Imagine if New York City noise came to your phone in a text message? It would be the most obnoxious group text message ever.
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The show is interested in love, but it’s much more interested, in both jaunty and melancholic ways, in death itself—in the terror of dying, but also in its temptation.
For those facing climbing levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental-health issues, the ability to take time away from work to recover — even while forgoing pay — can seem appealing. But what exactly does such a leave entail? And is it a good idea?
— Ludmila Leiva, I Took A ‘Stress Leave’ From My Job — Here's What Happened
Is it so bad that we love reality TV? Isn’t it a relatively harmless form of escapism?
— Arielle Tschinkel, So, here's the science behind why we're so obsessed with watching reality shows
Jonah Peretti, the co-founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, has said in the past that he doesn't think unions are 'right' for the company.
— Tom Kludt, An Phung, BuzzFeed votes to unionize after layoffs
I once had a reply guy whose comments started off innocuous, then steadily became more frequent — and more suggestive — when I stopped liking his replies. Eventually, he also found me on Instagram and Facebook, where he continued to engage with the vast majority of my posts.
Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plan to start issuing this spring a joint credit card paired with new iPhone features that will help users manage their money.
— Tripp Mickle, Liz Hoffman and Peter Rudegeair, Apple, Goldman Sachs Team Up on Credit Card Paired With iPhone
Language Learning with Netflix is a Chrome extension that lets you watch shows with two subtitles on at the same time so you can visually pair translations with dialogue and learn some new vocabulary in the process.
— Dami Lee, This Chrome extension lets you learn a new language by watching Netflix
The world teaches you to have dreams, to believe in them, to stand by them, to fight for them no matter what. It rarely tells you that, over time, some dreams will eclipse others, some will get replaced, others will fall into the recesses of your mind.
— Brianna Wiest, This Year, Have Enough Courage To Allow Your Dreams To Change
The drunken poet... isn’t merely drunk in the way a lawyer might be drunk, or an orthopedic surgeon, or even just a sad, anxious person. No, the poet has made a sacrifice. He is drunk for art.
— David Orr, What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out
Recently, the Oxford comma has found a spot on the Bingo card of online-dating profiles, alongside mainstays like 'no hookups,' 'no drama,' and '420 friendly.'
— Kieran Dahl, Why Everyone on Tinder Is an ‘Oxford Comma Enthusiast’
Here’s a list of things that WILL NOT make a man act right: Great sex. Buying him things. Being a good woman. Supporting his dreams. Arguing with him.
— Joshua Bingham, A List Of Things That Will NOT Make A Man Treat You Better
My brain is doing what my brain is supposed to do and looking for predators. It doesn’t want me to brush all these threats off, it wants me to survive and in what kind of quality is an afterthought.
In the fall of 1951, Humphry Osmond, a thirty-four-year-old British psychiatrist, travelled from London to Weyburn, Saskatchewan, to become the clinical director of the town’s mental hospital.
One email included four separate typefaces, including Courier New, the ’80s fanciness signifier Chancery, and the much-mocked Comic Sans.
— Ruth Graham, Why Is the Graphic Design of Trump’s Campaign Emails So Remarkably Heinous?
You know what's better than sex? Crying.
We’re using Google PPC ads, retargeting ads and prospecting ads running on Facebook. We also work with a lot of different vendors.
— Mila Aldrin, Building an eCommerce Brand of Cosmic Proportions
The final text clarifies that any link that contains more than "single words or very short extracts" from a news story must be licensed, with no exceptions for noncommercial users, nonprofit projects, or even personal websites with ads or other income sources, no matter how small.
— Cory Doctorow, The Final Version of the EU's Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet
The walls of seaweed first started washing over the white-sand beaches of Tulum, Mexico, in 2015.
I still have some bonus money lingering in my checking account, so I'm tempted to get myself a belated birthday present.
— Money Diaries, I'm 26, Make $150,000 A Year & Put 12% Of My Salary Towards My 401K