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@unusual_whales a relevant aspect is that they wouldn't necessarily know what to change it to - the impact of AI isn't fully charted

One in six students, roughly 16%, say they've changed their major because of AI's impact on the job market, per Gallup.

@ZubyMusic never heard this one before, catchy - like a nostalgic rock song

Run your life in such a way that you always have something to look forward to, even if it's small.

@ZubyMusic if biases are like a bus route, the last one should get out when the bus finally stops at the individual

Ahhh, I am now PERSONALLY responsible for the policies of some black people in South Africa... A country I'm not even from. That makes as much sense as blaming all white people for slavery in the USA and Caribbean. Oh and Apartheid. In other words, it's extremely stupid and you're not worth the conversation.

@stats_feed people don't want to hear it, but California would do pretty well

If the US collapsed, and each state became its own country, which ones would be the most powerful militarily and economically?

@ekverstania @kimianora this is an important point - neuroplastic pain is what would be most responsive

@kimianora The participant selection for this study focused on a very specific type of BACK PAIN only. The results cannot be universalised to sell neuroplasticity coaching as a solution to actual broken body systems and parts. x.com/i/status/20441…

A neuroscientist predicted who would develop chronic pain with 85% accuracy. He didn't look at their backs. Didn't look at their joints. Didn't scan for tissue damage. He scanned their brains. Turns out chronic pain lives in the brain regions that control emotion, memory, and learning. Not in the regions that process tissue damage. Pain isn't just something you feel. It's something your brain learns to produce. And what the brain learns, it can unlearn. 66% of patients in a JAMA Psychiatry trial became pain-free through brain retraining. No drugs. No surgery. Results held at the 1-year follow-up.

@Dexerto it seems very hard to swallow a thermometer - especially without breaking it I was expecting this to be made up

Where the thermometer was located: dexerto.com/entertainment/…

A 32-year-old man discovered his stomachache was caused by a mercury thermometer he swallowed as a child He said he was too scared to tell his parents and didn't want them to take time off work

@Ravenismeee why would you want fame if you have the rest?

This is hard but delete one forever 1. Money 2. Peace 3. Love 4. Fame

@MbarkCherguia I'd name him Catai

What would you name him?

@Rapunzel_hnn people realize it early and try to avoid that realization (which is why momento moris aren't most people's cup of tea) if we had no end, we would have easier choices - practical but not meaningful activities wouldn't have a cost

At what AGE did you realize time is the only thing you can’t get back?

@MadelaineLucyH makeup is bad for skin it's not worth it since skin is real and makeup is not

When men say they don’t like make up, they mean they don’t like red lipstick and Russian-volume false lashes. You’ll still need the rest of it

@Gaayyyasssfree1 @ABmrJutt forced how?

@ABmrJutt Wait wait wait wait wait wait.... Forcing birth under the guise that one can "give the child up for adoption," just for said person to try that and be shamed/forced into actually keeping and raising the child...that takes the cake.

Hot fucking take: Forcing birth just to dump a baby into adoption is way more unethical than having an abortion.

@realJMHuckaba @Luv_Xcuses not really worse than any other answer

@Luv_Xcuses Student: Master, what is the meaning of life? Master: To live it.

I still don’t get the concept behind life. What exactly are we here for?

@stats_feed Urdu being higher than German - interesting

Most spoken languages worldwide: 1. English: 1,132 million 2. Mandarin Chinese: 1,117 million 3. Hindi: 615 million 4. Spanish: 534 million 5. French: 280 million 6. Standard Arabic: 274 million 7. Bengali: 265 million 8. Russian: 258 million 9. Portuguese: 234 million 10. Indonesian: 199 million ~ 11. Urdu: 170 million 12. German: 132 million 13. Japanese: 128 million 16. Telugu: 93 million 18. Wu Chinese: 81 million 20. Turkish: 79 million 21. Korean: 77 million 22. Vietnamese: 76 million 23. Yue Chinese: 73 million 25. Italian: 68 million 26. Egyptian Arabic: 64 million 28. Thai : 60 million 31. Persian Iranian: 53 million 36. Filipino : 45 million 38. Polish: 40 million 48. Algerian Arabic: 32 million 50. Nigerian Pidgin: 30 million 58. Romanian: 24 million 60. Dutch: 23 million 68. Khmer: 17.5 million 79. Nigerian Fulfulde: 14.5 million 86. Czech: 13.3 million 87. Greek: 13.1 million 90. Swedish: 12.8 million 92. Hungarian: 12.5 million 100. Sanaani Arabic: 11.3 million According to Ethnologue and other sources across the web

@Daractenus internet freedom is lower, but press freedom is perhaps higher (which is also critical) free speech rights at an individual level are highest in the US Germany still has blasphemy laws and religion deserves no privileges against inquiry and criticism

Nearly every single country on the European continent, the one that is supposedly "a totalitarian hellhole with no free speech", ranks significantly higher than the US in terms of freedom of the press, with every single one of the top 10 spots being occupied by European countries.

The greatest triumph of the incessant hurricane of lies coming from Russia, MAGA, and the likes of Elon Musk has been convincing a significant share of the world, including Europeans, to believe in a “decaying and collapsing” Europe that exists solely in their imagination.🧵

@Daractenus those are far smaller countries and Norway has sizable oil reserves, but fair point overall

Even without accounting for power purchase parity, the cost of living and the shockingly unequal wealth distribution, the United States still ranks significantly lower than multiple of those European nations that Trump supporters arrogantly like to refer to as "europoors".

@Daractenus Islam accounts for 10% of Russians? I appreciate your surprising facts - looking it up myself, I'm seeing similar 10-15% ranges

The EU, despite having a Muslim population estimated at about 4% even when accounting for native Muslims, is often described as "overrun by islamists" by the very same people that regard Russia, a country where Islam accounts for 10% of the population, as "properly Christian".

@Daractenus I didn't expect this one to be so high

The "pro-life" nation that accounts for about 25% of the global GDP despite having 4% of the population, cares so much about the life of infants that it constantly tops all chart in terms of infant mortality among developed nations, well ahead of the "poor and backward" Europe.

@creepydotorg and yet the US has a higher marriage rate - perhaps they use too little cinammon

In Denmark, there’s a tradition where, if you reach the age of 25 and aren’t yet married, you get tied to a chair and pelted with cinnamon.

@ZubyMusic people want children to have an equivalent or higher QoL - most people don't want to breed just for the sake of it if I were to have children who would work the mines at age 5 like in the 1800s, I'd rather never have them - an exaggerated example, but the point stands

A few years ago, I recorded an interview with an American guy who has 16 children with his wife. They're not rich. He is the sole income earner and they homeschooled all their kids. They eschewed luxuries that many people wouldn't even consider luxuries anymore. I often think back to that conversation when people talk about being unable to afford children and how 'the economy' is the main reason birth rates have collapsed. It's more a matter of lifestyle expectations, priorities, and unwillingness to sacrifice, rather than pure economics. That's the reality. And I get it, so it's not a condemnation.

@rjw2182 @aroog1278 I'd rather see no post at all than one with fake people portrayed as real

@aroog1278 If you must post AI-generated rubbish please have the courtesy to let everyone know. Thank you.

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