Quote of the moment

 I was not trained as an athlete, but I have to perform like one.

--Larry Mullen, Jr.

Banana

LV, NV

Pic ©2022 Accomplix

Used by permission, all rights reserved

Headline of the moment

People with a weak future time perspective are more likely to engage in bedtime procrastination

--psypost.org

Quote of the moment

As we enter an era where nothing means anything because it's all just about power, intermediation and influence, it's very hard to put ideas out and very easy for them to come across not as intended.

--Jaron Lanier

Quote of the moment

 I feel like a Corvette being used as a grocery cart.

--Carol Siegler

Alienating small talk questions of the moment

Do you identify as an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert?

How do you spend your days?

Tell me a secret thought you've been having all day.

If you were a perfume, what scents would you be made of?

--All from the brain lab of a woman who calls herself Perpetual Neo

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/questions-for-fascinating-small-talk

Take me to the co-pilot

b1-66er: Elton John is still watchable on D+

Special K: Thank Iger!

b1: I know his sanctions.

K: Good one•

Troubled quotes of the moment

These people that reach for the past need to hear that it's not available to them.

--Michelle O'Neill

People are angry, annoyed to have been shifted from their homes by the acts of people who have nothing to offer society.

--Gary Middleton

Quote of the moment

However, there's a very big distinction between what's physically possible and what's physically practical. 

--Ethan Siegel

Quote of the moment

Whether you're in a cult or a bad relationship, or a job you hate, you can always change your life.

--Mike Rinder

Partial quote of the moment

...but since living here, the desert has taught me the art of perception: how to slow down and actually see what's in front of you.

--Meg Bernhard

Thought fragment of the moment

...every work of fiction represents an attempt by the imagination to grasp its own finitude...

--Andrea Chu

Quote of the moment

We are not abandoning the rotation of the Earth.

--"Dr. Tavella" 

(I did not immediately see the the name in the NYT article.)

Quote about the moment

Time is fraught with emotion.

--Alanna Mitchell

Quotes of the moment

Uncertainty doesn't work for anybody very well, because in general the media don't appreciate people like that.

***

You can be amazing, but you could admit too that you're bewildered.

***

I think we're in for a hard ride for maybe half a century. Then it will either be the end of civilization or a reborn humanity with a different set of ideas about who we are and where we belong and how we must relate to things in order to survive. So I see a pessimistic short-term future. Not short-term for the person who's living it but short-term in the history of civilization. Then I see this point at which we either really fail or we start to succeed. 

--Brian Eno

Partial quotes of the moment

...weight loss in later life may in some cases be a sign of impaired brain health.

***

...luck is, of course, just another way of saying we don’t know something.

--Marcus Richards, Jonathan Schott

Defense data of the moment

In 2021, less than 2 percent of all government-sponsored research was allocated to defense in Japan, compared with close to half in the United States and 10 percent in France.

--Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Datum of the moment

More than 100,000 tech workers have lost their jobs this year.

--layoffs.fyi

Quote of the moment

I knew I wanted to live somewhere that gun violence wasn't a daily threat.

--Grace Veach (American living in Portugal)

Quote of the moment

After being injected with Ozempic, a user could try to imagine a moist slab of black forest gateau, or a calorically-dense, half-pound Baconator bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's, and their body physically revolts, with spasms of nausea and waves of ill feeling. It's the chemical realization of a behavioral psychologist's wildest dream; A Clockwork Orange for junk food, an eating disorder in an injection.

--John Semley

Quote of the moment

<Lotteries are a> really unwise way to fund education and other public services. The people likeliest to buy tickets are often the same ones who most rely on these government programs.

--David Just

Quote of the moment

To be an American is to be a scholar of opportunity.

Opportunity costs.

--Kaveh Akbar

Quote of the moment

Greed, as they say, is a hell of a drug – or perhaps just a disease. It is a chimera, a destroyer of dreams.

--Alexander Hurst

Quote of the moment

Despite cascading crises, right now is the most materially comfortable moment in human history. 

--Alexander Hurst

Quote of the moment

Covid was an epic reset button.

--Daniel Baron 

Quote of the moment

Deep neural networks often seem to mirror not just human intelligence but also human inexplicability.  

--Chloe Xiang

Quote of the moment

Statins are the most effective heart attack and stroke prevention drugs that we have really ever seen,

--Michael Honigberg

Quote of the moment

Boundaries are limits you set around how people are allowed to engage with you in a way that keeps you safe and healthy, and improves the relationship.

--Melissa Urban

Life stance quote of the moment

Ignorance is really not a strategy here.

--Donna Milavetz

Quote of the moment

This may be the worst time in my living history for the home buyer — it just doesn't make sense.

--Mark Zandi

Consumptive quote of the moment

The Super Bowl is the biggest consumption event for avocado.

--Richard Kottmeyer

Statistic of the moment

684,000 fatal falls occur each year

--World Health Organization