Thought Provokers: 2/18/2026

From the patient’s perspective, a surgery under general anesthesia never actually happened.

The movie Free Willy was a pro-abolitionist story produced with slave labor.

Documentaries all take place in the same shared universe.

When the movie is better than the book, most people never even know it's based on a book.

You can miss a place and still be glad you left it.

The only moment to exist in all of history is right now.

It’s interesting that trauma dumping is far more socially acceptable when done through song.

You likely don’t know if the company you work for sends rejection emails or if it ignores candidates.

You do not always miss the person; you miss who you were when you were with them.

You are very distantly related to your clothes (if they are made of organic material).

The rules of etiquette deny us the symbiotic grooming relationship between fingernails and teeth.

Much of the Winter Olympics allows the world to see what it would look like if their drunk friends could actually do what they claimed they could.

Before cloud storage, everyone was fine backing up their own photos, but now all the alerts have everyone afraid that their photos are at risk if they don’t pay to upgrade.

You can tell a restaurant is too loud when you start reading lips without realizing it.