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Análisis de 32 millones de tweets de representantes políticos de 26 países durante 6 años: los partidos ultraderechistas son los principales responsables de difundir bulos e información falsa.

Das größte Asset von Amazon ist nicht deren Liefergeschwindigkeit oder weil es preislich gut ist, sondern weil man als Kunde weiß, dass es dort keine Probleme gibt. Und wenn es Probleme gibt, wird es in 99% der Fällen kulant und sofort (!) im Sinne des Kunden gelöst.

Mamdani taxed the rich and it literally fixed everything. Which is why the rich are so scared of him

One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests. All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy

Manchmal ist der strengste Prüfstein eben der, den man früher selbst gesetzt hat. Friedrich Merz erlebt gerade, dass daraus nicht nur Zitate, sondern auch unangenehme Nachfragen entstehen. Ricarda Lang liefert dazu mal wieder eine Punktlandung. Danke dafür. @Ricarda_Lang

You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. You reduce crime with universal healthcare, public housing, livable wages, and free college. You reduce violence by creating happy, healthy communities that aren’t constantly fighting over basic needs and material resources.

@bundeskanzler Es ist einfach zu witzig, dass wirklich JEDER EINZELNE Post von Friedrich Merz ge-ratiod wird.

Ich möchte dieses Land in eine Zukunft führen, in der die Mischung wieder stimmt: aus der Freiheit, den eigenen Weg zu gehen und erfolgreich zu sein. Aus der Sicherheit, in einer wachsenden Wirtschaft seinen Platz zu finden und für sich und die Familie sorgen zu können.

@bmftr_bund @DoroBaer @IsraelMFA @Ron_Prosor @IsraelinGermany Interessante Argumentation

Israel ist einer der wichtigsten Partner in Forschung, Innovation & Raumfahrt. Daher wendet sich 🇩🇪 gegen jede Art von Boykott von 🇮🇱! Das unterstrich BM @dorobaer im Gespräch mit Außenminister Gideon Sa'ar @IsraelMFA & Botschafter @Ron_Prosor @IsraelinGermany.

not to alarm anyone but is anyone else worried about how fucking stupid everyone is ?

"violence isn't the answer" only gets said when oppressed people start fighting back, not when the oppression is happening

The simple truth is that anyone with anything close to that level of empathy simply wouldn't be able to reach anything close to bezos levels of wealthy, because that amount of money requires unbelievable amounts of human exploitation

I see no lies here

There’s something ominous about the speed with which the entire world has marched to require identification on platforms and, as I expected, begin the process of banning anonymous VPNs.

@derJamesJackson WTAF

Prominent German defence politician Kiesewetter says “we are ready to defend Israel’s security with our lives”

Getting paid to think is peak everything. If you’re getting paid well to think, don’t take it for granted. That’s 1% of civilization type stuff. Your ancestors are proud and jealous that you’ve gotten this far.

Correct 💯

Merz ist der Kanzler, den Deutschland verdient hat und der mit seinen Eigenschaften auch Deutschland repräsentiert, wie kaum jemand anders: verzagt, mutlos, engstirnig, aber gleichzeitig überheblich, weinerlich und mit dem Kopf Jahrzehnte in der Vergangenheit hängen geblieben....

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth. —Marcus Aurelius

For Margaret: nataliercargill.substack.com/p/it-is-the-en…

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine. What went wrong? In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms: 1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder. 2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology. 3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it. The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress. This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does. Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace.com/s/The-psycholo…