Stickler++

God was also mentioned in the Bible.

My heart literally can't take this

Remove the concept of Arrange marriages from India, and you'll see how hard it becomes for Indian men to find a partner and get married on their own. The majority of men here don't even know the basics of interacting with females. All they have is shallow pride rooted in nothing #justsaying

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home. They traveled around 17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners..🐶🐾🥺❤️

Nothing is left to say.

Don't be surprised. Slavery was common and continues in the black and brown populations of the world even today. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Prime Minister of the Netherlands handed over the government and left on his bicycle, but every Nigerian man needs a car to boost his confidence😂😂 I can't promise all of you cars if I become President but you will have good roads and infrastructure!

Part 3. So where do audiobooks fit in all this? UC Berkeley put people inside brain scanners, had them listen to stories from a popular podcast, then come back and read those exact same stories. When scientists compared the brain maps from both sessions, they were almost identical. The areas that lit up when someone heard the word “bear” were the same areas that lit up when they read the word “bear.” The lead researcher said she expected differences. She didn’t find any. Your brain processes meaning the same way whether the words come through your eyes or your ears. That sounds like audiobooks should be equal to reading. But here’s the catch. A study from the University of Virginia gave students a podcast version of a lesson and gave another group the same lesson printed on paper. The readers scored 28% higher. That’s the gap between an A and a D. Same content. Same amount of time. Massive difference in what stuck. The problem isn’t your ears. The problem is control. When you read, you set your own pace. You slow down when something is confusing. You re-read a sentence without even thinking about it. You pause at the end of a paragraph and your brain has a fraction of a second to file the information away. With an audiobook, the narrator keeps going whether you followed or not. You can rewind, but almost nobody does, because it breaks the flow. And if a section is dense or unfamiliar, the words just wash over you. Then there’s the multitasking problem. People don’t listen the way they read. Reading demands your full visual field. You can’t read and scroll Instagram at the same time. But audiobooks? A University of Virginia psychologist found that most people who listen to books are doing something else at the same time: driving, cooking, exercising, browsing their phone. One study found 67% of listeners couldn’t go 10 minutes without switching to another task. The information that gets lost in those moments doesn’t come back. There is one area where audiobooks actually win. A narrator gives you tone. When someone says “what a great party,” a skilled voice actor makes the sarcasm obvious. On paper, you have to figure that out from context alone. For fiction, especially dialogue-heavy fiction, that voice performance adds a layer of meaning you don’t get from printed text. Shakespeare performed out loud lands differently than Shakespeare on a page, and that’s by design. So the honest answer: for a novel you’re reading for fun, audiobooks are close to equal. Your brain processes the story the same way. For anything you need to actually learn or remember in detail, reading on paper still wins, because your brain needs control over the pace and the ability to go back. And if you’re listening while doing something else, you’re getting maybe half of what you think you are.

Part 2. The weirdest part of this research might be that your phone lies to you about how much you understood. A university in Israel ran a clean experiment. People read the same text on screen and on paper, then guessed how well they’d do on a test about it. Paper readers nailed their predictions almost perfectly. Screen readers overestimated by about 10 points. Every time. They walked away feeling like they got it. They didn’t. That fake confidence is the real problem. Your brain uses that “I’ve got this” feeling to decide when to stop reading. If the feeling kicks in too early, you put the phone down before the information actually sticks. Paper keeps you honest. Screens don’t. Here’s where it gets wild. A team in Norway gave 50 people the same 28-page mystery story. Half got a pocket paperback. Half got a Kindle. Same page layout, same words, same font, everything identical except what they were holding. After they finished, researchers asked them to arrange 14 events from the story in the right order. Paperback readers got the sequence mostly right. Kindle readers scrambled it. The researcher behind the study, Anne Mangen, thinks the answer is literally in your hands: when you read a physical book, you feel the pile of unread pages shrinking on the right and growing on the left. That’s a built-in progress bar your body tracks without thinking about it. A Kindle weighs exactly the same on page 3 and page 280. Your hands get nothing. And this part is a little unsettling. Maryanne Wolf, a brain scientist at UCLA who has spent decades studying how we read, says the damage doesn’t stay on the screen. The fast, shallow skimming you train yourself to do on your phone starts showing up when you read paper too. Your brain gets so used to scanning that scanning becomes the default. Even with a paperback in your hands. Wolf argues that schools now need to teach deep, focused reading as its own separate skill, the same way you’d teach a kid a second language, because the phone habit is taking over. Maybe the most telling data point of all: when you ask people in surveys which format they prefer for serious reading, 80 to 90% say paper. Your body figured this out before the research did.

Spurs are going to get Adolf Hutter and their fans will not overcome that pure trauma & shame for generations.

Just a quick reminder that the Cuban poverty safari isn’t unique. In 2019 Max Blumenthal, Rania Khalek, and Ajamu Baraka had their own Assad sponsored 5 star vacation, while working for Russian state media, to the heart of the civil war in Syria where they stood steps away from torture facilities to declare how awesome things are.

As a Cuban refugee and former political prisoner, I am appalled that you and your daughter are supporting the regime that has oppressed us for 67 years. The aid does not reach ordinary Cubans—it is sold in dollar stores—while you help whitewash a dictatorship. Shame on you, and shame on your daughter.

@muse_nobody Explain in more detail. DM or WhatsApp. I know very little about assam.

@rixit81 this is a great observation which many miss . x.com/AsimAli6/statu… i have seen assamese elites living in posh gated communities of bangalore but protesting of an asaamese ethnicity specific NRC unanbashedly , they are that shameless .

Petrol jokes r pouring in: Petrol Pump Attendant : Kitne ka daaloon? Me : 2-4 Rupye ka gadi ke upar spray kar de bhai. Aag lagani hai.=))

@ThePunnyWorld @tunkuv Yes. But the Brits won't save them, even for websites.

I'm sorry, but shouldn't British websites use biscuits?

Win of the day!

6 साल पहले आज के दिन इस पागलपन का हिस्सा कौन कौन बना था? क्योंकि मैं तो नहीं बना.. बताओ??

WITCH will continue.....???? What the fuck are these comics smoking? I think I know. Covfefe.

The worst thing about the world right now is china after invading many many countries and brainwashing many many ethnicities and religions and communities by using state force thinks it has the moral highground against America. And idiots agree.

The worst thing about America invading your country is not America invading your country, it's that 20 years later, Americans will tell you stories of how invading your country made their soldiers sad. ~ Frankie Boyle.

Can we stop with the “I don’t support Iran’s Islamic authoritarian regime but I do support them standing up to Israel and the US. Both positions can coexist” nonsense. This is not nuance. It is standing with the regime in Iran and against the people begging not to be massacred. A regime that has consistently lied about their ballistic missile capabilities and who have always been clear about their nuclear bomb intentions. Take Ali Motahari here, a prominent politician and former lawmaker who served in the Iranian Parliament until 2020 who let it slip in an interview that Iran had originally intended to build a nuclear bomb for intimidation purposes but the plan was exposed before it was completed.