Mindblown

From here:

The way your family trees severely collapses when you look back a reasonable (<50) number of generations. I hope this explanation is clear:

You have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on. In general, if you look n generations back, there are 2^(n+2) people who are your (n-great)-grandparents.

Let's generously say a generation is 30 years. If you look back 40 generations, to around the year 800 C.E., you have 2^42 (40-great)-grandparents. That's well over four trillion people, more people than were alive in 800 C.E. by several orders of magnitude. More people than have ever been alive.

The reason this is possible: If you looked at a list of your 2^42 40-great-grandparents, you'd see duplicates. In fact, each name would show up around 10,000 times, possibly even more. So your (mom's mom's dad's mom's ... dad) is the same as your (dad's mom's dad's dad's ... dad), and in fact your can trace your ancestry to that guy in about 10,000 different ways.

 I have nothing funny to add. Sorry.

I know I should be studying,

But lately I have been occupied by very random thoughts.

Eating seedless fruits one day, I found the whole process of evolution counterintuitive. Darwin would probably flip in his grave. You see, the whole point of having seeds in the first place is for the fruit to ensure its long term viability as a species, so technically, a fruit full of seed is a fruitful plant. However it seems as though the only purpose for the existence of fruits nowadays is to appease human gluttony, and our lazy asses have made us spiteful of the presence of seeds. So we breed the seedless varieties. Seedless oranges, seedless grapes, and props to anyone who successfully creates the seedless durian. So seedlessness is now a virtue, not a bane to a species' continued survival. Which on another note, is absolutely confounding as to how they even reproduce now. I tried burying a seedless grape three months ago but the plot is still bare.

I guess my point is, evolution is ultimately influenced by irrational human wants, but even then this still does not explain why fat people are still around.

Exam stress

It's been awhile since I've tried putting my thoughts into words.

Aasihdoiadiha  dsfhashodihfowe gjoijdfogqwnqnsas doizisdnanw dabnlshiofge asdnlncsaa.

A-Level Stress

A typical conversation between 2 students going to take the A-levels soon:

Person A: Working hard?
Person B: Hardly working.

Idiotic idioms and frail phrases

"Needless to say"

THEN WHY STILL SAY IT?

Dumbass.

Retractation

Remember this? I stand corrected.

Because apparently, with a budget high enough, you can churn out a blockbuster dealing with the exact same subject matter that I once decried. Inception was damn bloody good.

With that being said, I still do not want to hear about your stupid dream.

Peoples Less Fortunate Than Ourselves

NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP / NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN / NEVER GONNA RUN AROUND / AND DESERT YOU PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS

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Since the dawn of mankind, we have engaged ourselves in a never-ending process of technological innovation and advancement.

Man has thoroughly inbred in his very essence the desire for acquiring ever-increasing amounts of material luxury. There is no inherent wrong in the quest for a comfortable existence, but oftentimes, we, citizens of the First World, are all too guilty of selfish indifference to those less fortunate than ourselves.

Did you know: that the wealthiest 20 % of the world consumes 76.6% of the world's wealth?

Did you know: that the poorest 20% consumes just 1.5%?

Did you know: that Frederick Arthur Whitaker, Civil Engineer-in-Chief to The Admiralty, was also a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and a Commander of the French Legion Of Honor?

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