Thought Provokers: 11/6/2024

Sayings like “the understatement of the year” are often overstatements.

Biologically, evolution automatically creates the illusion of intelligent design.

Maturity is knowing when to be immature.

Most dogs understand more human words than humans understand dog words.

Coming up with a new, unique, random idea is impossible because you can only combine preexisting ideas with observations/memories of the things that happen around you. Anything you think of out of “thin air” can be linked to these things.

For some premodern folk, public executions were probably a way of satisfying their morbid curiosity around death in a similar way to what true crime podcasts and murder dramas do for people today.

We have names for months and days, but we don’t have names for weeks.

If bugs had a society like ours, their daily routine would be nonstop funerals.

Eating an ape would make you a kind of cannibal.

Someone must have the difficult job of mowing the grass at Machu Picchu.

It’s possible to be stung by a bee whose honey you’ve eaten.

Celebrities manage to go broke despite being able to sell autographs.

We have reached a point in civilization where a household pet dog has eaten more exotic meat, has more belongings, and has been treated better than most humans were only 100 years ago.

“We’re cutting your hours” is equal parts awesome and terrible to salaried and hourly workers, respectively.

Companies could do us all a favor by labeling the up-side of a USB drive. It would cost them almost nothing and help us avoid putting it in wrong.

Actors who portray a vile historical figure must feel awkward when complimented for their performance.

The majority of humans are contained in the North Eastern Hemisphere.

The creepiness of a spider is roughly proportional to its leg length to torso length ratio.

You don’t die in real life if you die in the game. However, if you die in real life, you die in the game.

It’s easy to change your life for the worse permanently, but not for the better.

North Americans are often derided for their low spice tolerance but are seldom lauded for their high sweetness tolerance.

Current history-based professions will be necessary to record knowledge of the past.

We like to monitor weight loss but are mostly interested in volume loss.

We are all trying to prove that something matters.