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[WP] You work for the CIA who send you undercover in the FBI, who send you undercover in MI6, who send you undercover in the CIA, who are very confused that you are back after only two weeks.
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[WP] When new planets are introduced to the galactic community, there is typically a rush from the elite to procure expensive and rare pets, which are promptly discarded after a few months. This is normally no problem, until Earth was discovered and the universe learned about invasive species.
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[WP] For as long as you can remember you've worn eye glasses. Your parents always made sure you had them on and you formed the habit. One day you forget them and you realize you can see something no one else can.
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[WP] In the basement of the Stanford neuroscience building, a group of humanoid robots embedded with AI are assigned "robot" and "human" roles. The results of what is now known as "the Stanford human experiment" shocked the world.
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[WP] Rather than voting on a human to represent us, we started voting directly, issue-by-issue, on our smartphones. Its been 3 years since we transitioned to this style of democracy.
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[WP] The Gods selected one human at random and created the Apocalypse based on that human’s worst fears. The human they chose was a toddler though, so when the Apocalypse came it was just clowns, vacuum cleaners, and broccoli.
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[WP] It's 2073, and Humanity has just developed interstellar travel and discovered that our technology is centuries behind everyone else's, with one exception: No other civilization has ever figured out how to modify their own genes.
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[WP] You just discovered that you have the ability to know the correct answer to any question, but only after it has been asked by someone other than yourself. During trivia night, your friends begin to catch on. It's all fun until someone asks a question no human was meant to know the answer to.
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[WP] Seven days ago, all international governments announced that in 24 hours humanity would be wiped out by a catastrophic & unavoidable event. They miscalculated. Humanity now has to live with the consequences of a day spent without a 'tomorrow'.
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