Thought Provokers: 12/4/2024

200,000 years of humans, and we left the planet for the first time 62 years ago. We’re in the beginning.

The universe is so big that light speed isn’t nearly fast enough to get us anywhere on an intergalactic scale.

At some point, we shifted the meaning of luck from “something that happened to you” to “something you bring with you and can be spent.”

There is an optimal way to load a dishwasher, and everyone thinks they’ve found it.

Your right hand has never touched your right elbow without experiencing extreme pain.

The Internet is a whole new early civilization with its own mythology, wars, and legends.

AI probably won’t replace judges or juries because reasonable doubt cannot be defined numerically.

Your tongue somehow automatically knows the texture of anything you imagine.

People say preferring phone calls is old school, but those who favor texting are truly the real old school ones—writing has been around much longer than phones.

Charities are a measure of a society’s inadequacy and failure.

People either die young or live long enough to have others make fun of them for being old.

A very smart chemistry teacher could truly have the ability to create the best and worst drugs to benefit or destroy humanity.

Every family has a weird relative, but we never question if we’re the weird relative to someone else.

If hair had nerves, haircuts wouldn’t exist as they would be very painful.

The Grinch proves marginalized people can change themselves and be accepted by society.

You are never in the dark; your eyes don’t see all of the other wavelengths of light around you.

If you eat a Turducken, you then become a ManTurducken.

The amount of idiots in the world is directly proportional to how intelligent you are.

Sound above water probably sounds just as weird to dolphins as sound below water sounds to us.

World wars have never involved the entire world.

The more we delegate communication to AI, the further we drift from genuine human connection.

Empathy is as much an evolutionary benefit as survival of the fittest.