Thought Provokers: 5/15/2024

Insurance is the only industry whose entire business model does not give you what you paid for.

Considering how advanced our species allegedly is, it’s amazing we haven’t evolved to live off of grass. This would have solved so many of our problems throughout history. Cows, deer, and many other mammals can live off of grass and similar foliage, but somehow, we can’t.

By your 30th birthday, you will have spent an entire month celebrating your birthday.

With the most powerful telescopes being mirror-based, we will never see the space vampires coming.

You rarely see banana ice cream.

A secret society of people living among us wash paper plates dozens of times.

At the beginning of the 20th century, it was possible to watch every movie ever made.

Drinking water with a minty mouth is the cold version of spicy.

There’s at least one person who despises your favorite artist, no matter how good you believe they are.

Some people applied for a job and eventually ended up being promoted to the position of secret CIA torture guy.

One of the downsides of being deaf is that you can’t hear when you’ve dropped something.

Many consider buying childish things weird unless you clarify that you’re a collector.

Ironically, you can’t fit much of anything inside a cornucopia.

One day, people might think it weird that we burn fossil fuels, just like we think it weird that we burned whale blubber to light street lamps 100+ years ago.

Insurance ads only have scenarios where the other party is liable.

The brain is always on autopilot.

Being born one year later or earlier can change the course of your life entirely.

Regarding $/hr of entertainment, video games are one of the cheapest options.

Oddly, the doornail became a measure of how dead something is.

When we were born, we were the freshest person on the planet for a few milliseconds.

A better way to lie is to always lie to yourself.

You never have 100% control of your body.

It makes no sense to ask someone if they are asleep because you may not get an answer, which is an answer, or you may get an incorrect answer indicating that you just woke them up.

Cafes: Morning’s version of pubs and bars.

You have to wait around, and then you get to enjoy eating again.

Jumping into bean bags while thinking it will be soft is the greatest deception in life.