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Father Finally Understands The Mental Load After Parenting Alone While His Wife Was Away

Father Finally Understands The Mental Load After Parenting Alone While His Wife Was Away

Published by Jenni Sidey

Many dads, not all, lack a concrete grasp on what the mental load of parenting and running a household actually entails, and how it feels. It doesn’t quite click with them until they’re the ones that have to carry it.  That seemed to be the case for one father of three who was tasked with taking care of the kids and the house after his wife went out of town for a handful of days. In a TikTok video, content creator and dad Cedric Thompson Jr. admitted that he now understands what his wife and all other women have to go through when it comes to handling childcare and household responsibilities. Dad finally understands the ‘mental load’ after having to parent alone for 8 days while his wife was away. Antoni Shkraba Studio | Pexels “I’ve been a single dad for eight days because my wife is in the Philippines and I had no idea it was this tough,” Thompson admitted in his video. “I was prepared for the cleaning, lodging back and forth, the …

What ‘The Pitt’ Understands About Addiction

What ‘The Pitt’ Understands About Addiction

Published by Jenni Sidey

This story contains spoilers for the second season of The Pitt, including the most recent episode, “8:00 PM.” A psychiatrist I know once told me that the two most common diseases in the world are depression and addiction. When Dr. Frank Langdon emerged from the bathroom at the start of what would be the pivotal scene in “8:00 PM,” last week’s episode of The Pitt, he looked a mess, all sweat and anxiety tics and keyed-up, wide-eyed urgency. Patrick Ball’s dashing baby blues and anime-hero ahoge were doing the lord’s work. The show’s viewers, particularly those R/ThePitt power users who close-read scenes with the intensity of medieval religious scholars, gamed out two possibilities. Langdon had relapsed offscreen. Or he was struggling mightily to both not relapse, and to discover a confidence in his doctoring separate from pills. Addiction or depression. In either scenario, Langdon as a character, and Ball’s performance last week and across The Pitt’s second season, has titrated these sources and symptoms of human pain to great dramatic effect. A few reasons to …

Starmer to chair COBRA meeting over Iran war’s impact on the economy, Sky News understands | Politics News

Starmer to chair COBRA meeting over Iran war’s impact on the economy, Sky News understands | Politics News

Published by Sam Flores

Sir Keir Starmer is to chair a COBRA meeting today, Sky News understands. Cabinet ministers are expected to join him, including the chancellor, foreign secretary, energy secretary, as well as the governor of the Bank of England, to discuss the cost-of-living impacts of the ongoing Iran war and plans to help households. COBRA meetings are the government’s regular way to respond to a national emergency. Politics Hub: Follow all the latest news The prime minister last chaired a COBRA meeting on Thursday to discuss the UK’s response to Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure in the Gulf. He also chaired a meeting in late February to discuss the initial US-Israeli strikes on Iran. On Sunday, Sir Keir spoke to the US president about the need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. A Downing Street spokesperson said: “The leaders discussed the current situation in the Middle East, and in particular, the need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to resume global shipping. “They agreed that reopening the Strait of Hormuz was essential to ensure stability in the …

Meloni told leaders she understands Orbán’s Ukraine position, diplomats say – POLITICO

Meloni told leaders she understands Orbán’s Ukraine position, diplomats say – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

While Meloni emphasized in the meeting that she personally still supported the loan being channeled to Ukraine immediately, she said she understood the position of Orbán, who faces an election next month, according to the five diplomats, representing four different European countries. One of the five diplomats quoted Meloni as saying that Orbán’s stance was “normal” because “things change” and that “if I were in the same situation I would understand it.” The Italian government denied that. “The sentence attributed to the prime minister is totally baseless” an official from Meloni’s office in Rome said. All diplomats quoted in this article were granted anonymity to allow them to speak freely about the discussions, which were not held in public. None of them were in the room because it was almost exclusively only leaders present. Those leaders briefed diplomats. Oil link Hungary and Slovakia are blocking the release of the funds, which needs all EU governments to approve. Budapest has linked its consent to demands Ukraine repair the Druzhba pipeline, which brings Russian oil to Hungary …

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done

Published by José Betancourt

Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places. He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before. For the past 14 months, few foreign leaders have been able to acknowledge that someone without any strategy can actually be president of the United States. Surely, the foreign-policy analysts murmured, Trump thinks beyond the current moment. Surely, foreign statesmen whispered, he adheres to some ideology, some pattern, some plan. Words were thrown around—isolationism, imperialism—in an attempt to place Trump’s actions into a historical context. Solemn articles were written about the supposed significance of …

Yann LeCun Raises Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World

Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World

Published by skeptic

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced Monday it has raised more than $1 billion to develop AI world models. LeCun argues that most human reasoning is grounded in the physical world, not language, and that AI world models are necessary to develop true human-level intelligence. “The idea that you’re going to extend the capabilities of LLMs [large language models] to the point that they’re going to have human-level intelligence is complete nonsense,” he said in an interview with WIRED. The financing, which values the startup at $3.5 billion, was co-led by investors such as Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions. Other notable backers include Mark Cuban, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and French billionaire and telecommunications executive Xavier Niel. AMI (pronounced like the French word for friend) aims to build “a new breed of AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, can reason and plan, and are controllable and safe,” the company says in a press release. …

A Blockbuster That Understands Ambition

A Blockbuster That Understands Ambition

Published by Sam Flores

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Rafaela Jinich, an assistant editor who works on this very newsletter and has written about the secret to loving winter and the upside of not fitting in. Rafaela credits Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada with kick-starting her interest in journalism. She is also looking forward to the World Cup, has a soft spot for Shakira, and enjoys rereading Agatha Christie’s mystery novels. — Stephanie Bai, senior associate editor My favorite blockbuster: The Devil Wears Prada. I don’t know how many people can say they decided to become a journalist after watching this movie—but I did. In middle school, I was convinced that I wanted to be Andy Sachs (it felt safer than aspiring …

“Nobody understands what this guy is saying”: Trump slams Bad Bunny’s halftime performance

“Nobody understands what this guy is saying”: Trump slams Bad Bunny’s halftime performance

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump slagged Bad Bunny‘s performance during the halftime show of Super Bowl LX, saying the show made “no sense” and was “an affront to the greatness of America.” In a post to Truth Social, the president called the performance that included interludes by Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin “absolutely terrible.” “The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence,” he wrote. Bad Bunny’s performance celebrated his Puerto Rican heritage with scenes from sugar cane fields, a New York street and a  wedding. Outside of Lady Gaga’s performance of “Die With A Smile,” the show was entirely in Spanish. “Nobody understands a word this guy is saying,” Trump said. “The dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World.” Start your day with essential news from Salon.Sign up for our free morning newsletter, Crash Course. Seemingly forgetting that Puerto …

Spurs boss Frank understands fans’ frustration after ‘boring’ chants

Spurs boss Frank understands fans’ frustration after ‘boring’ chants

Published by Sam Flores

Jan 2 : Tottenham Hotspur ‌manager Thomas Frank was booed by his own fans after Thursday’s drab scoreless draw at his former club Brentford, and while the coach understands the supporters’ frustration he believes that success will change their attitude. There were chants of ‘boring, boring Tottenham’ from the fans who also sang the names of former Spurs players, and when Frank went to applaud the travelling supporters at the end of the 0-0 game he was greeted with a chorus of boos. “It’s not perfect, we want ‌to be a free-flowing team,” Frank told a press conference on Friday ‌ahead of Sunday’s game with Sunderland. “I think a couple of things I want to reinforce positively is the last two away performances. I think we were very good defensively. “We’re working very hard on the offensive part of our game and understand the frustrations. I share them too.” Frank’s side are 12th in the standings after one win in their last four league games, and the manager gave his reasons for their disappointing form, …