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look im not saying scrolling on twitter is GOOD, but theres actual studies that measure cognitive effects of different platforms, and these studies found that stuff like youtube and twitter have a negligible effect while stuff like tiktok and reels noticeably make you dumber.

How the world's greatest cities became unforgettable: 1. Paris makes you fall in love 2. Tokyo makes you feel the future 3. New York makes you feel alive 4. Istanbul makes you question time 5. Rio makes you forget your problems 6. Mumbai never lets you sleep 7. Vienna makes you feel cultured 8. Havana makes you nostalgic for something you never lived 9. Beirut breaks your heart and fixes it the same night 10. Kyoto makes you slow down 11. Lagos makes you believe in energy 12. Rome makes you feel small in the best way 13. Buenos Aires makes you want to dance at midnight 14. Amsterdam makes you rethink how a city should be built 15. Cairo makes you feel thousands of years pressing down 16. Barcelona makes you believe architecture is a love language 17. Nairobi makes you feel a continent rising 18. Lisbon makes you ache for something you cannot name 19. Seoul makes you question whether you have been living efficiently 20. Mexico City makes you understand that chaos and beauty are the same thing 21. Prague makes you feel like you stepped inside a painting 22. Marrakech overwhelms every one of your senses at once 23. Singapore makes you realize what a city looks like when it actually works 24. Athens reminds you that everything modern was once someone's ancient idea 25. São Paulo makes you feel the hunger of a city still becoming itself 26. Edinburgh makes you believe in ghosts and you are not even superstitious 27. Tbilisi makes you wonder why nobody told you sooner 28. Cartagena makes you feel like the heat itself has a personality 29. Medellín shows you that a city can completely rewrite its own story 30. Copenhagen makes you question why everyone else makes things so complicated 31. Accra makes you feel a pride that does not even belong to you 32. Kolkata makes you confront beauty and struggle sharing the same square meter 33. Bruges makes you feel like time forgot to move and you are grateful 34. Amman makes you feel welcomed before you have spoken a word 35. Jakarta makes you understand twenty million people sharing the same urgency 36. Tallinn makes you feel like the medieval world never fully let go 37. Bogotá surprises you so completely you feel embarrassed for your assumptions 38. Chiang Mai makes you breathe slower without anyone telling you to 39. Porto makes you realize faded beauty is still beauty, maybe more so 40. Dakar makes you feel the ocean and the continent pulling equally 41. Reykjavik makes you feel the earth is still being made beneath your feet 42. Jerusalem makes you feel the impossible weight of what people believe 43. Hanoi moves at full speed and still feels intimate 44. Thessaloniki makes you wonder why its neighbor gets all the attention 45. Sarajevo makes you sit quietly long after you leave 46. Oaxaca makes you understand that culture expressed through food survives everything 47. Lviv shows the stubborn dignity of a people who refuse to disappear 48. Zanzibar makes you feel the air itself is different 49. Lagos deserves a second mention because one feeling was never enough 50. Delhi swallows you whole, overwhelms you completely, and somehow makes you want to come back for more

숙박업 사장님이 말하는 아시아 손님 국가별 특징 🇯🇵 일본 손님 진짜 최고의 손님 중 하나. 방은 나갈 때도 들어올 때처럼 깔끔하게 쓰고, 컴플레인도 거의 없음. 근데 후기를 엄청 짜게 줌. 만족해도 4점대. 소음에 극도로 민감해서 옆방 조금만 시끄러워도 바로 연락 옴. 조용히 완벽하게 해드리면 다음에 또 옴. 🇨🇳 중국 손님 말은 짧고 굵음. 요구사항 바로 직구로 들어옴. 방은 좀 지저분하게 쓰는 편인데 체크아웃할 때 후기는 또 잘 줌. 희한함. 근데 거의 매번 “현금 되냐”, “할인 되냐” 물어봄. 가격 협상은 기본 옵션인 나라. 🇰🇷 한국 손님 예의는 진짜 바름. 근데 기대치가 높음. 칼답장 안 하면 불안해하고, 대접받는 느낌 원함. 방에서 배달 엄청 시켜먹음. 퇴실하고 나면 치킨 박스, 편의점 봉지 장난 아님. 그래도 매너는 좋아서 직접 컴플레인보다는 후기에 씀 (그게 더 무서움). 🇮🇳 인도 손님 요구사항 진짜 많음. 그리고 안 들어주면 “이게 차별이냐”로 바로 감. 현장에서 제일 대응하기 까다로운 케이스. 방도 꽤 지저분하게 쓰는 편. 근데 다 그런 건 아니고, 진짜 조용하고 깔끔한 분들도 많음. 운임. 🇸🇬 싱가포르 손님 체크인 전부터 리스트 뽑아서 질문 날아옴. “와이파이 속도는?”, “에어컨 몇 도까지?”, “수건 몇 장?” 이런 식. 잘 사는 나라인데 깎아달라는 말은 꼭 함. 방도 깔끔하게 쓰는 편은 아님. 꼼꼼한데 요구가 많아서 체력 소모가 큰 유형. 🇹🇼 대만 손님 현장 종사자들 사이에서 거의 만장일치 최고 손님. 말 없고, 방 깨끗하게 쓰고, 컴플레인 없음. 조용히 왔다가 조용히 감. 근데 가끔 아주 가끔 예상 못한 빌런이 나옴. 그 낙차가 너무 커서 더 충격임. 마지막에 꼭 하는 말이 있음. “다 그런 건 아닌데, 이런 사람 많음.”

Hey here’s a hot take: Japanese media is made for Japanese people. Tickets to live shows and such are limited, and are intended for their domestic audience. Once you open up these limited seats to the world, suddenly the local fans can’t get seats. It’s that simple.

Samsung is made in Korea, yet I didn't even see one Korean using Samsung. Everyone had an iPhone!

there’s a cosmic irony in the fact that gen x thought cubicles were hell because they were so anti-social, and now gen z is subjected to open plan offices which are hell because they’re too social

my unattainable expensive lunch as a bourgeoise millionaire vegan

어떤 일본인이 중국에는 산이 없다는 멍청한 소리를 한 모양인데 어떤 한국인은 프랑스에는 바다가 없다는 멍청한 소리도 했으니 아래 사진은 지형의 높낮이를 강조한 지도인데 정말 볼때마다 산에 둘러싸인 사천지방이 신기함.

I’m tired, boss. These people suck.

honestly i'm this close to quitting reading for good. every single author i actually love turns out to be problematic or worse. i'm so tired of finding out after i already got attached. feels like i can't enjoy anything anymore without a background check first

I’m curious : Before the digital era, how did people get concert tickets? 40 thousand people lining up outside the stadium????

To earn her classmate’s respect, she changed her own face with her own hands