Many people believe that much of U.S. debt is owed to foreign countries like China and Japan. The truth is, most of it is owed to Social Security and pension funds.
– https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-3306124
I learned something today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyODHqG2Tz0&list=PLvHlpVKoUjWjG9Qdr2cjWHVjRtQguxi4L&index=7
From the Hotel Surrender album.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_rock
Interesting instrumental band is Covet (past association of their guitarist with Polyphia).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxSXUzc96A
I would love you like a millionaire
living on a dollar a day.– Beth Ditto: In and Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5sUWBfUDA
Great and very catchy bassline, good singing, good story, fun song.
Was hab ich davon ein Mensch zu sein, wenn wir Tage in Bernstein verwahren
Ich wiege mich nur im Wind allein, und ich träume fast jede Nacht davon wie wir waren– Charlotte Bandi with Dirk von Lowtzow: Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlnwXIigAAs
Why do all the monsters come out at night?
why do we sleep where we want to hide?
why do I run back to you like I don’t mind if you fuck up my life?– All Time Low: Monsters
An interesting note on depicting dinosaurs based on their skeletal remains. The main point is that real life animals have all sorts of skin flas, fat deposits, etc. Dinosaurs probably looked much different than we depict them. To illustrate the point, the piece contains several pictures of contemporary animals drawn in the same style as we draw prehistoric animals: take the bones, put some muscles on the skeleton, shrink-wrap in skin and we are done.
The animals like baboon, hippo or zebra look really hillarious this way.
Netherlands with natural sea level:
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/127626999276/the-netherlands-compared-to-sea-level-via-reddit
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.