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@MarioNawfal Does it matter the content? Because school children -including young ones- are actively encouraged to use apps on the iPad that correspond with what they’re being taught in school.

🇺🇸 A neuroscientist ran MRI scans on kids aged 3-5. Just 2 hours of daily screen time was enough to cause measurable white matter loss in their brains. White matter is what controls language, learning, and how your brain's neurons connect. His reaction when he saw the results: "Wow… I was not anticipating seeing anything like that." 60 kids. 2 hours a day. Visible brain damage on a scan. Put the iPad down. Source: @newstart_2024, 10 News

If you have 3 minutes to watch Pete Hegseth get schooled by @RoKhanna, you need to watch this! Listen through the end. It’s EPIC! Congressman Ro Khanna: “How much did it cost American taxpayers in terms of the strike on the school?” Pete Hegseth: “I wouldn’t tie a cost to it.” He then refuses to say what the costs are to American families, before Ro Khanna gives him the astounding numbers. The end is the best part. Hegseth and Trump are so far from reality when it comes to everyday Americans.

@MarioNawfal The only country I’ve been to that inspects and takes note of any previous damage done to your luggage prior to flying on their carriers. Much like what happens before a rental car company hands you the keys.

🇯🇵 Japan Airlines is putting humanoid robots to work as baggage handlers at Haneda Airport starting next month. The Chinese-made robots are 130cm tall, run for 2-3 hours on a charge, and will be moving luggage and cargo on the tarmac. Maybe our suitcases will finally be treated with some respect.

@Whitney1199072 @SydneyLWatson Trust me, people in other countries aren’t walking away out of pocket $8000 for a few hours ER visit.

@ElCaballerodeP @SydneyLWatson Trust me, you (or taxpayers specifically) are paying for it somewhere... Nothing is free.

Seen a lot of conversation about how predatory the American medical system is. So I will weigh in. I ended up going to the ER about 2 weeks ago for crippling pain. Turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. I was there for MAYBE 4 hours. My bill? $13,500 dollars. Because I'm uninsured (by choice, that shit is a SCAM), the hospital dropped my bill down to $8,100 and some change as an "uninsured" discount. For starters, $13,500 for a 4 hour hospital visit is insane as it is. But the fact the hospital can wipe $5,000 off the bill "just because" should show you how utterly fucked this system is. And to be clear - $8,000 is still an absolutely insane sum of money when all these people did was scan my stomach and give me some pain killers. On my itemized bill, my CT scan was 7k. The iodine they used was $900. Just being in the ER room alone was $2,500. We phoned the hospital to haggle. They dropped the price by $20. Normal people can't survive this shit. I do okay and $8,000 is still an INSANE chunk of money out of my savings. Anyone who argues this isn't a disgusting, predatory system is crazy. And it is even crazier that Americans accept this. And for those of you who argue this is the free market, I need you to be quiet. There can never be a true free market here when government and insurance have their creepy little fingers in this pie. People shouldn't go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills. This has to change.

@Whitney1199072 @SydneyLWatson One’s paying nothing or close to nothing in almost every civilised country for that same treatment.

I agree with most of what you said and I'm not trying to say that healthcare expense isn't a problem in America. However, people don't think of how expensive the equipment, the facility, the different specialists on hand, etc. are at a hospital. Also, if you are going to an emergency room, they are going to treat you as if you potentially have a life threatening emergency which requires a lot more resources and urgency and adds to the cost. That's just a few reasons why when you go to an emergency room, it can be much more expensive than when you go to a primary care doctor, for instance. I just don't agree when people use an example from an ER to say that health care in America is too expensive because it's meant for emergencies, not every day health care.

Trump is so disrespectful. He literally cut in front of Queen Camilla while she was shaking hands. Every day is another embarrassment for our country.

Chat is this good

🇮🇳 A man in India dug up his deceased sister's skeleton and brought it to the bank just to prove she had died. He'd been trying to withdraw money from her account for months. Staff kept telling him the account holder needed to appear in person. He's illiterate and had no idea a death certificate existed. The bank got what it asked for. Source: Times of India

This video says it all on who won and who lost the war You don’t need to ‘pick sides’ to acknowledge facts

I don’t live in the US but a friend who live there just told me about a new version of the American Dream: - A used Toyota Corolla - No credit card debt - A Costco membership - Being able to pay rent without roommates Is this real?

BOMBSHELL: Former CIA Officer Larry Johnson confirms the Trump hotel shooting was completely staged. He reveals the Secret Service intentionally broke protocol, rescuing JD Vance first while leaving Trump behind. The Washington establishment is orchestrating pure theater.

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

@tyromper Sounds like they’d rather the government be the recipients of their wealth rather than their children?

I don't understand the boomers that hoard all their wealth from their kids. I have a good buddy that's struggling. Married with a few kids. He's smart. Graduated university with great grades, got hired by a good company, & did everything "right." He got laid off over a year ago & told me he's sent 10,000 resumes in with no job offerings..... He's working side gigs but his family is stressed. His folks are retired & in their 70's. His dad recently told him he's got north of 15 million invested!!! My buddy said he didn't say anything & didn't want to be disrespectful but it perplexed him. Why wait until you die to gift it to your kids?! It's worth more now helping out in my opinion that in 20 years when you die & you give 25 million to a 55 year old that's also then likely set & not stressed. You can gift like what 16k a year tax free too. It's their money, & when my folks sat my sister & I down for the inheritance talk we both said we don't want/expect anything you raised us well so do you!!!! But, I guarantee if I was in this guys shoes my folks would offer help. I don't understand the logic not to.

@CarmineSabia Right wing violence, left wing shooters…I thought it was “mental health issues”. Or is that only when it’s ring wing violence?

All I ever hear the media talk about is right wing violence. All I ever see are left wing shooters.

Tim Dillon: “This is one of the bleakest periods I’ve ever lived through.” “You’re more alone.” “You have less hope.” “We’re in multiple wars.” “And it’s the most technologically advanced time that we have.” “But in order to enjoy it, you have to be a sociopath.” “You have to be unbothered by seeing a 2-year-old that Israel lit on fire, and you have to swipe without thinking about it and go right to DoorDash.” “We are all being trained to be sociopaths.” “No one believes life is better than it was in 2010.” “People had a social life.” “Young people felt more hope about the future.” “They haven’t been fully sucked into phones.” “People aren’t quite addicted to rage yet. Social media hasn’t programmed our minds.” “People can still go on a date and talk to a woman.” “They don’t have to goon for eight hours in their room and then read about Hitler.” “Nobody looks at 2010 and goes, whoa, that time sucked.” “None of these advancements make anyone’s life better.” “The Palantir thing is that everybody’s gonna join the military.” “We’re all gonna fight a bunch of wars.” “We’re gonna make the country safe, but we’re gonna do it in a way that takes away all of your personal autonomy and freedom.” “As soon as you’re 18 years old, you’ll be in the military and you’re gonna fight who we want you to fight.” “The jobs available are gonna be the ones we tell you that you qualify for.” @TimJDillon

@DoggRawd99532 @ProudSocialist Wait till you hear about how much credit card debt they’re in…

@ProudSocialist This is a bullshit, click bait post. If you don't believe it, go to the airport, fast food restaurant, Starbucks, even the grocery store. If everyone is broke, how the hell are they affording luxuries along with groceries? Democrates lie, that's what they do. That's what they are

CBS News poll: More than 70% of Americans, which is the overwhelming majority, are having difficulty affording basic needs like food, housing & health care. This is what living in a decaying capitalist empire looks like. It doesn’t have to be this way. A better world is possible.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

9,000 Microsoft employees got an email at lunch today. Take the money. Go home. The safest job in tech. Gone in an afternoon. Nobody called it a firing. They called it a retirement gift. This is 2026.

Iran just dropped the hammer! They just announced they are now charging a toll for all ships that go through the Straight of Hormuz The fee has to be paid in their local currency, and any country that participated in the war has to pay an ADDITIONAL fee. Oh and Israel is banned On top of this, they are banning ships from countries that are sanctioning Iran: 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 And to make things worse, as a middle finger to Trump, they are asking all countries to call it the Strait of Persia 😂 Iran know Trump does not want to return to war, the global economy cannot afford it, and they are making the most out of the situation The effects of this war will be felt for generations to come. We're just starting to see the consequences unfold