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Opinion | Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse (www.nytimes.com)

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Our biased attention means we’ll always feel like we’re living in dark times, and our biased memory means we’ll always feel like the past was brighter.

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[–] BrerChicken 2 points 1 year ago

It's not a few million years, it's 4 or 5 BILLION years. And also it's not big enough to go supernova. It'll lose its outer layers (which will vaporize Earth and the other rocky planets!), and end up a white dwarf.