Thought Provokers: 3/12/2025

It’s probably much less common for friends to share the same first name in fiction than in real life.

You can tell if a business was founded before the internet because it uses tricks to get its name to the front of the alphabet in the phone book (e.g., A1 Storage, AAA Cleaning, etc.).

Clocks with chimes are noisiest during the same hours most people try to fall asleep.

Nowadays, dating apps feel like playing against someone instead of meeting someone.

Cowboys are a type of wizard. They wear wide-brimmed hats, ride horses, and smoke, and instead of casting fireballs, they cast bullets.

Humans have different preferences for foods based on how much the atoms in the food are wiggling.

We should all have AI-safe words to tell the people close to us to prevent malicious deepfakes of ourselves.

Coin-operated toy capsule vending machines are the precursor to modern-day loot boxes.

As technology advances, future robots will be programmed exclusively for right-handed operation.

You probably would get bored watching a time-lapse film of your life.

There would be far fewer snotty-nosed kids if tissues smelled like chocolate.

Since wealthy people can afford better food, they probably taste better.

Pong is named after ping-pong, but it plays more like air hockey.

In this age of digital currency, some people still don’t have two coins to rub together despite not being broke.

Right now may be the last point in history when we can be absolutely certain a human wrote a text.

Phone cameras may have done more to deter crime than any law or technological advancement.

Many “duels at dawn” would have been missed due to the alarm clock not being invented and people sleeping in.

If you put on a pair of underwear on top of another pair, then it’s not technically underwear anymore.

Forensic Analysis and Archaeology are in the same field, but the main factor is how long the body has been there.

“Down” is always perceived as the direction with the most gravitational force.

While good people may learn history to avoid the mistakes of the past, so too will malicious people.

We all could be living in our own simulations where only we live forever and everyone else dies one by one. We have no way to prove or disprove it.

When you throw something away, it just goes to a different place in the world.

You are someone’s emotional support animal.