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A $300-a-month gym is Gen Z’s social club [ [link removed] ]
Interacting with people at the gym is pretty nightmarish. If that’s what you’re depending on for social interaction, society is pretty much doomed at this point
Physicists Have Measured “Negative Time” in Bizarre Quantum Experiment [ [link removed] ]
Negative time is what you experience when you’re waiting for your mini bagel pizzas to heat up in the microwave
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Nearly 50 years of data reveal happiness gap for single parents [ [link removed] ] - I’m not sure we really needed data to figure that one out. If you’re a single parent, chances are you arrived there by going through some less than stellar circumstances at some point in the process, even if you’re better off now
Your Hike Might Change Nearby Animal Behavior More Than You’d Expect, Study Finds [ [link removed] ] - Just more evidence that we should all get up and go for a walk
OpenAI’s Altman says AI unlikely to lead to ‘jobs apocalypse’ [ [link removed] ] - “Jobs calamity”? Sure. But “Apocalypse”? nah. I feel better knowing that’s been resolved
Teens need to press pause on late-night doomscrolling [ [link removed] ] - In fairness, that’s pretty solid advice for any age bracket
Tourists not entitled to free tap water, Italian court rules [ [link removed] ] - Now you’re stuck between paying fees for tap water or paying to add a pallet of bottle water to your checked baggage
Young people throwing parties to celebrate boob jobs and rhinoplasty: ‘New nose who dis?’ [ [link removed] ] - You have to throw a party so everybody knows what you look like and you don’t need to re-introduce yourself to all of your friends
Charges dismissed for woman without right hand cited for holding phone while driving [ [link removed] ] - It seems like that probably could have been resolved by the police officer on the scene
Semitrailer carrying 11,000 pounds of Kit Kat bars overturns on Mississippi interstate: Reports [ [link removed] ] - Oh give me a break
‘Murder investigation’ in Peterborough called off after ‘dead body’ turns out to be ‘sex doll’ [ [link removed] ] - The company might want to use that story as a selling point on the realism of their products
Elderly Thong-Wearing Florida Man Arrested After Claiming He Can Walk Naked [ [link removed] ] - If he was wearing a thong, technically he wasn’t naked anyway
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