02/20/24 - I don’t care about living longer or whatever. After all, I don’t want to retire only after working for a hundred years.
Question: “Why does nature only let humans live to about 100 or so?”
Answer: “Humanity’s ancestors were oppressed to hard by chicken’s ancestors.
Not even for millions of years, but tens of millions of years. Hundreds of millions of year.
Over a hundred million years ago, humanity’s ancestors could only live in caves, either tree caves or rock caves.
And then 50 million years passed, and they were still living in caves.
Until the meteorite fell…
And killed all the dinosaurs. That’s when humanity’s ancestors could make it to the ground.
But 100 million years of being hunted means that almost all our longevity genes were lost…we only have one set of teeth to use…
As for dinosaur’s descendants, look at big parrots, alligators, turtles. They live so much longer than mammals. They got longevity genes out the ass…
We stayed so long in the caves that all we have is black and white vision. No idea what sunlight even was.
We only evolved nerfed colour vision version 2.5 so eat fruit, and differentiate between green ones that are unripe and red ones that are ripe.
And even so, some of our children continue to be born colourblind.
Not only do we see less colours, we’re really prone to near- and far-sightedness.
Look at eagles. They can find living creatures from 10km away, rats from 2km away. Humans can only see a tiny dot trying to hit a target 100m away, and have to use anti-material rifles to target anything over 2km away…
Humanity’s ancestors couldn’t even get their hands on any salt, and had to invent uric acid to maintain blood pressure…
As a result, if you eat to much salt nowadays, you’ll get high blood pressure, and you get gout if you drink beer and eat seafood or barbecue…what the hell…”
A compilation of comments, “I’m so mad, I’m gonna eat dinosaur’s descendants all day to vent my rage.”
“I’m so mad, I ordered six pieces of original fried chicken to calm myself down.”
“It’s time to get a spicy dinosaur burger.”
“If your ancestors aren’t powerful, your child will be bullied!”
“I don’t care about living longer or whatever. After all, I don’t want to retire only after working for a hundred years. But as soon as I think about how much vision we lost, I feel so cheated.”
“Grown birds will stay at their healthy prime after coming of age until the last couple of years of life, where they age super quickly. This type of evolution is so much better than mammals.”
#27-year-old doctorate accused of sexually assaulting 10 women and claims it’s just role-playing. “Lately, in England, London’s criminal courts is ruling on a case of 27-year-old Chinese doctorate student, Zou Zhenhao, who was accused of sexually assaulting 10 women between 2019 and 2023 while studying abroad in England. He has denied all 35 charges issued against him.
In course, the prosecutor questioned why Zou would get excited “having sexual relationships with sleeping women”, and he claimed that due to his insomnia, he is excited when his partner gives no reactions, and claims that the videos he took were just roleplaying.
Police found hidden cameras in Zou’s dorm room and found he had searched related key words before. Zou claims he did it out of curiosity. In addition, polite found pictures about sevoflurane in his phone, which Zou claims was an accidental photo.”
Comments say, “What a low IQ crime for a high IQ person.”
“Curiosity? Accident? Who’s he trying to fool?”
“All of his excuses are so ridiculous :(“
“I’ve finally experienced what 2000’s kids reforming the workplace looks like. Our department got a new hire at the end of last year, born in 2000. Three months after he was hired, he’s already became the target for the Director of our Department.
He does whatever job is assigned to him, but nothing more, and he’ll repeated confirm when you give him the task, “That’s all you want me to do, right? I’m not responsible for anything else?”
He clocks out exactly on time, won’t stay an extra second.
There are some senior members of my department that like to make newbies do errands for them, and they’ve found quite the opponent this time. This kid doesn’t have any internal friction at all. He just goes for the three-hit combo, “I don’t got time. It’s out of the way. I’m not done with my own work yet.”
We had a meeting today around noon, and this little kid was like, “Why would you use our lunch break for a meeting? Does this count as overtime?”
Our Director rolled her eyes at him and was like, “We always have meetings at noon and nobody has ever asked for overtime!”
And at night, we had another online meeting, and this kid was like, “This meeting is gonna run on until 8PM! That’s half a days’ worth of overtime!”
We’re all upvoting him like crazy in our hearts, and our Director got so mad she slammed her documents down. “I’m holding these meetings every day, and I’m not asking for overtime! Look at all the people in this department! They’ve all got busier home lives than you! Why is your time more valuable than everyone else’s blah blah blah…ask around! Who’s ever gotten overtime because of meeting?”
And the kid looked around and asked us, “You guys don’t think meetings should count for overtime?”
(When he asked this, he looked me in the eye. I was confused how he managed to fine the most rebellious guy in the crowd. I swear I’ve been staying low-key!)
I was just hesitating on whether or not to answer him, when the fatty went, “I think it should count for overtime!”
As soon as he responded, another doctor who never got along with the Director also went, “I think it should count for overtime too!”
Alright, I don’t have to pretend anymore. I was like, “If the meeting goes on for too long, it seems reasonable enough that it should count for overtime.”
And then almost everyone was like, “Yeah, it’s one thing if it’s just ten minutes or so, but if it runs on for more than two hours, we should at least get paid for two hours! We could put several meetings together to form one day of overtime!”
Nobody was on the side of the Director, and she got so mad she stormed out of the room.
And we quietly raised our thumbs at the new kid.
2000’s kids really are great.”
Comments say, “How did he precisely happen onto you? Hahahahahaha, I guess you guys are on the same frequency.”
“Government offices love to hold meetings during lunch break or afterwork, so you can’t rest for even a single minute.”
“Do doctors even get overtime? If your work isn’t done, then you don’t get to leave work, and we’ve never gotten registered for overtime or not.”
#Primary school in Hangzhou proposes not using book covers. “This semester, Xinjie Primary School in Xiaoshan district made a unique decision—initialising the No Book Covers protective movement, suggesting all students cease using book covers. Last semester, the school surveyed some of the students and parents, and almost 35% of kids say that although they used book covers, their books still got worn out. Xinjie Primary School’s principal explained the meaning behind the movement, “What’s more important is to make habits that protect your books.” And from an environmental point of view, overuse of plastic book covers is another form of harm to the environment, so this is an environmental movement too. It’s an extension of the schools “Lightening School Bags” movement. What do you think about this?”
Comments say, “It really is bad for the environment. How much plastic trash is created every semester in China?”
“I just used the nude calendar at home as a kid. It’s recycling.”
“If they can actually treasure their books and not use book covers, that’s obviously great, but kids have a really, really hard time taking care of their books. It’s so easy to get curling corners or torn out corners with time. Maybe they should keep using book covers for now.”