@fikrifmn@mnasrullah00 kalau anon ni berhenti solat kat stesen ktm, nanti dia kena tunggu next train lagi sejam, smpi rumah dah sangat lewat, dekat pukul 10pm. Saya teka anon ni naik dari KL Sentral menghala ke Tg Malim. Mmg train sejam sekali je waktu hari bekerja.
@wqoole Another pointer for you, I think I enabled this feature for Spotify to play over other apps. Baru teringat. Been using this for years, I forgot how I did it initially haha.
@wqoole are you using android? My phone samsung android, boleh control volume for each app individually mcm ni. Boleh dengar spotify/music app & youtube at the same time
The research behind this is wild. Your face as a kid shaped how teachers treated you, how many friends you made, how much practice you got being social, and even how much money you earn right now. It starts before you can crawl.
Babies just hours old already prefer attractive faces. Researchers at the University of Exeter showed newborns (average age: 2 days) pairs of faces and tracked which ones they stared at longer. The babies consistently picked the faces adults rated as good-looking. The sorting starts on day one.
Teachers do it too. In a 1973 study, they were given identical student profiles with different photos attached. The teachers rated the good-looking kids as having more academic potential, paid them more attention in class, and gave more detailed help when they struggled. Same kid on paper, different face, completely different treatment.
This creates a loop that psychologists have studied for decades. When people expect you to be friendly and capable, they act warmer toward you, and because they're warm, you actually become more social in return. Researchers at the University of Minnesota proved this in 1977 with a phone experiment. Men were shown a fake photo before a call (not the actual woman on the line). The ones who thought she was attractive were friendlier. And the women on the other end, who knew nothing about any photo, became more outgoing in response. The expectation changed real behavior in real time.
Now picture this running on repeat for an entire childhood. The good-looking kid gets picked for group projects, invited to birthday parties, gets smiles from strangers at the grocery store. Each of those is a rep. Social skills work like a muscle, and you get better by doing them over and over. The kid who got fewer invitations and fewer smiles fell behind for a simple reason: less practice.
The University of Texas pulled together 919 studies on attractiveness and found the same four things every time: people across cultures agree on who is good-looking, those kids get judged more favorably, they get treated better by the adults around them, and they end up with stronger social skills. Once the loop starts, it feeds itself.
It carries into your paycheck. Economists at UT Austin found that workers rated below average in looks earn 5 to 10% less per hour than average-looking coworkers, even when education and experience are the same. Over a 40-year career, that penalty alone runs into six figures. A 2026 study in Personality and Individual Differences tracked kids rated for their looks at ages 7 and 11, then checked back at age 50. The ones rated attractive in childhood still had better social skills four decades later.
So yeah, this tweet is more right than wrong. But the real driver is practice. Being less attractive as a kid meant fewer people reaching out to you, fewer good interactions, fewer chances to build the muscle. You didn't lack a social gene. You got fewer at-bats.
@09128734x@zamirmohyedin@HRHJonzs Tak semestinya. Em dash tu pun AI ambik drpd tulisan penulis2 yg sedia ada. Baca buku Arthur Conan Doyle abad ke-19 tu pun dah ada em dash.
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Kebelakangan ni macam makin kerap saya terjumpa tulisan sedemikian.
Nasihat saya, hentikan tulis begitu.
I've spent the last 12 months applying to jobs and getting rejected over and over and over and over and over again while borrowing more and more money each month from people saying "I'll pay it back when I get a job" but at this point I think suicide might be a better alternative