It’s definitely that. Those guardrails often give out on the 3rd or even 2nd reply:

https://youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q

The joke is that this speech, imo tastefully read in the voice of a sinister anime villain, is an utterly ridiculous thing for a person to say. It doesn’t even make sense, really. That’s why it’s funny, it’s funny that it doesn’t make any sense.

I would know. This saying things that almost make sense kinda but really, really don’t thing is, like, my whole brand. It’s damn near the only joke I tell.

I once boasted to a friend of mine “my pussy is huge. Cavernous, even. I could fit a hundred cigarettes in there.” Now, a vagina? Cigarettes? Disgusting! Why would I say that? Because measuring a vagina’s diameter in how many cigarettes it can, I dunno, smoke at once? is absurd. It’s ridiculous. It doesn’t even make sense, really.

The meme is about shitting a giant log.

I think that’s a little bit like flirting with cigarettes because they can help you deal with stress. Which, I agree people will do, and quitting cold turkey isn’t a simple matter either, but should they do it? Like, morally? I still think it’s an unambiguous no.

That said, some friend of mine being really into horoscopes or whatever isn’t really at the top of my world problems to-do list. So long as they’re not getting sucked into any flat earth alt-right pipelines, it’s probably not worth the effort.

Oh actually, one more thing. This here:

Turns out, when you think the world is less chaotic and more sorted out, it’s less exhausting to think about.

This is true, and it’s one of the main factors that drives MAGA. Outside of the psycho-sexual one, anyway.

Anxiety will drive people toward simple, actionable answers, whether they’re correct or not, because there’s comfort in thinking you know why your life sucks. It could be God’s plan, it could be that brown people are ruining the country; it’s magical thinking that doesn’t need to make any sense, it just needs to soothe—not unlike a cigarette.

Not to imply that all religious people are MAGA. I know there are some good natured folks out there.

Not to get too reddit athiest about it, but the main problem I’d have with even innocent spiritualism is that it’s a bad habit, basically. If somebody believes something that isn’t empirical, you can’t use empiricism to bring them out of that pit. And the more they train that muscle, the stronger it is, you know?

It creates a bunch of mental sweater-snags that either prevent people from believing obviously true things, or that allow them to be yoinked by snake oil salesmen into wackier and wackier positions.

Over the last 4 months or so, I’ve been learning quite a bit about spiders, like the fact that jumping spiders can count.

Researchers would set the spider up on an elevated platform where they could see like 3 flies or something, but to get them, they’d have to plan a route through a bit that will blind them briefly. If they come out of the blind and see that the flies are not 3 anymore, they’ll hesitate and watch for a bit, as if they’re surprised or suddenly uncertain.

They’re also capable of learning. Orb weavers rebuild their webs every night, and they build it differently depending on what prey they expect to find. But not only that, if a prey goes absent, but is reintroduced later, they’re quicker to resume a web that worked for that kind before.

It’s important not to humanize too much; you may make assumptions that will get you in trouble. But, I do think there’s a little consciousness in that small body.

Hell fuckin yeah it is, that’s my favorite part of the game!