When memes collide.
For a while now I’ve been pondering the nature of selfishness; why it’s so prevalent and why it’s so hard to eradicate.
There are of course some people who don’t believe that selfishness is a problem. Indeed, there are many people who believe that selfishness is not only normal but is actually a desirable state of affairs.
Well, I don’t just disagree with these people. I actually think that they’ve been infected by a meme plague called ‘selfishness’.
Could just be a coincidence. Correlation doesn't mean causation and all that.
Friends we live in a culture that is obsessed with health. Of course this is mostly because we do so many things that are really bad for us but I don’t want to get off topic. I want to talk about health supplements.
A lot of people take supplements, heck I’m one of them. And that is the reason why I feel I should let you all know that supplements are bullshit, and they’re going to kill you.
Kinda. continue reading…
I think this is shopped. I can tell from the lenses and from seeing quite a few glasses in my time.
The idea of parallel universes is popular in science fiction and, to a lesser extent, in science.
In its simplest form the idea is that every decision that is made spawns a completely different universe that is identical to ours except for the changes caused by that one decision.
One might think that given the sheer number of possible choices anyone, or anything can make (including the rate at which radioactive elements decay and the precise direction of the individual atoms that make up, well, everything) that the number of possible universes is infinite, and that (if the theory is true) literally anything could exist somewhere.
But that’s wrong.
Because the number of possible universes that could exist is not infinite. continue reading…
