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The Science Behind Why People Are Unkind to Those They Love


Sree VijaykumarIntimacy with family, friends, and partners makes it easy to confront them over trivial matters, with what researchers call “everyday aggression.”

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Editor's Note: Of course, why we choose to hurt someone is layered in multiple emotional reasons. It may be because of emotional baggage, the desire to assert control or independence, to test boundaries, or simply, because people may just expect a lot from the other. Some may have a fear of intimacy, due to cultural upbringing, or because of living through traumatic or abusive relationships. Excessive shame, too, can cause people to act in self-destructive ways (i.e., lie, cheat, betray, shout)



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"We Build a New City Every Sunday"

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. BOGOTA, Colombia--At 4 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, Jerson Osorio stood at the center of several thousand traffic signs, speed bumps, and hip-high yellow cones.


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Research: Why Forming Diverse Teams Is Harder in Uncertain Times
Research: Why Forming Diverse Teams Is Harder in Uncertain Times
Widespread global uncertainty in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, social uprisings, and rising inflation have led individuals to feel less of a sense of personal control. New research finds that this lack of control can drive employees to


 
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Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their medical necessity
Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their medical necessity
When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options last year, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs. Adams, 51, lost his right leg to cancer 40 years ago, and he has worn out more legs than he can count.


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Ukraine bets a free market for weapons production can out-innovate Russia - WSJ (No paywall)
Ukraine bets a free market for weapons production can out-innovate Russia
KYIV, Ukraine?When Andriy Bondarenko, a tech entrepreneur, began making drones, he had no experience with weapons. Working with a friend, it took him one month to develop a prototype, which they paid for with their own money.


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The unlikely ingredient that could end US dependence on Chinese batteries - WSJ (No paywall)
The unlikely ingredient that could end US dependence on Chinese batteries
Batteries that use sodium could allow the U.S. to create a completely new supply chain


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How Top Cybersecurity Firms Are Scaling Faster and Smarter to Win in 2025 - Inc (No paywall)
How Top Cybersecurity Firms Are Scaling Faster and Smarter to Win in 2025
The cybersecurity market continues to take off?and so does the competition. With global spending on information security projected to hit $212 billion by 2025 according to consultancy Gartner?a 15 percent increase from 2024?cybersecurity companies face a relentless battle on two fronts: defending against evolving threats and outpacing rivals to seize market share.














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Record $600bn pours into global bond funds in 2024 - FT (No paywall)
Record $600bn pours into global bond funds in 2024
Investors piled into fixed income in bet on falling interest rates


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Bond Traders Turn to 2025 Amid Most Agonizing Easing in Decades - Bloomberg (No paywall)
Bond Traders Turn to 2025 Amid Most Agonizing Easing in Decades
Yields increase more than any other rate-cut cycle since 1989 Curve steepens as traders again recalibrate Fed expectations


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A public housing success story
A public housing success story
If you believe in the work we do at Vox, please support us by becoming a member. Our mission has never been more urgent. But our work isn?t easy. It requires resources, dedication, and independence. And that?s where you come in.


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Inside the Chaotic World of Kids Trying to Play Video Games on School Laptops
Inside the Chaotic World of Kids Trying to Play Video Games on School Laptops
Geometry Spot is a simple-looking website that, on the surface, is exactly what it advertises: a place to learn more about a form of mathematics that haunts many high school students. "Why are compasses needed in geometry?" reads one article. "What is plane geometry?" reads another.


 
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Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain
Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain
Opinion Last year, I wrote a piece here on El Reg about being murdered by ChatGPT as an illustration of the potential harms through the misuse of large language models and other forms of AI.


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I discovered one way to fight loneliness: The Germans call it a Stammtisch
I discovered one way to fight loneliness: The Germans call it a Stammtisch
Five years ago I was in Berlin for a few months, and my friend Michael invited me to a gathering of his beer aficionado friends at a neighborhood bar. It seemed like a typical bar hang -- until one of the guys planted a little flag on the table: an insignia for their group.


 
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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804
Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804
On the 19th of May 2016, an Airbus A320 en route from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar at cruising altitude over the Mediterranean Sea, spiraling to its doom from 37,000 feet until it was dashed against the night-black water.


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Forget Chrome--Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks
Forget Chrome--Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks
Republished on December 21 with Google's proposals to change search for iPhone and Android users as a response to the U.S. government's push for it to sell off Chrome. With Google's last tracking u-turn fresh in the mind, here comes another one.


 
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America?s chip war with China will spread - WSJ (No paywall)
America?s chip war with China will spread
In the continuing chip war between Washington and Beijing, the U.S. has the clear upper hand on the most cutting-edge technology. But on a more mundane front of the battle, China might be gaining an advantage.


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America?s private prison complex gears up for Trump deportation bonanza - WSJ (No paywall)
America?s private prison complex gears up for Trump deportation bonanza
Private prisons and detention-services providers are getting ready to cash in on the expected largest domestic deportation operation in U.S. history.


 
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IRS sending "special" stimulus checks to 1 million Americans
IRS sending
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will send out a total of $2.4 billion in "special payments" to 1 million people who did not claim federal stimulus checks on their tax returns for 2021, the agency announced on Friday.


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'Sonic' Beats 'Mufasa: The Lion King' at the Box Office
'Sonic' Beats 'Mufasa: The Lion King' at the Box Office
“Mufasa: The Lion King” sputtered in second place at theaters in the United States and Canada. “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” was No. 1.


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Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin wants a meeting as soon as possible about the war with Ukraine
Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin wants a meeting as soon as possible about the war with Ukraine
Earlier this month, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris along with French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral. After the meeting, Trump called for an "immediate ceasefire."


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Behind Amazon's quiet launch of Haul, which competes with Temu in ultra-low-price items from China
Behind Amazon's quiet launch of Haul, which competes with Temu in ultra-low-price items from China
While Haul is only in beta version, demand appears to be outstripping supply. During a 50% off Black Friday sale, Haul sold out of some items. Amazon told CNBC it's expanding its selection to hundreds of thousands of items across dozens of categories in the coming weeks. 


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Opinion | What Kennedy's Approach to Addiction Gets Wrong
Opinion | What Kennedy's Approach to Addiction Gets Wrong
America can’t go backward on drug policy.


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Trump threatens to take back Panama Canal over a??ridiculousa?? fees
Trump threatens to take back Panama Canal over a??ridiculousa?? fees
In a proposal to Chinese investors at a regional business summit, Ortega said "every day it becomes more complicated to pass through Panama" and said Nicaragua's canal project could attract Chinese and American investment, noting that the US had considered building a Nicaraguan canal as far back as 1854.


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Russian video appears to show Australian man fighting for Ukraine captured and interrogated
Russian video appears to show Australian man fighting for Ukraine captured and interrogated
That page, which did not carry a photo of the user’s face, described Oscar Jenkins as a “Marketing Consultant and university lecturer”, with an employment history including as a lecturer at the Tianjin Modern Vocational Technology College in China, a foreign language teacher at another Chinese school and several positions in Melbourne as recently as 2015 – including working at a Toorak club and as a junior cricket coach.


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The biggest flops and fizzles in 2024 transportation, from Apple Car to Fisker | TechCrunch
The biggest flops and fizzles in 2024 transportation, from Apple Car to Fisker | TechCrunch
The California startup, which had developed a teleoperation platform that allowed a remote driver, sometimes located thousands of miles away, to operate a vehicle if needed, shut down in March. The company had raised a total of $95 million from a mix of backers, including angel investors and early-stage VCs such as Bessemer Venture Partners and Maniv Mobility, private equity firm InfraBridge and strategic investors such as ArcBest and ConGlobal.


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Having Your Tonsils Out as a Child May Have a Drastic Impact on Your Life
Having Your Tonsils Out as a Child May Have a Drastic Impact on Your Life
In the US alone, around 300,000 children each year have their tonsils surgically removed to improve breathing while sleeping or reduce recurrent infection.


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Surfers Return for Rare Big Wave Contest in Hawaii
Surfers Return for Rare Big Wave Contest in Hawaii
The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational is held only when conditions are just right. The 45 invited surfers had less than 48 hours to arrive on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, on Sunday.


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Trump Previews Second Term in Sprawling Speech to Conservative Conference
Trump Previews Second Term in Sprawling Speech to Conservative Conference
President-elect Donald J. Trump repeated false claims about immigration and the border, slammed diversity initiatives and discussed the Panama Canal in the 90-minute address.


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Wes Moore Given Bronze Star, Nearly 2 Decades After Army Service
Wes Moore Given Bronze Star, Nearly 2 Decades After Army Service
The Maryland governor had faced a controversy over whether he had received the medal for his time in Afghanistan.


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Letter Calling for Tracking People of Color Circulates in an Oregon County
Letter Calling for Tracking People of Color Circulates in an Oregon County
The letter, distributed in Lincoln County, Ore., tells community members to report people who may be undocumented, the sheriff’s office said.


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Trump threatens to try and regain control of Panama Canal
Trump threatens to try and regain control of Panama Canal
Several speakers here at the conference were critical of government spending and of politicians in both parties – however the divisions inside the Republican Party which have played out in Congress in recent days were mostly muted.


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Germany Searches for Motives in Christmas Market Attack
Germany Searches for Motives in Christmas Market Attack
The authorities said they were struggling to understand the motives behind ramming a car into a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg, which left a 9-year-old boy among the five dead.


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Trump Picks a Former Treasury Official as His Top Economist
Trump Picks a Former Treasury Official as His Top Economist
Stephen Miran, who served during Donald Trump’s first term and now works at a hedge fund, has accused the Biden administration of manipulating markets.


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Opinion | A Picturesque New England Town's Debt to the Right Whale
Opinion | A Picturesque New England Town's Debt to the Right Whale
We owe it to the right whale — and to so many other species — to reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.


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Here are the major earnings before the open tomorrow
Here are the major earnings before the open tomorrow
Major earnings expected before the bell on Monday include:Anavex Life Sciences Corp.


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Trump chooses former Treasury official Stephen Miran as Council of Economic Advisers chair
Trump chooses former Treasury official Stephen Miran as Council of Economic Advisers chair
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said he will former Treasury Department official Stephen Miran to lead his Council of Economic Advisers. Miran was a seni


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SA Asks: Which Big Pharmas are likely to announce big M&A deals?
SA Asks: Which Big Pharmas are likely to announce big M&A deals?
Last year around this time, several leading drugmakers announced significant M&A deals to help fill their pipelines, including Bristol-Myers Squibb's (BMY) proposed takeovers of Karuna and RayzeBio, and AbbVie's (ABBV) deals to buy ImmunoGen and Cerevel.


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NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly closer to the sun than ever on Christmas Eve
NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly closer to the sun than ever on Christmas Eve
The Parker Solar Probe will be traveling at about 430,000 miles per hour at the time of its closest-ever pass. It’ll ping the team to confirm its health on December 27, when it’ll be far enough from the sun to resume communications.


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Inappropriate apps rated as safe for young children are prevalent in the App Store, report warns
Inappropriate apps rated as safe for young children are prevalent in the App Store, report warns
Research led by Heat Initiative and ParentsTogether Action looked into apps rated as appropriate for kids aged 4+, 9+ and 12+.


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Apple's next AirPods Pro could offer heart rate and temperature monitoring
Apple's next AirPods Pro could offer heart rate and temperature monitoring
The company has also reportedly revived its idea of putting cameras into AirPods, a rumor we’ve heard a few times over the last year. According to Gurman, Apple now considers it “a priority” as it works to bolster its AI services. But, it’d likely be years before any camera-equipped AirPods make their debut. As for heart rate monitoring, that may appear much sooner. Gurman writes, “The capability could be ready for the next-generation AirPods Pro, which are in early development.”


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Apple is reportedly working on a smart doorbell system that could unlock your door with Face ID
Apple is reportedly working on a smart doorbell system that could unlock your door with Face ID
According to Mark Gurman, Apple is in the early stages of developing a device that could compete with the likes of Ring.


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At least 10 killed in plane crash in Brazilian mountain resort
At least 10 killed in plane crash in Brazilian mountain resort
Gramado is located in the Serra Gaúcha mountains and is popular with Brazilian tourists who enjoy the cool weather, hiking spots and traditional architecture. The town was settled by large numbers of German and Italian immigrants in the 19th century and is a popular destination for Christmas holidays.


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News Corp and Telstra agree sale of Foxtel to sports streaming service DAZN for US$2.2bn
News Corp and Telstra agree sale of Foxtel to sports streaming service DAZN for US$2.2bn
Foxtel had for decades been a highly lucrative revenue stream for News Corp but the media company had looked to offload the pay television service under competition from growing numbers of streaming services.


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Woman charged with intimidation after confronting person wearing pro-Palestine shirt in Sydney Kmart
Woman charged with intimidation after confronting person wearing pro-Palestine shirt in Sydney Kmart
She was taken to Granville police station and charged with publicly threatening violence on grounds of religion, behaving in an offensive manner in a public place, using offensive language in a public place and intimidation offences.


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Immediate fire threat moves to NSW as Victoria continues to battle Grampians blaze
Immediate fire threat moves to NSW as Victoria continues to battle Grampians blaze
Authorities said it could take weeks to fully contain the fire ignited by a lightning strike. Aaron Kennedy, an incident controller, said the blaze was in very steep, difficult and dry terrain.


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John Pesutto facing Friday leadership spill as Victorian Liberals pull forward party room meeting
John Pesutto facing Friday leadership spill as Victorian Liberals pull forward party room meeting
A federal court judge earlier this month found Pesutto defamed Deeming by falsely implying in comments he made after the rally that she knowingly associated and sympathised with neo-Nazis, and ordered him to pay her more than $300,000 in damages.


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Advocates condemn a??unconscionablea?? denial of water beforeo mentally ill mana??s death in Sydney prison
Advocates condemn a??unconscionablea?? denial of water beforeo mentally ill mana??s death in Sydney prison
"Corrective Services NSW takes seriously its duty of care to inmates who they are tasked with keeping safe and secure while under supervision," the spokesperson said. "Any conduct that jeopardises the health or wellbeing of inmates or staff is completely unacceptable and inconsistent with the extremely high standard of behaviour that the minister expects."


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UK exporters still struggling with post-Brexit rules, says trade body
UK exporters still struggling with post-Brexit rules, says trade body
A government spokesperson said: “We are resetting the relationship with our European friends to strengthen ties, secure a broad-based security pact and tackle barriers to trade … We have been clear that there will be no return to the customs union, single market or freedom of movement.”


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Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells Ukrainea??s diplomats to fight for Nato membership
Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells Ukrainea??s diplomats to fight for Nato membership
Kallas concurred, saying Russia "poses a direct threat to European security". Across Europe, she said, "we see different hybrid attacks - whether it's sabotage acts, we see cyber-attacks, also dangerous shadow fleet, GPS jamming and damage to cables".


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Magdeburg Christmas market attack: authorities received warnings about suspect
Magdeburg Christmas market attack: authorities received warnings about suspect
The head of the far-left BSW party, Sahra Wagenknecht, said: “The background must be clarified. But above all, we must do more to prevent such offences, especially as there were obviously specific warnings and tips in this case that were ignored.”


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Spaina??s huge Christmas lottery spreads riches worth almost a??3bn
Spaina??s huge Christmas lottery spreads riches worth almost a??3bn
More than half of Sunday's top prize, even if bought in Logroño, travelled back to Madrid because many winning tickets were held by a basketball club in the working-class neighbourhood of San Blas-Canillejas. Young club members and their families gathered to chant and dance to drums as they do on court.



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