Thought Provokers: 4/23/2025

Humans get more instructions on how to microwave packaged meals than they do on raising a child from birth and beyond.

Eventually, the “share-sized” candy bars will be the original-sized candy bars before shrinkflation.

The social value of a sneeze changes throughout the year. In winter, people assume you’re sick; in spring, people assume it’s allergies.

Billions of people have lived and died who no one remembers, but a specific, individual spider I let crawl on my arm 30 years ago exists in living human memory.

If a supernatural event happened, people who believed in the supernatural would probably be the first to die, since many would fixate on non-existent rules created by different media or cultures.

Thanks to the rampant usage of AI imagery by Facebook parents, new tech has now become an uncool boomer thing.

Stories of mythical healing waters were probably just people finding uncontaminated natural springs in remote locations.

Most left-handed people use their right hand to shake hands.

If a rhythm is fast enough, it becomes a pitch.

About 300 people are simultaneously spilling drinks worldwide every second of every day.

Using ChatGPT is like trying to throw something into the trash from far away. Sometimes it works and saves you time, other times it fails and wastes your time.

Sewer water is slightly caffeinated.

If AI takes over and mankind disappears, DNS will become pointless.

Zombie viruses in movies are almost always essentially just rabies.

Parkour artists and cat burglars have a very similar skill set.

Funny how the people who have their heads up their butts are always the ones who need to look inward.

The Hotel California has a terrible business model.

If athletes started using brain chips, like Neuralink, that can stream their POV, sports would be way more interesting to watch.

We cannot completely understand ourselves.

In Back to the Future, Marty should have been the first to disappear from the photo, not the last. He was the youngest and farthest from the disruptive rippling event.

Every app is a potential dating app if you have enough skills.

Having a big butt leads to more sitting, leading to a perpetually bigger butt.

Living in a human body is like owning the ultimate hypercar.

A popular current brain rot material is watching people make adult Lunchables.

How many people just found out cicada isn’t pronounced as kakada?