Get in the mood elevator, it's going up! :)
How to tell science fact from science fiction: If it sounds like a science fiction movie, it probably is.
Do cats like curry? I'd like to see the data on that. You could run an experiment where you put some curry chicken and some plain chicken in front of a cat, then see which the cat chooses.
If you can do a movie preview voice-over for it, it's probably science fiction instead of science fact:
"In a time when a killer virus, which may have escaped from a secret Chinese lab, causes a global pandemic killing millions..." (COVID)
"In a time when the very industry that society depends on emits carbon that causes catastrophic environmental harm..." (climate change)
etc. :)
Real science would be too boring for a movie trailer voice-over:
"In a time when blood-glucose levels may with statistically uncertain evidence correlate with several uncommon genetic markers and several common lifestyle choices..."
Science marketing, or political BS, sounds more like we're facing certain doom unless you hand over money and power to politicians. Comparable to "giant robots from space are attacking", or any other sci-fi. We need lockdowns, quarantines, and carbon limits! Yeah, right!
A science writer's guide to science BS vs. semi-believable science. :)
Science fictions is what sells, i.e. fears and other salient emotions that trigger people's basic reactions in the reptilian parts of the brain (as with other types of marketing). COVID! Climate change! Protect us!!!
Science fact is what obsessive-compulsive people find after intensely studying something nobody else cares about for months or years. A hundred years later it may turn out to interest a lot of people.
There are exceptions to the above. Occasionally there's a big scientific breakthrough that's exciting for regular people. But not the frequent pseudo-scientific announcements pumped out by political organizations.
Concerned science writers against political BS :)
Hollywood science.
Regular science contains a lot of marketing, too. For instance scientists often coin crazy-sounding terms for the phenomena they observe, in an attempt to make them sound more impressive. Scientists also often exaggerate their findings, e.g. any vaguely humanoid-looking fossil seems to be claimed as another missing link that would be the first modern human, the first hominid, the first hominin, a new species, etc. -- even though probably it's just another minor variant of an already known species.
There's a difference in the scale of regular science lies vs. Hollywood science lies. When a scientist comes up with a fancy new term or exaggerates the significance of a finding, it's a mild effort to gain a bit more prominence and prestige. When a global political organization fakes an existential disaster and pushes lockdowns, carbon taxes, or the like, that has far more serious ramifications.
Idea: curry chocolate. Does it already exist? Probably. Yep, internet is chock full of it. Looks delicious! :)
Instead of a planet with billions of people suffering, couldn't there have been a planet with, like, five people having a good time? :)
Females (in humans and many other species) may often be bogged down with kids and related duties, as one often hears in complaints (in the case of humans), but males are bogged down with fifty competing males for every female, or whatever the ratio is. :)
Influence, aka getting relentlessly ripped off by everyone :)
I see each gray hair in the mirror as a jerk staring me in the face and saying, "Ha ha, you're old and dying." :)
Wear your gray hair with pride! :)
There are tons of frustrations in life. I think that just being aware of that and tolerating things more can at least make some of the frustrations more manageable, and that it's not reasonable or practical to expect things to work exactly as one imagines or wants.
A lot of people worry over what other people think, or what one thinks of oneself. I think it's important to remember as a guiding principle: humans are a jackass species of monkey idiots. Don't take what humans say too seriously. :)
I think that alcohol has undergone much the same transition that cocaine, marijuana, and other drugs have. Food has, too.
Earlier humans, and at least in the case of alcohol other animals too, have used naturally occurring substances with relatively small amounts of active ingredient. For example, wild animals sometimes get a bit tipsy off of naturally fermented fruits. Traditional South American cultures chew on coca leaves to improve their work. There are tons of other examples.
Then humans started making handmade products. Homemade beer, bread, coca tea, homegrown weed, etc. Not that potent, but somewhat more consistent than just using what nature provided as-is. Later still, with industrialization, people have developed far more purified products. Refined cocaine, high-potency strains of weed, distilled liquor, refined sugar.
I think that human brains and bodies, which haven't evolved nearly as fast as human cultures, struggle to process these refined products. I think that the problems we see with hard liquor, cocaine, crack, etc., largely stem from how potent they are in comparison to what our bodies evolved to handle.
I guess mainly stick to moderate drug use? :)
To varying extents depending on which country, one can't freely enjoy one's sexual organ system as one can freely enjoy one's other organ systems. For example, you can enjoy your digestive system by going to a restaurant, your respiratory system by breathing the air freely available most places, or your visual and auditory systems by going to a movie or using your phone. But if you want to enjoy your sexual system you're oppressed by restrictive laws. It's like we're stuck in some horrendous medieval society when it comes to sexuality. Fuck that! Enjoy sex! :)
"A picture's worth a thousand words" is basically a big fuck you to writers. :)
Also, notice it's in words. If it were a picture, it would be a picture of that phrase written out. Or five thousand pictures attempting to capture the elegant simplicity of five words. :)
Idea: $5-20/bottle fancy energy drinks, e.g. collector's items or with special ingredients. Maybe already exists.
Nothing's everything and everything's something :)
I'm going to Bonaire! It's a small island near Aruba and Curacao, in the Dutch Caribbean. I'm interested to see Bonaire, in part because it's not from what I recall reading an independent country like Aruba and Curacao, but rather only an overseas part of the Netherlands itself.
Jejej, Bonaire's not even in my web browser's spellcheck dictionary. I guess it's not a real (independent) country, so that makes sense. :)
Rock & Roll!!!!!!!!!!! :)
