Things You Pondered Today

[SneakySecrets]

In the future what will our age be called?
Like stone age, bronze Age, iron age and so on. Plastic age? I guess 70ish years isn't really age, maybe be a hundred by the time we stop using plastic shit if at all

I don’t think it would continue along the crafting material theme.  I’d have to imagine that it would involve the internet since that has so thoroughly altered basically every facet of our lives and doesn’t seem to be letting up any time soon.  Maybe “The Network Age” or something.

[tuesday]

Is anyone calling Andrew Reynolds 'Andy'?

[m path]

 The questionable assumption (imo) isn't whether the felled tree, with no witnesses to the event, made a sound.  The questionable assumption is that the tree in fact, 'fell'.  No more ludicrous to question the nature of the event itself if there is no witness then to ask whether there were perceived 'normal' repercussions like sound.   That's always troubled me.

[m path]

What if rollerblading is cool? I mean honestly I doubt it, I've always been mostly neutral towards it they're just people with a hobby like skateboarders just their hobby is dorkier BUT I watched a couple snowboard videos recently and I'm guessing because of that was recommended skiing videos thought fuck it and watched one and I think skiing is better looking than snowboarding. Rollerblading is just skiing without snow really.
Got a bit of a Schrodinger's cat scenario if I never watch a rollerblade video I know it's still that goofy thing I kinda remember from the 90s but if I watch one who knows...

   I'm not sure if rollerblading is cool but I have found that rollerbladers are cool.  Much respect for the ones I bump into at the park -generally they are vets.  Its prolly cool just to get off the couch.  (tbf I have never determined how exactly cool anything is except vulnerability I guess which isn't always easy.)

[Mean salto]

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What if rollerblading is cool? I mean honestly I doubt it, I've always been mostly neutral towards it they're just people with a hobby like skateboarders just their hobby is dorkier BUT I watched a couple snowboard videos recently and I'm guessing because of that was recommended skiing videos thought fuck it and watched one and I think skiing is better looking than snowboarding. Rollerblading is just skiing without snow really.
Got a bit of a Schrodinger's cat scenario if I never watch a rollerblade video I know it's still that goofy thing I kinda remember from the 90s but if I watch one who knows...

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   I'm not sure if rollerblading is cool but I have found that rollerbladers are cool.  Much respect for the ones I bump into at the park -generally they are vets.  Its prolly cool just to get off the couch.  (tbf I have never determined how exactly cool anything is except vulnerability I guess which isn't always easy.)

Lol since that post I decided fuck it and watched a couple shorter videos and not that embarrassed to say yeah it's kinda cool. Obviously there's a lot of tricks I don't like and I don't understand all the intricate differences between grinds or whatever but overall it's totally fine. Skateboarding still #1 but for a bit of a change like bmx it's  pretty ok

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What if rollerblading is cool? I mean honestly I doubt it, I've always been mostly neutral towards it they're just people with a hobby like skateboarders just their hobby is dorkier BUT I watched a couple snowboard videos recently and I'm guessing because of that was recommended skiing videos thought fuck it and watched one and I think skiing is better looking than snowboarding. Rollerblading is just skiing without snow really.
Got a bit of a Schrodinger's cat scenario if I never watch a rollerblade video I know it's still that goofy thing I kinda remember from the 90s but if I watch one who knows...

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   I'm not sure if rollerblading is cool but I have found that rollerbladers are cool.  Much respect for the ones I bump into at the park -generally they are vets.  Its prolly cool just to get off the couch.  (tbf I have never determined how exactly cool anything is except vulnerability I guess which isn't always easy.)

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Lol since that post I decided fuck it and watched a couple shorter videos and not that embarrassed to say yeah it's kinda cool. Obviously there's a lot of tricks I don't like and I don't understand all the intricate differences between grinds or whatever but overall it's totally fine. Skateboarding still #1 but for a bit of a change like bmx it's  pretty ok

  Omg bmx    - Yumi Tsukuda is very artful worth a watch.  He can legit skate too.  The S and M videos lately are feel gooders.  I can only do fakies myself and go around the pump track. Tried blading around a track with my ex just this year.  I like to jump on a scooter for 5 mins at the park whenever I can cause they're fun and its a flamboyant move.

[spooky electric]

In the future what will our age be called?
Like stone age, bronze Age, iron age and so on. Plastic age? I guess 70ish years isn't really age, maybe be a hundred by the time we stop using plastic shit if at all

this is cool. we're both in australia and i pondered the same thing on the same day - i came to no conclusion but it's nice to know the thought was being shared.

something i am pondering is how so many dudes i know get their girlfriends or whatever pregnant by "accident". maybe i'm sterile, but what's the deal? it's like they don't understand how sex works or something.

anyone who ever unintentionally/accidentally got someone pregnant got any further info/light to shed?

[Banned from the room]

The gasoline age is coming to a close

I ponder how fast is this?

[Banned from the room]

Also I was told that Andy Roy owns Violet. How do we find out?

[gub]

hi guys, i'm trying to find a video. i forget if it's jordan something or other but someone skates to chief keef "war" in a bronze video but i can't figure out which one. anyone remember that?

[Mean salto]

How did animals evolve to be poisonous? Like venomous sure that's a fukn classic but what benefit is being deadly after you've already been eaten? And then there's animals so poisonous they could kill thirty people etc like it doesn't even make sense you aren't hunting and mating more because you're so poisonous it's all fukn bullshit. 

[girlfriendplease]

why is everyone in Quora so smart?

[Natas Fauxas]

I was inhaling my lunch today and this dude cruised by and did the coolest looking ollie over a manhole cover. It was cool shifty style and he was going fast. It reminded me of when i was young and didnt know what skateboarding was.

Anyway, I ponder on how many others got the spark from seeing something like this? Like if thats what you saw one day and was like thats what i wanna do.

[EXTRA SPICY]

How did animals evolve to be poisonous? Like venomous sure that's a fukn classic but what benefit is being deadly after you've already been eaten? And then there's animals so poisonous they could kill thirty people etc like it doesn't even make sense you aren't hunting and mating more because you're so poisonous it's all fukn bullshit.

Long story short: Selective pressures based off of an initial radiation event followed by successful breeding for the trait.

Becoming a natural resources scientist removes all fun from nature. 10/10 would and would not recommend.

[Pasta Monster]

Did Dill find Jesus when coming down on drugs? I noticed that some FA pants have a patch with a cross on it, and some shirts have a crucifix zippers.

[GnarAlarm]

why is everyone in Quora so smart?

"If a women has starch masks on her body does that mean she been pargnet before?"

[Banned from the room]

How should I repair this? It's driving me crazy. I don't always wanna be going full tilt to get through the divot

[SneakySecrets]

If aliens come and visit us, I think it would be really cool of them if they just played along with all of the classic alien clichés.

If they make it here, they probably also have the technology to present themselves however they please. 

And they’d certainly be able to research what we think they might be like. 

And if they didn’t opt for our immediate annihilation/sexual subjugation, there’s a good chance that they’re pretty chill.

So I just think it would be nice if, for our benefit, they went through a list of the greatest hits: abductions via tractor beams, landing on the White House lawn and coming out and saying “take me to your leader”… that kind of shit. 

Also, after they adjudicate all the other, more important intergalactic political shit, I’d be curious to know what they think about skating.  I bet they’d be into it.

[matt_2993]

I wonder just how long I could keep my job by doing absolutely no work but still attending all meetings and dropping excuses about having to push out deadlines due to just being way too busy.

I'm pretty sure it could be months... with subtle effort probably a couple years

[SneakySecrets]

There’s a % chance greater than zero that I’m the greatest skater to have ever lived but have been unlucky enough to have had an unbroken streak of bad days for the past 21 years. 

[Mean salto]

What if there was an X-Men who's power was they couldn't die but they didn't know so they just lived a normal life.

[Deputy Wendell]

my national anthem

“As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
-Eugene V. Debs

[fineslime]

What if there was an X-Men who's power was they couldn't die but they didn't know so they just lived a normal life.

That's what us humans are already doing since only our physical forms die off. Our consciousness is infinite.

We're basically X-Men.

[rawr1922]

If aliens come and visit us, I think it would be really cool of them if they just played along with all of the classic alien clichés.

If they make it here, they probably also have the technology to present themselves however they please. 

And they’d certainly be able to research what we think they might be like. 

And if they didn’t opt for our immediate annihilation/sexual subjugation, there’s a good chance that they’re pretty chill.

So I just think it would be nice if, for our benefit, they went through a list of the greatest hits: abductions via tractor beams, landing on the White House lawn and coming out and saying “take me to your leader”… that kind of shit. 

Also, after they adjudicate all the other, more important intergalactic political shit, I’d be curious to know what they think about skating.  I bet they’d be into it.

Had a good chuckle the other night reading this.

Arctic Monkeys 5 million followers on insta . Just realized this , pretty fascinating. Can be a case study

[crepes]

How do horses see the world? Do they somehow coalesce 2 fields of vision like we do or is it split screen?

[SneakySecrets]

How do horses see the world? Do they somehow coalesce 2 fields of vision like we do or is it split screen?

I looked it up… according to Iowa State University:

Horses are equipped to be highly aware of peripheral motion. The motion of anything causes the horse to register what it is (a survival mechanism for the prey animal). Anything that moves, regardless of what it is, may cause the horse to initiate the flight response before a predator begins to approach. Horses use two-forms of vision, monocular and binocular. Monocular vision allows the horse to see on both sides of his head, meaning the left eye and the right eye work independently and see different views. Each eye sees across an arc of approximately 200–210 degrees around the body at one time. The monocular fields straight in front of the horse’s face overlap slightly resulting in a  binocular field between 65 and 80 degrees. The binocular field is responsible for depth perception. A horse’s depth perception is considerably less than for humans. Because of their vision capabilities allowing for a panoramic view, it is impossible to sneak up on a horse.

The blind area is directly behind the animal’s head and body and has an arc of approximately 20 degrees. The front blind spot is directly under the head, immediately in front of the forehead and below the body in front of the horse’s face. A horse can’t see what they eat (grass they graze or grain in the bucket), fingers that stroke their muzzle or even the bit they accept in their mouths.  If a person raises a hand suddenly, they appear to the horse to come out of nowhere.




https://www.extension.iastate.edu/equine/vision-equine

This seems to be very similar to the sight of other prey animals like rabbits and squirrels and shit.

[Mean salto]

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How do horses see the world? Do they somehow coalesce 2 fields of vision like we do or is it split screen?

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I looked it up… according to Iowa State University:

Horses are equipped to be highly aware of peripheral motion. The motion of anything causes the horse to register what it is (a survival mechanism for the prey animal). Anything that moves, regardless of what it is, may cause the horse to initiate the flight response before a predator begins to approach. Horses use two-forms of vision, monocular and binocular. Monocular vision allows the horse to see on both sides of his head, meaning the left eye and the right eye work independently and see different views. Each eye sees across an arc of approximately 200–210 degrees around the body at one time. The monocular fields straight in front of the horse’s face overlap slightly resulting in a  binocular field between 65 and 80 degrees. The binocular field is responsible for depth perception. A horse’s depth perception is considerably less than for humans. Because of their vision capabilities allowing for a panoramic view, it is impossible to sneak up on a horse.

The blind area is directly behind the animal’s head and body and has an arc of approximately 20 degrees. The front blind spot is directly under the head, immediately in front of the forehead and below the body in front of the horse’s face. A horse can’t see what they eat (grass they graze or grain in the bucket), fingers that stroke their muzzle or even the bit they accept in their mouths.  If a person raises a hand suddenly, they appear to the horse to come out of nowhere.




https://www.extension.iastate.edu/equine/vision-equine

This seems to be very similar to the sight of other prey animals like rabbits and squirrels and shit.

Assuming it works the same as human eyes/brains I think it's just the classic you can't see what you can't see and not like two or three seperate things going on in their head. Hold your hand between your eyes like you're stopping someone from poking them (3 stooges style) and your hand almost disappears. It's prob similar for the horses blindspot

[Mean salto]

In the not too distant past the earth still had megafauna. Compared to many dinosaurs these animals were probably considered small. In the future will we be considered the megafauna when most the earth's creatures have died out

[SneakySecrets]

Imagine if the universe didn’t produce any sort of conscious beings whatsoever.  All that crazy shit going on in the universe: all the black holes, stars, supernovae, planets, multiple light year wide nebulae, 100 billion-ish galaxies and no one or nothing would ever know about it. What a waste.

Would that be a huge bummer?  How could it if there was never anyone or anything to be bummed about it in the first place? 

Or is there some sort of intrinsic value to there being a universe, independent of whether or not there’s anything around to witness it?

Or is a universe without consciousness functionally the same as there being no universe at all?

Or is consciousness somehow fundamentally baked into the universe?  Maybe we since we only experience consciousness through the aperture of a brain and nervous system we can’t really grasp what another form of consciousness would look like without all that stuff.  Maybe the universe is constantly observing itself everywhere at all times.

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If you assume that only a living thing can be conscious, if all living things on the planet were to die at the exact same moment, would it really be a tragedy?

There would be nothing to even register that it happened… nothing would ever know.  Likewise, there would be nothing or no one around to feel any sort of sorrow or loss.  Can something even be bad if it literally never causes any negative impact whatsoever on a conscious being?

If that’s the case, then a mad scientist instantly killing every living thing on the planet is infinitely less morally reprehensible than someone using the last square of TP and not putting a new roll on the thing.  Kinda mindblowing if you think about it.

I can’t imagine that anyone is going to read this whole thing.  To anyone still reading, what’s wrong with you?  Don’t you have anything better to do?

[beandemon]

Give a monkey a brain…