Howdy folks,
It's that time of year again! You've barely had a break since Thanksgiving and now it's time to connect with your friends and family yet again.
Luckily for me, I stopped communicating with most humans years ago.
But some of you are about to walk right back into the hornet's nest that is... family dinners and get-togethers.
So, if you're not in the mood to argue about politics, vaccines, or whatever your weird family has gotten up to on social media, here's a few conversation starters straight out of left field. You can toss these into the mix like topic grenades to blow your bickering relatives away whenever anyone starts a sentence with "I read on Facebook that..."
1) Haha! This discussion on US politics is so great! I wish I could stop time and feel like this forever... like those researchers from the University of Maryland and MIT did in separate, unrelated studies earlier this year.
2) Wow, what an interesting take on vaccines (cough). At least we don't have to worry about spaghettification at the edge of a black hole. Immortality sounds great, but I'm not ready to be pasta.
3) Oh Uncle so-and-so, you'll never convince me the Earth is flat. Seriously. You won't. So stop trying. There's no joke to go with this one. But here's more about flat-Earthers and AI.
Speaking of the holidays: We're taking next week off to think about what we've done (and to figure out what to do with all the coal we expect to get in our stockings). We'll back in the New Year to bring in the new news.
