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@jota_snchez In PPP? Otherwise it is pointless as costs are not equal.

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@Reuters So what even if this would be true?

Exclusive: Russians covertly trained by China return to fight in Ukraine, sources say reut.rs/42KgqSZ reut.rs/42KgqSZ

@Wisdom_HQ They all are equally beautiful and the pig is the smartest.

am I the only one thinking this?

@TheFigen_ I only eat bananas that are almost black/brown.

In South Korea, they sell "one a day" bananas; the idea is that you always have a banana ready to eat each day, without them all spoiling at the same time.

@Slatzism That level of violence is totally unnecessary. In Europe this white guy would get a worse punishment than the one trying steal his bike.

>Black Guy 1 tries to steal White Guy’s bike >White Guy beats up Black Guy 1 >Black Guy 2 tries to intervene and save Black Guy 1 >Black Guy 1 immediately tries to steal Black Guy 2’s scooter Toronto is one of the most retarded places in the world.

@RnaudBertrand It is just another fake news about Putin. What surprises most is that a lot of these are literally surreal claims. I don't understand what really is the point with "Russia is running out of missiles/shovels..." when obviously the reality contradicts those claims.

This can VERY safely be dismissed as total BS. For one thing the title says that Xi allegedly said that Putin "might regret" the invasion of Ukraine while the content says that Xi allegedly said that Putin "might end up regretting," which has a completely different meaning. In other words, the journalist clearly has no idea what Xi actually said if there are already 2 contradictory versions in his OWN article! Also the sourcing is attributed to "several people familiar with the US assessment of last week's summit in Beijing" which, in normal parlance, translates to "hearsay". We're talking several degrees removed here: what Xi supposedly said, filtered through Trump's interpretation, filtered through "the US assessment" of it, filtered through people "familiar with" that assessment. Personally, I would stop believing at the Trump's interpretation layer 😅

@OVisionIL npr.org/2023/04/02/116…

Ukranians dont hijack planes, kidnap civilians or blow up restaurants full of civilians in Moscow with suicide bombers Glad I helped

@TheB1GTerp @nonregemesse Sure and she would not be a bad choice, I just personally someone more like Zeta Makrypoulia, although she is a bit too old.

@ilebuda @nonregemesse I mean it’s obvious beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what’s pretty today isn’t exactly the same as then but we can be close.

This is what Helen of Troy looked like

@TheB1GTerp @nonregemesse She is very pretty lady with great body but I don't think she is classically beautiful which would be something closer to Homer.

@nonregemesse Look at her overall beauty is tip top, but Helen was supposed to have a face that launched 1000 ships. She has the rack for sure.

@ihtesham2005 I have always used handwriting when studying something. Interestingly, in physics and mathematics (my topics in the uni), it is still very common to use old chalkboard to teach.

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

@nikstankovic_ I am surprised that an economist could do differential equations. I still doubt that.

He was using Arabic numbers

@nikstankovic_ I was told that he is hiding in underground bunkers?!

The show goes on...

@RnaudBertrand I actually like the Tube. It is the only metro system which have service information about lines that are operating "on time". But those service information are often absolutely hilarious, proving that Brits do have a great sense of humour.

This was yesterday for me: - Taking the tube in London, in Zone 1, in the morning: £8.90 - Taking Grab in Kuala Lumpur at night from the airport to my home, a 70km journey: 85.49 MYR (roughly £16.07) In other words, being sardined underground in London through a 10km-wide zone now costs 300% more per kilometre than being chauffeured in an air-conditioned private car across 70km of Malaysian highway.

@elainTahra @simongerman600 65% of women and 70% of men are overweight or fat. Somehow Finnish people have missed the idea of exercise. Amount of people (men/women) achieving minimum required exercise.

@ilebuda @simongerman600 0-20 aged men are only 10% of Finnish population. I would say people start to excercise mainly after that age to stay in shape

Finland, what are you preparing for?

@BeijingDai I have met very nice Chinese ladies with great big boobs. So not even that is applicable.

What makes Sydney Sweeney so special? big boobs?

@thomas_eilveis @BrianMcDonaldIE I lived in Dublin so I came across to it all the time. However, it never applied to individuals which is probably also thanks to Irish mentality. After all, one of the nicest people I have ever met (but not easy to do business with).

@ilebuda @BrianMcDonaldIE I have no time for anglophobia but the English and Irish have many differences as well as many similarities. Certainly the architecture resembles that of Britain, especially in Dublin eg Georgian architecture.

Not sure Irish people fully understand how many people around the world still think Ireland is part of the UK. There are highly educated people in Russia and China who genuinely believe Dublin is governed from London. A lot of people see an English-speaking island west of Britain and just assume “same country.”

@aleroi @simongerman600 Even more interesting is the absolute number. In 1980 annually more than 30.000 got a military training which is 50% more than today.

@ilebuda @simongerman600 Where did you get that number?

@MikeHulscher @simongerman600 I thought that was kind of idea of it.

@ilebuda @simongerman600 Excercising does not mean you are fit though.

@thomas_eilveis @BrianMcDonaldIE Latest after one Guinness, ever single Irish I have ever met spent the evening telling that English tried to genocide Irish and that Irish are _completely_ different from English. I never dared to say that there have "Royal hospital" and the architecture does resemble English.

@ilebuda @BrianMcDonaldIE It may be that your colleague associated the English language with our entire archipelago. He needs to be made aware of his fellow Eurozone member states and the consequence of Brexit. This map would be useful:

@simongerman600 In 1970's and 1980's more than 80% of men did military service (now 62%), 25% of them could run 3000 m in Cooper test. In 2020's just 5%.

@simongerman600 I have serious doubts about the figure. Only 60% of finnish men are able to do the compulsory military service which is not really that demanding. So either they fake their condition to avoid military service or they really do not exercise.