Forget about shrimp. If you had to choose between infinite humans experiencing fleeting, barely perceptible pain or one human experiencing unbearable torture for their entire (finite) life, which would you choose?

This upstanding fellow blocked me, but I assume his point here is about the fact that the primary point of Orson Welles' speech hinges on a fact that turns out to be false and that we should not base our world view on fiction

Art must only ever endorse my values. Do not ever under any circumstance make art with values that do not perfectly align with mine

Me, inviting friends over in the middle of summer: perhaps I should set the thermostat lower than 80, just for today

I hear this very often actually

Kind of wild that the very first full length CGI movie was the best one

Life pro tip: I just dreamed an entire Fantastic Four movie, saving me nearly $15 at the movie theater

I'm looking to buy an ev and I can feel myself becoming more anti-car by the second. r/fuckcars has won. They are just objectively correct

Just saw an ad claiming that Gatorade "hydrates better than water" and, uh, I think we might need a new word for whatever Gatorade is doing

When do you think personal names were invented? Are they exactly as old as language? Do they predate language? Dolphins have signature whistles, so it's at least possible that names could have existed without the rest of language!

I have to point out once again that linguistics is not on this graph, so I must assume the chart could not contain it

Benjamin Button was born an old man, but he was the size and shape of a baby. He died as a baby, but he wasn't the size and shape of an old man. How can this be

Finally watching Strange New Worlds, and I gotta say, it's nice finally having a modern Trek series as good as the one Seth MacFarlane made as a joke

Delirious, dream-induced thoughts while halfway between sleep and waking: Hyperspace in Star Wars is Hell, they're traveling through the underworld, avoiding the shadows of the real world. Nightcrawler teleports through brimstone. This is in our collective unconscious

There's this belief that the primary function of a college degree is wealth signaling. But this doesn't make any sense to me, because: (1) anybody can get federally guaranteed student loans; (2) the zip code of your high school has got to be a much more direct signal of wealth

The local community college has FOUR personal enrichment continuing ed courses on homeopathy. Are we cooked??