cover your load

May 21

There's the next mission, and nothing else.

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Tony, you know that I would help you with anything, but I cannot help you if you're going to start all this again.
• Tony Stark: There is nothing except this. There's no art opening, no charity, nothing to sign. There's the next mission, and nothing else.
• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Is that so? Well, then I quit.
• Tony Stark: You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the benefits of destruction. Now that I'm trying to protect the people I've put in harm's way, you're going to walk out?
• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: You're going to kill yourself, Tony. I'm not going to be a part of it.
• Tony Stark: I shouldn't be alive... unless it was for a reason. I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right.

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May 20

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” — Henry David Thoreau (via ruineshumaines)

(Source: showslow, via quote-book)

May 19

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May 14

“Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.” — Angelina Jolie (via matejspehar)

May 12

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“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” — A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner. (via benedictsmith)

(Source: notclarissa, via gettinchai)

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May 11

Just get your shoes on, son. #gym #motivation #advice frommatt @mattunderground

May 10

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2014 Porsche 911 GT3

Now without manual transmission. This makes me sad. 

While it makes sense that getting a computer to shift gears is much faster and better for performance, the fact that the driver is another level of abstraction away from the machine really takes away some of the romance associated with driving, and the connection between driver and car.

As the article sadly and hilariously points out though, this is about more money:

“It’s a business, and there are more rich people who want prestige and easy speed than there are true enthusiasts who care about the driving experience. …without a clutch pedal, it’ll be easier sell the GT3 to really rich old guys who’ll use it to sit in traffic.”

- Jason Cammisa, Road & Track west coast editor 

(Source: Wired)

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I was recently at a Senate meeting where I heard a member of our Senate community say, ‘God won’t allow us to ruin our planet.’ Maybe that’s why we do nothing. We are comfortable that God somehow won’t allow us to ruin our planet… The statement that ‘God won’t allow us to ruin our planet’ sweeps aside ethics, responsibilities, consequences, duties, even awareness. It comforts us with the anodyne assumption that no matter what we do, some undefined presence will, through some undefined measure, make things right - clean up our mess. That is seeking magical deliverance from our troubles, not divine guidance through our troubles…

We’re to continue to pollute our Earth with literally megatons each year of carbon, heating up our atmosphere, acidifying our seas, knowing full well by [God’s] natural laws what the consequences are, and instead of correcting our own behavior, we’re going to bet on a miracle? That’s the plan?…

We need to face up to the fact that there is only one leg on which climate denial stands. Money. The polluters give and spend money to create false doubt. The polluters give and spend money to buy political influence. The polluters give and spend money to keep polluting. That’s it. Not truth, not science, not economics, not safety, not policy and certainly not religion nor morality. Nothing supports climate denial. Nothing except money. But in Congress, in this temple, money rules. So here I stand, in one of the last places on earth that is still a haven to climate denial.

(via reactorboy)

May 09

matthew-online:

Art by Jae Lee from the upcoming “Batman/Superman” book

Also, wow.