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An Open Letter to Lumon Industries Requesting to Please Kindly Insert the Severance Device in My Brain and Keep It on “Innie” Mode for the Next Four Years

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An Open Letter to Lumon Industries Requesting to Please Kindly Insert the Severance Device in My Brain and Keep It on “Innie” Mode for the Next Four Years Dear Mr. Jame Egan, Chief Executive Officer at Lumon Industries, First, I congratulate you on implementing the severance procedure, which successfully blocks your employees’ memories and knowledge from the outside world when they are at work so they can completely focus on their jobs, unencumbered by distractions from what is happening out there…

McSweenys 837 2025-03-01

LPT : Next time you’re about to leave the house and you get that nagging feeling you’ve forgotten something, don’t brush it off! Your brain is trying to tell you something, but it might not have surfaced yet. Take a minute to pause and reflect – chances are, you’ll suddenly remember !

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LPT : Next time you’re about to leave the house and you get that nagging feeling you’ve forgotten something, don’t brush it off! Your brain is trying to tell you something, but it might not have surfaced yet. Take a minute to pause and reflect – chances are, you’ll suddenly remember ! All said in the title ! submitted by /u/MEKADOR

Life Pro Tips 474 2025-02-07

Your brain has a motivation fingerprint – and I accidentally discovered how to read it.

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Your brain has a motivation fingerprint – and I accidentally discovered how to read it. After 3 years of studying personal productivity patterns, I discovered something that changes everything we know about motivation. Key findings: Everyone has a unique “motivation fingerprint” that determines when and how they get motivated It follows a predictable pattern based on: Sleep cycles Eating patterns Previous day’s accomplishments En…

Reddit Social Media 805 2025-02-06

My brain is already done… Deos this make sense for 14 day JR Pass?

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My brain is already done… Deos this make sense for 14 day JR Pass? Hello everyone, So I been to Japan a lot but since the JRPass is higher price now the calculations are a bit confusing because every calculator is giving me different total price. Most of them are close or more expensive than what I would get from JRPass 14 day. The JRPass is 480€ / $500 / 78,1k JPY If it will be approx. similar price we would l…

Reddit Travel 842 2025-02-06

Fighting with my brain whether to purchase new car or not

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Fighting with my brain whether to purchase new car or not Hey all: I am 60, retired and fully set in life. My only debits to my accounts are monthly utility and yearly home taxes (house is paid in full), my bank accounts are sitting at over $200K. I have a 2009 car that runs great with only 63700km/39581mile on it as I really only use it to grocery shop and do a run some place a couple times per week. …

Reddit Personal Finance 853 2025-01-20

All Of Motorsport Needs To Take Brain Injuries More Seriously

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All Of Motorsport Needs To Take Brain Injuries More Seriously The Motul-sponsored Toyota Hilux T1+ class car of Toby Price and Sam Sunderland was withdrawn from the Dakar Rally over the weekend, but not because of any damage done to the truck. No, the Overdrive Racing truck made the decision to pull out of the race because Sunderland and his team conspired to hide a concussion… Read more…

Jalopnik 1.1k 2025-01-14

2024 McLaren 750S Broke My Brain

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2024 McLaren 750S Broke My Brain I’ve driven a lot of stupidly fast cars at Jalopnik this year. Stuff like the Lucid Air Sapphire, Chevrolet Corvette, Maserati GranCabrio Folgore and Bentley Continental GT Speed come to mind, but none of those cars have altered my brain chemistry and changed my DNA as the McLaren 750S did. You see, it’s not the fact… Read more…

Jalopnik 1.1k 2024-12-26

Detrimental Effects Of Outsourcing Your Brain To Machines

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Detrimental Effects Of Outsourcing Your Brain To Machines I’ve written a lot over the years, about how your (unused) skills, degrade. Next, I started writing about outsourcing your thinking, in general.  Cutting and pasting the ideas of other, rather than coming up with your own. Letting other people, celebs and other talking heads, speak for you. After that,  I started writing about becoming Source

Elsa Elsa 492 2024-12-19

40/M unemployed with recent brain tumor diagnosis – low grade glioma

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40/M unemployed with recent brain tumor diagnosis – low grade glioma Hi Reddit, trying to find the best path forward for my financial situation and navigating a major health issue, currently without insurance. In 2022, I quit my job as an insurance adjuster, sold a condo in Colorado, and used the gains to finance travel over 2023 and part of 2024. Took a contract gig while looking for full time work earlier this…

Reddit Personal Finance 1.0k 2024-12-11

Oxford’s Word of the Year Is ‘Brain Rot’

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Oxford’s Word of the Year Is ‘Brain Rot’ A slang term for supposed mental damage done by overconsumption of trivial online content triumphed over a shortlist that also included “lore,” “demure” and “slop.”

New York Times 1.3k 2024-12-02