In essence, this quote is true.

Applied to reality though, in our day and age your results may vary. It is completely possible to travel and learn nothing that would open people’s minds especially when the traveling keeps itself within tourist zones and resorts designed to just give you a change of landscape and an illusion of cultural flavor.

You need to purposefully step away from that sort of thing and actually engage with the culture to get the benefits of the quote.

Okay we need to start that crowdfunding, these are the changes science needs to see today

Eyeglasses counts?

A preference for classical music.

I never associated billiards with particularly intelligent people tropes. Chess and books, yeah they get the association.

Well if she never laughed at not even a single meme he sent then of course she was bound to break up. Darling, that’s a recipe for disaster! Don’t get in a serious relationship with someone whose memes don’t even make you snort once!

No smell in dreams for myself but yes sounds, although if being honest most the times the sounds are from voices ( not always).

Visuals are always there, and I don’t say sight because I sometimes see my dreams in 3rd person.

I’ve experienced touch but it’s selective, often more some kind of proprioception while I fall, fly, swim etc.

I’ve tasted things in dreams though, very few times but it’s there.

I’ve never experienced the brain freeze, but sometimes when eating too much of something too cold I do feel pain in my gums/ inside my teeth. Most of the times chewing ice isn’t a problem for me.

Smarts.

In theory it would, in practice good luck holding it in if it’s really diarrhea.

Ahhh they surely saved from not buying avocado on toast.

Same where I live. And then you see all the shop windows dressed with fake snow and people buying santa hats when it’s 40⁰C out there and the whole ordeal feels so out of place

Clothes shops aren’t threatened by the Internet but boutique shops are outcompeted by chain retailers. So if you really want a safe business, go for a franchise or whatever you call it where you manage the Reknown Brand shop but don’t own the brand.

Absolutely, you have the possibility of judging the garment quality by touching it, you can see exactly how large it is and, in most cases, you can try it on to make sure it fits you and that you are okay with how it fits. You can’t do any of that online.

I’m in Australia. Here when meats approach their date they mark them down, but you don’t see them still for sale after the date. I found an item that wasn’t supposed to be on the shelves anymore. Yeah the waste is really frustrating.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be regulations. If I’m paying for something I expect a certain level of quality and safety.

I’m also saying people should have the right to take a risk if they want to eat something out of a trash can for free. “You can’t take our trash for free because you might sue us” is very much mildly infuriating to me

It’s just that you need “pioneers”, people who resonate with what’s already here but also want to add to whatever new communities. I don’t think we’ll have a migration of users only for those topics if we first don’t have a few that can already keep things alive as they are.

I totally see your point, which is why I mentioned this really depends on context. I’ve worked in places where people actually did stretches or meditation during their breaks and nobody cared for it. But I can totally see how that wouldn’t fly in other places.

Also, from experience - some people will still talk to you even if you have headphones and your attention on the phone.

I hear you, I hear you and here’s my two stories:

Once at Large Chain Supermarket I found some lamb chops on special. Took them to the self serve checkouts but the item didn’t scan. The team member had a look and said, it’s because it’s past its expiry date ( the date was the day before). The meat was in perfect condition though, no dark spots or dry edges or any discoloration. So I asked if I could take it for free, and she said no, and she put it in the trash bin right next to the checkout.

Now I’m not blaming her since I understand that’s what she has to say since it’s her job, and I also understand the supermarket would be liable if they sold me something that caused me food poisoning. But I believe the real motivation is profits. It would be all to easy to have a law saying supermarkets are not liable for expired items if they are taken for free; but if that was the case most people would be waiting for the nearly expired items and sales would plummet. I think this is messed up, I don’t know. I have no idea about what do supermarkets do with fresh nearly expired food but I have the naive hope they at least use some for their bakery/rotisserie section.

(I took the meat out of the bin after paying for my other groceries so I did, in the end, get it for free. And it was delicious)

The other story happened while working for Well Known Retailer. I had to grab a wheelie cart/trolley or whatever they’re called, to put stock on the floor. But the only cart left was full with old merchandise. So the manager led us to where the big dumpster bins were, and said, okay help me chuck these out. And she started throwing away all these very expensive scented candles in perfect condition with no other flaw than being old. I’m talking about $30 - $50 candles. I asked if I could take some for free, and she said we weren’t allowed. I asked about buying them with a discount, and she said that was also not allowed because the items weren’t even part of the inventory anymore. So we just trashed roughly $1500 worth of merchandise. It’s just messed, those could have gone to a Salvation Army store or something instead of getting dumped (and broken in the process).

Awww nostalgia! I remember those containers, we would fight over them in my family. Funny how now they’ve disappeared and I’m not even sure what replaced them (as miscellaneous containers)

Omg that escalated quickly

That depends on the type of work OP does and when exactly are they adopting the yoga stance. People can do whatever they want during breaks.

But ultimately I agree with your last sentence.