Sun is quite bright, I can see that.

Star explodes, that's a supernova. It's brighter than all other stars in the same galaxy (there are 100-400 billion stars in a galaxy. And 200 trillion galaxies in the universe btw. And 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe btw).

Star collapses into a black hole. The explosion is brighter than a million supernovae for some time.

Quasars outshine a supernova for millions of years at a time. Quasars are about stars collapsing into a black hole in the centre of a galaxy - large ones have several stars collapsing in a day.

Conditions are still more extreme in the black hole’s interior (within the surface of no return known as the ‘event horizon’), where the very fabric of space and time may be being ripped apart.

All this is happening in a relentlessly expanding universe that began about fourteen billion years ago with an all-encompassing explosion, the Big Bang, that makes all the other phenomena described above seem mild and inconsequential by comparison.

And that whole universe is just a sliver of an enormously larger entity, the multiverse.

(Paraphrased and in part quoted The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch)

And I'm, like, angry when someone drives slow

An interesting math thing about the relationship between odd numbers and powers of two:

1+3 = 2² = 4
1+3+5 = 3² = 9
1+3+5+7 = 4² = 16
1+3+5+7+9 = 5² = 25
1+3+5+7+9+11 = 6² = 36
1+3+5+7+9+11+13 = 7² = 49
1+3+5+7+9+11+13+15 = 8² = 64

And so on...

You know there's this site where you can search a song by name or paste e.g. a Spotify/Tidal/YouTube link? The results will offer buttons where one can choose which app/site to use to listen to it. Cool! #music #song

Example, a great song that tickles the brain: Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles

https://song.link/fi/i/530796494

I hear humans cannot do actual multitasking, parallel processing (which by the way is a term borrowed from computer science). We can only switch tasks fast and that has a cost to accuracy and performance.

An easy test to try how fast this happens can be done using two surprisingly simple tasks: 1) 1, 2, 3, 4... and 2) A, B, C, D... Now, in your mind, try to do it like this: 1A, 2B, 3C, 4D... At least for myself, I slowed down at like 4D already.

So the lesson for me at least: if task switching does that, what does it do when I'm switching between work, instant messaging, email etc. Actually, I can feel it's quite tiring and I notice it affects my memory and all that.