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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."



@Birdyword Show us examples of "a lot of local revenue" outside of initial construction.


@EBJunkies Hey EB, as a long time sports junkies podcast listener and an even longer resident of Salt Lake City, I appreciate the nice things you said out our city on today's show, I was sure you were going to shit all over it.












This is my irregularly scheduled reminder that once a kid is 2 you can legally put them in a ride safer vest if you want, and they’ll take up slightly less space than an adult that way a.co/d/4nfM4gr



Mind-blowing chart of the week here. Southern Europe has, for perhaps the first time in modern history, a lower headline unemployment rate than Northern Europe.







