*Hits Blunt* - Shower thoughts and 'tarded quips

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RACISM said:
Don't blame him for the Facebook shit. Oculus was set up by him way before Facebook had any involvement, and them having the money to back them was something they needed and was out of his hands. I remember the press release now (wish I could find it) and he basically slagged off Facebook in it, while still giving the "I have to be nice as there is a gun to my head" speech.
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I was of the understanding that Facebook had plans for VR and basically just made an offer to him.

It may be an erroneous account, but that's what I recall a handful of articles claiming back in the day when the news dropped. John Carmack was given an opportunity to help develop VR for Facebook and he jumped on it.
 
Gravemind said:
I was of the understanding that Facebook had plans for VR and basically just made an offer to him.

It may be an erroneous account, but that's what I recall a handful of articles claiming back in the day when the news dropped. John Carmack was given an opportunity to help develop VR for Facebook and he jumped on it.
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Nah, he had a company looking for funding and Facebook funded it. I remember the intense butthurt on Slashdot at the time (and personally too, frankly).
 
The cave wall space used for cave paintings was probably very precious and controlled by strict social rules, given to honored artists with proto-religious authority.

Sundae said:
When we go to sleep feeling bad and wake up in the morning feeling better, is that the human version of "did you turn it off and turn it back on again?"?
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I think of sleeping as being like saving my day. Unless I have slept (for more than a few hours), a day doesn't feel like it is over. It feels like sleeping "logs" a day, ends it and wraps it up as a single experience, single stretch of consciousness, like a chapter in a book is a single running event. Or, like when you've saved a video game, and it records it all, makes it officially part of what happened.

I think there is absolutely some important function to sleep being a time when the brain processes what has happened to it and makes meaning out of it.
 
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I like to stare at my bathroom door while taking a shit. You wouldn't believe all the interesting things I've seen within the wood of that door.
 
it's interesting to consider just how far from most natural animals humanity has strayed

stepping away from politics and society and such, as an example

we're conscious enough to be so worried for the precious lives around us that we've developed specialized diets to avoid eating animals and hurting their feelings or the feelings of their family

but the animals don't care

the only animals that have been shown to care about things like death have been ones like elephants or dolphins, whom we would never dream of eating unless we were really desperate or in search of a fugu-tier "exotic" food

you give a dog a corpse to sniff and it'll realize what that means, but it won't sit there and grieve for longer than maybe a week

save for exceptionally loyal breeds like the Akita, they tend to accept the death and move on

they don't go through the same complex emotions (or even thought processes) as we do, and yet everyone takes for granted that they do anyways because of how much of ourselves we project onto others

it's the same reason people don't like people they disagree with or act racist

because the default is "what is like me is good, what is not is bad"

which, frankly, makes sense- it's just especially interesting in this case because animals don't seem to give nearly as much of a shit

maybe other primates do, i'm not sure, but from what I can gather basically every other animal- pack or not- tends to be wary of outsiders at worst and actively accepting at best

you could give a dog a baby duck and- assuming its personality isn't such that it would be oriented towards immediate aggression- it'd probably be totally fine with the thing existing around it, and the duck would grow up very close to the dog

despite the fact that they're worlds apart in every sense save for literal distance between them

and the sheer fact that watering holes exist- areas where multiple species, both prey and predator- generally just leave each other alone in favor of drinking is interesting to me

maybe it has to do with the fact that humans are inherently very very territorial, maybe it has to do with the fact that constant anxiety around an "other" would be too detrimental to most animals for the trait to stick around- whatever it is, I just find it interesting
 
I love how widespread sunbathing is among Earth's creatures. I see a lizard or a cat or a bird or a cow or a butterfly chilling in the sun and I'm like :] same here pal
 
When I was in school in North Carolina they had a reading-studies program that you tested for to receive points that could be spent for various rewards, the threshhold reward was a big field day with various activity and being sprayed with a firehose, I would jump in front of that firehose and struggle to walk towards it with my towel up blocking the water from everyone until being yelled at once, I have no idea why but it felt oddly heroic even though it realistically was detractive.

I remember the highest reward point book on the list, which was Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Pride and Prejudice was pretty high up on the list too. But The Fountainhead was, like, over 100 points, a ridiculous amount compared to the average book. That always stuck with me, and when I found out Ayn Rand's philosophy is essentially 'unjust excess without guilt' it made sense.
 
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This is the only *Hits Blunt* meme that actually matters.:story:
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Maybe evolutionary biologists know this and I'm really late, but it occurred to me the other night after a schmoke - when you scream in fear, what is it that you are doing, exactly?

You have been presented with a threat, and your reflexive response is to:

- Put up your hands with your nails (claws) pointing outwards towards the threat
- Show your teeth
- Widen your eyes
- Make a loud, shrill, terrifying noise

Screaming is a threat display. It's so ancient that it dates back to when we actually had claws, which was several species ago. We tend to forget that we are still animals, fundamentally.
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Agent Abe Caprine said:
I like to stare at my bathroom door while taking a shit. You wouldn't believe all the interesting things I've seen within the wood of that door.
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I personally believe that all crazy folk lore came out of situations similar to that except instead of a bathroom door they were zoning out while looking at nature.
 
Why does hot food get cold, but cold food get hot when you leave it out?
 
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