A 31-year-old wife created fake Facebook and Instagram profiles in her husband's name, friended 30 of his exes and former flings, tried to dig up relationship dirt, then denied it, accused him of running the accounts, and deleted all evidence when caught. He's asking Reddit if it's time to leave.
The political divide between Gen Z men and women is the largest of any American generation in history. People are filtering romantic partners by political affiliation on dating apps. Fewer relationships means fewer children, which collapses the retiree-to-worker ratio and eventually the entire social safety net. South Korea's trajectory — 96% population collapse in a century — is the extreme version of where this leads.
Dating someone with a $50,000 car loan is a red flag, full stop. Add entitlement around who pays the bill, a low-ROI degree, and low ambition, and you have Caleb's financial dating disaster trifecta. The worst combination: low ambition paired with high materialism.
Kokotajlo's eldest daughter is six. When asked what she should study, he said the honest answer is: career planning barely matters if these transformations happen. What matters is trying to be a good person and exerting whatever influence you have to steer the future in a better direction.
Once billions of top-expert-level AIs are running at 100x human speed, they will invent technologies we cannot currently imagine — including, probably, lie detectors that actually work. Whether that enables democracy or totalitarianism depends entirely on who controls them: used on the powerful, they could be liberating; used by the powerful against citizens, they enable a new form of tyranny.
Eleanor Roosevelt ended every day by praying to see the simple beauties around her and the hidden loveliness in people. Dr. Keltner adopted this as his own life philosophy after losing his brother. It costs nothing and is available to anyone, anywhere.
A hospital janitor who cleaned bedpans said the work was vital because it kept the place clean for patients — and felt a profound calling. A world-class cellist felt connected to the entire history of music through each performance. Calling is about how you see what you do, not what you do.
Patrick Beja, recording from a closet in a Finnish house to avoid his kids' Nintendo Switch sessions, casually reveals that wolves have been sighted within a few kilometers and he no longer goes outside without a knife. Leo Laporte asks whether a knife is really enough. This moment gave the episode its title.
No TSA lines, private chefs, a 757 — JD Vance describes his VP lifestyle in striking detail and admits that internalizing these perks could turn someone into an entitled asshole. He says Mamaw would keep him grounded.
In his motorcade with Elon Musk in Florida, Vance says the world's richest man looked out at the shut-down traffic and admitted there are some things money simply cannot buy. The anecdote is meant to sound relatable — it doesn't.
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