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December 6, 2023 at 2:21 pm
Quote:Optimism Linked to Poor Decision-Making and Lower Cognitive Skills
Summary: While optimism is often celebrated, a new study reveals that excessive optimism can lead to poor decision-making, particularly in financial matters. The research shows that individuals with high cognitive ability tend to be more realistic and pessimistic in their future expectations, while those with lower cognitive ability lean towards excessive optimism.
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December 6, 2023 at 2:57 pm
Quote:Taylor Swift Is Time’s Person of the Year
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December 6, 2023 at 4:02 pm
(December 6, 2023 at 2:57 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Quote:Taylor Swift Is Time’s Person of the Year
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Given some of Time’s other picks over the years, I’m pretty OK with this one.
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December 6, 2023 at 7:21 pm
Former Netflix Animation VP Bruce Daitch has joined the producer of God’s Gang.
God’s Gang was launched by former Disney exec Nimrod Avraham May and is behind the multicultural and multinational series, which brings together four heroes from different faiths: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Through martial arts, themes of unity, and extraordinary adventures, the four characters showcase the power of peace, kindness, and unity for audiences aged 9-19 with a universal appeal.
https://deadline.com/2023/12/bruce-daitc...235654411/
A Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew are hanging around together, being friends and helping others - how naive does one have to be to take this for granted?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Articles of Distraction
December 6, 2023 at 8:10 pm
(December 6, 2023 at 7:21 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Former Netflix Animation VP Bruce Daitch has joined the producer of God’s Gang.
God’s Gang was launched by former Disney exec Nimrod Avraham May and is behind the multicultural and multinational series, which brings together four heroes from different faiths: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Through martial arts, themes of unity, and extraordinary adventures, the four characters showcase the power of peace, kindness, and unity for audiences aged 9-19 with a universal appeal.
https://deadline.com/2023/12/bruce-daitc...235654411/
A Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew are hanging around together, being friends and helping others - how naive does one have to be to take this for granted?
A guinea to a gooseberry the Hindu turns out to be a double agent, secretly working to bring Nyarlathotep back from the Outer Darkness.
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December 7, 2023 at 7:20 am
Do you watch BBC news?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Articles of Distraction
December 7, 2023 at 6:58 pm
(December 7, 2023 at 7:20 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Do you watch BBC news?
The epitome of digital communications.
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December 11, 2023 at 2:21 pm
Definitely, not real news. So it goes here.
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December 16, 2023 at 12:40 am
Quote:Autopsy shows Matthew Perry died of ‘acute effects of ketamine’
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December 17, 2023 at 3:35 pm
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Gen X has the largest wealth gap of any generation, and it means ‘the American Dream of retirement is going to be a nightmare’ for them
Retirement bites. The oldest members of Generation X are swiftly approaching the traditional retirement age, but few are financially prepared for the next chapter, a new report finds.
Sandwiched between the larger baby boomer and millennial generations, Gen X typically doesn’t get as much attention as its older and younger cohorts despite making up around 20% of the population. But America needs to start paying attention: Born between 1965 and 1980, the Gen Xers on the cusp of their seventh decade are, theoretically, just a few years away from leaving the workforce.
And according to new research, many are not prepared for a comfortable retirement. They have the largest wealth gap of any generation, according to the Schroders 2023 U.S. Retirement Survey.
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