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Life Advice

What is Patience?

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Patience, often heralded as a virtue, is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.

It’s an emotional skill that enables individuals to remain calm and composed in the face of provocation, misfortune, or enduring periods of waiting.

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How AI could explode the economy – VOX

This Is What the Simpsons Would Look like If It Were a K-Drama – Ned Hardy

Once you put rollerblade wheels on your office chair, you are never going back to regular casters anymore. They are so smooth and quiet while rolling around on a hard floor – Amazon

How to Decompress Your Spine to Reduce Back Ache and Pain – Stylist

Inside the Creation of the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model – Wired

The Most Charming Small Town in Every U.S. State – Afar

The Four Tax Myths to Be Aware of in 2024 – Life Hacker

Guy takes cleaning ladies on a free trip to Disneyland for the day – Instagram

Inside the Garrick, the Elite Men-Only London Club Rocked by Criticism – NY Times

All The Scary Airplane Noises You Hear On Every Flight, Explained – Riyadhk

We’re Mostly Trying to Escape This Moment – Zen Habits

23 People Having a Worse Day than You – Ned Hardy

It is an amazing achievement to condense the entire base of human scientific knowledge into 478 pages, in such a way that they can be understood by the layman, but Bill Bryson has done it – Amazon

New Video Shows Trashed House After Diddy Raid – TMZ

Shane Smith Scrambles to Save What’s Left of Vice, the Media Empire He Built – and Blew Up – The Wrap

How Running a Little Bit Every Day for Two Months Changed My Life – GQ

Elon Musk’s improbable path to making X an “everything app” – ARS Technica

Scientists think ‘collective AI’ will resemble Star Trek’s Borg — only nicer (hopefully) – The Next Web

A Map of Global Happiness By Country in 2024 – Visual Capitalist

Former QB Vince Young KO’d in bar fight – Reddit

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The Psychology of Slot Machines: How Variable-Ratio Rewards Fuel Addiction

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A variable-ratio schedule of rewards is a concept derived from the field of operant conditioning in psychology, which has significant implications for gambling addiction.

This type of reinforcement schedule rewards a response after an unpredictable number of responses. The unpredictability of the reward is what makes this schedule so effective and, in the context of slot machines, highly addictive.

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Picture Of The Day

Picture of the Day

Chalino Sánchez

Mexican singer Chalino Sanchez receiving a death note from the cartel while on stage warning him not to perform. He decided to still perform anyway, and was found dead in a canal 12 hours later.

Chalino Sánchez, born Rosalino Sánchez Félix on August 30, 1960, in Sinaloa, Mexico, was a pioneering figure in the Mexican regional music scene, particularly in the genres of narcocorridos and banda.

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Finances

Marginal Tax Rates Explained

Marginal Tax Rates

There is a common misconception among many people about how tax brackets and marginal tax rates function within the United States tax system.

This misunderstanding often leads to confusion and anxiety, particularly when individuals receive pay raises or bonuses that push them into a higher tax bracket.

The fear is that by moving into a higher bracket, they will lose money due to being taxed at a higher rate on their entire income. However, this is not how the tax system works.

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Life Advice

What is Empathy?

Empathy

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. It involves putting oneself in someone else’s shoes and imagining how they might be feeling in a particular situation.

Empathy is a crucial component of emotional intelligence and plays a significant role in building strong, healthy relationships with others.

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15 Fascinating Photos You Must See – Ned Hardy

Here’s What Retirement Looks Like for Single Women in America – WSJ

Pro tip – get yourself a paring knife – It’s not something you’ll want to use to cut bones and tough items, but stuff like dicing, peeling and slicing is amazing – Amazon

Plastic chemicals are inescapable—and they’re messing with our hormones – Popular Science

Shards of glass: Inside media’s 12 splintering realities – Axios

The Benefits of Rucking and How It Improves Run Performance – Runner’s World

Screens and teens: How phones broke children’s brains – Independent

The Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore collapses after a ship crashed into it – NPR

How I Learned to Ignore the Worst of the Internet – Life Hacker

Rare Photos Reveal the Vibrant Culture of Cowboy Saloons in the 19th Century – Rare Historical Photos

Anthony Bourdain once picked his 10 favourite movies – Farout

You Can Learn A Lot About People With Tourettes By The Memes They Post Online – Ned Hardy

For anyone experiencing difficulty falling asleep — or staying asleep, this machine is a great investment. It helps reduce outside distractions, mask “inside” distractions and It soothes you by tapping into a very ancient calming reflex that is related to the sound babies hear in the womb – Amazon

Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life – ARS Technica

AI could make better beer. Here’s how – Technology Review

Portraits of gig workers in rare moments off the clock – Rest of World

50 Random Things in Men That Turn Women On – Art of Manliness

Garage Band Forced to Break Up After Parents Buy Second Car – The Hard Times

How to Recognize a Toxic Relationship and Know When It’s Time to Leave – Tiny Buddha