Except Then They’ll Go Off On A Tangent About How 2+ 2 Can’t Equal 4 Because 7 Exists And 7 + 2 Equals

I wonder… how many people found out the pope is dead from this post popping up on their timeline?

dead

why do you and others like vaccines so much?

not dying of preventable diseases is actually one of my favorite hobbies

I did an experiment on myself

I like to browse social media, but it's not really me who likes that. It's some baser, more lizardish part of my brain. It does not even know what it's looking at, or care -- it just knows it gets little dopamine snacks from it, and likes them.

I decided to do an experiment. I wanted to see what that part of my brain would do if I deprived it of what it usually likes. I blocked all social media in my desktop browser via an extension, uninstalled all my social media apps, and even blocked the websites on my phone just for good measure.

So, what would I do now?

It turns out I start going on wikipedia. I liked to look at the "on this day section," and use the random page button. It's kind of like social media because I never knew what I was going to see. It scratched that same itch.

But I wanted to go farther, so I blocked wikipedia too.

Turns out, after that, I start going on google maps streetview and exploring random towns in Chile or Mongolia. I see hotels and restaurants with 1 review. Who are you, reviewer. Why have you decided to give this pizza restaurant that just looks like a normal house this digital baptism.

But I wanted to go farther, so I blocked google maps too.

Then, I started going to my local library. The library had more information than I could ever read about practically anything I wanted to read about. I started reading about French history. The region we know today as France may look pretty innocuous, but you wouldn't believe some of the shit that went down.

But I wanted to go farther, so I stopped even going to the library. What would this part of me, that so desperately craved a constant intake of information, do now.

It was then that I descended into the sewers, and became the Rat Man.

I quickly became a legend in my town. Some teenagers saw me clamber out of one sewer grate and then into another across the street. They told their parents about it. Their parents didn't believe them. Truth be told, I almost didn't believe them either.

A woman eating oreos on a park bench once dropped one near a sewer drain at the local bike path, and yelped when she saw my arm reach out from the drain and swipe it. However, later on, she left another oreo there. She took pity on the Rat Man. I saw the Man that was left there, even though it was mostly Rat.

Ultimately I decided to allow myself the library.

They’ve proven that defying the Supreme Court is feasible so basically anything they want they can get done now. It’s not a matter of if they go through on this threat- it’s a matter of when.

The U.S. Constitution grants citizens the right to protest peacefully, dictator-wannabe Trump does not.#handsoff #protest

You know you've fucked up when you go to a doctor and the thing you have wrong with you has been named after an occupation that isn't a thing anymore. Like imagine a doctor looking at you and going "yeah you've got ox-drawn ploughman's disease. We don't even test for that anymore. Yeah the reason you've never heard of it is because the last known case was in 1927 and happened to some guy who was like 98 years old and didn't believe in modern medicine of the time. What the fuck have you been up to."

5/21/25 PALINDROME DAYYYYY

oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

The Pope, famously known for owning a copy of Undertale gifted to him by Game Theory's Matpat, has passed away at the age of 88

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arrrgggh! I just finally managed to picture a rotating apple in my mind with perfect clarity when a rotating mind horse appeared and immediately ate it!!

hi i've seen this popup before. u click the left option or the middle option also works. it'll be great

oh m-...ahhh...my pockages