System At The Track A long time ago, long before the internet became popular, I bought this system that would allegedly teach you how to make easy money at the track. The sales letter, an old school, actual letter you’d get in the mail, made this sound like a fantastic system that would allow […]
Self Sabotaging Magic
Circus Theory In the circus, they have trapeze artists whose job it is to flip around up in the air, so people can watch this and be entertained. But to maximize the enjoyment of these tricks, they must provide a safety net for the trapeze artists. Without a safety net, the trapeze artists […]
Weaponized Love Spells
Sucker Every Minute PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But the corollary to that idea is that we are suckers because we are willing to believe things that are too good to be true. And when it comes to modern snake oil scams that we keep falling for […]
Insanity Resonance Chamber
Mass Hysteria A weird phenomenon that pop ups now and again is the idea of mass hysteria. It’s one thing if an individual has some kind of hallucination. And this hallucination is significantly different than reality. Eventually you’ll find out that this hallucination is false. Hallucination Resonance https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov09Loop.mp4 But when you […]
Sexy Witch Librarian
Human Memory Human memory is a very squirrely concept. Everybody has memories of studying hard for a test, and getting a C. This is case of knowing exactly what to remember, but not being able to remember this effectively. Other times things happen unexpectedly, and don’t know how to remember this. […]
Circles Bread and Pi
Bread Making The other day I was making some bread but I forgot to put in the baking powder. You can use baking powder in bread that doesn’t require yeast. Since I didn’t have any yeast, but I had some baking powder, I figured it would work well enough. But I forgot […]
Acoustic Resonance Brainwashing
Greek Plays I would have been cool to be alive back in ancient Greece when they had local plays put on at local amphitheaters. From today’s perspective, this doesn’t seem very special. This doesn’t seem very extraordinary. But today, we have access to tons of material to satisfy our story instinct. […]
Infinite Goal Pursuits
Approaching Infinity There are certain mathematical functions that are only interesting around infinity. Of course, since infinity is not really anything that we can think about, we have to think about this in abstract terms. So these mathematical functions can’t really be solved, like normal algebraic equations, where X is some specific number […]
Subconscious Time Control
Trampoline Train I saw a pretty cool video the other day. A bunch of guys doing tricks on a trampoline, but the trampoline was on an open train car that was moving pretty quickly along the train tracks. From the trampoline perspective, they were only moving up and down. But from the […]
Bacon Defense Patterns
Vegan Dinner Invitation A friend of mine invited me to dinner a couple of weeks ago. He warned me that it was going to be a vegetarian dinner. Which meant that there would be a lot of vegetarian dinner. Since I love to eat meat, I was a little worried I might […]
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