Your pointless thoughts & observations

Just had an A+ pointless thought and observation - there are few pleasures in life greater than eating a microwaved Chinese style honey bun.

  On 2/4/2018 at 2:44 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Just had an A+ pointless thought and observation - there are few pleasures in life greater than eating a microwaved Chinese style honey bun.

mm honey bun. Do you like the steamed pork buns as well? (assuming you've had one). Such a simple but delicious pleasure.

Aye.  They are dope.

There are a few REALLY good places to get asian baked goods here (and stuff like Banh Mi). I imagine Vancouver is better; don't know much about Victoria as I'm usually just passing through on my way to Nanaimo. 

this is making me hungry lol

  On 2/4/2018 at 12:50 AM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 2/3/2018 at 8:28 PM, ignatius said:

 

  On 2/3/2018 at 12:17 PM, dr lopez said:

kelly macdonald is fucking hot

 

 

she's a god damned goddess.  hasn't everyone been in love w/her since trainspotting?

 

qft

 

 

I loved how she pulled off the accent.

shes also the hottest ghost in the harry potter series

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  On 2/4/2018 at 3:12 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

There are a few REALLY good places to get asian baked goods here (and stuff like Banh Mi). I imagine Vancouver is better; don't know much about Victoria as I'm usually just passing through on my way to Nanaimo. 

 

this is making me hungry lol

Our Chinatown is small but mighty.  Vancouver's Chinatown is like a mini-metropolis.  Goddamn I really want Chinese food now but nothing is open.  Fffffffffffuuuuuu 

...except for 7-11.  7-11 is open.  That somehow only makes things worse.

  On 2/4/2018 at 9:58 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 2/4/2018 at 3:12 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

There are a few REALLY good places to get asian baked goods here (and stuff like Banh Mi). I imagine Vancouver is better; don't know much about Victoria as I'm usually just passing through on my way to Nanaimo. 

 

this is making me hungry lol

 

Our Chinatown is small but mighty.  Vancouver's Chinatown is like a mini-metropolis.  Goddamn I really want Chinese food now but nothing is open.  Fffffffffffuuuuuu 

...except for 7-11.  7-11 is open.  That somehow only makes things worse.

 

how did this turn out? 

ginger beef taquito or some other 7-11 abomination? lol

The average person poops 360 lbs. worth of feces a year.

Thought exercise: Using a 70 year lifespan, the average person will poop roughly 25,200 lbs. (360 x 70)

The world holds 7 billion people. So throughout a 70 year cohort, there will be approximately 176,400,000,000,000,000 pounds of poop in total expelled. If you take into account all of the other animals on land, in the ocean, in the air, and all of the other people that were not counted among that cohort... that is a *lot* of poop.

Like how do you even comprehend that much in your mind? Each bowel movement that we have is around 1-4 pounds. Like if you were to imagine this 176,400,000,000,000,000 pound object existing in your mind as a spherical or rectangular shape, it would be HUGE! That is a large amount of food for spores and whatnot. Spreading that across the landscape wherever we go would make us efficient biological terraformers for our spore brethren.

And in the event of a nuclear war, we see that fungus' can be resilent to the effects of radiation and in some places thrive in it. I mean look at all of the shit on the streets in India and the range of microbes that spawn from there to kill us more efficiently.

I really think humanity's purpose here is to provide food for fungus and mushrooms.

poop and garbage is actually a huge huge problem (arguably more serious than climate change), and quite taboo as well... I remember reading it somewhere ages ago, wonder how bad it is now

Never really gave it that much thought but yeah.

Poop terraformers lol.

Poop is a load of shit.

  On 2/4/2018 at 8:01 PM, Bechuga said:

Poop is a load of shit.

  On 2/4/2018 at 6:36 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

 

  On 2/4/2018 at 9:58 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 2/4/2018 at 3:12 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

There are a few REALLY good places to get asian baked goods here (and stuff like Banh Mi). I imagine Vancouver is better; don't know much about Victoria as I'm usually just passing through on my way to Nanaimo. 

 

this is making me hungry lol

 

Our Chinatown is small but mighty.  Vancouver's Chinatown is like a mini-metropolis.  Goddamn I really want Chinese food now but nothing is open.  Fffffffffffuuuuuu 

...except for 7-11.  7-11 is open.  That somehow only makes things worse.

 

how did this turn out? 

 

ginger beef taquito or some other 7-11 abomination? lol

 

I opted to go to bed hungry.  The other day I attempted to get a buffalo chicken taquito, but said:

"I'll have one of those buffalo chicken things."

"How many?"

"Just one."

Guy gives me a single buffalo wing.

"Thanks..."

I didn't realize there were actual buffalo wings back there too, so I thought I'd give it a shot.  It was surprisingly satisfying!  And I was quite happy with just one - breakfast of champions.

lol a single chicken wing 

I sometimes buy gas or cigarettes at a 7-11 close by, and they have like a whole section of hot food now? Fried chicken, pizzas, taquitos, burritos, burgers, hot dogs, chicken wings, fries and onion rings and potato wedges etcccccccc.

I hadn't been into a 7-11 in years, was really surprised to see all that. =/

Yeah, it's really out of control.

  On 2/4/2018 at 8:41 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

lol a single chicken wing 

 

I sometimes buy gas or cigarettes at a 7-11 close by, and they have like a whole section of hot food now? Fried chicken, pizzas, taquitos, burritos, burgers, hot dogs, chicken wings, fries and onion rings and potato wedges etcccccccc.

 

I hadn't been into a 7-11 in years, was really surprised to see all that. =/

it's amazing the shapes they can form out of pure sodium

  On 2/5/2018 at 4:15 AM, ignatius said:

 

  On 2/4/2018 at 8:41 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

lol a single chicken wing 

 

I sometimes buy gas or cigarettes at a 7-11 close by, and they have like a whole section of hot food now? Fried chicken, pizzas, taquitos, burritos, burgers, hot dogs, chicken wings, fries and onion rings and potato wedges etcccccccc.

 

I hadn't been into a 7-11 in years, was really surprised to see all that. =/

 

 

it's amazing the shapes they can form out of pure sodium

 

Yeah man, one of the main reasons I avoid fast food or processed stuff. I have really high blood pressure (cortisol/stress response shit). I Lol at people that still think going to subway is a healthy choice - 1000+ calories and 2-5g of salt. 

But it worked so great for Jared!

Processed food for tohught:

https://forum.watmm.com/topic/62310-try-to-think-of-something-nastier-to-put-in-your-mouth-than/

Goddamn Fred McGriff was a funny MF.  Where is he now?

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He currently works in the Atlanta Braves' front office as Special Assistant to Baseball Operations.[1]

beak.

I wonder if there are other parts of our nervous system that are also just as conscious and self-aware as us but which "we", the higher level reading and responding part, cannot access, and they are kind of trapped in a state of existence where they feel like they have no control over the body they inhabit.  I doubt it, "we" are probably the only high enough level system in ourselves to even contemplate such concepts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

Experiments on split-brain people have shown that when the visual field is split and one eye is shown text, then if the text was seen in an eye feeding information to the side of the brain opposite their dominant speech-control center, they cannot speak the word they saw.  Who knows if this is a phenomenon limited to these isolated medical examples, or whether this effect also happens in different ways we haven't discovered yet, which affect our sense of consciousness but in a way which we are used to and therefore don't notice or can't describe it.  Regardless it succinctly deconstructs consciousness as being a largely, if not completely, physical phenomenon.

Oh, shit- speaking of poop...:

  On 2/5/2018 at 9:20 AM, Zeffolia said:

Regardless it succinctly deconstructs consciousness as being a largely, if not completely, physical phenomenon.

I don't think even hardcore idealists would deny the strong connection between body and consciousness, for example even just the tactile sense that arises in one's mind as the finger presses the key on the keyboard, nevermind the huge consciousness shift when the body enters sleep, psychoactive drugs ingested into the system, or a knockout blow to the temple etc. Saying that consciousness is wholly a physical epiphenomenon based on the physical effecting changes in consciousness whilst not taking into account the effects of conscious states on the physical body is somewhat remiss, and I don't believe we're beyond the agnostic stage objectively speaking in the situation at the moment, irrespective of subjective belief-cum-experience*.

Consciousness affecting physical responses is definitely lacking with regards to research though; such as looking at the entire central and peripheral nervous system in the cases of wilful conscious states that then effect large physical changes such as meditation from before, during, and after in extremely precise instancing and detailing etc., but the technology isn't really up to it the moment to offer anything great unfortunately, nor is even our understanding of the brain w.r.t. consciousness, much other than 'this area lights up and the subject reports x'. 

It's definitely a fun subject though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_correlates_of_consciousness

*Although that's all we'll ever have, ho-ho :P