Isla

What makes a thought original? If there’s no such thing as original thoughts then these tweets might have been thought by me…or said by another :)

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Why is it that when you Google “[clothing item] [store]” the men’s version always comes up first if there’s both? Every single time.

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You are the universe experiencing itself, because every atom in your body was forged in stars long before the Earth existed.

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Starbucks over roasts their beans in order to achieve consistency across stores?

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Could a multi millionaire if sent to jail clone themselves and send their clone instead?

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Costa Rica has a 98% literacy rate while the literacy rate in the US is only 70%. Costa Rica also doesn’t have a military.

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There are 328 people in the US named “Abcde”

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Brushing your teeth is the only time you clean your skeleton

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“There it was: roll the dice and find your life catalyzed but another, one who, ten minutes later or three seats farther down at another computer screen, would have remained an undetected signal from deep space” (Powers, Bewilderment).

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Fluoride according to the IAOMT can contribute to lower fertility. Is this Gilead yet?

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When it was just the natives in North America and here were about 50 million bison. Now there is about 0.5 million. That’s 1% of what it used to be.

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Gnus (wildebeest) cover more 2000km during migration.

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Soemtimes I am so convinced that I am part of an experiment. However, I cannot directly reveal much about this thought and I believe it will ruin the integrity of the experiment.

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The deer population is out of control in Scotland. Wolves need to be reintroduced. See Yellowstone for evidence.

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There’s a deadline to everything. There’s even a deadline to life.

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On Epicurus: I love how he conceptualized the idea that it is the company that matters and not what you are doing

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Kids are basically your own social experiment. If you do something wrong with the first one now you know how to change the control groups for the next ones.

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Haymitch was right when he said “This trip doesn’t end when we get back home. You never get off this train.”

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I fear that I’ll lose my curiosity and I won’t be able to form independent thoughts. Like what led me to this and how do I keep doing this?

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Memories are so powerful. They bring strangers together. They inspire goals and action.

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The Lukla Airport in Nepal and the McMurdo Station in Antarctica have the coolest runways (and maybe the most dangerous).