Articles of Distraction

[Silver]

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.

Neuroscience News

[Silver]

Taylor Swift Is Time’s Person of the Year

NY Times

Haters gonna hate.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Taylor Swift Is Time’s Person of the Year

NY Times

Haters gonna hate.

Given some of Time’s other picks over the years, I’m pretty OK with this one.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

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?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Do you watch BBC news?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Do you watch BBC news?

The epitome of digital communications.

[Silver]

Definitely, not real news. So it goes here.

X thinks Prince Louis is 'missing a finger' in Christmas card photo

Hindustantimes

[Silver]

Autopsy shows Matthew Perry died of ‘acute effects of ketamine’

CNN

[Silver]

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.

Fortune