Thought Provokers: 6/26/2024

Middle-class people have to do the most yard work and house cleaning. They aren’t rich enough to hire someone else to do it but rich enough to afford a larger place.

Birds have diarrhea their entire lives.

Physics is math constrained by the limits of reality, and engineering is physics constrained by money limits.

A source of a large amount of microplastics in your body is probably daily toothbrush and floss use.

The time gap between when Austin Powers was frozen in the ‘60s and thawed out in the ‘90s is nearly identical to the stretch from when the movie debuted to today. Talk about a groovy time warp!

Humans routinely enhance their look and smell but not their sound.

Knowing what and how to say something intentionally hurtful takes a lot of empathy.

In a walk-in freezer, ice is room-temperature water.

Roughly the same amount of time has passed between the ends of the Civil War and World War II and between the end of World War II and now.

People in movies are either incredibly easy or incredibly difficult to knock out.

Life imprisonment will be more miserable once medical advancements extend the human lifespan significantly.

Almost everyone will be able to tell you what their dominant hand is, but very few people ever consider they also have a subconscious preference for how they fold their arms.

The refrigerator is the most pest-proof place in the house.

Someday, people watching That 70s Show for the first time won’t realize it wasn’t shot in the 70s, just like some of us didn’t realize Happy Days wasn’t shot in the 50s.

“Hit the gas” is a colloquialism that may endure for countless years into the electric vehicle era. Much like the 3.5” disk save icon.

Once the glaciers are gone, the blue/turquoise alpine lakes will eventually lose their color.