I chatted with a homeless guy who told me how he ended like that.

He apparently hooked up with a girl from certain group/clan and the family clan of the girl put a "kill on sight" mark on the guy, so if he was seen by a member of the clan he would be killed.

So the guy ran away, and started to live on the streets out of fear of ever being caught.

Had a conversation with my kid the other day about a book I was reading and ended up discussing genetic modification and why people are concerned about it. We talked about the Chinese scientist who modified babies to resist HIV, issues with eugenics, racism, economic disparity, the whole bit. We were out getting some pizza, and I think the couple in the booth behind us was listening in lol.

We have odd conversations all the time though, to be fair.

Was discussing about physics, relativity, quantum, etc... with a colleague after a few beer and he told me "a model is just a model, it's not the reality." Mind blowing moment. I've always considered the physics we learned at school was a description of reality, but no. It will always be just an approximation.

casually talking to my mom about how suicidal I was growning up in her house was surreal, and maybe made worse by the people in an adjacent booth that may have overheard