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defending the world against the ravages of modernism

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@JohanTangen @RaminNasibov Yes, that's what my first thought was as well.

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@DrcharlieWardQ It's amazing they have a show still.

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@cdrsalamander C8 is very interesting. The action shot showing the athlete actually perform their event is labeled as offering nothing of value to the viewer. Instead we should only see their emotion at the end. Don't focus on performance or achievement - focus on feelings.

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@SimoneBett Sounds like a repeat of the USA v Bosnia game

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@KDHabibi You need landscape architects

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@FleabagMoroni @Je5ton If it's not AI then he has a wire assist pulling him up. Near the end he magically goes up with wall without much exertion/movement at all.

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@HaKaN5 @epicsp0ranIari @belgeseIdunyasi Very deliberate and well done

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@the_culturist_ That must be using a loose definition of castle. Certainly not if you define it as Burg Eltz in the image you show. If you include a lot of manor houses that are named castles (but really aren't) and crumbling ruins with just a wall or two remaining... Maybe.

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@ART202346067 @TheEconomist The thing I most hear from Europeans who visit the US is how nice and curteous Americans are.

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@KSUWindbreaker They should still get a championship game ban for a year from the Big12 to make sure they get the message.

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@FelpsCrypto If the critics don't like it I'm hopeful it will just be a fun popcorn movie that I can watch without any ham-fisted high stakes story or social messaging. I just want a fun sci-fi adventure. Not every movie has to be an event to be good.

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I am curious a similars pattern exist designing by hand vs using a mouse and keyboard. Theres been a lot of debate over CAD impacting design decisions around the merits of the tools - but what about what's actually going on in the brain and the potential impact on creativity?

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A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

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I enjoy watching my neighbors water their yard for a month before I even turn on my sprinkler system. Low-water plant selection for the win.

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It is 2026, but Hobby Lobby has yet to discover the bar code.

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@PramilaJayapal Go research how many fees a developer has to pay to build a home in WA - before they even put a shovel in the ground. Of course few get built, and what does get built is expensive.

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@JonBlakehoob @RadioGenoa I'm glad somebody else knows what a baobab is in these comments.

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@LuizaJarovsky I just got rid of digital submissions for essays. You can't use AI to write your essay in a blue book with your butt in the classroom. All the hand wringing and wasted money spent on AI detectors when an analog solution solves the problem for pennies.

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@James85442944 @Susanj010 @HormuzLetter @grok I use flightradar

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@Stephen_Mac03 @Arma_Lite_14 Also the phone screens don't show the same scene, and the guards uniforms change, and some of the phones are very weird shapes. Problem is, most people dont take/have the time to scrutinize all these videos.

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@Susanj010 @HormuzLetter @grok Grok is wrong. Just pull up a flight tracker and check it yourself. The flight is still flying uninterrupted.