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  1. 'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis will blaze across the sky on April 13, 2029 — here's why this once-in-a-lifetime event is worth traveling for
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    Quick take: <p>A rare stargazing spectacle will unfold on Friday
    #asteroid #lifetime #apophis #april

  2. 39 years ago
    Life Time is the first full-length studio album by Rollins Band, produced by Ian MacKaye and realeased February 1987.

    #punkrock #hardcore #hardcorepunk #rollinsband #henryrollins #lifetime #history #punkrockhistory

  3. "The most valuable resource of the 21st century is your attention – and no one mines it more efficiently than Mark Zuckerberg. In 2025, Meta generated $196 billion in advertising revenue."*

    I especially like the first part of the sentence, i.e. #attention being the most valuable #resource these days - this is something you should internalise. It's an investors perspective and it's verisimilitude is confirmed by the company values of this industry (#Meta , #Google, #Twitter, etc.).

    From an individual perspective this is true as well - for you and me attention means #time, and time is the only resource we'll never be able to gain, we automatically lose it with every passing second.

    It's therefore outrageous how much time people give away freely, to companies, who's business model is maximizing the time you spend on them. And just as a side note - apparently, according to the newsletter this quote is taken from, soon Meta will even ask you to pay for it. Absurd. Yet, in Germany the average #screentime is ~5h per day, with nearly 3h going to #socialmedia apps like #Facebook, #Instagram, #tiktok etc.

    I wonder, what's your life worth to yourself?

    * Source: Scalable Capital Bits & Pieces Edition #265 | KW 6: Der Falke im Nest, Werbung vs. Abo und NVIDIA im Auto; Newsletter; translated from German by me.

    #thoughts #philosophy #living #limitedlife #lifetime #valuable #valueyourself

  4. The creepy ass serial killer, John Edward Robinson who is a gnarly case and one of the first to use the internet to lure victims, in this Lifetime movie is played by Steven Guttenberg and he's doing so well! Time for a real Guttencomeback.

    #tvmovies #tv #lifetime #serialkillers #truecrime #crime #celebrity

  5. most schools are a waste of time: 70% through my life i am convinced that too much of my precious #lifetime was wasted on useless depressing and #innovation and #curiosity destroying institution called "#school" and "the #schoolsystem"

    in school you do not learn for #life, you learn to hate #thesystem

    nobody should say at the end of their life like the end of school "so glad it is over"

    #philosophy #waste of #life #time

  6. A quotation from Le Guin

    I feel like I was walking across Nevada, like the pioneers, carrying a lot of stuff I need, but as I go along I have to keep dropping off things. I had a piano once but it got swamped at a crossing of the Platte. I had a good frypan but it got too heavy and I left it in the Rockies. I had a couple ovaries but they wore out around the time we were in the Carson Sink. I had a good memory but pieces of it keep dropping off, have to leave them scattered around in the sage brush, on the sand hills.

    Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
    Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19

    More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8020…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leguin #ursulakleguin #change #growingold #lettinggo #lifespan #lifetime #passageoftime #riddance #aging #memory

  7. A quotation from Carl Sandburg

    Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

    Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet, biographer
    (Attributed)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/sandburg-carl/79972/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlsandburg #autonomy #lifespan #lifetime #selfcontrol #selfdirection #time #value #passageoftime #independence

  8. A quotation from Shakespeare

    KING RICHARD: Why, uncle, thou hast many years to live.
    GAUNT: But not a minute, king, that thou canst give.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 231ff (1.3.231-232) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardii #king #lifespan #lifetime #mortality #power #time

  9. A quotation from James Hilton

    The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

    James Hilton (1900-1954) Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter
    Lost Horizon, ch. 8 [High Lama] (1933)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hilton-james/79489/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshilton #losthorizon #shangrila #age #brevity #elderly #humancondition #lifetime #oldage #transience #youth

  10. Business Insider #ABC #suspended #JimmyKimmel late-night show after he made remarks about #CharlieKirk. #Sinclair, the largest #ABC #affiliate, said it won't air the show until "appropriate steps" are taken. Sinclair said Kimmel should make a "personal #donation" to Kirk's organization. You can #choose not to pay for or use: #HULU #FX #ESPN #A&E #Lifetime #Marvel, #Lucasfilm #Pixar #20thCenturyStudios #SearchlightPictures #DisneyWorld #DisneyLand #DisneyResorts #DisneyParks #DisneyCruises

  11. A quotation from Montaigne

    Life’s usefulness is not in its length, but in its use: some who have lived a long time have lived but little — take heed of it while you are still in it. For you to have lived enough lies in your will, not in the number of your years.
     
    [L’utilité du vivre n’est pas en l’espace: elle est en l’usage. Tel a vescu long temps, qui a peu vescu. Attendez vous y pendant que vous y estes. Il gist en vostre volonté, non au nombre des ans, que vous ayez assez vescu.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19), “That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die [Que Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourir]” (1572-03) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #fulfillment #fulllife #goodlife #life #lifespan #lifetime #living #mortality

  12. Fifty of the #world’s #richest #billionaires on average produce more #carbon through their #investments, private #jets and #yachts in just over 90 minutes than the average person does in their entire #lifetime.

  13. #Advisors Warn Early #SocialSecurity Claims May Cost #Retirees Thousands

    Delaying Social Security payments past full #retirement age can significantly increase monthly benefits, maximizing #lifetime benefits and reducing the risk of outliving #savings.

    goodmenproject.com/featured-co

  14. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Taking it all together, keep always in view that human life is transitory and cheap: yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a buried corpse or ashes. So make your way through this brief moment in time in line with nature and let go of your life gladly, as an olive might fall when ripe, blessing the earth that bore it and grateful to the tree that gave it growth.
     
    [τὸ γὰρ ὅλον, κατιδεῖν ἀεὶ τὰ ἀνθρώπινα ὡς ἐφήμερα καὶ εὐτελῆ καὶ ἐχθὲς μὲν μυξάριον, αὔριον δὲ τάριχος ἢ τέφρα. τὸ ἀκαριαῖον οὖν τοῦτο τοῦ χρόνου κατὰ φύσιν διελθεῖν καὶ ἵλεων καταλῦσαι, ὡς ἂν εἰ ἐλαία πέπειρος γενομένη ἔπιπτεν, εὐφημοῦσα τὴν ἐνεγκοῦσαν καὶ χάριν εἰδυῖα τῷ φύσαντι δένδρῳ.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 48 (4.48) (AD 161-180) [tr. Gill (2013)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7716…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #meditations #acceptance #contentment #humancondition #humanity #life #lifespan #lifetime #mortality

  15. A quotation from Shakespeare

    KING HENRY: O God! Methinks it were a happy life
    To be no better than a homely swain,
    To sit upon a hill as I do now,
    To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
    Thereby to see the minutes how they run:
    How many makes the hour full complete,
    How many hours brings about the day,
    How many days will finish up the year,
    How many years a mortal man may live.
    When this is known, then to divide the times:
    So many hours must I tend my flock,
    So many hours must I take my rest,
    So many hours must I contemplate,
    So many hours must I sport myself,
    So many days my ewes have been with young,
    So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,
    So many years ere I shall shear the fleece;
    So minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
    Passed over to the end they were created,
    Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
    Ah, what a life were this! How sweet, how lovely!

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 21ff (3.5.21-41) (1591)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #henryvi #aging #countryside #happiness #lifetime #mortality #passageoftime #perspective #rustic #simplelife #simplicity

  16. A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    ’T were a dull old world, methinks, my friend,
       If we all just went one way;
    Yet our paths will meet no doubt at the end,
       Though they lead apart today.

    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
    Poem (1879), “Advice,” st. 4, Maurine and Other Poems (1882 ed.)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #boredom #destination #dullness #homogeneity #lifetime #living #orthodoxy #variety

  17. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come — dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.
     
    [μικρὸν μὲν οὖν ὃ ζῇ ἕκαστος: μικρὸν δὲ τὸ τῆς γῆς γωνίδιον ὅπου ζῇ: μικρὸν δὲ καὶ ἡ μηκίστη ὑστεροφημία καὶ αὕτη δὲ κατὰ διαδοχὴν ἀνθρωπαρίων τάχιστα τεθνηξομένων καὶ οὐκ εἰδότων οὐδὲ ἑαυτοὺς οὐδέ γε τὸν πρόπαλαι τεθνηκότα.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 3, ch. 10 (3.10) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7602…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #meditations #brevity #fame #forget #humancondition #insignificance #legacy #lifetime #mortality #perspective #posterity #renown