Finished.

It's generally stupid to immediately change your mind about facts when a single person presents you with a single counterexample. If you don't think animals make tools, and are shown a video of animals making tools, the first thing you should think of is "if that evidence is so definitive, there would be more than just a single video; I should be able to find it in an encyclopedia, a news article, or some other source which indicates that experts have accepted it". Then you look it up, discover that that's true, and then you accept it. After all, there could always be something wrong with the single example that isn't immediately obvious. (For instance, do you remember offhand the definition of a tool in sufficient detail that you could determine that the video actually shows tools, just by looking at it?)

On the subject of embarrassing teachers: I had a college professor who thought endorphins were cells and another who thought only humans ever made tools. A claim he repeated even after I showed him videos of crows making tools.

I did not feel especially good about knowing better regarding these things (and I have many other stories on this topic). I never felt like I had all that much knowledge or special talents and, as I know actual geniuses, I was pretty sure I was not one.

I guess surrounding yourself with people smarter than you are could serve as a sort of humility preserver but apparently that doesn't always work.

I finished and had fun even if parts of it made me feel dumb (I never thought about that calibration question before and am pretty sure I got it wildly wrong). The monetary reward at the end looks interesting but even in the unlikely case that I won I might have too much trouble claiming any kind of prize right now...

I tried it in my youth but due to being a picky eater and not really planning it well, the doctor told my parents to give me more meat after I became anemic.

I'm interested in starting it up again in the future, when I learn a bit more about cooking and everything.

The weird thing is that I already ignore almost all meats most of the time (I pretty much eat only fish) so I don't know how going the extra mile and cutting them out completely could have much of an effect...

This seems fun but I'd worry about the food choice...I'm not sure how many others think so but I feel like chocolate is just much more delicious to me than the other options so there might be more struggle confessions than anything else if this is not dealt with somehow...

Or maybe that is intentional since that kind of thing is so much more uncomfortable to say? That makes sense...

Maybe relevant?

... do we actually sell a lot of used goods overseas like that?

I think 'slightly obsolete' holds up a lot better.

Now I wish I had written a funnier description...so many of these are silly~

I managed to keep myself up after several days of sleep deprivation to complete all that I could but the very last part.