It was the case; except this (the flooding of the Mediterranean) happened around 6 million years ago. Way too long to affect human civilization. Heck, at the time, the future human species was only splitting up with the future chimpanzee branch.
Not quite, but the Japanese see your perfumed water, and raise you the toilet with foam to prevent noise.
(the video is in french, but you can still admire the invention in action)
It's still theoretically illegal, meaning if some AI system notices, the account will be locked.
Do not underestimate the capacity of modern AI/dataminers to notice stuff like that.
(includes also tweaks to remove all the trash and google trying to guess what you really meant instead searching what you typed)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets-you-kill-ai-search-for-good/
And it is reflected in the time spent. Expansion hit MMORPG X, people do the quest lines in 10-15-20h, done, and then spend the next six months doing something else that is totally separate from that questing experience. That's true even for story-focused games like FF14. The MSQ is done by the...