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If you haven’t walked into a McDonald’s in a while, the first thing you’ll probably notice isn’t the menu. It’s the décor.
Gone are the bright red roofs, colorful booths, tile floors, playful murals, and giant PlayPlaces. In their place are gray walls, faux wood finishes, black furniture, pendant lighting, and touchscreen kiosks. Many newer locations could easily be mistaken for a coffee shop, an airport café, or a generic fast-casual restaurant.
I learned to lie the way some kids learn to ride a bike—gradually, with plenty of scrapes and falls along the way, but once I got the hang of it, I never forgot how. It started as a survival mechanism. A way to navigate a world that often felt unpredictable, where the truth didn’t always work in my favor.
My childhood was filled with landmines. Say the wrong thing, get punished. Show weakness, get ignored. Tell the truth about something you did wrong, and you learned very quickly that honesty wasn’t always the best policy—it was the fastest route to consequences. But a lie? A lie could smooth things over. A lie could buy time. A lie could protect me.
Life coaching is one of the few professions where you can apparently wake up on a Tuesday, buy a ring light, update your Instagram bio, and become qualified to help other people figure out their lives.
No medical school. No law degree. No apprenticeship.
Just vibes.
My girlfriend has around $50,000 in debt that started when she was about 20 and gradually grew over the years. It is spread across several banks and includes credit card debt, personal loans, and debt from a trip to Europe last year that I advised her against taking at the time.
She makes about $60,000 a year. Recently, she asked me, somewhat hypothetically at first, if I would lend her $15,000 so she could pay off one of her debts and avoid the ongoing interest. Her plan is to pay me back $1,000 a month for 15 months.
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18 Fascinating Photos Collected From History – Ned Hardy
Attention screentime addicts! This is worth buying if you want to stop mindlessly reaching for distracting apps by adding a physical barrier that forces you to be more intentional with your phone. – Amazon
The End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know It – The Ringer
I Traded Coffee for Energy Drinks—and Nearly Lost My Mind – WSJ
A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon this week. Why is it on a collision course? – Space
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand – Ars Technica
How misinformation drove thousands to rush the Ceuta border – YouTube
24 Memes That Are Unreasonably Accurate – Ned Hardy
This is great because it can map, navigate, avoid obstacles, and mow your lawn automatically without perimeter wires, giving you a consistently maintained lawn with very little hands-on work. – Amazon
The simple idea that helped prevent millions of traffic deaths – Archive.ph
BMW is forcing a weird Spider-Man ad onto its dashboard displays – Engadget
How to Protect Yourself From This Massive Ongoing Cryptocurrency Hack – Lifehacker
MIT professor gave the same ‘How to Speak’ lecture for 40 years. Here are his 5 pearls of wisdom. – Upworthy
America’s Renewable Energy Boom, in One Chart – Visual Capitalist
Douchebag biker finds out that he is not the law – Reddit
I had to check my 16 year old daughter’s phone. I know people will have opinions about that, but there were genuine reasons for my concern. I didn’t do it behind her back, and I wasn’t trying to invade her privacy for no reason.
While I was checking, I found messages where she was telling her friends that she wants to get pregnant and have a baby. From what I can tell, she also has a boyfriend. I don’t have a problem with her having a boyfriend. What worries me is that she’s been talking to him about wanting a baby, and it sounds like they both want the same thing.
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You’ve watched Shōgun. You’ve played Ghost of Tsushima. Maybe you’ve imagined yourself standing in polished armor with two swords at your side, sworn to a powerful lord and living by the legendary code of bushidō.
But if you had actually been born in feudal Japan, what are the odds you would have become a samurai?
Unfortunately, they’re not very good.
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Walk through the financial district of Shanghai and you will see gleaming skyscrapers, luxury boutiques, Teslas, Ferraris, Starbucks on nearly every corner, and a stock exchange handling billions of dollars in trades.
China is also home to some of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, global technology companies, and more billionaires than almost any other country.
None of that sounds particularly communist.
