The Green Room vol.3

Along those lines too, certain foods are poisonous or at least inedible unless you go through extensive prep like maybe boiling them for 18 hours. Simple cashews are poisonous unless you get rid of all the oil on them before eating them. Which caveman saw his buddies dying from eating this stuff, and thought, well maybe they just didn't cook it long enough?

At some point, someone watched a civet taking a shit and thought, "I bet if I ground that up and ran it through a coffee maker, it would taste amazing and people would pay insane amounts for it."

Like, how does that even enter into your thought process?

Domination used to require an army of compliant followers. Information gathering. Logistics. Etc etc.

Everything this requires, except physical force, can be accomplished by a very small group of people now via computers and the internet. We're going to be extra fonked less than a decade after viable robots see widespread adoption.

Modern technology is a force multiplier for evil more than any other beneficiary.

Sylvester Stallone still has the 2 turtles that were in the first Rocky movie.

If we are living in a computer simulation, then cleromancy (I Ching, casting bones, reading tea leaves, etc) could have been a primitive means of determining future chaotic events by sniffing out random seeds of the universe's Pseudo Random Number Generator algorithm.

If we ever invent faster than light travel we could theoretically travel far far away and catch the light that was leaving our planet 2,000 years ago and essentially have satellite images of Ancient Rome or other time periods in the history of the planet.

Is luck more like a stream or a finite pool?

It seems to be streaky, which is why when you luck out people will tell you to hurry up and go buy a lottery ticket. But some people also clearly think it's a finite pool because they talk about being glad they're not wasting all their good luck on meaningless stuff.

When you bite down on something you're really biting up on it, since only your lower jaw actually moves.

The rise in anal activities correlates to the loss of taste and smell.

I wonder what portion of our modern increase in life expectancy is due to abortion eliminating serious health problems that would have likely increased the child mortality rate.

What if the reason why the end of dreams time perfectly (sometimes ironically perfect) to waking up is because the entire dream is only a fraction of a second with a sense of time that’s much slower, and the entirety of the dream actually starts from the point of waking up?

A clock that goes above your TV, but instead of telling the current time it tells you what time it currently is in the TV show you're watching.

You know how some people always sneeze twice? And if there are enough people in the room, more people chime in with "bless you" on the second sneeze?

Well, what if the second sneeze actually came about as a result of evolution? Receiving more blessings means you are more likely to live on and pass on your DNA than people who only receive a single sneeze's worth of blessings.

Skateboarding is not a crime

30 years later

Gender is a social construct

Why do we pay attention to teenager fads all of the sudden

The critical failure of Taco Bell is that in order to put hot sauce on the "food", you have to see inside what you're about to eat.

Life after 50

Is it weird that I wish Marvel supervillains were real?