That every time people had sex, the woman became pregnant. I thought that every sex scene in a film meant the film had to be stopped for 9 months until the actress could give birth.

Da na da na da na da na Bat Eyes!

These are both subjectively true.

Clarke’s third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Quicksand thing is fucking stupid though.

In ancient Rome, the sitting emperor often would choose a successor from, well anybody really, often not even a relation. They then adopted that person. If one has to have hereditary rulers, this seems a fairly sensible way to go about it.

This very much depends on your level of skill, experience and awareness of the dunning-kruger effect.

Not sure how your feed is organised, but on mine mohodeve’s comment is directly below yours. Or is that what you consider a boring average high school experience?