Lost… because you can’t be found
Lost because you can’t be found
Lost from sky and lost from ground
“I’m just walking, hoping someone will give me a ride.”
Marc Jordan, Lost Because You Can’t Be Found.
From his debut 1978 album, Mannequin, produced by Gary Katz.
America’s gun problem in 90 seconds
Hitler’s reaction to veganism
This video is funny because it’s absurd.
Posting it isn’t meant as an affront to anyone.
Please put aside the obvious contradiction that Hitler’s officers talk about veganism, yet, in reality, kept millions of prisoners and killed them. (Also put aside the fanciful term “cruelty free” and the flawed word, “carnist.”)
Even so, this is part of the video’s satirical message: just as Hitler’s objections seem like a ridiculous fit of histrionics, we nevertheless keep billions of captives and kill them; just as we generally see ourselves as caring people who avoid violence, we nevertheless carry it out in places hidden from most of us, some named without any pretence: slaughterhouses; just as we now (in theory) oppose the idea of depriving humans of their liberty, we commonly don’t even consider whether we should confine other animals, perform ‘procedures’ on them (eg debeaking, branding, castration), force them to breed, and kill them.
For most people, low salt diets may not have any benefit
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Shells @ Sandgate Beach
Angry Birds
Now and then i go to Cleveland in Brisbane near the water.
A few months ago i was walking through Foreshore Park. Along the way there was some very noisy squawking from 2 or 3 birds, i think – i can’t recall exactly – not far away.
I couldn’t work out why these birds were being so noisy. I remember thinking to myself, and probably even commenting out loud, how frantic and angry they were.
Money can make you happy…
On 7 April, a study looking at “more than 76,000 bank-transaction records” found “people whose purchases… match their personality report higher levels of life satisfaction.”
A key finding was that the “effect of psychological fit on happiness was stronger than the effect of individuals’ total income or the effect of their total spending.”
The study was run at the University of Cambridge and published on 7 April in the journal Psychological Science. This is the abstract for it:
In contrast to decades of research reporting surprisingly weak relationships between consumption and happiness, recent findings suggest that money can indeed increase happiness if it is spent the “right way” (e.g., on experiences or on other people). Drawing on the concept of psychological fit, we extend this research by arguing that individual differences play a central role in determining the “right” type of spending to increase well-being. In a field study using more than 76,000 bank-transaction records, we found that individuals spend more on products that match their personality, and that people whose purchases better match their personality report higher levels of life satisfaction. This effect of psychological fit on happiness was stronger than the effect of individuals’ total income or the effect of their total spending. A follow-up study showed a causal effect: Personality-matched spending increased positive affect. In summary, when spending matches the buyer’s personality, it appears that money can indeed buy happiness.
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855.
A Mirage of Depth
Eisel Mazard runs the blog, à-bas-le-ciel, and has a YouTube channel of the same name.
Lately he seems to prefer YouTube videos to deliver his message, maybe because he’s a gifted speaker and is able to clearly present his thoughts.
That doesn’t guarantee they’re right of course, but he usually has something interesting, sometimes insightful, and maybe funny to say, even if he’s talking puff – as in this case.
Cellular 