they may have (somewhat controversially) not won the award for video of the year at the VMAs, but Yung Lean & Gener8ions unquestionably gave the standout live performance of the night
this is a live music WIN
It's human nature to wake up in the morning and worry a lot more about your kids, your wife, your family than about somebody 10 miles away.
Selfishness is not popular. In the Soviet Union, if you said you were selfish, they would make you feel horrible about it. But that's how we function.
Elon Musk didn't build SpaceX and Tesla to better society. That's the second- or third-order effect. He built them because of his own drive.
Adam Smith said it's not out of benevolence that the baker makes his goods. It's out of self-interest.
The beauty of capitalism is that everybody wakes up in the morning, makes very selfish decisions, and in making those decisions, they benefit the whole.
i love nature docs & i recently came across one that hit me super hard. turns out the labords chameleon’s life cycle is extremely short. they live only 4-5 months & immediately die after laying & burying their eggs (which is their only purpose)z
in the final moments their nervous system begins to fail as their brain loses control of skin cells, so random nerve firings cause the skin to randomly change colors which causes a ridiculous art as they slowly die. it’s like sort of a visualization of the brain’s final flickerings.
pristine example of nature’s beauty, tragedy, & brutality at the same time.
@I_cba_man Moldova often the most misunderstood, loved the night scene and the variety of historical architecture. 10/10 would come back and get stuck in Transnistria overnight.
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