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  • All I know is you shouldn't drink a ton of red gatorade midway through a night of heavy drinking.

    When you start to throw up, your friends will assume you are vomiting blood and call an ambulance or possibly an exorcist.

  • Cool idea, but I spent a lot of time amongst people who believed in star signs when I was young.

    They will say "Virgo: the most generous star sign, OMG that's so me. I like, super generous", despite the fact they have never given a cent in charity in their life.

    None of it influenced their behaviour apart from the 'lucky numbers', which probably got them buying a few more lotto tickets.

  • We have these popular tropes of Spock and Sherlock Holmes getting it right by being logical, but the idea that pure logical thinking exists at all is a myth. All conscious thought occurs within a chemical and emotional context. Those emotional components are needed for thought to function at all.

    The idea is explored in great detail in Descarte's Error: Emotion, Reason and the human brain by Antonio Demasio, a very readable book about neuroscience.

  • All the people saying mandatory voting is bad are misinformed. It is essential for democracy, and should be applied everywhere.

    Australia has mandatory voter turnout, but you do not need to submit a vote. You just need to show up on polling day.

    Everyone has political interests and needs to be politically represented, but some people are too tired after work to take themselves to the polling centre. Others are incarcerated. If anything, those people are more in need of political representatives.

    American conservatives spend billions trying to prevent poor overworked people from reaching polling places or exercising their right to vote. Mandatory voting prevents that.

    Make no mistake, Australian democracy is healtheir than whatever clusterfuck in going on in the US.