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1. Bring your own condom. One, not two.
Don't assume protection will be there, or that it's been stored properly.
• Evidence: Used correctly every time, condoms greatly reduce the risk of HIV and many other STIs. Wearing two at once increases friction and makes breakage more likely.
• Conclusion: Carry your own, check the expiry date, and use one at a time.
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Two things I'd want from any AI agent:
Faster on jobs it has done before.
Better at jobs it hasn't seen yet.
OpenClaw, Hermes Agent and Prime Agent don't meaningfully learn from experience.
On Continual-ARC, our new benchmark at @letsunifyai, none of them were able to memorize anything of value and none were able to generalize to new tasks. Training a small 9B model's weights did both.
1. STOOLS THAT GET THINNER
Have your stools become narrow, almost pencil-thin, and stayed that way for more than a few days?
A growth inside the bowel can narrow the space that stool passes through. Diet and other gut problems can cause this too, but a change that doesn't go away needs a doctor's check.
1. PRESSURE IN THE JAW AND NECK
It came on whenever he walked fast or carried something heavy: a tight, pressing feeling in his neck and jaw. A few minutes of rest made it go away. Then it came back.
He blamed stress.
The truth: discomfort in the jaw, neck, arm or back that comes with effort and eases with rest can be angina, a sign the heart isn't getting enough blood. It needs a doctor's check.
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A marketing manager spent $240/year on ChatGPT Plus and used it like Google.
Then a friend who builds AI tools for a living looked at her chat history.
"You're asking it questions. You should be giving it a job. You've never set custom instructions. You've never used Projects. You've never turned memory on. And you're pasting the same context in every single day."
He changed 6 settings in 10 minutes. Her outputs got twice as good.
Here's every ChatGPT setting most people never touch. 🧵
A freelancer paid $3,200 for a MacBook Pro.
It still felt slow.
Her friend, a former Apple Genius, opened Activity Monitor and laughed:
"You have 11 login items, Spotlight is reindexing, and your browser has 94 tabs."
He fixed 8 things in 10 minutes.
Here's every setting nobody tells you about. 🧵
A family paid $1,800 for a 65-inch OLED TV.
In the store, it looked unreal. At home, something felt off. Films looked like cheap soap operas. Dark scenes were muddy. The sound was thin. And the ads on the home screen seemed to know exactly what they'd been watching.
Then their friend came over for dinner. He has spent 14 years installing and calibrating home cinemas.
He picked up the remote, opened the picture menu and shook his head.
"You're watching an $1,800 TV on store settings. Vivid mode is made to look bright under shop lights, not in your living room. Motion smoothing is on, which is why every film looks like a soap opera. You've never tried Filmmaker Mode. Your TV is running ACR, so it's identifying everything on your screen and using it for ads. Your console isn't in Game Mode. And your soundbar isn't even connected through eARC."
"It's all in the settings. Nobody ever told you."
He changed 9 settings in 15 minutes.
Here's every TV setting most owners never touch. 🧵
SETTINGS 1 TO 3: WHY THE PICTURE LOOKED WRONG
"Start with the picture mode," he said. "Everything else sits on top of it."
Setting 1: Get out of Vivid.
Vivid (or Dynamic) pushes brightness, cool whites and oversaturated colour. That's the look that grabs you under bright store lights. At home, it starts to feel unnatural, and it crushes detail. For films and shows, switch to Movie, Cinema or Expert. "Standard" isn't much better.
Setting 2: Turn off energy saving.
Eco and power-saving modes limit how bright the screen can get and change the picture as you watch. That's a big reason dark scenes look flat and muddy. Turn it off first, before you adjust anything else.
Setting 3: Turn sharpness down.
Sharpness doesn't add detail. It exaggerates edges and can draw fake outlines around faces and objects. Most TVs look more natural with it turned way down, sometimes all the way to zero.
"Three settings, and you're already watching a different TV."
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💎 DO THIS INSTEAD
1. Make them go first
→ "Before we talk numbers, can you share the approved range for this role?" In more than a dozen states plus DC, including CA, NY, IL, WA, CO, MA and NJ, job postings already have to list it.
2. Never give your current salary
→ "I'm focused on what this role pays. What's the budget?" In many states they can't legally ask.
3. Anchor with a range
→ "Based on the scope and market data, I'm looking for $X to $Y." Make the bottom of your range the number you actually want.
4. Never accept on the call
→ "Thank you, I'm excited about this. Can you send it in writing so I can review the full package? I'll get back to you by [day]."
5. Negotiate the whole package
→ Base "capped"? Ask for a signing bonus, extra PTO, a remote day, an earlier review date, or a title bump. Get every promise in the offer letter.
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How most people ruin a $1,000 Android phone:
- Charging to 100% every night (wears the battery faster)
- Letting apps scan for Wi-Fi & Bluetooth even when they're "off"
- Never deleting their advertising ID
- Upgrading instead of checking battery health
Do these 5 things instead ↓
Use the search bar in Settings for each one (menu names vary by brand):
1. Cap charging at 80%
→ Search "charging." Pixel: Charging optimization > Limit to 80%. Samsung: Battery protection > Maximum. Keeping the battery out of the top 20% slows wear.
2. Kill background scanning
→ Search "Wi-Fi scanning" and "Bluetooth scanning." Turn both off. They let apps and services scan for nearby networks and devices, even with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth switched off.
3. Delete your advertising ID
→ Search "Ads" > Delete advertising ID. Apps lose the ID that ties your activity together for ad targeting.
4. Audit "all the time" location
→ Search "App location permissions." Anything on "Allow all the time" that isn't maps or weather: switch it to "While using the app."
5. Check battery health before upgrading
→ Pixel 8a and newer: Settings > Battery > Battery health. Samsung: Samsung Members app > Diagnostics > Battery status. A battery swap costs a fraction of a new phone.
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1. How much sleep you actually need
The National Sleep Foundation's recommendations:
Ages 18 to 64: 7 to 9 hours
Ages 65 and over: 7 to 8 hours
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society agree that adults should get at least 7 hours a night.
And most people are falling short. According to the CDC, more than a third of American adults aren't getting enough sleep on a regular basis.
Here's the trap. When you're short on sleep for long enough, it starts to feel normal. "I'm fine on 5 hours" is what a lot of tired people say.
The next few tweets show what those missing hours are actually costing you.
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1. The real danger isn't weak passwords. It's the same password everywhere.
In a Google survey of 3,000 people (run by Harris Poll):
2 in 3 people reused the same password across multiple accounts.
51% used one "favourite" password for most of their accounts.
Only 24% used a password manager.
Now look at the other side. Have I Been Pwned, a site that tracks data breaches, had logged more than 15 billion breached accounts by late 2025.
Here's how attackers use that. They take an email and password leaked from one site, maybe an old shopping account you forgot about, and try it on your email, your bank and your social media.
If you reuse passwords, one leak opens every door.
That's the first job of a password manager. When every account has its own password, a leak at one site stays at one site.
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1. Ignoring the check engine light
You're not alone. In a 2024 CarMD survey of 1,250 US drivers, about 49% had at least one warning light on their dashboard.
But that light is your car asking for a cheap fix before it becomes an expensive one.
From CarMD's 2025 Vehicle Health Index, average check engine repair costs:
Tightening a loose gas cap: free
Replacing a gas cap: about $28
Ignition coil: about $218
Oxygen sensor: about $254
Catalytic converter: about $1,348, the most common and most expensive repair on the list
CarMD's own warning: "Catching problems early can reduce the likelihood of a snowball effect from additional repairs."
Solid vs flashing matters too. According to Edmunds, a steady check engine light usually means a serious but not urgent problem, so book it in soon. A flashing light means a major problem. Stop driving and consider a tow.
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1. The 35-year-old version
"Netflix and chill" at 35:
Spending 40 minutes choosing a show.
Falling asleep 12 minutes in.
Netflix asking "Are you still watching?" like a disappointed parent.
Arguing about who fell asleep first.
Starting the same episode again tomorrow. And the day after.
And yes, the "chill" part changes too. According to the Kinsey Institute, people aged 18 to 29 have sex about 112 times a year on average. For people aged 30 to 39, it's about 86.
The other 26 nights are spent scrolling through the Netflix menu.
But here's the twist: the research says the 35-year-old version isn't the sad one. Let's go through it.
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1. The real danger isn't weak passwords. It's the same password everywhere.
In a Google survey of 3,000 people (run by Harris Poll):
2 in 3 people reused the same password across multiple accounts.
51% used one "favourite" password for most of their accounts.
Only 24% used a password manager.
Now look at the other side. Have I Been Pwned, a site that tracks data breaches, had logged more than 15 billion breached accounts by late 2025.
Here's how attackers use that. They take an email and password leaked from one site, maybe an old shopping account you forgot about, and try it on your email, your bank and your social media.
If you reuse passwords, one leak opens every door.
That's the first job of a password manager. When every account has its own password, a leak at one site stays at one site.
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1. What happened 48 hours later
Six cancelled. One kept.
And if you think "$80, max" is a fair guess, you're not alone.
In a 2022 survey of 1,000 US consumers by market research firm C+R Research, people first guessed they spent about $86 a month on subscriptions.
Then they went through each category and added it up. The real number: $219 a month.
That's $133 a month they didn't know about. About $1,596 a year.
And 42% said they had forgotten about a subscription they were still paying for.
That's how "It's only $9.99" works. Every single one is small. Together, they're a car payment.
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1. What the smart customer does
Smart customer:
Calls every year when the contract ends:
"I've seen a better deal elsewhere. Can you match it?"
That's it. One question, once a year.
Why it matters: in 2018, Citizens Advice found that loyal customers could pay £987 a year more across six essentials: energy, mobile, broadband, home insurance, mortgages and savings.
Nearly £1,000 a year. Not for better service. Just for staying put.
Citizens Advice's chief executive at the time, Gillian Guy, said companies were "routinely punishing their customers simply for being loyal."
It even has a name: the "loyalty penalty."
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