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[hector13]

If it's any consolation, deep sea creatures evolved light-based methods of capturing prey because there's Literally No Sunlight that deep. For all they know the ocean ends a few miles up and they'll never travel to the surface.

Of course they won't, they'd explode if they tried.

Humans would also explode in space, but we still went there.

git gud cthulhu

Lemme know when fish develop pressurized suits, and then I'll worry.

You say that as though getting surveillance equipment 10s of thousands of meters under the sea is an easy thing to do.

How do we know they don't already?

[Tack]

So our housemate moved out and left their pet quails here (they're pretty bad at caring for animals.) They didn't seem in any rush to come back and get them so I asked the houseowner if I could eat them.
It didn't go over so well.

[Amperzand]

If it's any consolation, deep sea creatures evolved light-based methods of capturing prey because there's Literally No Sunlight that deep. For all they know the ocean ends a few miles up and they'll never travel to the surface.

Of course they won't, they'd explode if they tried.

Humans would also explode in space, but we still went there.

git gud cthulhu

Actually, no. You just sort of bloat a little over about a minute, then slowly freeze-dry. No exploding.

[Orange Wizard]

So our housemate moved out and left their pet quails here (they're pretty bad at caring for animals.) They didn't seem in any rush to come back and get them so I asked the houseowner if I could eat them.
It didn't go over so well.

To be fair, quail is really hard to cook.

Actually, no. You just sort of bloat a little over about a minute, then slowly freeze-dry. No exploding.

Eh. It's not like you suddenly turn into a human grenade, but the internal pressure will really do a number on your insides. Plus your eyeballs will burst out of their sockets.

[Tack]

Actually weirdly enough our bodies are really good at dealing with interstitial pressure.
Blood vessels will explode, sure, but as far as I've been told, we don't actually do much popping.

[Reelya]

How would you prefer to be sassed?

By your mum

Further on the topic of WTFs I just watched the Stanford Prison Experiment, a dramatization of Phillip Zimbardo's experiment.

Stanford, Milgram and The Third Wave. Plus add some Just World Fallacy.

We're literally that close to fascism if the wrong people take over society. The scary part of Stanford and the Third Wave experiment, is how quickly the participants in these sorts of things start coming up with fascisty ideas by themselves without being prompted by the experimenters (it took about three days for the college kids in Stanford for them to start concocting common torture methods, and about three days for the highschool kids in The Third Wave literally turned into The Gestapo with people wanting to form a secret police to snitch on each other. It's literally 72 hours between a normal middle-class society and Mad Max.

[NJW2000]

So in other words, we're literally 72 hours between normal middle-class society and Mad Max.

Wait wat? I've seen working class people and they aren't maddened fascists. I think.

[Reelya]

I made that point because all these experiments have involved regular middle-class people. There's a view that the educated middle class would somehow not fall into this stuff, but they do.

Of course normal working class people aren't excessively fascist, but there's a view that their support based fundamentally comes from the working class. The psych experiments prove that this is false, and the sort of Lord of the Flies behavior is common to all social classes. "Social norms" of polite society completely collapsed within 72 hours in both Stanford and Third Wave, and the participants started to strongly resemble abusive prison guards in one, and Hitler Youth, in the other.

[Orange Wizard]

That's some efficient indoctrination right there

[Reelya]

There's one I forgot, the Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes experiment. Divide a class (of the same race) into blue eye and brown eye groups. Give a bunch of privileges to one, and disadvantages to the other, while claiming one group is better than the other. They start to act like racially segregated groups with indoctrinated racism, literally almost instantly.

The next day, the teacher reversed the entire segregation / superiority thing. Doing the same test, the "superior" group massively out performed the "inferior" group each day. So whoever was billed as "superior" on each day flip-flopped on academic achievement tests. So it' easy to set this stuff up, and you can reverse the entire discrimination almost immediately. Obviously, these are short-term effects if there's no reinforcement, but you can get kids bullying each other as "brown eyes" and flunking tests merely because they've been told they're part of an "inferior" group almost immediately.

[Tiruin]

There's one I forgot, the Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes experiment. Divide a class (of the same race) into blue eye and brown eye groups. Give a bunch of privileges to one, and disadvantages to the other, while claiming one group is better than the other. They start to act like racially segregated groups with indoctrinated racism, literally almost instantly.

The next day, the teacher reversed the entire segregation / superiority thing. Doing the same test, the "superior" group massively out performed the "inferior" group each day. So whoever was billed as "superior" on each day flip-flopped on academic achievement tests. So it' easy to set this stuff up, and you can reverse the entire discrimination almost immediately. Obviously, these are short-term effects if there's no reinforcement, but you can get kids bullying each other as "brown eyes" and flunking tests merely because they've been told they're part of an "inferior" group almost immediately.

Heh, I remember these. Note that the experiment in question had pupils and children as the sample population, or at least the one I know of, which led to further study and research, noting down that these attitudes of superiority and such are predominantly behavioral (as in they're learned).

...I know there's a video of this out there. >_>

I made that point because all these experiments have involved regular middle-class people. There's a view that the educated middle class would somehow not fall into this stuff, but they do.

Of course normal working class people aren't excessively fascist, but there's a view that their support based fundamentally comes from the working class. The psych experiments prove that this is false, and the sort of Lord of the Flies behavior is common to all social classes. "Social norms" of polite society completely collapsed within 72 hours in both Stanford and Third Wave, and the participants started to strongly resemble abusive prison guards in one, and Hitler Youth, in the other.

Stanford's experiment was pretty flawed though in several factors ._. (that of which not excluding examining the participant's own ways of behaving), and criticized in many fronts. Though, it's of note--there's no distinctness of one being innately a bad person, but their behavior.

Which is why those commonalities are seen in all social 'classes', because it's not inherent of social classes, but rather the behavior by which each individual both interacts with and creates a culture of their group and especially with and onto other people.

And this is muchly noted in studies proceeding after those experiments which are of many variants that I'm forgetting directly because of resting post-Finals.

Woke up today in a strange mood and saw a tiny speck hover in front of my right eye, before slowly descending after a few seconds. Noticing several things that told me it wasn't a speck of dust, I then saw it sway and squiggle a bit. It was something alive.

Spoiler: My internal monologue (click to show/hide)

Huh, tiny spider.
Oh good morning there little one.
Wow, you're really close to me.
So that's how those tiny millimeter spiders look like all close up!
Oooo, look at that shiny webbing.
Wow that's so close to my eye.
I wish my hair was longer :I
I feel like it's 8:40 am (It was actually 8:38, so yay body clock!)

So I took my finger and displaced its webbing and put it on our plants outside.
Tiny, light-yellow thing. ._.

[hops]

If it's any consolation, deep sea creatures evolved light-based methods of capturing prey because there's Literally No Sunlight that deep. For all they know the ocean ends a few miles up and they'll never travel to the surface.

Of course they won't, they'd explode if they tried.

Humans would also explode in space, but we still went there.

git gud cthulhu

Actually, no. You just sort of bloat a little over about a minute, then slowly freeze-dry. No exploding.

Well, I mean, I doubt deep sea creatures literally explode in a shower of blood either.

[Shadowlord]

Got this email:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26452959/yahoohaventsignedinto.png

I've never created an account whose name starts with 8, ends with 64, and is 32 letters long...

[Yoink]

I've never created an account whose name starts with 8, ends with 64, and is 32 letters long...

Man, you haven't lived.

[Akura]

Huh, the last time I paid my internet bill, I found the exact same email in the account(which I never use) provider by my provider. Only replace "Yahoo!" with "Optimum", and 8*****************************64 with my username, and it's otherwise the same word-for-word.