Random Thoughts That Don't Warrant Their Own Thread: 2024

I bet we'll find a cancer vaccine or gene editing or something and people will be astonished that so many humans regularly died of cancer.

 

This what I land on. And plate tectonics/how the inner levels of the earth work

 

wait, what???

 

I bet within 100-200 years we'll figure out some level of advanced propulsion that makes people think jet engines were like the horse and buggy. That is, assuming we don't kill ourselves as a species.

 

To piggy back on this one the very obvious answer is internal combustion engines.

 

This isnt really what Im think of. That and the cancer vaccine are more about technological advancements than just hypothesizing that is way off.

 

I have to blood let to manage a blood disorder there is no other way to manage.

 

Isn't germ theory just a technological advancement? Kind of hard for me to figure out where technological advancements end and incorrect hypothesis begin.

 

Don’t stop now I’m getting close

 

Maybe we'll better understand the Woke Mind Virus

 

Fair, but germ theory was around before we technically could prove it.

 

K if I'm picking medicine it's how the brain works. We mostly know mostly dick about how brains function and why certain medicines do certain things for them.

 

Pre modern medicine is so goddam funny to me. No shit Coca-Cola cures the common cold. It's got cocaine in it. Doctors recommending certain brands of cigarettes. Leeches. Shoe salesmen dying of cancer left and right because of xray machines giving them lethal doses of radiation. We killed several presidents just having no clue how the human body worked. Attributing a bunch of shit to basically bad smells

 

If we’re picking medicine for me it is going to be the move from our current view on medicine of managing an issue once it has reared its head to how we can better manage our genetics to reduce or lessen the impact of what we genetically inherit.

As we better understand the totality of the human genome we will be able to proactively reduce the impact of the major causes of disease (cancer, cardiac, neurological, etc) to die a more slow death than the fast deaths we are dealing with today.

 

I saw a study yesterday about how bad Splenda is, I am toast

 

Probably our understanding of how magnets work.

 

If you were a lab mouse, your brain would look like an extra from The Last of Us.

 

Truman given the anti-vaxx nonsense getting into overdrive lately, there may be a generation of kids from mostly GOP households that start to get measles and other shit that was once more or less eradicated decades ago. Or maybe the future world will be even more fucking insane.

 

One of my favorite parts of Slaughterhouse Five is that the alien time travelers know that they will destroy the universe while testing rocket fuel but refuse to change because they don’t believe in free will.

 

Love the part where the main character asks, "why don't you just not push the button?" and they all just laugh at how illogical the question is

 

I had never met someone named Elway until today. People in the Mountain West really love their Broncos

 

When my son was 10, we streamed Interstellar on a weekend night. We had a great discussion about basic concepts of space/time, including Einstein and the aliens in Slaughterhouse Five blowing up the universe.

Then he asked me how Kilgore Trout knew about the aliens, and I told him that the aliens captured him and put him in a zoo on their planet in an exhibit that looked like a normal house.

He freaked out and my wife was pissed at me for about a month before we could watch science fiction safely again.

 

David Byrne in Stop Making Sense kinda looks like Cillian Murphy

 

I'm sure some CUM fans named their kids Urban. Hopefully I'll never meet one.

I don't ever plan on visiting Ohio, so that seems like a good start.

 

I need to reread some Vonnegut.

 

Me too

 

Read Player Piano for the first time recently, really enjoyed it.

 

I actually had to read that in a business class at Ohio State. We read two fiction books, among the usual course materials, that and Horatio Alger’s Mark the Match Boy.

 

Does anyone have a good way of sharing a calendar with their spouse?

I have an Outlook calendar for work, an iCloud calendar via my phone (iCloud account uses my personal gmail email), and, apparently, a Google calendar via my personal Gmail account. It seems like I’m constantly having to tweak something to keep things up to date and in sync across phone, computer, and iPad. I prefer iCloud and Outlook (and use both apps on my phone and computer), but I just realized my wife sends things to my Gmail, I accept, it disappears into the ether, and I overlook something. There has to be a better way aside from giving in and just mixing personal and work calendars.

Apple Calendar is my go to, but it seems to have syncing issues at times and I miss things anyway. I’m thinking it’ll remain the go to, but sending/receiving invites to a spouse has to be easier than this… Maybe a shared email that you can just forward things to that get auto-accepted?

 

learning about the Deep South

 

MMT

 

Despite it being proven valid at every turn, MMT isn’t universally accepted or even close to it.

This is a poor effort on your part. Yet a great effort in making yourself look like a big dumb idiot.

 

siap

 

Plastics in/used for everything

 

I wouldn’t say it’s completely bulletproof but you have to laugh at the idea that MMT is orthodoxy during a debt ceiling debacle

 

You're not going to believe how bad the World Cup logo is for the 2026 one the US is hosting. It was just announced. Seriously, think about an awful logo and then open this

Spoiler

The "placeholder" logo is so much better

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both solid graphics

 

Should've hired this chic






I don't tiktok but she is fucking hilarious

 

WFH daily since March 2020.
Been at the office a couple times per year to pickup some equipment, and we've had about 2-3 meetings held in person since then.

 

also it doesn’t hurt that you want to have sex with her

 

More likely they find a way to weaponize something that powerful and use it to destroy the earth.

 

steady great filtering ourselves, fermi undefeated

 

edit:nevermind