The three Vs to avoid if you are a college aged man: 1. video games 2. vaping 3. vorts betting If you can avoid them, you are basically a shoe in to succeed in life and business.

A remarkable admission from an editor at NY Magazine: a lot of what passes as “therapy” is just encouraging kids to “complain to another adult” about their parents. That’s why progressives are keen to get every kid into therapy: so they can reeducate other people’s children.

For better or for worse, Europeans sitting at the kids table want to have their cake, your cake and another helping of your cake too -- and then explode in indignation when excluded from the adults table where Ukraine vs Russia talks will be happening. But what should Europeans

To follow-on Jason Cohen --- the closer to the left side of the spectrum your products sit, the more useful and trustworthy the customer's answer to "What do you want to buy?" is --- as you get to the right side, that direct line of questioning becomes totally and entirely

One of my children was bitten by a copperhead -- after initial anti-venom dosage, we had to transfer from the ER to another hospital. Doc recommended that we take ambulance vs me driving him. Turns out...ambulance AC didn't work. Was loud, noisy and didn't get us there faster

what do you call the gap between when you ask ai to do something and it finishes. it's an awkward length. just long enough for your mind to wander, not long enough to switch tasks. what do we call this?

It’s true

just want to say this is a master-class of (domain name) marketing: descriptive domain big ass font face color variation in between each word (easier to read) big ass '.com' plaster it in big letters on a building plaster it across all vehicles + add 'park' in phone # 🤌

i suspect that most of what irks gen X is that we had created a fun, freewheeling, post-racial, minimal-politics society, and a bunch of weakminded thieves of joy came along and politicized the world into unfun, identity-based struggle sessions that made everything they touched

The absolute state of religion in the West these days.

I dunno. MJ used it to fuel his obsession into six rings. That and taking everything personally too.

Prob not true -- but amazing nonetheless.

I very rarely drink soda, but I'm on the highway today, and man, Coca-Cola has got to be one of the major accomplishments of the human race

PDF is an amazing format because it allowed us to keep the broken experience of using printers in a world without paper

A sub did this. Nobody needs a sandwich that powerful.

For this Goodfellas scene, there was no script. Martin Scorsese simply told his mother, playing Joe Pesci’s mom, to “act like a typical mom.” Her improvised 2 AM cooking talk was completely spontaneous

Confirmed. My middle-schooler grabbed an insanely expensive salted French butter thingamajig as we got supplies for a recent family trip. Two days later, everyone was raving about said French butter.

Classic.

The State of Texas has banned phone usage by students during the school day (fwiw I support this) --- Assuming it is enforced, given that there are about 5.5m Texas schoolchildren, how much revenue will be collectively lost by app makers and ad networks?