“We don’t get to choose how we start in this life. Real ‘greatness’ is what you do with the hand you’re dealt.”

Victor Sullivan (Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception)

So

I was watching porn today, and the premise was that the woman was the mom of the dude’s friend. At one point, the guy (who is the worst porn actor I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of porn actors) says “Wow Miss <whatever>, I’ve never seen this side of you before”, to which she replies “Well <whatever>, there’s a lot of sides you haven’t seen of me”. Then there’s like a 3 second pause, and the dude was like

“Cool.”

I can’t remember the last time I laughed that hard.

“If you look at the worst-case consequences of climate change, those pretty much mean the collapse of our industrial civilization. But that doesn’t mean the end of everything. It means that we’re going to be living through the most rapid and intense period of change that humanity has ever faced. And that’s certainly not hopeless. It means we’re going to have to build another world in the ashes of this one. And it could very easily be a better world. I have a lot of hope in my generation’s ability to build a better world in the ashes of this one. And I have very little doubt that we’ll have to. The nice thing about that is that this culture hasn’t led to happiness anyway, it hasn’t satisfied our human needs. So there’s a lot of room for improvement. It’s somewhat comforting knowing that things are going to fall apart, because it does give us that opportunity to drastically change things.”

Tim DeChristopher,