A student asked: "If sore throats are caused by a virus or bacteria, how come sleeping under the fan or drinking cold water gives it?"
I am surprised most people are not aware of the answer to this.
Instead of watching Netflix, watch this 1-hour Yale lecture by Professor Ben Polak.
It will change how you think about decisions in negotiations, business, and everyday life.
Stoję sobie w kolejce, a przede mną dwie Ukrainki. Mówią coś po ukraińsku (lub rosyjsku, nie umiem jeszcze ich rozróżnić). Niezbyt rozumiem o czym i staram się nie słuchać. Patrzę co kupiły, a tam ziemniaki, pierś z kurczaka i pieczarki. No nic, stoję w tej kolejce, pani już je kasuje, a ja wykładam swoje towary. Przychodzi do zapłacenie, to pierwsza Ukrainka (taka koło 40, normalna kobieta, ubrana schludnie). Uśmiechnęła się tylko i zaczęła szukać coś w portfelu. Wyciągnęła kartę i pokazuje ekspedientce. Ta się uśmiechnęła i żwawym gestem pokazała gdzie jest terminal. Ja w tym czasie zacząłem wyciągać swoje zakupy na taśmę. Ukrainki zapłaciły za towary i zaczęły pakować je do toreb. No nic, moja kolej. Jako, że u mnie tak średnio z kasą to kupiłem sobie makaron, mielone mięso i pomidory w puszcze. Przychodzi mi do płacenia, a patrzę kątem oka, a te Ukrainki jeszcze nie wyszły ze sklepu, stanęły w korytarzu i coś robią. Ta Ukrainka, która płaciła schowała portfel do kieszeni, ale za to ta druga w tym czasie czekała na nią. Potem obie wyszły ze sklepu. Zapłaciłem za swoje zakupy i wyszedłem tuż za nimi. One poszły dalej prosto a ja w prawo.
If you’re hunting for a remote job, you just need to figure out how Reddit works, and you’ll never be unemployed for a long time.
Here’s a list of subreddits you should bookmark right now:
Jimmy Carr just dropped a radical rethink of taxes, education, and national wealth:
- No tax for anyone under 30 → let young people keep every penny they earn and actually start their lives.
- University should be free… but only for STEM fields that grow society (not a luxury item for 50% of kids).
- Over 60? No tax either — stop pretending we can pay endless pensions with fewer young workers.
- Sovereign wealth fund from UK oil, gas, wind farms, and mobile masts — assets that should belong to everyone, not just the Crown.
On AI and the future:
We need flexibility of thought. Old ideologies won’t cut it when everything changes.
Why does everything have to come from taxing workers? Why not undercut Ireland on corporation tax, mine Bitcoin with idle power stations, or treat national resources as shared wealth?
Do you think no-tax zones for the young and old + free STEM education could actually work?
Or is this too radical for a country stuck in old thinking?
Your take 👇
i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from:
- getting humiliated
- showing up terrified and doing it anyway
- admitting you might be the problem
more to research when bored;
1. panopticon effect
2. chair theory
3. boltzmann brain hypothesis
4. trolley problem
5. baader-meinhof phenomenon
6. ship of theseus
7. law of jante
8. pygmalion effect
9. cognitive dissonance theory
10. platypus principle
11... show more
Things to research when bored:
-String theory
-Dark matter
-Analects of Confucius
-The Fermi Paradox
-Quantum Entanglement
-Time dilation and relativity
-Transhumanism
-Lost Civilisations and Myths
-Political Bias in Cartography
-Bioluminescence
-Street art movements
-Legends of Werewolves in Europe
-The Voynich Manuscript
-Green children of Woolpit
A perfect Friday in Italy 🇮🇹🤣
8:00 - Wake up to the sound of your neighbor's espresso machine grinding at full volume
8:30 - Check portfolio, it''s stable because you don't have a portfolio, just own 3 houses
9:00 - Argue with the barista about the perfect cappuccino foam thickness
9:30 - Pick up wife from the hairdresser because she ran out of gas
10:00 - Receive fine for leaving the Vespa in double parking for two hours
10:30 - Start work, but first, a second espresso
12:00 - Eat pasta for lunch (with a three-hour break to discuss the recipe)
15:00 - Write an angry Facebook post about how Americans don't know real food
15:30 - Mandatory seminar on the art of gesturing during meetings
16:30 - Finish work early because of a spontaneous strike
18:00 - Start an alcoholic aperitivo with spritz and finger food worthy of a banquet
20:00 - Eat pasta for dinner (different sauce, so it's variety)
21:00 - Watch a soccer match and yell at the TV like it's personal
22:00 - Read article about Italy having the best work-life balance in Europe
23:00 - Act like the alpha male with your wife, because you never know if she might find a lover...