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If you could ask David Chase one question, what would it be?

Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”

8 weeks of maternity leave isn’t enough. Neither is 3 months, 6 months or 1 year. Attachment theory research shows that babies need their primary caregiver (most often mom) far longer than a few months, ideally for the first 3 years. Longer maternity leave leads to better mother-infant interactions which results in a more secure attachment at 24 months. Babies are so sensitive that even any mother-baby separation for more than a week (1 week!) under the age of 2 has been shown to predict higher child negativity at age 3 and higher aggression at both age 3 and age 5. You can never convince me that anything about women working corporate jobs is natural.

🇨🇺 Cuba is out of fuel. Havana has 1-2 hours of electricity a day. People are searching rubbish bins for food in extreme heat. And yet, Cuba's collapse has been officially predicted since 1992. A Pulitzer-winning book that year declared Castro couldn't survive without Soviet support. Every previous lifeline, Soviet subsidies, Venezuelan oil, tourism, remittances, all have frayed or snapped. Whether this time is different, nobody who's been confidently wrong for 30 years should answer too quickly. Source: Telegraph

You destroy the symbols of a nation in preparation to destroy its people

Xi Jinping when he was 32 years old at San Francisco