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Most of us think of nostalgia as a kind of pleasant but passive experience — a wistful longing for the past. But researchers have found that nostalgia is actually a social emotion. When we feel nostalgic, we don't just think about ourselves; we think about the people we love.

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Name of the Father

"Not everyone loved Jarrod's family history," explains Burchfield, Sr. "Like Ali, half of them came to see him win, the other half to see him lose."

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I don't think that we have a lot of opportunities or enough opportunities to feel meaningfully seen. I can't really blame anybody for saying, 'Oh, this song moves me. This song makes me feel seen.' when we're in a media climate where we don't really have as many opportunities as I would like for us to feel meaningfully seen.

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The thing that's really interesting about the AI moment is that, unlike prior technology cycles, the hyperscalers themselves are the ones funding the build-out. So you don't have the same risk of a capital cycle bust that you had in, say, the fiber buildout of the late '90s, where it was funded by debt and then the whole thing collapsed.

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China has demonstrated a willingness to forego money in the name of the common good. In the name of protecting workers and protecting labor. And so even if China is more structurally exposed to AI, even if that is the case, my assumption is that the Chinese government will bend the economy to its will in order to protect Chinese workers. What I know about America is that the total opposite is true.

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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them; and the pleasure of waking up is so much more beautiful than that of dreaming, that it must never be desired to have the eyes closed.

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The biggest risk for Uber is actually AV technology working perfectly and Uber not being a part of it. Because if AV technology works perfectly and Uber's not a part of it, then you essentially have players who have a lower cost structure than us who can come in and compete with us and essentially make our service irrelevant.

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The ability to sit quietly and patiently while everyone else is acting is not a passive virtue — it is the hardest-won competitive advantage in investing. Most of the damage investors do to themselves comes from the compulsion to do something when the right action is nothing.

17h ago

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

17h ago

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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Why Gen Z is movie-maxxing

It's like there's so many horror movies you see now that just feel like they're kind of grinding their gears in the first 10-20 minutes until you start getting to the kills and the premises established. And I think this is a movie that like actually cares about the

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