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I had a community college psychology professor who worked in psychiatric research outside of teaching ask the class, "What is the shape of consciousness? What do you think it is?" He put a clever look on his face and his eyes scanned every perplexed student in the room to see if anyone could produce the simple, obvious answer to the question, "What is the shape of consciousness ..."

Finally he broke the suspense and enlightened us all. The shape of consciousness, according to a man who holds a license to practice medicine, is an oval. It's an oval because you have two eyes and therefore your field of vision is elliptical.

some people still believe in the moon landing is faked, subsequently any of the news that reported on spaceflight. i know some asian people that believe this sitll.

Whatever Donny tweeted most recently.

Politicans think about their voters.

Just now...

In a leftist bookstore, talking with the proprietor who has an extensive collection of left-wing labor/union literature, and randomly he starts talking about how Lincoln was the worst president etc. and just launches into lost cause mythology of the Confederacy. Hardest conversational 180 I've ever experienced

A coworker got drunk at an office party, telling me "Then I can't drive, so when I ask Caroline from marketing to drive me home, she can't say no. wink, wink
When that predictably failed, he drove home drunk.

Whatever I said yesterday.

"If democrats want to make the vaccine free because it's 'life saving', why come they don't want to make cancer treatment free too???"

"I dont know. You're the engineer, engineer it" told to me by my boss when I presented the budget for the testing was not adequate for what we wanted and I presented 3 alternatives that were within the buget with their pros and cons asking how we should proceed. The boss in question was not an engineer but a HR manager with an MBA

Some old lady was over fir dinner and she asked me why i only eat certain things. I told her that i don't eat meat. It took some time for her to compute and fired back: but you can eat fish. I said, no, because they are animals too. You could see the gears spinning again before she said that banger: i don't think that's true, because they don't even bleed.

One of my jobs I was working next to an older man who didn't believe in climate change because "they told us dinosaurs had scales and now they're saying they have feathers!" He also once told me to fix an electrical component by "spraying WD40 on it" as if the electrons just needed some lubrication before they'd start moving again.

Both of those incidents helped me to realize who not to go to for help with that job and shortly afterwards he was let go after having an entire week with no work completed.

“Just do something, take action”. On what exactly? “Just something”. That’s not actionable advice, and it’s always driven me crazy that people think they’re being helpful.

Most, if not all things our president says and the rubes that believe it after all this time.

My father told me I shouldn't use regular table salt because "they" were mixing powdered glass in so that it would work its way through your system and embed itself in your heart muscles.

He had called me after I got high though, so I gave him the best kid glove treatment I've ever managed.

Told him that was very interesting. Explained that he could easily prove and expose the conspiracy by pouring salt into a bucket of distilled water. The salt would dissolve, but the glass would sink to the bottom. He could then filter the glass out, then boil the water off to recover the salt safely. He hasn't brought it up since.

My dad is a sweet guy and good at handyman stuff, but dear lord, almost nothing higher level. I truly think it's the lead exposure.