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Las personas que dicen menos palabrotas tienden a ser más mentirosas y más deshonestas.
Un estudio que incluye tres investigaciones distintas encontró consistentemente que mayor uso de palabrotas se asociaba a menor mentira y más honestidad.
En la primera investigación se midió el uso de palabrotas de los participantes de tres maneras: las que más usaban, las que más les gustaban y cuánto decían usarlas en el día a día. Quienes usaban o listaban más palabrotas obtuvieron puntuaciones más altas de honestidad en un cuestionario que mide la tendencia a mentir para quedar bien.
En la segunda analizaron el lenguaje de casi 74.000 usuarios de Facebook. Más palabrotas se correlacionó con patrones lingüísticos previamente asociados a mayor honestidad, como más uso de pronombres en primera persona ("I", "me", "my"), porque quien dice la verdad suele apropiarse más de lo que dice y los usa más.
Y un tercer análisis a nivel de estados de EE.UU. mostró que las zonas con más palabrotas tendían a tener índices más altos de integridad, según el State Integrity Investigation del Center for Public Integrity, que mide la transparencia y los mecanismos anticorrupción de los gobiernos estatales.
Los autores interpretaron que las palabrotas suelen expresar emociones menos filtradas y más genuinas, lo que puede indicar menos autocensura.
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How do we go back to being a society that builds train stations like spectacular Art Deco cathedrals?
30th Street Station, Philadelphia.
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Limewash hid Bible stories-and helped them survive.
At St Agatha’s, Easby, North Yorkshire, murals from around 1250 taught parishioners through pictures.
Covered during the Reformation, they were later restored.
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One of the things that really and truly disturbs me about ordinary schooling in Europe/UK is that once you enrol your child in school, the state effectively gains custody of your child and you must ask the state permission to take your child out of school for an excursion or trip even if it might be more beneficial to them educationally. The punishment for not adhering to this is imprisonment. You can become imprisoned by the state in theory, if you keep them home too many days to read, visit natural parks, museums etc. In fact, even taking a child out of school for a vacation for a few days or to spend time with a newborn sibling or to go to a family funeral, is prohibited. Grandma is deathly ill and wants to spend a few days with her grandchild before passing? Sorry, you might get arrested for that. I can see how these powers given to the state were argued and justified, but they are once again punishing the whole for the negative behaviour of the bottom quintile.
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Couples with different last names divorce at roughly a 50% higher rate than those who share a surname, per the Institute for Family Studies.
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My wife grew up on the metric system, and she says the mile is the most ridiculous unit ever invented.
For years, she had me. But history claps back....
The word comes from Latin, mille passus, a thousand paces.
A Roman pace was two steps, counted each time the same foot hit the ground. A thousand of those made a mile.
Along the Appian Way, built in 312 BC, stone markers stood at every thousand paces, counted outward from a gate in Rome's old wall. A traveler read the distance off the road itself.
The strange number came much later. In 1593, Parliament under Elizabeth I set the mile at 5,280 feet so it would divide evenly into furlongs, the length of an English farmer's furrow.
So the odd number is a Roman soldier's stride, adjusted to fit an English field.
I love that. Every time you say "mile," you are still counting the steps of a legionary marching south out of Rome.....
...on the Appian Way that you can still walk today, counting the old mile markers as you go
The poet Statius called that road the queen of long roads.
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A Pentagon investigation report indicates that an overwhelming air assault order, severely outdated intelligence, and an overreliance on AI tools like Palantir’s Maven Smart System contributed to the February 28, 2026, U.S. Tomahawk missile strike that hit an elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing scores of civilians, predominantly children, per Bloomberg
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It’s always better to transfer assets sooner. Small amounts of money are life changing in 20’s. Making people wait until their 40’s or 50’s is parental neglect and sinful greed. Don’t hold onto it too long. Set up the next generation.
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- A psychotic, drug-smoking man who stabbed a father to death in front of his wife and their 3-year-old daughter has dodged murder charges after his lawyers blamed his mental illness for the savage attack.
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Whitney Webb just said the quiet part out loud.
Flock cameras are only one part of a “constellation” of surveillance tech.
“They can really spy on you … now from space.”
“You can’t cut those down.”
“This is getting extremely dire.”
“The surveillance state has expanded so much.”
“Flock cameras are bad.”
“But they are one of a constellation … of companies.”
“They are private companies.”
“But they are totally in bed with the national security apparatus.”
And that national security apparatus is quickly moving into something worse than just surveillance.
They’re using surveillance tech to build an AI-powered “predictive” crime apparatus.
“That type of power is weaponized to curb and target dissent.”
“If you’re moving to a paradigm where you can target dissent before it happens, that’s terrible.”
“What we’re talking about here with the Merlin constellation and Satellogic and Palantir is literally what you’re worried about with Flock in space.”
Mark Goodwin: “In April 2022, the first Edge AI-enabled satellite in space was launched by Satellogic and Palantir with assistance from SpaceX.”
Webb: “This is about predictive stuff.”
“It’s about what an algorithm thinks you may do in the future.”
“Or, like, you were at this place where a crime happened … so the algorithm is like, people associated with this hotspot could also be criminals.”
“It’s totally insane.”
@_whitneywebb @markgoodw_in
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Jury Still Trying To Decide If Strangling Your Kids Is Okay buff.ly/4ZBn7ot
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The Lindsay Clancy trial is the single greatest argument against the 19th Amendment in our lifetimes
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Imagine if a man strangled his three children and then said “sorry it was testosterone.” or even “sorry I was coming off drugs”or even “I was on drugs.” There is zero excuse a man could make that would make other men stand beside him. He would be eliminated the second he was alone with another man.
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I think they banged after this. Sorry thats the vibe. xitter.cf/JVPALT1/status/2082537…
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4. "That is a real problem. It is not an emergency."
I thought he was dismissing me. He was teaching me scale. My 12-year-old now runs that sentence on herself about lunch table drama. It reminds her that something can be upsetting without needing immediate panic. The problem is real, but not everything has to become a crisis.
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I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
