“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave [behind].” - Henry David Thoreau, 1846
“I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men, the former are so much the freer.” - Henry David Thoreau
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds & it was necessary only to destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
In related news, the city of Berlin is attempting to fix the housing cost crisis and ever-growing rental costs by buying property themselves. https://t.co/J3PqXz197J
Since 1995 the UK has seen the second largest increase in ‘house price to income ratio’ (in the developed world). https://t.co/1uLusHccwf https://t.co/XgssqQqzLv
Top tip: don’t have a child until aged 60. That way you’ll die and pass on your wealth (-40% inheritance tax) at just the right time so your kid CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD TO GET ON THE PROPERTY LADDER.
For the first time in many years I considered buying a physical copy of a newspaper on this fine Sunday morning. Then I saw the price.
I purchased a McMuffin instead.
“Plant-based diets cause men to fart more and have larger stools, researchers have found – but that seems to be a good thing, because it means these foods are promoting healthy gut bacteria.” https://t.co/mJQlr1BYPE
If you haven’t read non-fiction espionage before I highly recommend you give it a go. Good ones are extraordinarily gripping whilst also having the benefit of being true. Start with “The Spy and the Traitor” by Ben Macintyre. https://t.co/Bao3hkGHcb
I can’t wait for the worlds first picky virus. I for one am sick and tired of all these virus’s and diseases that ‘do not discriminate’!
But seriously, I find it odd and depressingly human that the line “this virus does not discriminate” is said at all.
I wonder how much people would be willing to pay for a Spotify equivalent for film/TV? A service that had nearly everything.
I would guess that many would quite gladly pay £40-£50/mo.
“There are 2 things I have come to believe about writing:
the average person should write 5x more things than they do. the average written thing should be 5x shorter than it is.” – @mcrittenden https://t.co/12XOwayJ2H
“You can’t step in the same river twice. Similarly, you can’t step in an open system the same way twice. Someone telling you how they got rich, famous, or happy is just them giving you their winning lottery numbers. It’s not the same river anymore.” https://t.co/uUkRrPLHJ1
https://t.co/77Kl1yMjfY I hate that this exists. One of the biggest downsides of the current vogue for newsletters is that much of the best writing on the web is delivered to the wasteland that is your email inbox. Thankfully, most newsletter platforms do also offer an RSS feed!
‘On September 11, 2001, when al-Qaeda attacked America, almost 3,000 people died. On the 20th anniversary of 9/11 roughly 3,100 people in America died because of COVID-19. Another 3,100 died on September 12th. And again on the 13th.’ https://t.co/EBOCH5OvN6
In 1841 Charles Mackay published the classic, original book on stock market bubbles and the psychology behind them with “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”.
And yet several years later he still lost a fortune speculating during the Railway Mania bubble.
I feel like Sainsbury’s has quite purposefully put the most disgusting of all meat products right next to the vegetarian section. https://t.co/IpDdoLuYng