Can I suggest that the mundanity of life is actually very special so things like going to the gym and playing with your dog might be the best you ever get and that’s still a good life.
Teens who meet up with their friends 'almost every day' is down from 50% in the 90s to 25% today.
Falls off a cliff around 2010, alongside the rise of smartphones and social media.
Larry David wrote Seinfeld while living in subsidized housing for artists. We used to do things just like this. Grants for artists, public funds for them to live and work.
Every day I log onto this website, see four of the strangest sentences ever written, and then go about my day. The long term effects of this on the human brain are unknown.
This type of study is done endlessly in all parts of the world. Every time we learn the poor people don’t waste money. And then we just move on and do nothing with that information.
Researchers gave homeless people $750 per month for a year, no questions asked. The recipients spent the money on food, housing, transportation, clothing, and health care. And after six months, only 12% of those who received funds were still homeless.
“As I remember it, the Civil Rights Movement had no arrests, the Vietnam protests were peaceful, and no bricks were thrown at Stonewall.” That’s how a lot of you sound this week.
Honked at a car this morning that turned out to be my therapist while we were both on the way to her office. I’m sure we will be getting into one today.
i asked SARAH, the World Health Organization's new AI chatbot, for medical help near me, and it provided an entirely fabricated list of clinics/hospitals in SF. fake addresses, fake phone numbers.
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I loovve saving a stupid picture to my phone and then never deleting it. My phone is screaming, stop! I can’t handle anymore ! But I cannot. Another stupid picture must be downloaded and saved.
Emergency exit gates at three subway stations will soon take 15 seconds to open, MTA officials announced Monday, as part of an effort to crack down on the “super highway of fare evasion.”
When you work in service spaces it’s well known that the holidays are jam-packed with certain people and groups helping out momentarily while the rest of the year they actively work against helping people get fed or housed
My dad died at 62, begging his insurance to cover some of his chemo, while Henry Kissinger had access to three heart surgeries and will to live to see 100. Just something I think about when I feel like being angry.
Henry Kissinger turns 100 years old tomorrow and his son reflects on the secrets of his longevity. Hint: It's not the diet heavy on bratwurst and Wiener schnitzel.
Naming your WiFi connection is a sure fire way to let everyone know how old you are. There are maybe ten thousand households of thirty five year old men whose internet is named Pretty Fly for a WiFi
When I was in the third grade a girl in my class told everybody her brother killed Saddam Hussein and we all believed her . Our teacher let her make a little announcement about it. The early 2000s were just like that
The problem with making your entire personality being young/hot is that eventually you might be neither of those things and you’ll still have to find something about yourself that feels important and true.
We need an education program in this country that explains to people the point of a government service vs a business. A government service isn’t losing money - we are paying for the service. The “profit” is getting to use the thing. It does not generate income. It’s a service.
Will never forget the guy I saw on raya whose bio said “I prefer reading books to texting” like those were the only two options or even comparable choices
Craaaaazy that there is no shorthand for “I am addicted to the way you are bc of the kind of childhood I had but I don’t think you are a good or interesting person “ … there should be like an acronym or something
Yes this was a very good compliment and the secret to using all your groceries is freezing anything that’s about to go bad (BUT IS NOT BAD YET) and using it later in a soup or stir fry or casserole
Not drinking is awesome because it gives you the radical opportunity to find other things that will make you hungover to the brinj of death. Like having too much sugar or staying up one half hour too late.
We will never forget LAPD Policeman John M. Brinnegar, who was killed in the line of duty on September 29, 1928, after being shot by a bootlegging suspect.
Reeeeaaal quick I just want to say as someone who works service jobs in wealthy spaces those people think of you the same way they would a mop or a vacuum. You are an appliance in their world not a person.
Multiple studios are exploring using AI to generate scripts based on books and other public domain IP.
The studios reportedly plan to hire writers to rewrite those AI scripts when the writers’ strike ends.
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Check out this nifty photo wreath I bought to congratulate myself on stuffing a tuba full of tapioca and painting a wall with it! It's important to celebrate the weird wins, y'know?