@elonmusk Videos like this may deter many from waning to live on Mars.
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Dylan B. Raines
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Dylan B. Raines
@dylanbranes
Founder & Lead Ambassador @TheHumanFamily, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a mission to create a wiser, more compassionately connected world.
St Joseph, MO Inscrit le Temmuz 2010
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@elonmusk If you lived on Mars, what would you miss most about Earth?
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@JJ_McCullough @TeeplesCY Socializing is actually pretty important for happiness, it appears.
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@TeeplesCY I thought the point of going to church was to hear the received word of the Lord, not socialize
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Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go.
Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't.
"Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck."
What's happening? Rich people already have most of what money buys. What they lack is what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name.
Von Hippel is direct about the cost: "I suspect that wealthy, educated urbanites are paying a steeper price for their lifestyle than they realize. Many of us have paid too great a price in connection for our increased autonomy."
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@roddreher I’ve been thinking there really is no need for the distinction between material and immaterial. It’s all existence. It’s all mystery. It all calls us to seek knowledge and understanding. Life is a wonder.
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It's not just the connection that makes church-going people happier.
It's the message -- God loves you and gives purpose to your life.
Clint Teeples@TeeplesCY
Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go. Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't. "Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck." What's happening? Rich people already have most of what money buys. What they lack is what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name. Von Hippel is direct about the cost: "I suspect that wealthy, educated urbanites are paying a steeper price for their lifestyle than they realize. Many of us have paid too great a price in connection for our increased autonomy."
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@greenheroaf My focus is building the platform where we can all take action, together, at thehumanfamily.org. Our primary focus areas are water, food, education, health, environment and peace. What's your focus?
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@dylanbranes Absolutely! Collective action heals both planet and people. What's your core focus?
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If you consider yourself someone with a strong humanitarian spirit, let's collaborate.
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@EconomyInformal @UN @ONU_es @UN_HRC @UNHumanRights Here is the link to the full results: ourworldindata.org/grapher/freedo…
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Freedom of Expression Index 2025
1. Denmark🇩🇰
2. Ireland🇮🇪
3. Belgium🇧🇪
4. Estonia🇪🇪
5. Switzerland🇨🇭
6. France🇫🇷
7. Luxembourg🇱🇺
8. Norway🇳🇴
9. Czechia🇨🇿
10. Finland🇫🇮
12. Korea🇰🇷
13. Canada🇨🇦
20. Poland🇵🇱
22. Australia🇦🇺
24. Germany🇩🇪
26. Brazil🇧🇷
43. Japan🇯🇵
45. Spain🇪🇸
51. South Africa🇿🇦
53. UK🇬🇧
56. Israel🇮🇱
62. Colombia🇨🇴
63. Greece🇬🇷
70. Mongolia🇲🇳
74. Italy🇮🇹
82. Argentina🇦🇷
84. USA🇺🇸
90. Indonesia🇮🇩
97. Philippines🇵🇭
105. Mexico🇲🇽
109. Thailand🇹🇭
110. Malaysia🇲🇾
111. Morocco🇲🇦
115. Pakistan🇵🇰
118. Tanzania🇹🇿
123. Bangladesh🇧🇩
127. Hungary🇭🇺
130. India🇮🇳
133. Serbia🇷🇸
134. Ukraine🇺🇦
136. Singapore🇸🇬
151. Egypt🇪🇬
152. Türkiye🇹🇷
155. Iran🇮🇷
160. Venezuela🇻🇪
164. Saudi Arabia🇸🇦
166. Russia🇷🇺
167. Cuba🇨🇺
170. China🇨🇳
175. Belarus🇧🇾
179. North Korea🇰🇵
@OurWorldInData
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@Terran1073746 @EconomyInformal @UN @ONU_es @UN_HRC @UNHumanRights The image says who at the bottom.
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@EconomyInformal @UN @ONU_es @UN_HRC @UNHumanRights "Our”world in data
Lol who creates these numbers
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Indeed. The flow of information through journalism is crucial for learning about what's happening in the world. Having a press that is free from government or corporate control is key to that being a reality, and something we should not take for granted.
#WorldPressFreedomDay thehumanfamily.org/i/space/intern…
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Today we celebrate World Press Freedom Day, sponsored by UNESCO. Unfortunately, this right is often violated, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes in hidden ways. Let us remember the many journalists and reporters who are victims of war and violence.
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Our world's information ecosystem is often dominated by conflict and calamity. Yet learning about crisis is also a call for response. In places of immense suffering, the right to education is something which often gets overlooked. Yet education is a fundamental motivational force for stabilization within places the need peace. All children have the right to have a safe place to learn.
Here's my article on @TheHumanFamily about @EduCannotWait that I hope you will take a moment to read:
thehumanfamily.org/i/space/educat…
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Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay, and I think that the concept of having a free press is something we can often take for granted. It's true that much of our current landscape is dominated by corporate interests over the interest of truly informing the people, but there are also incredible news outlets who remain independent and dedicated to factual principle of journalism.
If people do not have accurate and important information, it makes it far more difficult to make the choices we need to make to create a better world, and a better life for ourselves.
The independence of journalism and the free press is something I believe should be celebrated, supported, and protected.
Read more of my thoughts on this subject here:
thehumanfamily.org/i/space/intern…
#journalism #information #thefreepress #writing #media #news
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@UN @UNESCO When we think historically, we have come along way in having a free press. Yet history can repeat, and the press should become and remain truly independent. #WorldPressFreedomDay
thehumanfamily.org/i/space/intern…
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Attacks on journalists are attacks on freedom of expression.
More than ever, we need reliable sources of information and press freedom.
On Sunday's #WorldPressFreedomDay and every day, join @UNESCO in defending journalism and standing up for democracy. unesco.org/en/days/press-…
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@danyay @dylanbranes @sama I'm a geriatric millennial, but I'm still going to capitalize my sentences. I am also going to use two spaces after a period. Don't get me started on my comma usage. You can pry them from my cold, dead hands!😂
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man its good to be back on twitter
there is comfort in the skills of a wasted youth
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@dylanbranes @UNDP It flows to me from the mountains.
You get it some other way?
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Water is a basic human right.
Yet across the 🌍, women still don’t have an equal say in how it's collected and managed, and they consistently bear the highest cost to obtain it.
Here's how we're working to ensure fair water access for all: go.undp.org/SNV
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@sama And the young one sitting in a @LittleTikes automobile is perfect.
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never thought id be watching F1 via the kids broadcast
cannot imagine being happier
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Since President Trump started a war with Iran, gas prices have skyrocketed in Wisconsin, going up 37.5 percent between February and April.
Wisconsin families cannot afford the continued recklessness and chaos out in D.C.
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@elonmusk Imagine a world in which every human being has access to the internet. Game changer.
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