Imagine evacuating your home from a wildfire, right when the fire retardant plane flies over...
A fast moving fire near Spokane is forcing level 3 evacs right now. At least 5 homes destroyed and 500 threatened.
Incredible picture by @tylertjomsland at the @SpokesmanReview.
Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.
We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.
He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.
As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.
Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
To gain permission to use Darth Vader for The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), the director simply called George Lucas and asked. The director was Frank Oz, the puppeteer and voice of Yoda.
Also totally forgot Steve Coogan was in this; his first Hollywood film appearance.