It is second nature for most of us to turn to the internet when we want advice. We Google it, hunt down just the right obscure Reddit thread, or ask ChatGPT a question with a response scraped from Reddit. We are all conditioned to look for answers in ways that are increasingly fast, and, when …
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‘Does she think the rest of us made our infants do the dishes?’: First time mom faces backlash claiming her baby never cries
One of the scariest parts of becoming a parent is that it involves so many factors that can’t be controlled. Those who have a very fixed idea of what it is going to be like are often in for a surprise, especially if they are wearing rose-tinted glasses. The truth is that a baby is …
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‘Help!’: We can’t get enough of AI videos showing women breaking glasses bridges with rocks
If you haven’t taken a scroll through Instagram Reels, you do not know how phony and outrageous AI videos can be. My favorite genre of obviously fake AI videos all involve comically heroic animals. There is, of course, the video of a woman breaking a glass bridge with a boulder. Luckily, there is a happy …
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‘Help!’: We can’t get enough of AI videos showing women breaking glass bridges with rocks
If you haven’t taken a scroll through Instagram Reels, you do not know how phony and outrageous AI videos can be. My favorite genre of obviously fake AI videos all involve comically heroic animals. There is, of course, the video of a woman breaking a glass bridge with a boulder. Luckily, there is a happy …
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Entitled flight attendant eats tuna on airplane, complains about passenger discomfort: ‘They ate fast food at Gate 14 and have the audacity to judge your protein’
The travel and transport industries can be some of the most difficult in which to maintain a healthy diet, at least at work. Sitting in some kind of driver’s seat all day and only having access to fast food restaurants and convenience stores can take its toll pretty quickly. These kind of jobs require extra …
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Corporate Influencers are Trying to Romanticize the 9-to-5, and It’s Not Working
Social media is full of aspirational content: Extensive beauty routines, constant travel, and suites of pricey products flood our feeds. But what about all of us with regular, unglamorous jobs? Turns out there are influencers for that too. So-called «9-to-5 influencers» like Davis Clarke and Connor Hubbard. They do their best to show that the …
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The creative entrepreneur: Why the process, and not the art, is the reason artists succeed on social media
Today, almost anybody who is creative is a «creator,» and social media is the conduit through which they can share their creations with a prospective audience. An audience that discovers and engages with art of all kinds on drip-fed social media feeds. Artists and craftspeople, meanwhile, are left hoping for their share of algorithmic success …
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‘Men, this is called anxiety’: Guy gets roasted for claiming he performs ‘risk assessments’ whenever he goes out with his wife
Everybody has a basic right to feel safe in their environment, but not everybody feels like this happens easily. The truth is, there isn’t one person on this earth who doesn’t expose themselves to some kind of risk when they venture outside of their house. There is nothing more dangerous than being alive, and there …
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‘They need to add boy mom to the DSM-5’: ‘Proud boy mom’ laments being ‘forced’ to be a mother and not a partner to her son
Obviously, an important part of being a parent is loving your kids, but how do people manage to find so many ways of doing this that are blatantly not normal? This is never clearer than with the ‘boy mom’ phenomenon, in which women construct whole identities and truly weird relationship dynamics around the fact that …
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Homeowners cause controversy with millennial grey kitchen makeover in new house: ‘Why is everyone turning their homes into hotel lobbies?’
They say the home is where the heart is, so when you renovate your place in a way that people don’t like it’s inevitable that it’s going to ruffle some feathers. In a way, it’s nothing short of a miracle that so many people are willing to post how they redecorate on the internet because …
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