5 year old: can you breathe on the moon?
me: no, there's no oxygen
5 year old: what if you had an oxygen tank?
me: then yes
5 year old: what if the oxygen tank was empty?
me: then no
5 year old: what if you refilled it with oxygen?
me: is someone paying you to do this?
Flight attendant comes over intercom: “your flight is oversold, I need two volunteers to take a flight this afternoon for a $300 voucher.”
I spring into action. I was born for these moments. This is why I studied game theory. Literal tingles. I pull out my megaphone and address our boarding gate: “guys, they absolutely must off board at least two passengers or this bird isn’t taking off. Every 3 minutes they will increase their bid by $200. If we all hold out for 45 more minutes, 2 of us can make nearly 5 grand each. Textbook prisoners dilemma, this is (3,3) in its most visceral representation. I’m not even going to give up my ticket but I know value when I see value. Let’s make Nash proud ladies and gentlemen. Do not acquiesce. Do not defect.”
Anyhow 2 people immediately accepted $500 and I called them retards on my megaphone and was placed in a detention room by airport police. This is why we study game theory.
Aging poorly: LSU is the No. 1 team in the country because it beat Clemson on the road.
Aging well: Florida State is actually good and Alabama isn't as bad as we think.
Truth: Nobody knows anything and this is the best sport in the world.
zoology is the study of animals. so what is the study of zoos? does not exist. you cant do it, because the name is taken. every day young men show up to “zoology” classes hoping to learn about ticket prices, benches, what animals cluster aesthetically - and we let them rot there.
The squirrel has no well-founded reason to run from me, but it does. The robin, too, takes flight if I just amble by. Yet here foolhardy waits the burger, beneath my growing shadow
My rooster died in glorious single combat at the door of the coop, protecting the flock from a red tailed hawk. He was a noisy pain in the ass, but his did us all proud in the end.