Old Weird Friend I had a friend way back in college who worked at 7-11. This guy was a real weirdo. This guys said his favorite part was stocking the fridge. Secret Break Time https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept29Loop.mp4 That this was a place he could escape from the customers and relax. But then later, […]
Hallucination Instinct
Viking Invasions During the early middle ages in Europe, life was very chaotic. One reason was that for about 300 years, the Vikings had a short term, lighting attack based, military superiority. They had these thin boats that didn’t need a lot of depth. They could sail up rivers, deep into Europe. […]
Malthusian Death Traps
Black Death Back during the black death, nobody knew why everybody was dying. Of course, today we know it’s because of the fleas that were on the rats. But back then, it was way before they could understand science. Way before we humans learned how to use science to increase health and […]
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 […]
Cannibal Buffet
Bad Business Plan There was this new buffet the opened up a few weeks ago. I’m generally not a big fan of buffets, but this particular restaurant had spent a lot of money on marketing. I kept getting a lot of fliers, and the prices were really low. So low I wanted […]
Photographic Fear Elimination
Childhood Fear Creation Developing childhood fears is a pretty common experience. A common example is when a kid touches a hot stove. Before this fear is hard wired in to the poor kids brain, the stove is a this cool looking thing. It creates really cool smells. Happy Place https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept24Loop.mp4 All […]
The Missing Gorilla Paradox
Perception Limits There’s a famous video that allegedly points out the discrepancies and inadequacies in human perception. The point is to show that even if you pay attention to something, you will miss most of what is going on here. You’ve no doubt seen this video, as this one is really popular. […]
Science, Magic and Brainwashing
Doctor Lecture I was watching an interesting lecture by this doctor a few weeks ago. He was talking about how, when he first was a doctor working in the ER, he remembered having more compassion for some patients and less compassion for other patients. This was because he assumed that some patients were […]
Peanut Butter Industrial Complex
Carnegie Origin Story How To Win Friends and Influence People is one of the best self help book written for a lot of reasons. Carnegie realized a long time before wrote the book that the quickest way to be able to increase social confidence was through public speaking. But not being able to […]
Multi Verse Nail Sex
Tattooed Love Girl I met this girl in a bar a couple of weeks ago. She had tons of tattoos and I wanted to ask her about them. But at the same time I recognized this is a common pickup line, to approach an attractive girl and ask her about her tattoos. […]
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