you need to be delusionally optimistic
negative thinking poisons your brain and leads to congitive decline
whereas positive thinking, and gaslighting yourself into thinking everything is amazing, ACTUALLY makes your life amazing too.
you must be a silly goose
The most annoying thing about being human on Earth right now is the absolute waste of potential.
Brilliant minds and artists could be solving world hunger, climate change, and ending cancer, etc.
We could house, feed, clothe, and care for everyone.
But instead, we’ve decided to let a handful of asshats become billionaires, start wars, murder and imprison people, and keep the majority in poverty while ruining the climate.
It’s so stupid. The wasted ingenuity hurts to think about.
Lebanon has been hit with one of the largest waves of Israeli airstrikes since the escalation began.
Civilians are bearing the brunt of these attacks.
Civilians are #NotATarget.
The thing is that I’ll go to the pub with friends and have a few drinks and a laugh and it’ll be great and the next day I’ll be walking through London and see some people having a few drinks and a laugh outside the pub and feel that I am forever excluded from the joys of life
Number of people who go bankrupt due to medical debt each year by country:
🇩🇪:0
🇫🇷:0
🇬🇧:0
🇦🇺:0
🇨🇦:0
🇯🇵:0
🇮🇪:0
🇪🇸:0
🇮🇹:0
🇵🇹:0
🇩🇰:0
🇸🇪:0
🇳🇱:0
🇮🇸:0
🇺🇸: 530,000
We could cancel medical debt for pennies on the dollar. Instead we're bailing out Argentina to the tune of $20 billion.
Brazil is sending its election denier to prison for 27 years. We sent ours back to the White House. Brazil already lived under military dictatorship and saw the threat clearly. We failed to protect our democracy. We need to learn from Brazil before it’s too late.
"ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and 'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.' Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study."
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
— Omar El Akkad
Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school. https://t.co/ncsGwrDK0M
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' https://t.co/fbf9aojkcg