Thought Provokers: 10/23/2024

Employers want employees to do as much work as possible while learning the fewest marketable skills possible.

We know every phone number in the world, just not who it belongs to.

Teachers should collab with video game makers to make education engaging.

Alarm clocks would wake up people faster if they played in odd meters.

Most of the animal sounds we know come from the animals’ mouths, but a bee’s buzzing comes from its wings.

There has probably already been an AI-written obituary.

Attractive traits are evolutionary advantages, but why are curly eyelashes attractive when eyelashes are supposed to protect your eyes?

People would pay more attention to car alarms if they screamed like someone in distress.

We are possibly on the only timeline where the most iconic video game character of all time is a fat Italian plumber with a big mustache instead of a traditionally cool character like a spiky-haired teenager.

Dogs have four knees.

There are always many violins and other instruments in orchestras, yet there’s always only one piano.

Coffee shop bathrooms likely have the highest poops-to-customer ratio out of any vendor.

As robotic vacuums become more popular, furniture will be designed to accommodate adequate clearance.

The early worm is the first to be eaten.

It’s easier to accept conspiracy theories than scientific ones because understanding science requires studying.

Most mermaids in “The Little Mermaid” wear seashells that match their tails, but Ariel wears purple seashells despite having a green tail. This makes sense because Ariel has six older sisters (two of whom have purple tails), so she’d likely get hand-me-down seashells.

You can read more words than you can spell correctly.

Considering the possibility of civilization collapse due to climate change, maybe the Mayan calendar was right after all. Maybe 2012 was the tipping point.

The person next to you can never tell that you winked at someone across from you.

People are nostalgic for the world of Friends, a time that never really existed.

There are so many last moments we never realize are the last until years later.