So, today my family went for lunch at some place at Millennia Walk, that goes by the name of The Mushroom Pot. Fittingly, just about all of the dishes had that lovable fungi in them. Now, I'm not the biggest fan of eating large saprophytic organisms. Especially since they all have the texture of rubber.
Mushrooms are basically edible plastic. If you wiki "edible plastic" you'll get mushrooms. They could be edible rubber, since they're more rubbery and squishy than any kind of plastic that I've come across. So, anyway. Why mushrooms? I don't like them.
Mushrooms. Fine. I can tolerate those things. But why do the chicken, beef, and even fish feel exactly like rubber when I chew on them? The Mushroom Pot serves good mushrooms, apparently. Their mushrooms are so good, that their customers want the other foods to be as mushroomy as possible. So they get rubber-grade chicken slices, elastic beef-gum, and fish chews.
Fish chews.
The Japanese love fish, right? So maybe if someone were to create an actual fish-flavoured gum...
The best dish there is really the braised tofu. Because it didn't feel like rubber.
Okay. So then I got home, and did some final touching-up of my lab report. That went fine, I guess. But what did not go fine was the Course Management System online, totally not being co-operative. The damn thing kept booting me out under the pretext of "your session has expired" after I'd been logged in for a mere fifteen seconds. Sometimes, the moment the page loaded after the login, it displayed that infernal message.
Your session has expired. Please log in again.
Okay seriously. All I wanted to do was check if I had a self-directed lesson for Microbiology tomorrow. It turns out that I DO have one(after uh, twenty-four tries or so). And since it's self-directed, there's also an online quiz I need to take.
Which I could not, because my session kept expiring. Apparently.
So yeah. Bugger.
Also I was just browsing an internet forum(I don't even know why I still go to that one...) and I stumbled upon a very, very annoying topic. And seeing as that this topic was very annoying, I inevitably got annoyed.
It had a bunch to do about elephant hunting. Yadda yadda yadda. I can't be bothered to order a proper argument about this.
If you've been around me for a while, chances are that you'd have heard me talk about something related to animals becoming intelligent. I've always enjoyed entertaining the idea of chimpanzees learning to fashion throwing spears and perform trigonometry to bring down their target. Chimps are smart animals. They already show the ability to make tools for various purposes, and have been observed to use a kind of actual language(search up the scientific definition of a language).
So, being me, I would inevitably chance upon the topic of animals becoming smart enough to be another conscious, intelligent lifeform on this planet, along with human beings. Not that humans are that smart anyway. Would they be a threat to human society? Or will they be able to coexist peacefully with us?
Naturally, I looked at the first option. There would be a kind of war between species, which would probably end with us winning. Throwing spears versus that new automatic shotgun? Not a chance. But that's not the point. The point is that assuming that we can somehow speak to these monkeys, there will be some kind of negotiation going on. Yeah and they'll have all their reasons on why they're killing us and such.
Okay, here's a quote from the thread:
"Lol I had to laugh at keeping the elephant population in check. What if elephants obtained guns and the intelligence to use them, and they shot a huge amount of humans, and their reason was:
"What? The human population is over 6 billion! We need to keep their population in check!""
-Some idiot
If elephants really somehow did that, they would already be considered a threat to the human race, and would thus be exterminated without further question. Along with you and the rest of your tree-hugging vegan friends.
Brains, people. They're there for a reason. Someday I'll invent a machine that can extract the brains out of people who don't use them, and somehow integrate them into a kind of super brain. Then I would play chess against it.
-Joe