Thought Provokers: 8/28/2024

There are probably a ton of people entirely willing to murder people but don’t because they don’t think they can do it without getting caught.

If we ever defeat global warming, the denialists will never be proven wrong.

Maybe we should start fighting for a lower maximum wage.

Raygun is the most famous breakdancer of our time.

The average woman sees more blood matter in her lifetime than the average man.

In 257 B.C., Eratosthenes used trained walkers to measure the distance between two cities. Two thousand years later, Google Maps is doing the same thing.

If TikTok existed in the late ‘80s, Milli Vanilli would’ve been TikTok stars instead of “singers.”

Countries that have experienced less poverty in recent history tend to eat less hot food.

Since all these AI can’t think, this robot uprising could be considered a (philosophical) zombie apocalypse.

Truly childsafe scissors must be so blunt that you can’t even classify them as ‘scissors.’

Books with prologues have a chapter 0.

The only rule you need is “do not break the rules.”

Exotic botanical gardens for which you must pay an entry fee are the plant equivalent of animal zoos.

We’re lucky the body is so good at insulating internal smells.

We should start to eat endangered species instead of pigs and cows because then we’ll immediately start breeding them by the billions.

The most probable thing is that you’re living during the peak time of humankind’s population.

If all music is vibration, then a vibrator should be a musical instrument.

Due to inflation, the ‘If I Had a Million Dollars’ song has not aged well.

Ketchup, pickle jars, and other fridge space-hoggers should be like toothpaste containers, self-minimizing their volume as they’re used.

We probably only see low-quality robbery footage because suspects in the high-quality footage are identified quickly.

Thanks to the internet, many magicians do reveal their secrets.

There are so many rare diseases out there that the chances of you getting at least one rare disease aren’t low.

The idiom “there is nothing new under the sun” can be found in the Bible itself, which shows just how true it is.

Shaping bottles of honey like bears is pretty insulting to bees. You know, the animals that made the honey.

Many people still choose to manually flush an automatic toilet with a button, which means self-driving cars will never be the universal norm.