🌎 World’s Best and Worst Cities, for the Value
Turns out New York, Chicago, and LA are the worst cities in the world 🤣
🚶♂️ The Anti-Depressant Effect of Exercise
Brb, gonna do 30 squats
🐶 Job Report for Dogs
📜 1969 Woodstock Booking Fees
🤠 Lifetime Sex Partners Among Men Aged 15–44
Shocking consistency among 80th percentile guys
📉 Virginity Rates Rise Among Teens and Young People
🏡 Home Prices Across America’s Biggest Metro Areas
Austin kinda has it figured out:
🚸 % of Kids Allowed to Leave Home Without an Adult
These are the numbers for 2025. Would love to see the numbers for 1950.
Shouts out to the 8% of 17-year-olds who aren’t allowed to leave their house. Maybe that’s the % that are grounded at any particular time.
🔫 The Immigrant Crime Myth
💰 The US Just Ran a $432B Deficit (in one month)
📺 They Made AI That Generates Video Faster Than You Can Watch It
From Rehan Sheikh:
Feels dystopian. But also cool.
I can’t find the link to the video cuz it’s been taken down everywhere. It’s nothing special anyways. Neat idea though.
📊 Top 20 Foreign Holders of U.S. Debt
👶 Huge Drop in Birth Rate Across Japan, South Korea, and India (1960 - 2025)
Having babies is for boomers
🗺️ MAPPED: Countries Without An Indo-European Language as One of the Official Languages
There are ~7,000 living languages.
6,000 are NOT Indo-European.
👉 Here are some of the big ones, organized by family:
Afro-Asiatic — Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali, Oromo, Hausa, Tamazight/Berber
Niger-Congo — Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu, Xhosa, Shona, Fula, Wolof, Akan, Lingala, Kinyarwanda, Sesotho
Nilo-Saharan — Luo, Dinka, Nuer, Kanuri, Maasai, Songhay
Austronesian — Indonesian/Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Tagalog, Cebuano, Malagasy, Māori, Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Fijian
Austroasiatic — Vietnamese, Khmer, Mon, Santali, Khasi
Kra-Dai — Thai, Lao, Zhuang, Shan
Hmong-Mien — Hmong, Mien
Dravidian — Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu, Brahui
Turkic — Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uyghur, Tatar, Chuvash, Yakut
Mongolic — Mongolian, Buryat, Kalmyk
Tungusic — Evenki, Even, Manchu (nearly extinct)
Uralic — Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Sámi, Komi, Udmurt, Mari, Nenets
Japonic — Japanese, Okinawan and the other Ryukyuan languages
Koreanic — Korean, Jeju
Kartvelian — Georgian, Mingrelian, Svan, Laz
Northeast Caucasian — Chechen, Ingush, Avar, Lezgian, Dargin
Northwest Caucasian — Adyghe, Kabardian, Abkhaz
Yeniseian — Ket
Eskimo-Aleut — Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Yupik, Aleut
Na-Dene — Navajo, Apache, Tlingit
Algonquian — Cree, Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Mi’kmaq
Iroquoian — Cherokee, Mohawk
Siouan — Lakota, Dakota, Crow
Uto-Aztecan — Nahuatl, Hopi, O’odham, Comanche
Mayan — K’iche’, Q’eqchi’, Yucatec, Mam, Kaqchikel
Oto-Manguean — Zapotec, Mixtec, Otomí
Quechuan — Quechua
Aymaran — Aymara
Tupian — Guaraní, Nheengatu
Other South American — Arawakan, Cariban, Tucanoan, Jê families
Pama-Nyungan and other Australian families — Warlpiri, Pitjantjatjara, Arrernte, Yolŋu Matha
Papuan families (dozens of separate ones in New Guinea) — Enga, Melpa, Kuman, Dani
Khoe-Kwadi and other southern African — Khoekhoe/Nama, ǃXóõ
Isolates (no known relatives) — Basque, Ainu, Burushaski, Nivkh, Mapudungun, Zuni, Seri, Sandawe, Hadza
🎶 Banger of the Day
![Más Tiempo - Skepta x Sammy Virji [SOLD OUT] at fabric, London](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tYOJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ee8b396-e4ca-4bbb-acf1-43f509d8137e_1253x942.jpeg "Más Tiempo - Skepta x Sammy Virji [SOLD OUT] at fabric, London")
Banger from Sammy Virji & Skepta. I been Loving Virji lately.
Sammy Virji x Skepta - Cops & Robbers
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The exercise chart got me — brb, doing the 30 squats too 😂 Walking keeps turning up as one of the few free things that actually moves mood. And the 8% of 17-year-olds who aren't allowed out of the house made me laugh out loud!