

  2. You could be living in an era before they invented showers.

  3. Donald Trump could be 42 years old.

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