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Cool and rare cover of “Ring of Fire” by Brian Eno from a 1990 promotional record called “Soil Samples”

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Life is hard Life is short it is rare that I feel a good feelin

We’re made in pain We’re made in shame no ones stopping my good times

from now on.

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I don't wanna eat out

I just wanna eat in

I don't wanna eat at a restaurant

I just wanna cook my own food

I don't wanna

Cum

With myself or with anyone else

I don't wanna

Eat meat

But sometimes I do it

anyway

Well anyway

Compulsion is a motherfucker

You feel a pull

It might be oedepul

Whether yr sucking on a cig

Or sucking on yr mom's tit

Anyway

Well anyway.

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How can I forgive my past selves when the red cloud hangs over my head? direct the energy away from my anger and mania up the central channel make it into something better anger and mania clench fists at whose in the mirror clench fists at whose in the shower anger and mania the poi sons trans mute in to my Bud dhas

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This is just a reminder that S.O.S. band was a frikkin hit making machine and will always be underrated.

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A rhythm for each member of my family

each generation ticking back through time to the first

Can they feel it and feel that my will is true

will they enable this life

so that i might do the good thing

and when im dead and gone

when i am that ancestor

may i uplift the someones bright

so they might do the good things too

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Life between the planes is

So beautiful and Strange it

Feels like

You don't belong anywhere.

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Okay….catch the god fearing tea on that

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Doesn’t sound demonic, which is a nice change of pace from the typical 8x slowed down songs.

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I am going to stay awake even if I move slowly.

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I’m feeling low And I don’t really know Why?

Chasing satisfaction Drags me through my wrong desicions

There must be something more to life than the things you leave behind But i can’t quite put my finger on it

Sometimes I think of how nice it would be To be an instrument of perfect discipline Be born a watch counting grains of time.

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Whatever you do, don’t run back to what broke you.

Frank Ocean (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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-5

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What does it mean to be a billionaire?

So there’s been a lot of discussion floating around regarding billionaires and society, and I’ve noticed that most people have no idea what a billion dollars is for practical purposes - people tend to think of it as a vague, nebulous concept of “a lot of money” rather than something concrete you can wrap your head around. This is understandable, considering 1) a billion of anything is really hard to visualize and 2) the average person has no real reference point for an amount of money that large. So I’m going to try to break it down for everyone:

Okay, so imagine you have a billion dollars. What can you actually buy with that?

This is a mega mansion that will have an Imax cinema, a bowling alley, and a spa when it’s fully complete. It costs around 4.6 million dollars.

Now let’s buy one of these in every country in Europe - that’s 50 mansions you now own. So how are you going to travel between all your many homes?

This is a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, the fastest street-legal car in the world. It has a maximum speed of a face-melting 254 mph and can go from 0 to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds. It costs around 2.5 million dollars.

Let’s buy a dozen of them - you know, in case you total a few of them racing around the highway. But maybe a sports car is still to slow for you:

This is an Embraer Lineage 1000. It’s private jet that can seat up to 19 passengers, and we’re going to buy it for 53 million dollars.

How about a boat? The Tatoosh is a 303 ft private yacht, meaning it’s longer than a football field. We’ll take it for 369 million dollars.

Do you like art? Just for fun let’s buy Monet’s most expensive painting ($90 million) Van Gogh’s most expensive painting ($151 million), and this monstrosity, which is made with 8,601 diamonds and costs 65 million dollars.

Now that we’ve gone on our ludicrous and absurdly wasteful shopping spree, how much money do we have leftover? About 12 million dollars, which is almost an order of magnitude more than the average American with a bachelors degree or higher earns in a lifetime ($1.8 million). So if you for whatever reason decided to buy the 50 houses, 12 sports cars, plane, yacht, art pieces etc. and immediately set them all on fire, you would still have enough cash leftover so you never would have to work again if you so chose. This is what it means to be a billionaire.

But we’re not done yet.

The richest person in the world is Bill Gates, with a net worth of 86 billion dollars. If he liquidated his assets, what could he buy?

Well, for starters, the Burj Khalifa - the tallest man-made structure in the world at 2,722 feet tall, costing around 1.5 billion dollars.

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most advanced particle accelerator for 9 billion dollars.

The Hubble Space Telescope for 10 billion dollars (including 20 years of operating costs).

The Three Gorges Dam, the largest power station in the world, more than a mile wide.

And to top it all off, a fleet of five Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, the largest military vessels ever built for around 8.9 billion dollars each. If you look at the picture very closely you can see the people standing on it for reference.

If Bill Gates bought all of this, he would still have around 2.3 billion dollars leftover. That’s enough to go on the billionaire shopping spree I described above twice over (so 100 mansions, 24 sports cars etc.) and still have hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank when it’s all said and done.

But we’re not done yet.

Currently, it’s estimated that there are 2,043 billionaires alive today, with a combined net worth of around 7.67 trillion dollars.

This is Russia, the largest country in the world, extending more than six and a half million square miles, with a population of more than 144 million people. The United Kingdom could fit inside Russia 70 times.

In 2016 Russia’s gross domestic product was about 1.28 trillion dollars. This means that if the two thousand and some odd richest people in the world - less than half of 0.1% of 0.1% of the Earth’s population - liquidated and pooled their assets together, they could buy every single product and service made in Russia for almost 6 years.

So yeah, make of that what you will.